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Liminal Landscapes: o processo generativo como representação de estados alterad...
Simão, EmíliaO elemento central deste projeto é a criação de uma peça com base em processos generativos orgânicos, que em contexto expositivo assume o formato de uma instalação. Pretende-se que esta instalação imersiva-reflexiva. represente — ou estimule — uma experiência extática, liminar, sem lugar nem tempo. Das versões ancestrais às suas reconfigurações contemporâneas, os rituais, facilitados por elementos-guia e outras...
Artistic Pratices and Contemporary Curation [comunicação oral: palestra]
Simão, EmíliaPalestra dirigida aos estudantes do Mestrado em Turismo e Hospitalidade.
Arts, Spirituality, and Religion
Silva, Fátima Matos; Simão, EmíliaThroughout history, art has played a central role in the articulation of spirituality and the experience of the sacred. From its integration into religious rituals and sacred spaces to its capacity to transcend institutional boundaries, art has been a profound vehicle for exploring humanity’s connection to the divine. The historical use of art in religious rituals and sacred spaces forms the foundation of this ...
The Drum n’ Bass Music Scene in Porto [comunicação oral]
Coelho, Ana; Reis, Julia; Simão, EmíliaThe drum ‘n’ bass music scene in Porto emerged at the height of the English scene in the 1990s, with the music initially being introduced by music shops and small labels. The cradle of the scene in Porto was Ribeira with its promoters and ‘nightlife entrepreneurs’ who pioneered the programming of the new style. The scene expanded in the 2000s with the arrival of major events and participation in the European Ca...
ObEMMA: Mapping Underground Music Scenes [abstract]
Simão, Emília; Reis, JuliaThis abstract presents the Observatory of Electronic Music and Media Arts (Ob.EMMA). Established in 2019, is a pioneering initiative dedicated to monitoring, mapping and promoting research in electronic music scenes and media arts in Portugal. Ob.EMMA operates under the ID research center CITCEM (Center for Transdisciplinary Research on Culture, Space, and Memory). Its research focuses on two primary areas: Ele...
Estados alterados e a comunhão sensorial: Os usos de substancias psicoativas em...
Simão, Emília; Valente, HelenaEventos de música eletrónica, em especial de Psytrance, constituem cenários singulares de sociabilidade, espiritualidade e experimentação psicadélica. Estas celebrações envolvem práticas que integram a música, as artes visuais e o uso de substâncias psicoativas como parte da experiência. No sentido de entender a sua relação, exploramos uma série de circunstâncias importantes na disseminação das substâncias e da...
Liminal Landscapes: Generative Art as a Technoshamanic Instrument in the Repres...
Martinho Moura, João; Brandão, Daniel; Simão, EmíliaThis article proposes a theoretical and practical reflection on the capacity of generative audiovisual installations to represent and evoke altered states of consciousness (ASC), based on the artistic project Liminal Landscapes.In a historical moment marked by crises of meaning, technological alienation, and symbolic disintegration, a new sensibility emerges that seeks to resume ecstatic and spiritual experienc...
Digital accessibility in Art Museum Webpages and Virtual Tours
Silva, Fátima Matos; Simão, EmíliaThis article delves into the crucial and significant issue of digital accessibility on the websites of some of the world’s most visited and renowned art museums and their virtual tour counterparts. The central objective and our guiding question are to explore the impact of digital adaptation, facilitated by technological innovation, on the infoaccessibility of virtual visit web pages. We aim to determine whethe...
Art and Popular Religiosity: The “Alminhas” from Sabugal, Portugal
Silva, Fátima Matos; Simão, EmíliaThis article belongs to the Special Issue Arts, Spirituality, and Religion.; This article examines the “Alminhas” of the municipality of Sabugal in the Beira Alta region (Portugal) as expressions of popular religiosity and cultural heritage. The main goal of the study is to survey and analyse the iconography of tile panels found in 27 preserved oratories within the area. A qualitative methodology was employed, ...
Cosmic Dance: A technoshamanic journey through consciousness
Simão, Emília; Moura, João MartinhoFrom archaic contexts to current reconfigurations, the shaman, wrapped in magical-religious lineages, operates as a guiding element, inducer of ecstatic states, and mediator between worlds. Can technology allow these attributes when digital codes and organic webs spin together, fueling cosmological dances and transitions to altered states of consciousness? The project Cosmic Dance, A Tecnhoshamanic Journey thro...