Work of electronic literature by Daniela Côrtes Maduro, Sérgio Rebelo, João Couceiro e Castro and Pedro Martins published in Electronic Literature Collection 4. [Description. Links]
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Author(s): Daniela Côrtes Maduro; Sérgio Rebelo; João Couceiro e Castro; Pedro Martins
Genre: generative; database; documentary; narrative; poetry
Platform: website
Authoring Language: javascript
Format: text; audio; image/picture; database
Content: memory; carnation revolution; censorship; dictatorship
Work Language: Portuguese; English
Year: 2020
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Maduro, D. C., Rebelo, Sérgio, Castro, João Couceiro e, & Martins, Pedro. (2022). SONAR. In K. I. Berens, J. T. Murray, L. Skains, R. Torres, & M. Zamora (Eds.), Maduro2022 (Vol. 4). Electronic Literature Organization. https://doi.org/10.7273/issn.1932-2022.4.sonar.work (Original work published 2020)
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SONAR is a web‑based audiovisual interactive artwork which employs a rule‑based system to generate multimodal artifacts. A collection of testimonies (poems, diary entries, interviews) about the Carnation Revolution, and the end of a dictatorship, is used as the source text of this generative work. A sonar is a surveillance and detection technique initially developed for military purposes. However, in SONAR, this device is used to track testimonies about the revolution which took place on the 25th April 1974 in Portugal. During the sonar’s 360° sweep in a submerged world, several spots in the map become temporarily highlighted (in the form of geo-referenced markers). A multimodal representation combining typographic and visual elements, as well as a sound file containing the testimony, is triggered by the user. SONAR preserves the memory of a decisive period in Portugal’s history, and simultaneously, demonstrates how digital media can be used to voice social concerns.
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