Motivation for Creating Installations

I began creating video installations to combine my interest in sculpture, embodied experience, non-linearity and video. I am interested in the types of dialogues that arise, mediated by an interactive installation, from the combinatorics of the interactor's demands of the artist and the artist's demands of the interactor.

I am also interested in studying the different types of interaction patterns created by installations with sensors and those without in order to determine the appropriateness and consequences of using one method over the other.
Sensor-embedded installations seem to more-often demand interactions of the viewer whereas viewers more-often demand interactions from installations without sensors. This interaction pattern is analogous to conversation pattern. The way in which one begins a conversation or asks a question usually helps to determine the type of response received. In sensor-based installations, the artist has more control over the viewer's interaction as well as the narrative aspects of the installation. Rather than creating time-based elements that must make sense when approached at any point in a loop, sensors used to detect the presence of an interactor allow time-based and narrative properties of the installation to start and stop at will, provided the interactor is performing the appropriate interaction. Both approaches can be effective depending on the motivation of the artist in communicating with an audience.

Enticing a viewer into a certain type of interaction pattern is the challenge and the goal of an installation, seprate from the viewer's interpretation of the content.