“Cosmografias”

Andreia Oliveira, Alexandre Montibeller, Cristiano Figueiró, Evaristo do Nascimento, Fabio Gomes, Matheus Moreno, Muriel Paraboni (Interdisciplinary Interactive Laboratory of Federal University of Santa Maria – LabInter/UFSM).

http://labinter.com.br

andreiaoliveira.br@gmail.com
montibeller.alexandre@gmail.com
figocris@gmail.com
dudenascimento90@gmail.com
falmeida@inf.ufsm.br
mscarqeart@hotmail.com
murielparaboni@gmail.com

ABSTRACT:

“Cosmografias” proposes the construction of open immersive topologies from sonic signals emerging from the cosmos. We start out by elaborating an intrinsically pictorial code with images of topologies in movement and synthesise it with sonic imagery of volume as space, as intensity and as experience. We seek to activate certain imagery that belongs to the celestial world, linking points of light with phantasmal lines to constellate intensities and displacements into a modulation of an affectual spacetime.Our immersive audiovisual propositions look to explore the possibilities of production and creation within the Fulldome format. We compose the works on superposed layers: the foundation layer undoes the form-background relationship with the Fulldome through a celestial field or firmament of infinite spatial depth within and through which the drama of transformation plays out. Immersed in this limitless volume, figures of light interact with each other as variations of colour and intensity to compose rotational movements which generate a moving geometry of processual meshings. We use Adobe AfterEffects software for the composition of the animations. These artistic proposals/propositions for the Fulldome format were developed by Interdisciplinary Interactive Laboratory of the Federal University of Santa Maria/Brazil (LabInter/UFSM).

DESCRIPTION:

Conceptually, “Cosmografias” (Cosmographies) proposes the construction of open immersive topologies from sonic signals emerging from the cosmos. We start out by elaborating an intrinsically pictorial code with images of topologies in movement and synthesise it with sonic imagery of volume as space, as intensity and as experience. We seek to activate certain imagery that belongs to the celestial world, linking points of light with phantasmal lines to constellate intensities and displacements into a modulation of an affectual space-time.

Aesthetically, our immersive audiovisual propositions look to explore the possibilities of production and creation within the Fulldome format. We compose the works on superposed layers: the foundation layer undoes the form-background relationship with the Fulldome through a celestial field or firmament of infinite spatial depth within and through which the drama of transformation plays out. Immersed in this limitless volume, figures of light interact with each other as variations of colour and intensity to compose rotational movements which generate a moving geometry of processual meshings.

Technically, we use Adobe AfterEffects software for the composition of the animations. AfterEffects allows the development of high-resolution imagery within the software itself by composing animation and compositing with archival images, video footage or digital animation objects. The various works were developed using techniques and practices from classical and digital animation, glitch art and 3-D effect plug-ins with the intent of attaining a more intense immersive environmental effect in the spectator.

These artistic proposals/propositions for the Fulldome format were developed by LabInter in 201516 as part of the UVM—Understanding Visual Music Fulldome Workshop sponsored by the CEIArtE/UNTREF and the Galileo Galilei Planetarium in Buenos Aires coordinated by Prof. Dr. Ricardo Dal Farra.

AUTHOR BIOGRAPHIE(S):  

LabInter (Interdisciplinary Interactive Laboratory) is composed by artists, teachers, researchers and students from visual arts, design, music, letters, architecture, cinema, computer engineering and computer science. The lab has developed research projects in game art, interactive applications, augmented reality, mixed reality, interactive installations, visual music, web art, telematic art, and, recently, a Fulldome proposal. LabInter is associated with the Graduate Program in Visual Arts at UFSM/Brazil.

Andréia Machado Oliveira (Porto Alegre/Brazil) has a Doctorate in Computing Technology in Education from UFRGS (Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul), Brazil and the Université de Montreal/UdM in Canadá (2010). She is the founder and Director of LabInter at UFSM since 2012 and Coordinator of gpc.InterArtec/CNPq (2012). Her academic production has been published in books, annals and indexed academic journals and presented at national and international events: STS-Barcelona 2016; ISEA Hong Kong 2016, ISEA Dubai 2015, ISEA Sydney 2014, ISEA Istanbul 2011. She is professor in the Graduate Program in Visual Arts/UFSM/Brazil.

Muriel Paraboni, Matheus Camargo, Fabio Gomes and Evaristo Nascimento: Media artists and masters/undergraduate level students at Graduate Program in Visual Arts/UFSM/Brazil and members of the InterArtec/Cnpq and LabInter/UFSM. Cristiano Figueiro is professor at Federal University of Bahia/UFBA/Brazil.