Designing Playful Metaphors in the Interactive Sound Installation

Abstract

In the field of interactive media art, artists design how to make visitors voluntarily participate in their artwork. This paper discusses an idea of utilizing playful metaphors in an artwork in order for visitors to easily recognize the play and act according to the artist’s intention. This paper presents an interactive sound installation ‘Net Disruption’ that adopted the metaphors of play including cat’s cradle and musical instrument. The paper point outs the drawbacks discovered during the exhibition. It is related to the duality of the metaphors and technical issues. In the end, the study suggests a future plan that focuses on the main metaphor as cat’s cradle reflecting the solution for the shortcomings.