A bookcase composed of 50 book-objects. When opened, a mechanism sets off a recording of excerpts from texts by different authors. The public thus composes a “palimpsest” of sound, although each visitor can hear the excerpt of the specific book in his/her hands. A Rumos Itaú Cultural Cybernetic Art award-winning artwork in 2007.
Raquel Kogan is an architect, multimedia artist, engraver, and painter, represented by Galeria Leme. In 2003, she began the series Reflexão, which was presented at Ciber@rt 2004, held in Bilbao, Spain. In 2004, she developed the interactive artwork Projeção [Projection], at Paço das Artes, the intervention Fotoarte [Photoart], in Brasília, the installation 401 Lord Palace, in São Paulo, and interactive objects at the 11º Salão da Bahia, in Salvador.
The projection of the participants’ bodies is combined with the animation of a rain of letters, which respond to the participants’ body movements. If participants accumulate letters, they can form a word or a phrase.
A fake online magazine on media art and post-modern philosophy composed totally of content created by automatic text generators. The objective is to satirize the universe of academic publications using apparently meaningless texts and articles. You can visit it here.
Cícero Inácio da Silva is a professor on the technology and digital media course at PUC/SP and is doing a PhD in communication and semiotics at the same University. He is one of the Brazilian experts in hypermedia languages, together with the creation and implementation of websites.
