Authors:

 Labarrère, Teresa. POSTER

Title:

 Digitur

Keywords:

 multimedia, graphic computation, animation, hypermidia, computational art

Abstract:

 Digitur is an interactive animation on CDROM. It was built up with the softwares 3DMAX/ r.2, Painter 5, Photoshop 4 and Authorware.
The title is a reference to a digital tour besides alluding to Mallarmé's character, Igitur, who goes down his ancestors'crypt in search of wisdom. In Digitur, soon after the opening frames, the "interactor" (the user) is hosted by his female ancestor, Miss Understanding, who invites him for a promenade in the technocrypt. She is an allegory of the Art/the Female and as such she is depicted as an elusive muse who is never within one's sight or grasp, for she always stands under (understands) the ordinary surface of things. He is prompted, then, to play a captious game of mis-under-standings, which might lead him to a part/full loss of control; or rather, to a revelation. Deprived of any chance of making nexus (narrative coherence), he is joined in a risky process of expropriation of sense - nonsense and oversense. That's what he is challenged to find out as he wanders through the animation, in which multiple image layers cross over one another in a manifold and intricate web.

The animation consists of an intersemiotic translation of the dynamic flow of placards. As advertisement media, placards render a suitable analogy to the ambiguous process of acquiring knowledge. The meaning they convey is rapidly veiled by new layers, which overlap and juxtapose one another in such a quick and disruptive flood that the informational content is cast off fossillike. On account of this saturation, we react insensibly. As an alternative to impotence, however, there might be left a chance of going further and leisurely...
Labarrère, Teresa. labarre@dialdata.com.br PUC SP Teresa Labarrère is a computer artist. She is graduated in Fine Arts and has currently been taking a PhD course at PUC-SP on Computer Art/Animation.