brainstorm around the 3 main terms in my question

user generated
interactive - fluxus (events, happenings) - viewers given instructions, duchamp & man ray 'rotary glass plates', sol lewitt
'the artists idea as the machine which makes the work' (Manovich, 2001:235)
blogs, wikis, forums
participation, collaboration - furtherfield
history - conceptual art, net art

some artists to look up in relation to history of interactive art.. ken feingold, perry hoberman (machines and media), karl sims (more generative than interactive but interesting), jeffrey shaw, masaki fujihata (sophisticated interactive network installations), bernd lintermann,
Torsten Belschner (ineractive sound installations).
Bill seaman (interactive text/photos) 'passage set..'
artists that involve the viewer in very heightened ways such as Paul Garrin's 'white devil' which places the viewer in a virtual neighourhood.


media art net

data
information
code
language
translation
artworks like dumpster
visualizing data - ben fry, casey reas, golan levin, alex dragulescu

new media
digital
interactive - interactions that have meaning
or
'interactive artists positively encourage viewers to create their own narratives or associations with their interactive works' (rush, 1999:201)
online
convergence
history - old media, big media, one-to-many