Real-Time Art

IDT Masters Thesis — Jeffrey Crouse

Submitted to thesis committee
Ian Bogost (chair)
Michael Mateas
Janet Murray

At the Information Design and Technology Program
Georgia Institute of Technology
School of Literature, Communication and Culture
May 2006

Abstract

Emerging technologies have made it possible for artists to use a wide range of live, external data sources to give their work relevance and impact. Works that use these live data sources share certain strategies, values, and influences. Not only does this type of art have much artistic potential, but it can help the Web by encouraging the development of machine-understandable, Semantic data formats. What kind of tools would give some coherence to real-time art and facilitate its creation?

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