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[…]
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[…]
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[…]
Every artifact we add to our actions is a technology with utility and meaning. In the Corpo ARtifício project, the use of Augmented Reality proposes the visualization of another space, or place of performance guided by the movements conditioned by the use of artifice. USP_XReality Premiere – June 2019 – 2 screenings_ EBAC and ECA/USP[…]
E-book exposes the use of audiovisual media and its consequences during the pandemic The spread of the coronavirus on a global scale created an unexpected panorama in 2020. Most people were confined to their homes. Rapidly, various audiovisual phenomena were created in the wake of digital technologies, which were already becoming everyday in the planet’s[…]
The Transcender Project is a platform under development for a Farewell Ceremony and Online Memorial. The project emerged in 2020, as reported on the LabArteMídia website, in the context of the COVID-19 crisis. In the same year, it was officially endorsed by the Pro-Rectory of Research (now the Pro-Rectory of Research and Innovation) of the[…]
The COIL/VSAT (Collaborative Online International Learning (COIL) / Virtual Storytelling Application and Toolkit (VSAT) project was carried out in the first half of 2023 under an agreement between the School of Communications and Arts at the University of São Paulo in Brazil and Oxford Brookes University (OBU) in the UK. The project included the participation[…]