Hodie Partner
Digital propitiation space · St. Expedite
A browser-based devotional environment dedicated to St. Expedite, where users can leave petitions, light virtual candles, and make symbolic offerings.
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Hodie Partner is a digital devotional space for Saint Expedite, where petitions, offerings and shared attention become materials of ritual practice. I ask how a networked space can sustain a devotional relationship.
A person enters a desire or request on a page, which becomes its own virtual altar. Other people can interact with it and add their attention to the petition.
An offering is not required to make a petition. People can sign up for periodic free digital offerings, or choose paid offerings that help sustain the site. An offering can come before a prayer is answered or afterward.
Supporting material
About Hodie Partner — the artist's account of the digital offering space, its devotional context and experiments with generative language.