an interactive installation by Raquel KOGAN

Réflexao #3 (Reflection #3) is a formal multimedia work, in which a series of white numbers continually moves along solid and liquid surfaces, as well as over the moving silhouettes of the spectators. By increasing movement, depth of focus, modifying our perception of space, the numbers go up and down, evolve on several planes, reflected in a mirror of water like numerous vertical waves. Things happen when we don’t expect them to, the reality of our perception creating illusions.

interactive electrostatic picture-objects
by Servulo ESMERALDO

Since 1967, when the first Excitable (Excitáveis) was created, Servulo Esmeraldo has used the most common or unexpected objects and materials to make picture-objects, which are both abstract works as well as electrostatic devices. Visitors must simply rub the palms of their hands over the surface of these sensitive works to produce electrostatic energy and thus generate visual kinetic effects.

by Diana DOMINGUES, Groupe Artecno

Two interactive installations that highlight the research conducted on virtual environments, telepresence and artificial life.
 
INSN(H)AK(R)ES takes us into the middle of a serpentarium located in Caxias do Sul, the Brazilian university where the artist conducts her research. A robotic reptile equipped with a camera is placed amongst real snakes. The visitor is thus able to interact with this environment that is 9,000 kilometers away from the Maison Européenne de la Photographie. In fact, the interface enables us to remotely control the snake and observe the repercussions of its actions on the other animals, thanks to images that are transmitted onto a screen.
 


Terrarium is inspired by rituals practiced by the Indians living in the Mato Grosso, Brazil ; rituals which are based on dialogue with the natural and invisible forces of nature in order to exchange energies. Connected to the Internet, stimulating symbolic rituals where technological interfaces replace masks, this interactive installation allows visitors to create and control virtual snakes slithering through the exhibit area.

digital holopoem by Eduardo KAC

In 1987, Eduardo Kac created the digital holopoem Quando ? (When?), in which a monolithic abstract shape rotates around its own axis, alternately disclosing and concealing the words of the text as it spins.
The text was conceived so that it could be read at any angle, but there is a basic structure that allows it to be read either clockwise or counterclockwise. Counterclockwise the viewer reads A LUZ / ILUDE / A LENTE / LENTA / MENTE (the light/deceives/the lens/slow/ly); clockwise the text is A LENTE / ILUDE / A LUZ / MENTE / LENTA (the lens/deceives/ the light/mind/slow). Other readings, just as valid as these, may arise between the verbal meaning and the formal beauty thus offering numerous interpretations.

an interactive installation by Katia MACIEL

Luigi Pirandello's One, None and A Hundred Thousand, describes the multiplicity that lives within each one of us.  In his novel, ideas such as ‘inside’ and ‘outside’ appear with the changes of his main character’s face. Like him, we have expanded the consequences of ‘moving faces’ so that narratives multiply within a multimedia experience. The spectator, then, is able to create links between the many dialogues, non-dialogues and silences, composed of lovers cliché sentences, spoken in close-up and reverse shots. So, it is up to him or to her to choose two faces that will shape a couple, so creating a relationship between talking heads through shot and reverse shot dialogues. The sentences spoken by these faces will always be clichés, however in this interface one cliché after other could bring something new. An interactive movie could be a possibility to extend the experience of cinema to a new media art. The idea is to expand to the spectator the well-known operations of making movies, such as editing or creating dialogues, as a way of participation.

an interactive installation by André PARENTE

The Visorama is an installation using an original system of augmented reality.  It is a dynamic and interactive cybernetic observatory that takes the visitor on a genuine journey through time and space.  Thanks to a simulated pair of binoculars, we are able not only to observe the details in the landscape, but also to interact with this virtual environment as if it were real.

an interactive installation by Réjane SPITZ

Você tem fome de que ? (What are you hungry for?) looks at the social, economic and political causes of hunger, its challenges, consequences and possible solutions. Rejane Spitz interviewed approximately one hundred individuals from different economic backgrounds, who explained their needs and desires, spoke of their awareness (or lack of knowledge) regarding the high number of people who are starving, exchanged ideas on the possible ways in which we can reduce or eradicate starvation in a country where 44 million people live in poverty. This installation is deliberately based on the most recent digital innovations, as it refers to the 1970s utopia, which viewed the technological revolution as a means for sharing wealth with the poorest countries.