In the reading “Making Interactive Art: Set the Stage, Then Shut Up and Listen”, I understand that the creators are not the main performance. Interactive art allows users to impose actions onto the artworks instead of only observing. Therefore, their user experience and their understandings are different from each other with the same interactivity of the artwork.
Hence, we need to guide the users to the experience that we want them to have. As it is mentioned in the reading, we can give hints, use the space, use the design to allow the users to understand their respective actions. However, after that, it is the users’ performance. It will become their experience and their understandings because arts do not necessarily have a set meaning that we need the others to understand.
Finally, there are a variety of physical computing arts. Even though it may be in the same category, it does not mean that the users will have the same experience. For example, there are multiple projects about music. However, each project may require different skillset and understanding in music to interact with. Therefore, it is important to always experiment with the any project without the fear to be repetitive.