by Rejane Cantoni and Daniela Kutschat (Brazil, 2004)
An immersive installation designed to explore representations of a 4D hypercube, known by geometers as a “tesseract”. An automated system inside a cube shaped room, triggers synchronized flashes of light, which stimulate the developments of this strange geometrical object.
Technical support: Estação da Luz
Rejane Cantoni has a PhD and a Master’s Degree in communication and semiotics from the Catholic Pontific University in Sao Paulo, PUC/SP, as well as a Master’s Degree in higher studies of information systems with a major in infographic visualization and communication from Geneva University, Switzerland. She is currently a professor on the technology and digital media course at PUC/SP.
Daniela Kutschat has been investigating electronic media and communication technologies in the context of art since 1986. She currently develops multi-modality platforms that integrate body, light, sound and image in installations, immersive environments and interactive systems. She is a resident artist at the Interactive Arts Research Center at Plymouth University, CAiiA-Star, England, where she developed the interactive system Pas-de-Trois (1998).
by Haruki Nishijima, Iamas – The International Academy of Media Arts and Sciences (Japan, 2001)
“We collected pieces of analog communication electric waves with an ‘electronic insect-collecting kit’. It is a system with an ‘electronic specimen box’ in which viewers can observe these waves.” artist Haruki Nishijima
The artwork was located at the Sé’s subway station in São Paulo
by Jim Campbell, Daniel Langlois Foundation (Canada, 1999-2001)
“I do basically two sorts of works. The first Iluminated Averages is a modular system I have been working with for about eight or nine years. I plug different modules into the system and connect them together to create a new work. For example, I might plug in two analog-to-digital converters (A/D converters) and then connect these to a programmable image-processing module with a memory module linked to it. Finally, the image-processing module would also connect to a digital-to-analog converter (D/A converter). When the work is installed, the cameras or DVDs would be plugged into the input of the A/D converters while the final video monitor or projector would be plugged into the output of the D/A converter. The second type of work I do (Ambiguous Icons) involves designing a unique non-modular circuit board for a series of works that all have a similar electronic structure. These works have an identical electromechanical structure, but the hardware can be reprogrammed and the image can be reprogrammed into Flash Memory (the same kind of memory used in portable digital still cameras).” Jim Campbell, artist.
