Digitálias – Women's Collective: Multimedia Art, Gender and Participation.

Abstract

Exploratory artistic research whose main objective was to analyse how the community artistic practice of co-creative multimedia art can have a social function as a tool for empowerment, self-esteem and identity, using an arts-based research methodology through the creation, production and dissemination of practical artistic projects (project-based research), with women from shelters for victims of domestic violence as a case study. The Digitálias collective is made up of women who are survivors of domestic violence, who have been supported by ASM – Associação Ser Mulher, based in Évora, and by the ASM team, led by Teresa Veiga Furtado, artist, researcher at CHAIA/UÉ – Centre for Art History and Artistic Research, University of Évora, and associate professor at the University of Évora.