And finally I'd have to include Videoplace created by Myron Krueger right back in the 1970s. He came up with the supremely elegant idea of having the spectator stand in front of a screen and a camera and seeing the image of themselves projected back onto the screen in real time. The result is a literal embodiment of the audience within the artwork where the body itself becomes the interface to kind of self portrait. It's a basic blueprint for some of the best interactive art created in the last decades - I'm thinking of work by artists like Scott Snibbe, Golan Levin, Rafael Lozano-Hemmer and many others. Videoplace helped us to recognize what Krueger called "a new category of beauty" in the world - an aesthetic which is properly interactive - and for this I am truly grateful to him.

We are elevated from the everyday reality through this element of fantasy into a world with more dimensions, possibilities and perhaps beauty.

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