The Manual Input Workstation: Documentary Collection

Interview with Golan Levin

Interview with Golan Levin / Produced by the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute Media.Art.Research., Linz; interviewers: interviewers: Lizzie Muller, Katja Kwastek; camera: Sigrid Nagele, Ulrike Pimminger; video editing: Ulrike Pimminger; Interviews conducted in September 2009 at the Lentos Kunstmuseum, Linz (Austria).

Questions by Lizzie Muller: Introduction to the interactive experience of The Manual Input Workstation: "Imagine you're a 55 year old woman named Sonia..."

Question 1 Challenges of intuitive understanding	Question 2 Possible interaction steps by Sonia
Question 3 Considerations on interaction design and user observation	Question 4 Problems with the piece due to the project’s history
Question 5 Impossibility to verbalize the experiences of others	Question 6 Experiencing the creative flow
Questions by Katja Kwastek: Structure and aesthetic of the work:
Question 7 The three different scenes in the work	Question 8 The idea of augmented shadow play
Question 9 The installation as artwork or instrument	Question 10 The concept of "response" as a priority
Question 11 Sculptural quality of the installation	Question 12 Questions of flow and vicarious interaction
Question 13 The visibility of interaction in the performance version	Question 14 Sound-image relations and mutual representations instead of "transformations"
Question 15 (Symbolic) re-presentation vs. indexical presentation and the question of objectivity	Question 16 The possibility of mastery