Guto Nobrega
Project date: July 2005
submitted 2009-02-19 09:53:41
Call: Open Anti-Bodies
Description:
Parla is an interactive system for the “animation” of a virtual body. The virtual body responds to levels of sound energy captured by a microphone. An algorithm analyses the sound input as dynamic variables for the creation of a digital entity. The virtual body is composed of a group of twelve body parts vertically organized in order to create an individual. Each part belongs to the body of different people stored in the system’s memory. This individual, found in a state of metaestability, will change its form/identity by swapping its parts in response to the level of sound produced by a viewer or another audible stimulus present in its milieu. This artwork was though as a net-art, as the cyberspace seems to be the best place to this virtual entity to live and change its multiple identity. This body is not thought as an ideal one but a possible body. Although it keeps in its silicon memory records of its physical identity, a group of young students, it is from the dialogue between the viewer and the virtual body which emerges a new individual. To best performance, maximize the mic's sensibility on the flash settings.
Format: Flash
Genre: Net.art, CD, installation
URL: http://www.narrativasdigitais.eba.ufrj.br/parla.swf
Artist Bio:
Guto Nóbrega is a Brazilian artist currently living and working in Plymouth, UK where he is Ph.D candidate at the Planetary Collegium, an international network for research in art, technology and consciousness, based in the University of Plymouth. His research is a four years scholarship granted by CAPES/BRAZIL, focused on the relation between natural and artificial systems in the context of contemporary art practice. His articles have been published in several books and journals. He studied Engraving and then Communication and Technology at Federal University of Rio de Janeiro where he is now Assistant Professor. His artistic practice has been developed in a number of media, including drawings, photography, video, interactive arts and robotics. He has also worked as illustrator and designer having his graphic work been published in numerous books, magazines and advertisements, in Brazil and abroad. His artwork and lectures have been presented internationally in countries, such as México, Cuba, Woodstock (New York), Arizona, England, Vienna, Spain, Canada and Brazil.
http://www.gutonobrega.co.uk