Is Lynn Hershman's idea of interactive media still alive today?

Lynn Hershman pioneered the concept of interactive media. Digital technology such as DVD players, PCs, and home video game consoles allow for more and more types of media to involve the user. Virtual reality is slowly making its way into reality through physical interfaces such as camera's with depth sensors and the nintendo wii's physical control using wireless gyroscopes. As time passes, technology allows artists to embed more choices within their work. Fictional stories once restricted to single paths in books can now have hundreds of alternate storylines in video games depending on the choices made by the user. People can escape into a virtual second life on the internet and use the anonymity provided on the internet to find new creative methods of escapism.
Society as a whole has latched onto this idea of interactive media. We are past the turning point of digital technology integrating into daily life. It is inescapable. At this point the rush is to see how we can integrate this technology more fully with real life in order to mesh the virtual world and the world around us.

How does one unscript politics?

I hold the opinion that the artists power comes from the ability to relate ideas through alternate means. The masses that can view an artistic work can take the satire, images, video, or any other art form and interpret meaning to match their own preconceived notions. This is powerful because most people may have a feeling or an idea but have no focus or momentum to it. The artist then is able to give people a direction and a side to take on issues. The opinion of the artist can be taken or ignored depending on the viewer and is able to be harmless but still effective. The power of the images used in my political campaign ad are able to elicit much more feeling from a viewer than just telling them that the educational system's financing needs reform.
In the end, the viewer can decide whether or not to internalize the views presented by artists. In Randall Packer's presentation on the fake government department, he is able to highlight many issues that have arisen through the delinquency of the current presidential leadership while still allowing the viewer to keep their own ideals and opinions handy. Randall Packer said, "The artist does not work in a vacuum" which highlights the fact that an artistic work of this sort needs context to take full effect, but can stand on its own. Within context the work will influence a view or present an opinion on a specific event or issue, but out of context it can retain its value as art.

idea for dvd project

Revised from the previous idea: I plan to make an interactive parody of fighting video games, using Mortal Kombat as a template. I will make multiple scenes with some filters, canned footage, and slow-mo/freeze frame to create suspense in the fights and add situational humor.

I plan to use reverse, multiple points of view, still photography, slow-mo, etc... to change what may not be normal, but certainly comprehensive to a bystander.