리처드 슈스터만의 프래그머티즘 미학의 관점에서 본 인터렉티브 아트 연구

Abstract

The purpose of this study is to analyze the characteristics of Richard Shusterman’s Pragmatist Aesthetics, and to clarify the artistic value of Interactive art based on this. Unlike traditional art, in interactive art, it is important for the viewer to have an interactive experience. However, there is a limit to explaining interactive art with the existing aesthetic methods that have defined art as disinterestedness and aesthetic contemplation. With this background, I applied the Shusterman’s Pragmatist Aesthetics to interactive art. Richard Shusterman did not directly mention interactive art, but he regards human sensory perception as the main ability of aesthetic experience by appreciating main value to the realm of the body that had been neglected in traditional philosophy. This aesthetic discussion of the ‘soma’ provides important implications for explaining the interactive art experience through the body. Therefore, I analyzed the characteristics of Shusterman’s aesthetic experience in three categories, and applied them to the categorization of interactive art. Through this study, the three artistic values of interactive art were derived as follows. First, it is interactive art that boosts viewers to experience aesthetic uplifting by themselves through vivid and living experiences. Second, it is interactive art that makes viewers desire to practice changing creatively themselves through the experience of transforming work according to the viewer's actions. Third, it is interactive art that focuses on improving viewer’s physical perception through experiences that aesthetically stimulate the various senses of viewers. This study is meaningful to present the characteristics of the artistic value of interactive art based on Richard Shusterman’s Pragmatist Aesthetics, and to establish the evaluation criteria for individual interactive art.