Art for Art's sake or for Society's

I like aesthetically pleasing art. But I feel that art that can benefit another person in some way is more important. That's not to say that society benefiting art can't be aesthetically pleasing but that it's not the focus. Art for Art's sake being about the aesthetic doesn't mean it's "pretty" either. Personally I fail to see the beauty in a painted square on a large canvas. Art that conveys a message, that transforms the viewer is more powerful and takes more thought into what's being put on the canvas or whatever medium you use to showcase your work. The word art was originally thought of as a verb. Art that benefits society does something, an action, acts as a verb. I personally lean more towards the ideas of art for society's sake.

What Is Interactive Design?

Interactive design is the arrangement of all the media used in an interactive document. Multimedia is the presentation of two or more features such as text, sound, pictures, animation, etc. Interactive Design is in essence the design of navigating multimedia.

What does Media Equation Equal?

Media Equation is described as media equals real life. What does that mean? It means that we respond to things we know is not real life as if it were. It's interesting since we can state that we know it's not real and yet we still do what we do. For example, when I'm surfing the internet and all of a sudden my internet gets cut off I get angry and say explicit things to the computer as if it were a person; although I'm not likely to talk that way to a person unless they really really got me mad. People getting scared when watching a horror movie even though they know they're watching a movie is a great example of media equaling real life.

Interaction Design Defined

Interaction design is an implied art with the purpose of fostering communication between two parties. Whether it be directly person to person or person to person with technology as a medium, it's all about communicating with other people. Interaction design makes the mediums usable for effective interaction between people.

Interactive Multimedia

Interactive multimedia is a computer-mediated presentation that includes at least two of either text, sound, pictures, motion graphics, and animation. As the name implies, the presentation should also be interactive.

What is interactivity

Interactivity is an alternately thought out exchange between two parties.

Chris Crawford defines interactivity as a cyclical pattern of two actors that alternately listen, think, and speak. He also has a more tech definition replacing listen, think, and speak with input, process, and output. The first one is based off the simplest form of interaction between people which is having a conversation while the latter is geared more towards the interaction between human and computer. I think that the first one is more acceptable to a general audience but the listen, think, and speak become metaphorical once you go beyond simply having a conversation. The latter is more widespread but also more technical and dry.