Don’t give up! About a history that doesn’t want to be told

Graziele Lautenschlaeger (exchange student from the University of São Paulo,
Nomads.usp, Center for Interactive Living Studies)
Questioning the weight and value of information, 2008
Interface Cultures

A lost man, a couple, a robber and a dog are in a confusing scenario. What are the relationships among these characters? It is up to you to find out! *Don’t give up!* is an interactive audiovisual installation where a tension between the system and the interactors is generated: the system is programmed to take the narrative to chaos and the users are supposed to put it in order. The story is a narrative experiment where public expectations are constructed and broken, as a metaphor of a history that does not want to be told. The experiment takes us to the question: how could immersion and critical distance be developed inside the electronic art? Aiming to
create space and time paradoxes to the interactor’s experience, this non-linear story is presented in a 3-dimensional real scenario in the form of a 3D projection surface inspired by Escher´s picture *Relativity*.
Illustrations and animation: Andreea Jebelean, Sound design: Daniel Guedes Evangelista