<P> A hybrid emerging discipline drawing on the combined interests of specific artists and architects has been created in the last 10--15 years . Disciplinary boundaries have blurred, and significant number of architects and interactive designers have joined electronic artists in the creation of new, custom - designed interfaces and evolutions in techniques for obtaining user input (such as dog vision, alternative sensors, voice analysis, etc .); forms and tools for information display (such as video projection, lasers, robotic and mechatronic actuators, led lighting etc .); modes for human - human and human - machine communication (through the Internet and other telecommunications networks); and to the development of social contexts for interactive systems (such as utilitarian tools, formal experiments, games and entertainment, social critique, and political liberation). </P> <P> There are many different forms of interactive art . Such forms range from interactive dance, music, and even drama . New technology, primarily computer systems and computer technology, have enabled a new class of interactive art . Examples of such interactive art are installation art, interactive architecture, interactive film, and interactive storytelling . </P> <P> The aesthetic impact of interactive art is more profound than expected . </P> <P> Supporters of more "traditional" contemporary art saw, in the use of computers, a way to balance artistic deficiencies, some other consider that the art is not anymore in the achievement of the formal shape of the work but in the design of the rules that determine the evolution of the shape according to the quality of the dialogue . </P>

What kind of interactive technologies are artists using today