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SDVila Group. PANEL | |
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The Wanderer Project | |
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web art,evolutionary art, interactive art, art and science, dynamics systems | |
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Abstract: |
The Wanderer is a web artwork in
progress that seeks for the awareness of a process which we are going through in this globalization era: living in a multicentered society in search for its lost center. The nomadism in which the artists are living nowadays leads to an increasing number of multicultured and multidisciplinary artworks intermingling space and memory bringing into a close connection art, public and context. Technology enables us to engage in new discussions about these concepts and provides the means for artistic updating. The choice for a web art project seems to be just natural for the possibilities of getting connected to people with different memories. For The Wanderer project, the written word was chosen in order to create genetic texts in an interactive tridimensional environment. It is a simulation of a self-organized poetic system which grows in a software which has some analogy to some characteristics of living systems: birth; mating; death; adaptive changes in the flow of generations; memory. Written words filled with inheritable characteristics are supposed to create new forms in a continuous transformation caused by the interference of new generations of texts included by visitors and transformed along the path via internet. It is a system dynamically adapting to both, changes coming from itself and from public intervention, including some randomness, all under evolutionary laws programed by genetic algorithms. This work in progress is the result of a long research by an interdisciplinary group, which has been continually introducing his critical judgement to it and is looking for contibutions from the congress participants. |
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| Anna Barros annab@exatas.pucsp.br
http://www.pucsp.br/~cos-puc/interlab/abarros/cvi.htm Brazilian multimedia artist. Lived
in Los Angeles for many years. She has largely exhibited in Brazil and abroad. Ph.D in
Communication and Semiotics-Art- from Pontificia Universidade Catolica de Sao Paulo - PUC
where she teaches at the Graduate Program. President of the National Association for
Visual Arts Researchers - ANPAP. Alberto Blumenschein alblum@homeshopping.com.br http://www.luzcom.com.br Graduated in Graphics Arts from Theobaldo De Nigris Graphics Arts School and in Fine Arts from FAAP, has worked with Audiovisual since 1979. Lived in Lisbon Portugal for seven years where he delveloped several activities related to electronic art and videotape such as installations and documentary. Nowadays runs his own company of multimedia production in São Paulo (luzcom) and directs worshops on internet and web design. Luciano Costa luciano@ultra3000.ifsc.sc.usp.br http://www.ifqsc.sc.usp.br/visao/group/members/luciano/luciano.htm Luciano da F. Costa got his PhD from King's College, University of London, and is an Associate Professor at the IFSC-USP. He is also the founder and coordinator of the Cybernetic Vision Research Group at DFI-IFSC, Universidade de São Paulo. Silvia Laurentiz laurentz@uol.com.br http://www.pucsp.br/~cos-puc/interlab/silvia/index.html Silvia Laurentiz is a Multimedia and Graphic Designer and Art Researcher attending a Ph.D. program at The Catholic University of São Paulo (Communication and Semiotic Program, PUC/SP) .The premise of my works is that logic programming can act poetically on images. My project uses virtual reality software, which allows us to navigate and visualize - in real time - the 3-D universes of images. SDVILA GROUP Alberto Blumenschein - web master Anna Barros - multimedia artist Andrea D'Alcantara - system analyst Silvia Laurentiz - multimedia designer Luciano F. Costa - physicist |
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