%0 Journal Article
%T FCJ-132 Towards a Performative Aesthetics of Interactivity
%A Simon Penny
%J Fibreculture Journal
%D 2011
%I Fibreculture Publications
%X This paper places contemporary modalities of digital interaction in an historical context of sixty years of intersections between technological development and artistic experimentation. Specific technological developments are identified as context-defining historical markers and specific works are discussed as exemplars of significant milestones in the engineering and the aesthetics of interaction. The shortage of theorisation of non-instrumental interaction is lamented. The process of naturalisation to increasingly sophisticated digital tools and appliances in the current period of ubiquitous computing is noted. A number of theoretical issues are drawn out and discussed in terms of cognitive and sensorimotor dynamics. Woven through the discussion is the proposal that a synthesis of performance theory and neuro-cognitive studies might provide a basis for a performative ontology around which an aesthetics of interaction might be constructed. As the paper progresses a theoretical framework for an ontologically performative aesthetics of interaction and ubiquity is formulated.
%K digital interaction
%K interactive art
%K ubiquity
%U http://nineteen.fibreculturejournal.org/fcj-132-towards-a-performative-aesthetics-of-interactivity/