An Ontological Analysis about Dynamic Composition of Abstract Fonts in Interactive Video Art Installation

Abstract

An interactive video installation using an abstract font as visual elements is explained. The interactive abstract characters respond to viewers by varying their sizes while moving about in the video space, as algorithmically specified by a computer. This results in interactive and dynamic compositions of multiple abstract characters. In this paper, we study the characteristics of such dynamic composition in ontological terms, as it involves the viewer’s interactivity. We have found that ontological transmodality and inter-subjectivity are the key concepts that could explain the dynamic features in the visual aspects, as well as viewer experience.