Since the first SWARS experience, I knew this could go A LOT further, but having Farrusco on a remote terrace where you could only have access by climbing an outside ladder.. I must confess, I never thought of such a thing, until… my friend Fernando Mendes (Cowork_LX) came to me with this crazy idea! I [...]
Artica was invited by the very popular theater company Teatro O Bando, to create visual scenes to the performance “Pedro e Inês”. It’s a play about a forbidden love during the Portuguese monarchy in the 14th century, and to better portray certain scenes during the perfomance we were asked to create peculiar visual stuff: fire, [...]
Farrusco is a small robot based on the Arduino platform, in this case, is using a Motoruino wich is inspired on the Arduino but with a couple of enhancements – dc motor dual controller, servo and sensor plugs. With Farrusco you will be able to make it avoid obstacles, follow walls, enter in free space [...]
Like everything, there is always an idea at the very beginning and this time was no exception. Rui Horta gave me a drawing with a set design to be created in 3D. Creating environments in 3D is always good for a first impression of the set, to detect possible flaws and to comunicate ideas with [...]
We at Artica are taking this manifesto very seriouslly: Due to a stupid mistake (inverted power wires), this battery charger (the best that my fingers ever touched) smoked for a second or two: When we opened the case, there was this little SMD with a strange eruption result of an overburn, it was definetely what [...]
CCB, Museu Colecção Berardo, Trienal de Arquitectura, Prémios Secil – Interactive SlideShow – 2010 from artica on Vimeo. Interactive Slideshow created to showcase Secil Prizes. You can see it live @ CCB, Museu Colecção Berardo, Exposição Trienal de Arquitectura.
CCDR-LVT FIL 2010 Interactive LED Wall from artica on Vimeo. Artica first work on HCI with a motion detection application. Work done in collaboration with Leonel Moura, IdMind and André Sier.
Inner’s Lair started with a crazy idea of having an immersive interactive installation that could gather many artistic and computational topics that we at Artica have been disccussing in the last months. So, mostly we wanted to tryout our new conceptual implementation of cool topics as immersive sound, computer vision, interactive robotics, and organic behaviors. [...]
Artica is a startup company created by me and my friend André Almeida, we decided to merge our skills and knowledge in many fields, from artificial intelligence, augmented reality, interactive media, visual contents, immersive installations, creative robotics, project management, set and light design, and many other cool stuff we have done in the past years. [...]
