"The Intangible Victory", Interactive Audiovisual Installation

TL;DR

This interactive audiovisual installation reinterprets the Victory of Samothrace by emphasizing emptiness and void, using digital media and viewer interaction to create a new symbolic experience of the sculpture.

Contribution

It introduces a novel digital reinterpretation of an ancient sculpture, emphasizing void and interaction to evoke new artistic and symbolic meanings.

Findings

Viewer interaction creates a dynamic audiovisual dialogue.

The void and emptiness are central to the sculpture's reinterpretation.

Digital media reconstructs and visualizes the sculpture's form through interactive elements.

Abstract

"Intangible Victory" is an audiovisual installation in the form of the intangible being of the Victory of Samothrace that uses interactive digital media. Specifically, through this installation, we redefine the visual symbolism of the ancient sculpture, paying attention to time as a wear factor (entropy) and the special importance of the void as an absence of the sculptural form. Emptiness completes the intangible essence of the sculpture in the field of symbolism as well as in that of artistic significance for the interpretation of the work today. The function of the void and the interaction of the viewer with the work, causes the emergence of a new experience-dialogue between space and time. The use of digital media and technology reveals the absence of the sculptural form as it is visualized in the Victory of Samothrace. The sculptural form is reconstructed from fibers in space in a cylindrical arrangement. The form is rendered with colored strings - conductive sensors, that allow the visitor to interact with the work, creating a sound environment through movement. The sound completely replaces the volume, as the void of the sculptural form together with the viewer in unison present an audiovisual symbolism of the Victory of Samothrace.