O Domo é vivo: entre técnica, sensível e poética em imersão

Abstract

This thesis investigates the dynamics of real-time computational artistic creation in the digital fulldome. It analyses the fulldome as a medium that hosts processes of techno-aesthetic transindividuation in act (in actu). It proposes the notion of the Domo Vivo, which organises the immersive experience as a dynamic synergy among the technical (the agency of apparatuses), the sensible (embodied perception), and the poetic (inventive gesture). It also presents the Domo Vivo considering its ontogenesis through a transdisciplinary approach and repositions the hemispherical dome as the event’s associated milieu. The Domo Vivo is conceived as a processual and relational ecosystem operating in a metastable regime. The thesis argues for shifting the focus from representation to individuation: the event is a living experience constituted in encounter and remade as luminous, sonic, gestural, and algorithmic modulations reorganise the sensible field. This dynamic is described by transductive operators – incitation, propagation, and iteration – modulated by interaction and intensive composition. The thesis analyses a corpus of live immersive audiovisual (A/V) performances and installations created by artists in the fulldome context through situated research. It takes into consideration performances and installations as cases in which the co-emergence of the technical, the sensible, and the poetic becomes observable. Along the same trajectory, it develops the ziviDomeLive library (Processing/Java) and the generative system of the audiovisual performance ‘Matizes em Extempore’. The latter operates as a laboratory within the medium itself and as a methodological operator for formalising and experimenting with real-time dynamics. In direct dialogue with the concept of Domo Vivo, it evidences how technical objects, audiences, and inventive gesture engender the immersive experience. The thesis practiced-based investigation formalises the Domo Vivo as a conceptual operator for immersive ecosystems. This practice investigation analyses real-time creation through transductive operators and makes explicit the agency of fulldome materialities in the poetics of experience. In conclusion, the thesis scope is circumscribed to artistic research on real-time audiovisual experiences for immersive fulldome contexts, affirming the fulldome as a field of research-creation and as a space of living experience and collective invention.