LabArteMídia — the Laboratory of Art, Media and Digital Technologies, led by Prof. Dr. Almir Almas — was invited to take part in the “Carnival 4.0” project alongside The Rosas de Ouro Samba School and a network of universities: the University of São Paulo (USP), FEI University Center, MAUÁ Institute of Technology and UFABC. The[…]
DIASPORÁTICAS, a neologism resulting from the combination of the terms: diaspora + erratic, is an immersive audiovisual experience created using resources for capturing and displaying content in virtual reality. It will be made up of high-definition video recordings with 360º cameras and screened using virtual reality technology. In a neutral environment, four black women and[…]
Digital Self | Presence_Lab is a practical-theoretical research project into intermedia performance poetics based on the concept of alterperformance, a contemporary form of performance art that fuses languages based on interfaces for producing presence: moving image production technologies; live audiovisual projection; biosensors; motion sensors; augmented reality and other devices for composing the “intermedia body”. The[…]
Inspired by the book Sentimentos Humanos – Origens e Sentidos, by Flávio, Beatriz and Cristiano Di Giorgi, the project Sentimentos Humanos (Human Feelings) aims to create an immersive experience with the affective game articulated by the publication. Using augmented reality devices, participants will be able to visit virtual spaces in which they will be[…]
With Sobrevivências (Survivals or “about experiences”, in portuguese) we propose to create a transmedia emergency radar of the survival strategies of Latin American peoples. Through dialog with artists, social movements and artistic and research institutions, the project seeks to find the strategies of resistance in five Latin American countries in order to compose an audiovisual[…]
Beco 360 (The Alley: 360°) is an investigation that tests the possibilities and limits of 360° audiovisuals and the Orad program as an immersive experience based on an intervention in the urban space. Conceived to contextualize political polarization and the attacks on artistic expressions such as graffiti, the work seeks to show, in a 360[…]
Human Connection Project Human Connection Project 2018, Third Edition, is an interdisciplinary project, which stems from the research of Collaborating Researcher Ph. D. Cecília Noriko Ito Saito at CTR/ECA/USP, under the supervision of Ph. D. Almir Almas, and brings together researchers from several Brazilian universities in partnership with Ph.D Shigehisa Kuriyama, from Harvard University in[…]
SP Digital integrated the production of audiovisual content, social mobilization activities and dissemination about the switch off of the analogue TV signal in the state of São Paulo in 2017 and the switch to the digital signal by 2023. Throughout 2017, SP Digital produced and broadcast live on IPTV USP a series of programs about[…]
The installation Palavras Cruzadas (Crossword or intertwined speeches, in Portuguese) creates a listening space for 12 voices representing Brazilian minority struggles in resistance to centuries of colonial violence. More than a mapping or an overview of the struggles, the video installation produces a circle of subjectivities that dissent from the hegemonic chorus. It is not[…]
Developed by the Institute of Brazilian Studies (Instituto de Estudos Brasileiros – IEB) in partnership with LabArteMídia CTR/ECA/USP and IPTV USP’s Canal Arte e Cultura, the audiovisual project Pensar o Brasil (Thinking Brazil) conducted a series of three interviews with professors José Pereira de Queiroz Neto (Dept. Geography/USP), Lilia Schwarcz (Dept. Anthropology/USP) and Vladimir Safatle[…]