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February 18, 2009
George Fifield and Judith S. Donath Act/React: Interactive Installation Art Exh. cat. Milwaukee: Milwaukee Art Museum, 2008. 84 pp. Paper and DVD $34.00 (9780981520810)

Exhibition schedule: Milwaukee Museum of Art, October 4, 2008–January 11, 2009

 
CrossRef DOI: 10.3202/caa.reviews.2009.18

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Brian Knep. Healing Pool (2008). Computer, custom software, video projectors, video cameras, vinyl flooring. 30 x 20 feet. Courtesy of the artist.

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Act/React, the Milwaukee Art Museum’s recent exhibition of interactive installation art, presented work by six contemporary artists: Janet Cardiff, Brian Knep, Liz Phillips, Daniel Rozin, Scott Snibbe, and Camille Utterback. While all employ some combination of customized computer software, surveillance cameras, digital video and projection, electronic photocells and circuits, microcontrollers, synthesizers, and amplifiers, the resulting artworks nonetheless conceal their technological underpinnings. Focusing on “non-technical” interactivity, which guest curator George Fifield specifies in the accompanying catalogue...