Lucid Peninsula, a Physical Narrative Art Installation Comprising Interactive 360° Virtual Reality Components

History and Definitions

The convergence of Art and Electronic technologies dates back to the 1960s. The first Computer Art Exhibition took place at Technische Hochschule in Stuttgart in 1965, followed by the Howard Wise Gallery in New York city (Trifonova & Jaccheri, 2008). Installation Art, on the other hand, is a phenomenon which might be traced back to the beginning of the 1900, with artists like Marcel Duchamp and its work, the “Fountain”, in 1917. For the purpose of this article the authors look at Interactive Installations as a subsection of Installation Art - a contemporary art form in which the viewer is required to physically enter the work in order to experience it (Jacucci et al., 2009). In particular we look at one type of Installation Art, which is Physical Narrative. To name a few examples of Physical Narratives, we highlight Punchdrunk’s Sleep No More environmental theatre (Piepenburg, 2011), and Time's Up’s experimental situations that encourage open-ended explorations of physically constructed stories rich spaces. (Time’s Up, 2013).