Authors:

 Cantoni, Rejane; Fogliano, Fernando;Garcia, Denise; Hildebrandt, Renato; Kutschat, Daniela; Leotte, Rosangela; Sogabe, Milton;Tratemberg, Lucila; Rauch Barbara; Vasconselos, Rafael
UNICAMP, PUC -SP, Universidade de São Paulo.
rcantoni@uol.com.br

Title:

 infobodies: unfolding and potentialities

Keywords:

 complex systems, fluidity, adaptability, learning constructs, smart behavioural systems
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Abstract:

 This presentation explores the following work in progress project:
to link multiple occurrences within a system plant --
Invenção, Thinking the Next Millennium.

system plant : Invenção, Thinking the Next Millennium
time frame: four days
part-system: a) agents: fluid body
b) world: multi-layered decentralised realities
c) connection: physical,sensorial,intelligible.
fluid body: seven autonomous interconnected cellscell: one expanded body
expanded: machine interface interface: natural and artificial senses
senses: endo and exo-processing devices interconnectibility: capability of data transfer realities: semiotic data physical: hardware sensorial: energy
intelligible: software

A part-system is aggregated as a fluid body into the multi-layered realities of the event.
The fluid body's capability of data transfer intends to stimulate multiple perceptions of the mutating system in real time and to provoke associations and thoughts other than known.
Barbara Rauch b.rauch@camb.linst.ac.uk is working with dreams and
consciousness using electronic media. She is involved in a PhD research at The London Institute where she also works as a research assistant.  Her work has been exhibited internationally since 1990. This year's exhibitions are in Museu  Wertheim in Germany and Museum and Art Gallery Birmingham, UK.

Daniela Kutschat, . danikuts@dialdata.com.br , multimedia artist, currently pursuing a PhD. in VA at the Universidade de São Paulo. Her research focuses on adaptive systems in ManMachineInterfaces (MMIs), filter development and signal processing. June-September 1998, artist in Residence at CAiiA- STAR , University of Wales, University of Plymouth.  Since 1994 exhibitions and multimedia pieces as result of art+mathematics.

Denise Garcia. d_garcia@xpnet.com.br Composer from São Paulo.  She took her undergraduation degrees in composition at the University of  São Paulo. From 1979 to 1984 she studied composition in Germany, with Giselher Klebe at the Music Academy in Detmold  and Willhelm Killmeyer at the Hochschule für Musik in Munich. Back to Brazil, she began to teach at the State University of
Campinas (Unicamp), São Paulo, where she took her master degree in 1993. Her doctor degree she took last year (1998) at the Catolic University of São Paulo, with an year stage at Groupe de Recherches Musicales GRM in Paris.
From 1984 to 1989 she composed almost only for dance and theater, working as
researcher at  the Center of theater research LUME-Unicamp in Campinas.
Since 1990 she is mostly composing  electroacoustic music.

Fernando Fogliano fogliano@exatas.pucsp.br is a physicist, a photographer,
and a software engineer. From 1986 to 1996 he worked in instrumental automation for
astrophysics and eclipse photographs at the Geophysics and Astronomic Institute of the University of
São Paulo. He is currently in a Ph.D. program at Catholic University of São
Paulo -- PUC-SP. His research focuses on photography and digital
technologies for image production and processing.

Lucila Tragtenberg   lucilat@nutecnet.com.br works with multimedia and
contemporary music events, sopran singer, camerist, opera soilist. Edited
several CDs with contemporary music, film soud tracks, special radio and tv
programs. Master in Singing and Lecturer at the Conservatório Brasileiro de
Música - RJ e Seminários de Música Pró-Arte - RJ.

Milton Sogabe. miltonsogabe@usa.net is an artist who works with various
technologies, and an educator in the Art Institute at the State University of São Paulo. His
work involves image creation processes through drawing, painting, printing and new technologies such as xerox, videotext, video, computer, and other audio-visual equipment. He has a Masters and a Ph.D. in Communication and Semiotics from PUC-SP.

Rejane Caetano AugustoCantoni. rcantoni@uol.com.br is a researcher and a
electronic media artist.
She is currently in a Ph.D. program at Catholic University of São Paulo -- PUC-SP. She has a Masters in Communication and Semiotics from the Catholic University of São Paulo,
and a second Masters in Études Supérieures des Systèmes d'Information, option visualisation et
communication infographiques,    from MIRALAB at the University of Geneva, Switzerland. She is currently working on interactive virtual reality systems.

Renato Hildebrand, . hrenato@aleph.com.br is a mathematician and a
multimedia designer. He has a Masters in Multimedia from UNICAMP and he is currently pursuing a Ph.D. in Communication and Semiotics at PUC-SP. Since 1989 he has been participating in art/technology exhibitions and tele/communications events. His current research explores the relation
between art and mathematics through a semiotic view.

Rosangella Leotte. vdleote@usp.br is a videographer and an installation/performer artist. She is currently pursuing a Ph.D. in Communication Sciences and Art at the Communication School of the University of São Paulo. She has a Masters in Fine Arts from the University of Campinas. Her research focuses on interactivity  with the electronic media.