Title: Initium

Technique: Digital and printed media on itinerant interactive installation

Size: 3,20 x 4 x 1,50 m (Height x width x depth)

Year: 2021

 

Initium (Protosubjectivities on the Rise) is an interactive art installation that combines digital illustration techniques, printing, and animation systems with augmented reality processes. The design of the artistic piece invites the user to interact in real-time with the narrative of the work through an application, which can be used through different smart devices such as mobile phones or tablets belonging to the Android or iOS operating systems.

 

The artistic piece represents the development of life in its different stages in a post-natural biosphere understood as an interactive, open, and indeterminate environment that generates processes of collective self-replication, co-creation, and other behaviors that focus on organic processes that lead to the generation and evolution of alternative living systems.

 

The modalities or variants of asexual reproduction existing in nature such as bipartition or binary fission, fragmentation, budding, and sporulation bring us closer to the mechanisms of artificial reproductive systems.

 

This artistic project seeks for the youth and adult public of the city of Palmira to collectively access new knowledge, and actively participate in unconventional artistic processes that generate a disruptive change in the method in which they consume art, facilitating learning possibilities, creating new attitudes, beliefs, and practices around the enjoyment of cultural rights.

 

This artistic process became a reality thanks to the sponsorship of the Secretaría de Cultura de Palmira and the collaboration of the following people: María Alejandra Mafla Giraldo, Lorena Andrea Portocarrero Vega, and Karen Daniela Portocarrero Vega.