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Emília Simão

2 papers in the library · publishing 2023-2025

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Liminal Landscapes: Generative Art as a Technoshanic Instrument in the Representation of Altered States of Consciousness

ARTECH November 26, 2025 Emília Simão, João Martinho Moura, Daniel Brandão

This article proposes a theoretical and practical reflection on the capacity of generative audiovisual installations to represent and evoke altered states of consciousness, 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...

Cosmic Dance: A Technoshamanic Journey through Consciousness

ARTECH November 28, 2023 Emília Simão, João Martinho Moura

From 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...