INTERURBANO: a criação de uma exposição de arte e tecnologia em Belém-PA

Abstract

This study addresses the process of creating three interactive installations about the space of the city of Belém in the field of Art and Technology. In the research, electronic modifications were made in analog industrial objects appropriated as symbols of larger structures that involve the city’s dynamics in artistic installations, with aesthetic messages about the urban, river and forest space of Belém. Among the installations, there is a telephone that simulates connections with distant birds; a tap, that spurts reports from city’s residents about their relationship with water; and, an umbrella that reproduces soundscapes as it moves through space. The memorial contains the work's triggering ideas and the lines that sew the network that connects academic concepts to practice, the outside of the city to the inside of the gallery, the past and the present, the analog and the digital, the aesthetic and the communicational, art and life. The research involved reflection about the poetic use of technologies for sensory experiences with augmented space in interactive interfaces. The project had the collaboration of several professionals from different areas for its realization, as well as the participation of residents of the city. In addition to the installations Telephone, Umbrella and Tap that were mounted in the Long-Distance Call exhibition, the memorial describes the work Sound Waves that was developed after the exhibition as an offshoot of the research.