User Art _ Nutzerkunst – Peter Weibel

• “As the next step toward more indeterminacy, I wanted to let the audience (or congregation, in this case) act and play itself,” wrote Paik in his essay “About the Exposition of Music” in Décollage, No. 3, 1962.
• His video sculpture Participation TV (1963) allowed the audience to change the pictures on a black and white television by means of a microphone and a signal amplifier—a key work for the subsequent decades of interactive media art.
• The birth of media art and its participative trends did, in fact, result from the spirit of the music being made around 1960.
• Fluxus, Happening, Performance, and Nouveau Réalisme were not alone in discovering the participating beholder, co-player, and co-creator. As early as the 1950s, Kinetic art and Op-Art demanded the beholder’s participation in the construction of the artwork.
• 1971, Braco Dimitrijevic, Casual Passer-by: Photo portraits of anonymous people were displayed prominently on facades and billboards in European and American cities…. Dimitrijevic’s seminal work in this area lead to the coining of the term Transemorials, used to describe the practice of shifting the meaning of monuments, large public portraitures and memorial plaques.