Marianna Torgovnick's Primitive Passions investigates Westerners' profound attraction to cultures that we call "primitive." Torgovnick explores the stories of Carl Jung, Isak Dinesen, D. Revealing its hidden essence, historical presence and spiritual value will be the next paradigm of interactive art practice. Its essential value would be found in understanding human beings, nature and cosmos. Interactive technology is an ongoing expression of human desire. My virtual puppetry with spiralling interaction, `Yong-Shin-Gud' (calling-dragon-spirit), will be introduced as an art example to carry out the ritual. The form of ritual will be explained in detail, with agent, driving force, process and by-product, taking reference from Korean shaman ritual, Yin/Yang process and Alfred North Whitehead's process philosophy. In this paper, I am defining `the form of ritual', to explain the fundamental human process of interaction and becoming, and furthermore, to find the imperative potential of interactive media. It is ritual because it is the archetypes of cycles driven by human instinct, regardless of their cultural and historical period. This universal repetitive pattern of human activity is `the ritual'. Our interactive routines have continued, from micro to macro scale, in order to confirm our existence in every day life. Historically, human desire for interaction has been continuously manifested from the day of primitive ritual to contemporary cyberspace. Interactive technology reflects our desire to interact with someone or something. It hasn't sufficiently explored its gigantic potential as a true interactive medium. Following Cartesian dualistic thought, interactive technology has primarily been utilized as a physical control device. This paper intends to reveal the essential value of interactive media by fully understanding the complex interactive mechanism of human experience. Solutions have to be found how to get online and offline culture into balance. At the beginning of the second decade of the 21st century our ´burn out society` suffers increasingly from neurological diseases such as depressions, ADHD, BPD and burn-out syndrome /. Discourse about various anxieties and neuroses that are growing out the use of digital technologies will be considered. Despite a flood of data and the use of personalized information systems problems of this world would remain unaffected. While there have been recognizable benefits to society from the digital revolution, especially in terms of the accessibility of information, there are a number of concerns. Virtual Reality or cyberspace will be our new medium for education and dissemination of information. A rising number of people no longer retain their place in just one physical world whereby they challenged our contemporary understanding of physical reality. This paper explores the postmodern shaman/artist and the potential of shamanism as a therapeutic tool benefiting and curing our ´online` culture in order to maintain their audience in the ´offline` world.
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