Digital Rituals

Digital Rituals is a collaboration between cultural, technological, and spiritual worlds created in three days during an international residency at the Willem DeKooning Academy in Rotterdam, NL. Nine art students from MICA in Baltimore, MD and the Willem DeKooning Academy used motion-capture gloves to turn hand movements on cultural gestures, unlocking phones, and prayer/blessing into data.  From the collected data of hand pathways, we created animations, plotter drawings, and trained an AI to distinguish between the three categories (Prayer, Passwords and Vernacular). All components were displayed in an interactive installation at Willem DeKooning Academy in October 2018.

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