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Technarte: Programme Update

Technarte 2009 wants to announce some changes in the Programme of the Conference. Leonel Moura will be replaced by Barbara Vos, who advance her presentation from Friday to Thursday. On Friday, Juan Tomás Hernani, General Manager of FECYT, will give a presentation entitled Science & Art in the context of divulgation and scientific culture, and he sill participate at the round table of the Conference.

The Undisclosed Poésis of the Photovoltaic Effect

The artist known as Bartaku will present PhoEf ,  a research project exploring the essence, use and abuse of the photovoltaic effect - the conversion of light in electrical energy - in the realms of science, industry, technology and the arts. Although it does contain some archetypical ingredients, PhoEf is not a handbook, nor academic in its approach.

PhoEf emerged from a personal, transversal flight through the interconnected worlds behind and around photovoltaics; a technology based on A.E. Becquerel's 1839 observation of the photovoltaic effect. PhoEf is embedded in a rich, multidisciplinary, historical context.
As photovoltaics illustrate the interwovenness of matter and mankind, with the elements and the cosmos, it promises to trigger a deeper understanding of the qualities, origins and movements of light. Of the Sun. PhoEf provides both sky and earthbound information, sometimes structured alongside linear vertical paths, only to make an abrupt stop. Finding junctions between intuitive text and the flowing of new (inter)connections in an attempt to reach, inspire and connect researchers, developers and artists.

Come to Technarte and discover the artistic possibilites of Photovoltaic Effect!

A Parallel Image: an electronic camera obscura

“A Parallel Image” is an electronic camera obscura. This media-archaeological, interactive sculpture is based on the fictive assumption that the currently still valid principle of electronically transmitting moving images, namely by breaking them down into single images and image lines, was never discovered.

Gebhard Sengmüller will explain that the result is an apparatus that attempts a highly elaborate parallel transmission of every single pixel from sender to receiver. This is only possible by connecting camera and monitor using about 30,000 cables. Unlike conventional electronic image transmission procedures, “A Parallel Image” is technologically completely transparent, conveying to the viewer a correspondence between real world and transmission that can be sensually experienced.

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Bumping into Walls, by Anne Marie Schleiner

In this presentation, Anne Marie Schleiner maps a few telling trajectories through virtual and digitally augmented architectures, artworks and games, revealing patterns that respond dynamically to the limits of potential movements imposed by spatial boundaries and other  forces. 

Players stumble through single player 3-D environments,  bumping along the peripheries, searching for  passage into further zonings, iteratively looping through a reconnaissance algorithm of bump, circle back, and repeat , (and often fight and save), to actualize one course from an apparent plurality of “interesting choices”.

Register before 5 April and you will give 20% discount!

The In_love Project: Technology Blasphemy

In_love is a project developed by the Colombian group Los Pixeleros, a multidisciplinary team for the creation, dissemination and research of art merging with technology and human sciences. In_love finds a merging point, as the origin for this reflection: the beginning of human and machine relationship.

In_love is an interactive installation that allows two users connected in a real time to a device that allows the heart beats to activate a mechanism of a loom, which weaves the input signal into an intertwined pattern of sensible relationships, that establish also a link to the history of machines and the history of human relationships.
In_love creates through the process of perforating a tape of the user’s beat interaction which is the input signal for the loom and the beats turned into bits are woven; mean while displaying a project representation on peaks of the cardiac rhythms and their merging together, action which allows the user to create a new weaving pattern.

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