Interactive Art Used as a Vessel to Help Praise Awareness and Preserve the Cebu Flowerpecker

Abstract

The objective of this research study is to use interactive art as a medium to help raise the awareness of the continuously declining population of the Cebu Flowerpecker. The study utilized the qualitative method of research, which is primarily exploratory and used to gain an understanding of reasons, opinions, and motivations; using Entertainment-Education theory as the backbone of the study. The key participants are those who are knowledgeable in the certain topic of the research, such as students and professors who study birds and artists who are inspired to do well in the community. Instrumentation would be the use of close-ended and open-ended questions during the interviews. Results show that the Cebu Flowerpecker is an unfamiliar bird among the Filipinos; people whom the researchers interviewed have agreed that using interactive art as the medium to convey the message will be effective and assertive due to its use of psychology in attention and learning while being entertained. Based on the findings, the following conclusions were derived; The Cebu Flowerpecker is a bird not known by many. Being able to learn while being entertained is a useful method for people to understand an issue. Attention is an essential part of the audience – artwork relationship. Through the use of interactive art, people will be able to comprehend the urgency of the issue. Based on the conclusions to the study, the researchers would like to recommend to future students who will tackle the same topic, to find more information about the Cebu Flowerpecker and to interview people who are quite knowledgeable about the bird and the study that you are conducting.