Welcome to the second edition, which features three media-rich contributions focused on sound art performance, interactive installation, and automated video editing.
They reveal distinct interpretations of liveness and creativity, contrasting sharply with one another in terms of motivations, methods and modes of discussion. Yet, ultimately we can also extract an overarching theme: interfaces that transcend personal control.

This common ground invites the reader-viewer-listener to reflect on a series of fundamental questions. What defines liveness? How are flow and expression realized? Where do creativity and authorship reside? And what roles do interfaces play in these processes? These are ongoing, open questions, given the wealth of existing approaches and interpretations.

Interrogations are Live Interfaces’ reason-to-be.