Responsive Art

I saw this TED talk a few days ago from artist Aparna Rao who works together with collaborator Soren Pors to create very interesting and somewhat interactive art using technology. When creating a piece thy think a lot about how they want the audience to feel or react and how to achieve that. There is one piece shown in the video of a stick figure on his head which they designed to almost fall over but never actually fall. They wanted audiences to want to help the figure so they created that response by the movement of falling. In addition to considering the audience's response to art they also think about how the art can respond to the audience. By having the art react to people they are able to create a really interesting relationship between the audience and the works of art themselves. The video is posted below I would definitely recommend checking it out.

http://www.ted.com/talks/aparna_rao_high_tech_art_with_a_sense_of_humor.html