This video is the result of a research that simulated Darwinian evolution by way of hundreds of virtual creatures – which “live” within a CM-5, a supercomputer elaborated in the 1990s by Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). In the process of the experiment, each of these creatures really evolved, learning to execute determined tasks – such as swimming in a simulated aquatic environment.
Artist, scientist and entrepreneur Karl Sims is the founder of Genarts, a North American company that creates special-effects software for the filmmaking industry. He studied computer graphics at MIT and graduated, from the same institute, in life sciences.
A work of web art composed basically of a special system that searches for keywords associated to videos and photos on the Internet. Based on a specific search, the visitor is emailed a remixed audiovisual file – of unknown authorship – derived from material previously existing and available on Internet. A Rumos Itaú Cultural Cybernetic Art award-winning artwork in 2007.
Lucas Bambozzi is a journalist with a degree from Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (UFMG). Since the 1980s he has developed projects involving the expressivity of audiovisual language, with emphasis on electronic media. He has produced artworks involving video, film, installation, interactive projects and Internet.
A work based on the romantic idea of constructing a corporeal mechanism that, by means of a multiple sensorial system can enable the appearance of something which resembles human consciousness.
Bill Seaman
An American artist. He earned his Masters in visual studies at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and his phD at the Centre For Advanced Inquiry into the Interactive Arts, CAiiA.
A discussion about surveillance equipment and systems. The idea is to reverse the scheme of closed circuit television cameras, thus turning them into “open-circuit” television cameras. Simone’s deviating system explores new forms of narrative and reveals how public space is a direct result of negotiations – which are measured using codes – between desire, need, and randomness.
Sound design, application of videographisms, consulting and technological production: KAU Etnopop (Daniel Kau and Marcelo Reis).
Simone MichelinVisual artist, researcher and professor at the Fine Arts School at the Federal University in Rio de Janeiro, integrates the N-Imagem, ECO/UFRJ. She incorporates communication technologies and image production, performance, computer systems and architectural constructions in the production of situations within the scope of art.
Video in which the author plays the role of an employee accused by her boss of trying to incite a strike. The events were “filmed” by internal surveillance cameras and then edited. The work is an interpretation by the artist, of a true fact, which happened in 1998, in the city of Tijuana, Mexico.
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Coco Fusco, who is a Cuban writer and multimedia artist living in New York, presents conferences, performances, exhibitions and curatorship management programs in the United States, Europe, Canada, as well as in the southern part of Africa and in Latin America. He has a virtual lab in the Web, with publications, videos and projects.
by Antoni Muntadas e Anne-Marie Duguet (Spain – Canada, 1999)
CD-ROM that present the work of Antoni Muntadas, a Catalan artist who, via videos and installations, addresses issues related to power icons and the tricks of communication systems.
Anne-Marie Duguet is an art theorist and professor at the Fine Arts and Science of Arts College at Paris I University (Sorbonne) and director at the Centre of Aesthetic Research in Cinema and Visual Arts.
Pioneering work in Brazil uses copier machines (Xerox) in the creation process.
Paulo Bruscky, who was born in Recife, is a fine and multimedia artist as well as a poet. He produces films, videos, artist’s books, photo-copy and postal art and organizes collective exhibitions.
The result of research carried out by Bambozziover the course ofthe four last years, the work discusses the control and surveillance systems in modern society. The images, which are recorded by a camera, are installed on a spy robot that moves around inside the installation area, are treated and reconditioned, revealing comically, the intrusive aspect of surveillance cameras.
See also ADA – Anarquitetura of Affection, Simone Michelin’s work that also discusses equipment and surveillance systems, creating “external” circuit cameras.
Lucas Bambozzi has a degree in journalism from the Federal University of Minas Gerais. Since the 80’s he has developed artistic studies and works around the expressiveness of audiovisual language, with emphasis on electronic media. He works in various media with different supports. He has participated on exhibitions in more than 30 countries.
A documentary on computer error messages made with the participation of the audience via Internet, SMS and MMS with outlet in DVDs and on electronic panels located in the urban area in Sao Paulo. Based on the supposition that the lowest common denominator in the digitalization of daily life is the error (system, configuration, reading error, etc.) and that what previously used to be concentrated in computers, has now expanded into the Web. It has now invaded ATM machines, and taken over microwave ovens, DVD sets, and taken control of cellular phones and seems to have transformed itself into a new communication parameter.
Giselle Beiguelman creates experimental projects involving fixed and mobile telecommunication networks. She is a professor at PUC/SP and editor of the electronic magazine Trópico. She has participated in several international exhibitions, including among others, Net_Condition (ZKM), Arte/Cidade, 25ª Bienal Internacional de São Paulo (“Sao Paulo International Biennalle).
by Mauricio Dias e Walter Riedweg (Brazil – Switzerland, 2004)
Small video screens set up inside six cans deployed on a game board reveal the segregationist structures of the city of Johannesburg, in South Africa. The damage caused by racism, according to the work, is not only inscribed on the social fabric, but also on its relations with architecture, money and fantasy. The piece by the duo Dias & Riedweg is complemented by the video installations Night Shift and Video Wall, both from 2001.
See also Gaza Strip (Gaza Strip), a José Wagner Garcia’s work which elaborates, through bioesthetical elements, critical judgments about the conflict in the Middle East.
Mauricio Dias and Walter Riedweg, are Brazilian artists living in Rio de Janeiro, and their work discusses internal migrations in Brazil and the disparities that perpetuate economic colonialism both within that country and in the world as a whole. The duo took part in the Biennale in Venice, in 1999, as well as in the International Biennale in Sao Paulo, 2002.
Video-installation – complimentary pieces: Night Shift (2001) and Video Wall (2001)
