see you January, 22ththe public will be able to see the works exhibited at the Digital Art Biennial that occupies the Hi Future, in Flamengo, after a four-year hiatus due to the Covid-19 pandemic. The event, completely free, features works by more than 60 Brazilian and foreign artists – among them “Gil Futurível”, a tribute to the musician Gilberto Gil produced by Cariocas Clélio de Paula and Floriano Varejão and by Azimove Labs, which can be visited for the first time.
The Bienal is sponsored by Oi, with encouragement from the Secretariat of Culture and Creative Economy and the Government of the State of Rio de Janeiro and cultural support from the French Alliance in Rio de Janeiro. Co-realization is by Oi Futuro. Entry is free.
Through virtual reality glasses, “Gil Futurível” invites the public to enter a kind of art gallery with covers of Gilberto Gil’s records, his iconic costumes, his Imortal uniform from the Brazilian Academy of Letters and, finally, his 3D scan – a kind of hyper-realistic hologram , all this set to the tune of the song “Futurível”, by the composer.
The intention of the work is to cause the sensation of being face to face with Gil himself, in full size. The work also features a tactile bust of the artist that, in three dimensions, allows visually impaired people to touch it and form their image of the artist. The experience also brings a bit of the artist’s history, especially during the period in which he was imprisoned by the military dictatorship.
Check out three other emblematic works by artists from Rio de Janeiro that are part of the event:
Stars of the Desert (Felipe Carrelli) – An immersion in virtual reality in the daily life of the Saharawis, who for centuries have lived in extreme conditions in the middle of the Sahara desert, which occupies a third of the African continent and is one of the most inhospitable regions on the planet. The region is dry enough to mummify corpses and kill bacteria.
Nobel Prize (Alexandre Pinheiro dos Santos) – Based on highly violent games, such as “GTA”, the audiovisual work recreates an extermination action in a favela, whose focus is to kill people who would have the potential to receive a Nobel Prize. Experiencing the same type of gameplay, “Nobel Prize” brings an inverted narrative, loaded with current historical facts of Brazil in the 21st century, criticizing above all police actions that take the lives, the future and the potential of so many peripheral people. Verisimilitude exists to generate embarrassment and discomfort in a game that the user does not like to play.
WE R HERE (Juliana Fasuolo) – An activist generative art project using Artificial Intelligence and Mixed Media. It is an exploration into the digital universe, overcoming the gender barriers of computational vocabulary and randomly creating images, characters and narratives of lesbian women.
A Biennial it comprises installations, digital visual works of art, audiovisual narratives and a diversity of works in different languages that analyse, criticize and launch new perspectives on the theme “Conditions of Existence”, chosen to guide the edition. Throughout the event, activities such as artistic performances, symposiums, workshops and film screenings are part of the program.
THE THEME OF THE DIGITAL ART BIENNIAL:: Conditions of Existence
In his presentation text for the Digital Art Biennial, Tadeus Mucelli, artistic curator and creator of the Digital Art Festival, explains: “a biennial is like a book in which, through chapters, we try to give voice to narratives and visions, ways of ‘ being’ and ‘seeing’ in the world with sentient things. And when we say “things” we are including a digital ontology (of life) in intersection or overlap with the human ontology (of being in the world). Where forms, processes and modes of existence coexist almost omnipresently with what we understand by ‘beings’, in an approach that goes beyond bioorganic and biotechnological. A more holistic view that considers third parties (algorithms, intelligent computing, digital forms of ‘life’) very present in our daily lives.
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