Shows SPAM reveals the Amazon under the interference of technology – Globo.com

“The Amazon is a complex reality, tangled, can be high tech and rustic at the same time,” says Ramiro Lent, Professor of Art Sciences Institute (ICA) of the Federal University of Pará and curator of . occupation SPAM Xumucuís, which opens on Tuesday (31), in Guama campus of the institution

The unprecedented show will take place in an unconventional space: will occupy the walls of the building of Universitec, the Innovation Agency Technological UFPA, at the time of sixth birthday polo. “The idea occupy different spaces with contemporary art, jumping the walls of museums and galleries, has taken power by increasing the possibilities for speeches and other public profile. Perhaps this is the democratization of art, this overflow, “says Ramiro

Called SPAM -. The messages often unwanted arriving by surprise and invade our emails – the show brings together youth works artists, and part of the tradition of landscapes, atmosphere and mestizos elements, to culminate in virtuality and intervention that technology prints to this reality.

“The name refers to that message in mass sent by the internet without right audience, reaching to all without discrimination. This is the sense that sought to propose an occupation with works of digital and contemporary art in a space that was not designed for this purpose, and never received an art exhibition, and provide a meeting with the production of young artists Pará ” explains the curator, creator of Digital Art Xumucuís Hall.

To Ramiro, the invitation to the artistic occupation of Universitec provides a bridge between technological innovation proposed by the Agency of UFPA and the pungent creative and innovative potential of contemporary art produced in the Amazon. . “As the Universitec is an incubator of innovative projects that think a sustainable and technological Amazon, this occupation is, in this context, an incubator for artists”

“The Universitec integrates a new economic matrix for the region: not bet on Amazon as a mere producer of raw material, but want to add science and technology to their genetic wealth in order to work together to keep the forest standing, and generate business generating positive economic and social impacts on the population, ” . punctuates Gonzalo Enriquez, director of the Agency, national benchmark in innovation, technology and entrepreneurship in the Amazon
Founded in March 31, 2009, the Universitec performs incubation services to technology-based companies, through PIEBT; development actions to entrepreneurship within the academy; and protection of knowledge, through the Intellectual Property sector

The composition of show design was made from images found on the social networks of five artists:. Cajun Cleber, Diogo Viana, Flavia Souza, Henrique Montagne Figueira and Renata Aguiar. “I downloaded the images, made the proposal of exposure and they stumbled. Were potential works of art that were lost in this great collection of possibilities that is the Internet, “he says.

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Opening of artistic occupation SPAM Xumucuís in building the Universitec, Technological Innovation Agency UFPA, on Tuesday (31), from 9am, within the six-year anniversary programming Agency, located in the Professional Sector of the institution, in Guama campus. Phone: 3201-8022. Information on Universitec site.