인터랙티브 미디어 아트 작가의 제작 역할과 사회적 위상에 대한 고찰

Abstract

From ancient times, advancement and social changes had affected art production types of artists and their social positions. Roles of artists for their art production are changed into handicraft production via indirect media, exclusion of body labors and assignment of meaning while their social positions have been extended into master craftsman, distinctive creator, producer of an unique one, social innovator, aesthetic caller and others. This paper looked into interactive media artist’s roles and social positions when they produce media arts, which are currently rapidly growing. For this purpose, it reviewed traditional artist’s roles and their social positions which were set up by preceding scholars and then extracted following conclusions by analyzing roles and positions of interactive media artists based on analysis frame for various genres of art pieces and various theories. Roles for those artists when they produce art works are close to utilization of indirect media among roles of traditional artists because they take advantage of digital devices named programming, and they are playing roles for people who fuse active engineering and fine art. They also created modern scribes named audience by building huge dictionary with multi variables hidden by art works. Under this environment, their role was most distinctive to plan narrative communication structure for audience. When it comes to their social position, although it adopted some of traditional positions which is mentioned earlier, they played a role to relay relations of multiple entities via communication structure and this is partly believed to be a similar position to network builder to pursue communication with various publics within modern digital societies.