Exhibition unites art and technology to homenager Rio with poem … – EBC

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Paul Virgil – Reporter Agency Brazil Edition: Aécio Amado Source: Agency Brazil

Art and technology combine in an exhibition open to the public today (9), the Cultural Space of Coppe, which also marks the beginning an interdisciplinary cooperation between two distinct areas of the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ):. the letters and the arts and engineering Palavrio displays an interactive poem-installation that honors the city of Rio de Janeiro by its 450 anniversary.

Through a set of software and sensors, the visitor is led to a plunge to the sound of words ending in the letters R, I and O . The work is the poet’s own, designer graphic and interactive media producer André Vallias which to develop the project interviewed people from various regions of Rio de Janeiro and its surroundings, in order to reflect cultural diversity of the city.

There are 64 words that follow at the facility, with the images projected on the end of a corridor and verbalized each by one person. In proportion as the visitor walks toward the hall, the animation slows down, allowing visual identification and sound of words. In the end, one of them is selected, giving access to an entry and a map indicating the person’s place of residence who said the word.

“I already had the idea of ​​a poem with this view. The difference was the synergy with the team Coppe, without which he could not get the desired result, “said Vallias, which has made multimedia presentations of other poems of his own. Palavrio is an offshoot of an earlier work of his, Oratorio – incantation by Rio , awarded the Prize Sergio Motta Art and Technology

The curators. is the teacher Heloisa Buarque de Hollanda, coordinator of Contemporary Culture Advanced Program (Pacc), linked to the Faculty of Arts of the UFRJ. Anthologies author who revealed to the public the new generations of Brazilian poets, Heloisa has been devoted in recent years to the discussion on the impact of new digital technologies in production and cultural consumption.

“The letters are hitching a ride on the technology in a very productive partnership,” said the teacher, who focus on collaboration between the Computational Methods Laboratory of Engineering (LAMCE), Coppe, and the Pacc. She celebrates as one of the results of this joint work the book-application ( aplibook ) Poetry , released today, brings together works ten authors, five new and four established between them Gullar, one of the most important Brazilian poets.

For the coordinator of LAMCE, professor of Coppe Luiz Landau, the exhibition opened on Thursday is only the first of a series of interventions combining art and technology . “In Coppe, we have developed technologies that can be applied to art. Moreover, contemporary technology artists use to create their work. The idea is to bring these artists here for a residence, and use our laboratories as an experiment to develop their creations, “he said.

According to Landau, they have already begun discussions with the curators of the Rio Art Museum (MAR) and the Museum of Tomorrow, scheduled to open by the end of the year in the port area of ​​the city, so the exhibits, once started at Coppe, Earn other spaces.

Palavrio can be visited until October, Monday to Friday, from 13h to 16h, with free admission. The Coppe space is between the C and D blocks of the UFRJ Technology Center, the campus the Fundão Island, in northern Rio.

Editor Aécio Amado

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