Between the Sacred and the Profane in the S. João d'Arga's Festivities: A Digital Art Installation

Mário Dominguez, Fernando Faria Paulino and Bruno Mendes Silva
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Mário Dominguez: Research Centre for Arts and Communication and Centre for the Study of Language, University Institute of Maia (ISMAI), Maia, Portugal
Fernando Faria Paulino: Research Centre for Arts and Communication and Centre for the Study of Language, Communication and Culture, University Institute of Maia (ISMAI), Maia, Portugal
Bruno Mendes Silva: Research Centre for Arts and Communication, University of Algarve, Faro, Portugal

International Journal of Creative Interfaces and Computer Graphics (IJCICG), 2014, vol. 5, issue 1, 1-20

Abstract: This paper describes the concept, creative process and development decisions regarding an interactive art installation that materializes a point of view on the conflict between the notions of ‘sacred' and ‘profane' in a particular Portuguese religious festival. The initiative, besides constituting an experiment on the usage of a physical pendulum as control method, aimed to combine three main domains: digital art (in particular generative art), documentary value and game-like challenge. Each user undertakes a personal experience as interaction occurs with a poetic symbolic simulation of the real pilgrimage. As the user intervenes indirectly in the main struggle, the profane and sacred pilgrims, in the shape of digital autonomous agents, uncover a generated art piece that is both a product of the artist vision and the inevitable result of the users conscious and unconscious decisions.

Date: 2014
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