Psi Psi Psi

The work consisted in the development of a program (dynamic but non-interactive or, at least, non-participatory) that, continuously and in real time, brings about the transformation of a landscape, representative of Portuguese flora, according to the fluctuations of the Portuguese Stock Index (PSI-20).

The program does not aim to be a tool for financial analysis, nor a technical or scientific record of information, but an aesthetic object that, more than representing data, uses it as a starting point for the development of a (temporal) artistic body, built to a greater extent by the behaviour of the stock market than by me.

From the point of view of the public/the viewer, the program appears, initially, to show only a static image of a mountainous landscape. Over time, however, it becomes noticeable that the image gradually and slowly transforms, growing steeper or approaching a plain, according to the variations of the index that records the value of the shares of the 20 largest publicly traded national companies.

The image created for this program seeks (like the kinetic effect that characterises the piece) to invite contemplation.