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iDoll — Interactive Madonna

iDoll is an interactive projection that explores our cult of icons and interactivity as a way to build our identity. It takes a form of an immersive installation using an antique and damaged Madonna sculpture augmented with the ultimate face recognition technology. A kind of update or hack to fix it, if we can say so.
Photo: Douglas Cabel
 
As the object of our daily worship, the Internet has become our new Bible; new tablets have replaced the old. We live in an overconnected world where technology is sanctified, where personal growth happens horizontally more than vertically. We elevate ourselves and seek validation through our peers instead of our predecessors. Thanks to digital photography, selfies have become our modern daily icons. In this algorithmic and interactive self-worship, we build and shape our identities through the pictures we share.
 
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Objet quotidien de notre culte, Internet s'est érigé au rang de nouvelle Bible : des tablettes en ont remplacé d’autres. Dans un monde ultra connecté où la technologie est sacralisée, nos tuteurs hier verticaux, sont aujourd’hui horizontaux. C’est désormais à travers nos pairs — et non plus seulement nos pères — que nous nous élevons. L’explosion de la photographie numérique en atteste : nos selfies, petites icônes quotidiennes, se sont substituées à celles d’antan. Un culte de soi algorithmé et interactif où les images servent plus que jamais à la définition et à la construction de nos identités.
 
Photo: Douglas Cabel
Photo: Douglas Cabel
Project by Filipe Vilas-Boas
filipevilasboas.com
@filiperies

Code: Kiss The Future
Production: Les Agentspéciaux
Video: ICE Prod
Music: Goulwen Courtaux
Gallery: Flaq Paris

Special thanks to Riccardo Angelini.
 
iDoll — Interactive Madonna
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iDoll — Interactive Madonna

iDoll is an interactive projection that explores our cult of icons and interactivity as a way to build our identity.

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