"Top 15 Criteria That Define Interactive or New Media Art"

Near Future Lab's Top 15 Criteria for interactive art is a rather amusing short article that highlights some of the ways you know that your art is in fact interactive. I have had experience with numbers fifteen and fourteen, "15. It doesn’t work. 14. It doesn’t work because you couldn’t get a hold of a 220-to-110 volt converter/110-to-220 volt converter/PAL-to-NTSC/NTSC-to-PAL scan converter/serial-to-usb adapter/”dongle” of any sort..and the town you’re in is simply not the kind of place that has/cares about such things."

And it seems as though there is a number seven for almost any type of art regardless of the medium, "7. Someone in your audience wearing a Crumpler bag, slinging a fancy digital SLR and/or standing with their arms folded smugly says, “Yeah..yeah, I could’ve done that too..c’mon dude..some Perlin Noise? And Processing/Ruby-on-Rails/AJAX/Blue LEDs/MaxMSP/An Infrared Camera/Lots of Free Time/etc.? Pfft..It’s so easy…”"


http://www.nearfuturelaboratory.com/2008/09/05/top-15-criteria-define-interactive-or-new-media-art/