Rui Horta was invited to run a day called “Hoje Quem Manda Sou Eu” @ Pavilhão do Conhecimento, this was a day full of digital art, interactive installations and creative robotics.
I exposed ICU and two Farrusco’s:
What a great day!!! :)
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Inner’s Lair
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.
Meanwhile POP UP Lisboa 2010 came up and I was invited to apply a purposal for an instalation, and I thought that Inner’ Lair could be a great challenge for me and André Almeida, and a great opportunity to promote ARTICA interactive and technological solutions.
So, all the conditions where in place, we have this great idea and a great place to show it. Due to the complexity of the project we assume that it would be shown as a WIP (work in progress). This way we stablished several steps, to setup sound, all the set, computer vision system and robotics.
We will be all the saturdays (except 27th, wich we will be there in 28th) working on-site until the end of Pop Up. After the end of the event we intend to continue this WIP on another place. If you know a place to show this creation we will be glad to know.
This saturday (13 of November) was really fun, we had a lot of friends passing by willing to give us a hand, lots of visitors asking what we where doing, we had such a good time.
This is the current state of Inner’s Lair, robots still don’t move, but they will ;)
ARTICA
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.
We are still developing Artica.ws www.Artica.cc website and blog, so please keep visiting us and feel free to contact us anytime: all [at] artica [dot] ws all [at] artica [dot] cc
2 months with no posts
My life has been going on full of cool things happening since the last post. Lots of new projects coming in, and started a startup company Artica with my friend André Almeida. Our litemotif is to mix art and technology in order to create empowering interactive experiences. Will write more about Artica’s projects soon.
Another wonderfull happening was the birth of my child Gabriel on the past 14th of October :D
Einstein’s Dreams
The premiere went smoothly at the Goteborgs Opera! It was one of the most great experiences I had ever had in the last times. I’ve returned to Portugal with great memories of all the opera crew, dancers and of course my great team Rui Horta and Tiago Cerqueira.
Flowering Tree (from sketch to the real world)
This all started with Rui Horta’s idea of having a physical tree on stage that would support my visual projections. Rui Horta came up with a drawing and I quickly put it to 3D and sent to the great artist and set designer João Paulo Araújo who made this great master piece!
After the tree was finally built, I’ve made the first projection test, for this I created a program in Jitter, where I have a video running on the background, and on the foreground a .png transparent mask with the tree silhouette.
Everything fitted perfectly! We were astonished!!
For the subtitles I’ve created another program in Jitter that could run videos on the background and on the foreground the subtitles could be displayed and crossfaded one next to each another. Another cool feature of this program is the ability to run videos at different speedrates, this was very useful because most of the videos were created in sync with the music, was a bit tricky to sync the video with the orchester and chorus but not impossible. Another great help came from the composer João Godinho who was by my side telling me when to swap to the next subtitle.
Finally after one month of crazy hard-working days, and with a final week of non-stop working, troubleshooting, finetunning and problem solving everything worked so smoothed on the premiere, we were all thrilled and excited!!
Big thanks to André Almeira, André Sier and Sérgio Ferreira who are great tech advisors and always gave positive inputs.
I must also mention that the Gulbenkian crew was absolutely fantastic, without their help this epic task wouldn’t been achievable!
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Flowering Tree (photos)
Flowering Tree
Click here if you want to know more about the software that played the projections.
Rehearsals:
After the performance, there was a fantastic dinner with plenty of indian flavours and music and the tree was moved to the outside garden:
Trigger Finger
I never tried midi with MAX before, and I had this controller laying around, so I created a patch for future applications and to get used to midi.
Click the image to download the patch.
Flowering Tree by John Adams
A Flowering Tree by John Adams, inspired by Mozart’s Magic Flute. This performance, previously presented in March at Cité de la Musique in Paris, in the context of a festival dedicated to John Adams, and conducted by Joana Carneiro, in Lisbon will involve the scenic intervention of Rui Horta.
Einstein Dreams and The Guest House
