Enactive Media 
Abstract
Enactive
Media is a multidisciplinary research project aiming at the
conceptualization, technical implementation and analysis of narrative
systems where the participant is involved in embodied and situated
ways. The goals are to
- elaborate conceptualization of enactive media as complex system with embodied and situated involvement
- analyse emergent behavior in such systems
- analyse the nature and implications of second-order authorship implied by enactive media
- implement narrative montage algorithms
- optimize enactive sensor technologies implemented as part of demos
- generalize the concept of enactive media for further purposes
- exemplify narrative ontospaces and tools to collect and annotate them, as applied to media artifacts
- organize and make accessible the software developed for the above within relevant open source community
A
number of innovative application areas beyond experimental are foreseen
that may draw directly from the concept of enactive media, including:
generative music videos, ambient audiovisual landscapes, situated news
and enactively personalized advertisement sequences, situated video
instructions and health care/medical applications that are adaptive to
physiological states. In addition to opening a new academic
conceptualization, the outcomes will also have a potential for
technological and economical exploitation.
The inherently
systemic approach provides a shared conceptual framework that
integrates computational, holistic, psychophysiological, cognitive, and
creative perspectives. Methods of the disciplines are combined and even
integrated in the project.
Keywords: embodied action, situated action, narrative ontologies, narrative spaces, interactive narrative
Supported for 2009 – 2011 by Academy of Finland.
Research partners and key persons
- Helsinki University of Technology (TKK)
- Helsinki School of Economics (HSE)
- Center for Knowledge and Innovation Research (CKIR) [Niklas Ravaja]
- University of Art and Design (TaiK)
- School of Motion Picture, Television and Production Design (ELO) [Pia Tikka]
- Media Lab [Rasmus Vuori]
- and Mauri Kaipainen from Södertörn University and TLU
Research personnel in 2009
Results: contribution to Enactive Dialectics installation at e-MobilArt exhibition, Katowice.
Contacts: professor Tapio Takala
Other links: internal workspace
Related research activities: Enactive Cinema, AivoAalto, Media Factory, IEEE
page updated 2 Dec 2009 by Tassu