Abstract from the book:
While other books have presented interactive works and interrogated engagement with interactive art, this book is distinguished by its unique contribution to the integration of research and creative practice. This includes the understanding of art and creative practitioners in a broader scholarly context through new research approaches; its insights based on the researchers’ first-hand experience. While this book’s contribution is of collegial relevance at UTS, it’s also important to research students and arts researchers globally. It investigates ways in which creative people develop ideas and embrace new technologies. It also illuminates methods for creative productivity, methodologies for researching creative practice, and how we can use creativity as a vehicle for exploration of the public and audience, engagement and curatorial practice. Scarce literature exists on this subject. Linda Candy’s chapter ‘Research and creative practice’ frames the major themes: the role of the creative practitioner (for example, artists, musicians, designers, curators, teachers and software designers), the practitioner as the subject of the research, as the researcher, or as the developer of artefacts and processes on which research is based – investigating topics such as novelty, processes and techniques, and conception. Interacting spans curatorial and reflective practice, collaboration, creative engagement and creative practice.