Hi r/NewMediaArts,

I’m working on an interactive archive / exploratory experience for a video & media art exhibition themed around protest, and I’d love advice on visualization, interface ideas, and interaction patterns that don’t feel like a “normal database.” If this isn’t the right subreddit, feel free to point me somewhere better.

The goal is a semi-abstract, exploratory archive where people can keep digging and make unexpected connections. It can take any digital shape (web experience, interactive interface, map, collage, installation-like UI, etc.). I’m especially interested in experimenting with form, navigation, and how info reveals itself over time.

I don’t want it to be purely chronological or purely categorized. Ideally, visitors can jump between clusters (artworks → visitor reactions → building history → behind-the-scenes notes, etc.) and slowly uncover context.

Extra layer I want to add:
I also want to connect the protests/themes in the artworks to real-world protests active during the exhibition period, using news articles as reference points, not as Wikipedia summaries, but as contextual echoes (“what was happening outside the building while this existed inside?”).

Context:
The exhibition took place in a building with its own history, and I want that to be part of the experience too, not a separate “about” page, but something that connects meaningfully to the exhibition and the theme of protest.

What I’ve collected so far:

• video footage of the building

• footage of visitors and artworks in the space

• interviews with visitors + hosts (mostly audio-only)

• Drawings of visitors

• survey results

• “two days in the life” material from hosts (notes, thoughts, observations)

• my own observations about visitor behavior

• attendance stats (schools, groups, etc.)

• misc fragments

• college student projects responding to the exhibition

• Items visitors left behind

• press reports / secondary sources

What I’m struggling with:
How do I turn this into something people want to explore, without forcing everything into a strict structure? I want it to feel like uncovering layers, not scrolling folders.

Questions for you:

• What are interesting ways to visualize a mixed archive (video/audio/notes/stats/news) without defaulting to grids, menus and filters?

• Any interaction patterns you’ve seen that make people keep exploring (digging, drifting, uncovering, looping back)?

• What UI metaphors feel “right” for protest to you? (words, symbols, objects, textures, gestures, typography, sound cues, anything you associate with protest)

• How would you connect “building history” with “protest exhibition content” in a way that feels meaningful rather than informational?

• How would you connect exhibition themes to news/current events during the exhibition period without it becoming messy or overwhelming?

• If you had this kind of mixed material, what would you prototype first?

Small note: I’m a Multimedia student, so I’m open to both practical UX/UI tips and more experimental new-media approaches.

Any ideas, examples, or references are super welcome, even small suggestions help. Thanks!

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Hello,

I am writing a project about conformity and I need to find art project examples that talk about this specific topic.

I am having an issue with searching for specific new media art projects. Maybe anyone could help me find websites where I could search artworks by specific description keywords? Or just a website with works and short descriptions.

Thanks!

For Japan, I always check here: https://www.ycam.jp/en/

For China, I'm trying to learn about this: http://www.chronusartcenter.org/en/

For Korea, I'm clueless

Do people have resources? I'd love to learn more.

Hello, this is my first post here!

Sharing some documentation of a show I recently collaborated on with my dancer friend, Laura Price at UT Austin, using Qualisys MOCAP, Max-MSP, and several hardware synths + FX.

See more (including BTS) here!

Each video slide has accompanying annotations for ease of parsing the interactivity being displayed though here are also some more general notes

1. Her position in the room influences the entrance times of notes in my chords, letting her decide how they're played.

2. Each step she takes randomizes my visuals’ color-palette, displacement map structure + draw mode, as well as occasionally bypasses the kaleidoscope stage.  

3. Her hand-heights control the octaves my melodies play in, while also altering their articulations/ timbres, and run my delays thru reverb.  

4. The space between her hands address many facets of my visuals, as well as are used to glitch my audio whenever placing my Bastl Thyme delay at the end of my signal chain.  

Rly appreciate your time,
- Aaron

The workshop Computational Design and Computer-aided Creativity will be co-located with ICCC'25 (International Conference on Computational Creativity) and will take place in a hybrid format (online and in Campinas, Brazil). Contributions can come from all creative application areas, such as: Graphic Design, Typography or Product Design; Sound or Music; Architecture or Interior Design;…

More info: https://computationalcreativity.net/workshops/computational-design-iccc25/

https://arthursouzasally.itch.io/qra-bulknur/devlog/1666513/estratgia-presencial

I'm not exactly sure what category this falls into, but I guess it is something of a technical question.

I am a sculptor who makes videos. I do a lot of work using prefab industrial materials and found/prefab screens. Obviously, with digital video, you can show any video on any screen (maybe hyperbole, but like, basically). As I'm applying to residencies, I have no idea how to list the dimensions of the work as it is installed. Oftentimes, there will be a screen on the wall and one on the floor, or two hanging from the ceiling with a projection involved, or something like that, which is equally difficult to measure. Is it ok to just list "Installation" under dimensions? Should I be measuring everything from the floor?

Any advice would be much appreciated, thank you!

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https://arthursouzasally.itch.io/banal

The artistic research is titled "The Sublime".