Scholarly record
FATIMA REVISITED: AN INTERACTIVE INSTALLATION
Abstract
Three very young shepherds, on May 13, 1917, reported seeing “... a lady even brighter than the sun\ldots”, floating a meter or so in the air, near an old oak tree, when they were pasturing their little herd in Cova da Iria, Portugal. The story of Our Lady of Fatima has remained one of the most remarkable odes in Portuguese folklore. It is, beyond the religious event in itself, a key episode in the official history and culture of the Portu-guese people. It is a day celebrated every year; more among the faithful believers, but also in the media and even as a political catchphrase, widespread, recognized and cele-brated, including by the Vatican and several Popes. In this paper, we present two mul-timedia installations where the central figure is Our Lady of Fatima, following two main ideas: (a) a “door” opens up the possibility to access multiple space-time experiments, and (b) we try to reach into the Portuguese imaginary surrounding the appearance of Our Lady of Fatima, using a female archetype suggesting a “sacred apparition”. Both installations use a Microsoft Kinect sensor to detect the presence of a viewer for trigger-ing the start of the narrative, followed by recognizing different movements of the view-er(s), e.g., moving left, right, forward, backward, etc., to create different flows in the presented narrative – even at some point changing the face of Our Lady of Fatima with the face of the viewer. Both installations use similar hardware and software concepts, except that the first one uses a Rear Projection solution where the narrative is presented by the image of Our Lady in real size and the second uses a Hologram.
Publication Impact Profile
- Citations
- CrossRef - Citation Indexes: 2
- Captures
- Mendeley - Readers: 6
Publication details
ReferencesPending
Structured references will appear here after the reference import pass. The count is preserved now so the scholarly record is not incomplete.
View or Download full articleAccess options
SWS access login
Login as SWS Scientific CommitteeLogin as SWS Scientific PartnerLogin as SWS AuthorAuthors and approved SWS contributors will read and export their own linked papers after identity matching by SWS profile, email and SGEM GlobalID.
For librarian assistance: [email protected]
Purchase Instant Access
- Article can be downloaded after successful payment.
- Article may be used according to SWS library access terms.
- Article cannot be redistributed.
