Diogo Marques, researcher at CODA - Center for Digital Culture and Innovation, and member of the Instituto de Literatura Comparada Margarida Losa – ILCML, of the Faculty of Letters of the University of Porto, recently won an Artistic Creation Grant supported by the Municipality of Funchal, with a research-creation project based on the work of António Aragão.
Entitled “Family Portrait(s)”, the project proposes the creation of a cyberliterary installation using augmented reality, combinatorial and generative literature, as well as facial animation technology based on Artificial Intelligence. The objective is to recreate a series of fictional biographies of several generations of Funchal families, in a game between tradition and innovation that will involve the active participation of local communities.
Developed in collaboration with the Regional Directorate of the Archive and Library of Madeira and the cyberliterary collective Wreading-digits, the project is also curated by Ana Salgueiro (researcher at CECC-UCP – Lisbon, coordinator of the TRANSLOCAL magazine and collaborator at CEHA-AV and UMa-CIERL – Funchal) and Inês Cardoso (researcher at ILCML, finishing a doctoral thesis centered on the works of Salette Tavares and António Aragão).
The public presentation of the winners of the Artistic Creation Grants will take place in the Main Hall of Funchal City Council, on the 5th of July, at 5 pm, with the presence of the President of the City Council of Funchal, Dr. Pedro Calado.
