Filozelle

“Filozelle” is an interactive artefact, presented in the form of an embroidered and painted linen tapestry. It supports a number of actuators that, programmed, responds to a proximity sensor and a voice recognition system. It based on three realities: the symbiosis between design and technology, resulting in original artistic expressions in the ambit of creativity and aesthetics, the interaction between humans and machines through natural language, seeking to explore the improvement of communication between both, and the reality of the traditional embroideries that fight for its preservation and valorization, in this case applied to the culture of Santa Catarina da Fonte do Bispo, Tavira. New aesthetics of Digital Art may contribute to reactivate the interest and value of Traditional Embroidery in Portugal, to deconstruct its logic and reintroduce in the contemporary imaginary.

Bio notes

Maria Teresa Saruga Barradas Casteleiro Penacho, is an Adjunct Professor at Escola Superior de Educação on Beja, of Arts, Humanities and Sports Department, holds a PhD in Media-Digital Art from Universidade Aberta and Universidade do Algarve and a post-doctorate in Art Multimedia at the Faculdade de Belas Artes of Universidade of Lisboa. She has participated in several national and international conferences and has published several articles on Wearables Computers, Body as Interface, Biocybernetic Body, Textile Materials, Tradition and Technology in Traditional Embroidery and Fashionable Technology. Teresa also worked as a designer from 1998 to 2016 and was one of the founding partners of the Creative Industry: P. Gráfica, Indústria de Comunicação Gráfica Lda, which developed several works in Visual Design and Design Expo. Currently she is a researcher at CIAC (Centro de Investigação em Artes e Comunicação of Universidade Aberta and Centro de Investigação em Artes at the Universidade do Algarve) and CIEBA (Centro de Investigação e de Estudos em Belas-Artes) and develops some projects on Digital-Media Art.

Pontos G – Chakras Invertidos

“Pontos G – Chakras Invertidos” is an interactive sensory platform-based installation. By means of proximity sensors triggered by movements, it promotes communications and aesthetic expressions activated by the body mobility of its interactors. It is a location-based radiant sculpture of seven colours, whose format goes back to a spine and rib cage, inviting the audience to pass through its sensorial inner section and become expressive agents of its manifestations.

In the female anatomy, the so-called “G-spot” is a certain place inside the genitalia that causes an above average sensorial  peak. However, whether in antiquity or in the contemporary world, every human being experiences situations that also cause”real time” spikes in their emotional load, not necessarily always pleasant. While oriental currents attribute such variations to the (un)balance of the chakras (primordial energetic points located linearly from the head to the lower hip), Wilhelm Reich’s orgonotic psychoanalysis argues for a “vital energy” triggered at four distinct moments: tension, charge, discharge and relaxation.

In this way, this artistic project will seek to discuss the contemporary perception “of the self and its environment” from a set of local sounds, recorded and distorted in the installation by the public itself. Thus, from “inside out” the “G-spot” of each chakra gives off metaphorised energies in sound and light concerning tension, charge, discharge and relaxation, whose combination is generated in the interaction with the individual, and produces affective-rational variations between pleasure, ecstasy, relief, tension, and frustration.

This aesthetic re-signification of a possible fusion between chakras and orgonotic vital energy has been explored since 2008, in works of formats and consequences, occurring in Brazil (2009, 2011, 2012 and 2015), Spain (2009) and Hungary (2011) which are unique and singular. Thus, this “rereading” comes to propose an unpublished “final work”, distinct from all previous manifestations.

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Paulo Cesar Teles is a media-artist, graduated in Radio and Television from the Faculty of Architecture, Arts and Communication at Paulista State University – UNESP (1992); Master in Multimedia by the Institute of Arts of UNICAMP (2001); PhD in Communication and Semiotics at PUC-SP (2009), with a postdoctoral degree from the School of Communications and Arts at USP (2015). Professor of Higher Education since 2001 and Professor of the Arts Institute of the State University of Campinas – UNICAMP since 2011, he works in the Graduate Programs in Visual Arts (IA) and in Scientific Publicity (Labjor); in the course of Specialization in Graphic Design and in the undergraduate courses in Visual Arts and Social Communication – Midialogy.

With more than thirty years of performance dedicated to artistic production, during which many of his artefacts and research works have been produced, exhibited and presented in Brazil and in more countries, he currently develops multimedia sensory installations. His present artistic productions and academic research are focused on technological art; interactive processes in rising media; audiovisual narratives; transculture; and multiplatform edu-communication through Art. He is also coordinator of the ARTME Research Group (Art, Technology and Emerging Media: Development, Literacies and Transculture) and research member of the MANTIS Research Group (Color, Tint and Visual Syntax).

You&Me (the infinite constellation of our senses)

In the era of hyper-connectivity, human relations are paradoxically increasingly mediated by technology. So now the real challenge is to use art and technology in such a way that people are brought together in direct, unmediated communication and relationships. You&Me is an interactive installation that acts as a mirror, not a mediator, of human communication. Two interactors must use gestures and visual feedback or vocal communication in order to coordinately unlock six different poetic stages, each one a part of Casimiro de Brito’s poem “O Amigo” (The Friend), transformed into an audio-visual sensory explosion. The poem is vividly populated by symbols and metaphors, which provided generous ground for multimedia interpretation.

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Pedro is an artist and researcher. He holds a degree in Computer Science, a post-graduation in Advanced Studies of Digital Media Art and a Ph.D. in Digital Media Art (summa cum laude), following a two-decade business career in web-design and information systems, including the launch and sale of two IT companies. He is a member of CIAC – Centro de Investigação em Artes e Comunicação, where he is conducting research in multimedia generative systems and also on the impacts of experience, attention and ubiquity economies in digital art ecosystems. Since 2001 he has participated in several group and individual art exhibitions and projects, in visual arts, theatre and in digital media art.

http://pedroveiga.com

(DES)CONEXÃO 2.0 Disjecta membra

By artist collective wreading digits, in collaboration with media artist Pedro Ferreira, is a cyberpoetic artifact developed under the artistic residency “Realtime Runtime People”, promoted by the INVITRO-Gerador. Having its first instantiation [realtime], in July 2018, at Atelier Concorde Lisbon, as a #cyberpoetic installation complemented with #livecoding #liveremixing #performance, (DES)CONEXÃO is now presented at ARTEFACTO 2018, in a completely different way; without its digital component. The intention at stake here is to reinforce its initial questioning – a reflection on the ways technologies alter our perception of time –, by giving visibility and expressiveness to textual and poetic layers behind the surface of the artifact. In dissecting the machine and its fragmented layers of different data, certain experimental writing techniques used, that allow us to extend the word, and therefore the text,  – such as combinatorics, literary cut-ups, or fold-ins – are cut wide open. Beyond the circular walls of this anatomical theatre, the remains of these mediated and transmutated philosophical stone(s), once modified, filtered, sublimated, multiplied, and sometimes even self-generated are revealed. In runtime.

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wreading digits is a #visual #digital #experimental #transdisciplinary artist collective focused in the disruptive exploration of bridges between arts, curatorship and creative research. Their cyberliterary works were present in International Art Festivals, such as PLUNC 2015, ELO 2017, FOLIO 2017 and FILE 2017.

Ana Gago: New media artist. Communications Officer and Project Manager, specialized in the ONG sector. Master in “Regional Studies”. PhD student in “Heritage Studies”, School of Arts – Universidade Católica (Porto). Born in Lisbon, 29/07/1987.

Diogo Marques: New media artist, creative researcher and curator. Presently Research fellow at the University Fernando Pessoa (Porto, Portugal). Ph.D. in the Materialities of Literature (School of Arts, University of Coimbra). Born in Lisbon, 27/11/1982.

João Santa Cruz: Full time developer for mobile applications, working every day to find creative ways to deal with the challenges of real life. (Personal website: (http://joaosantacruz.com)

Pedro Ferreira: Media artist based in Berlin and Ph.D. student in Multimedia Arts (Faculty of Fine Arts, Lisbon). Master in Multimedia Arts and Culture (University of Porto). His focus is on experimental and documentary film, video installation, sound and performance.