ABSTRACT This paper proposes the concept of enactive system as an alternative to the standard human-computer system and elaborates the idea of content mediation as enactive media . The authors' system consists of the two elements coupled in a holistic manner by means of bodily and spatial involvement, or enactment . Such a system is recursive by nature, involving the impact of the technology on the human agent as well as the effect of the human experience on the technology. Instead of the standard explicit interface, there is an implicit connecting surface, based on unconscious psycho-physiological reactions. The aim is not only to point out an analytic approach to existing media systems but also to develop radically novel media concepts implied by the enactive systems.

Created as part of the experimental European/worldwide collaborative e-MobiLArt project—designed to encourage collaboration with scientists, and with artists from other cultural backgrounds and geographic locations. Enactive Dialectics converges both real and virtual emotional space into one digitally mediated experience and calls for reconsideration of the boundary between private and public self.

The Third Woman is an interactive mobile film—game, performance, and installation, which gradually reveals the layers of a contemporary film drama on mobile phones and screens.