Caixas Pretas Imagens Turvas - 2022

Undergrad Thesis for Digital Media Design @dAD - PUC Rio

Caixas Pretas Imagens Turvas is an installation, created as part of my undergrad thesis research for Digital Media Design @dAD - PUC Rio. The research focuses on co-authorship processes between machines and artists and the importance of finding new forms of expression that are not limited to methods and arrangements of machines and devices. Proving that even in the digital realm with all the advances in hardware and software, there is still room for inventiveness and inaccuracy in processes, unraveling the black boxes that surround those technologies.

The installation consisted of a black box connected to two computer screens and an old HandyCam camera. The participant could see his image on the first screen and was asked to press the red button in the black box. After pressing the button a snapshot of the participant was shoot and the screens started to exchange the picture between them, in every interaction the picture would be corroded in a random pattern as part of a digital glitch process. At every moment the participant would be able to press the red button again and rescue his image, which was sent with all the glitches to a thermal printer inside the black box.

The final image was nothing like the original one, data from the image was printed as text in the background, and in the foreground, the glitched image appeared in highlight. The print was low quality and not resistant to wear or weather, so the participant was invited to throw away the image or pin it on a board next to the machine. The results of these processes are images that carry in their flaws their very condition of existence.

Made with P5.js, Arduino, Thermal Printers, Analog video cameras and sweat.

Interactive Projection - 2022

Client: NeoEnergia

Interactive 7 meters Panel made for an internal leadership event for NeoEnergia that took place in Costa do Sauípe, Bahia. The panel projects animated storytelling about the company objectives and new research.

In this project i was responsible for the mapping of the animations, blending both of the projectors and developing the custom MIDI controller made with an Arduino and some buttons to trigger the 10 different animations. All the illustrations and animations were made by my partner Thiago Leal in our studio SupLab

Made using Resolume Arena, Arduino and some custom made circuitry.

Kinect Types - 2021

Personal experiment

Sketches made during the Distorcendo Letras class offered by André Burnier.

Distorcendo Letras is a short course offered by Espaço CC + André Burnier that focused on teaching ways to distort types with programming, generating Kinect types and new interactive possibilities. All the sketches were made during or after the classes in processing, and used a variety of techniques.

Made with Processing and Plau types.

Deriva for the 14° Semana Design - 2020

Client: Design Department @dAD - PUC Rio

Deriva is a website developed to host the first Design Week digital event that occurred during the COVID-19 pandemic. Design Week is an annual event organized by the Design Department at PUC Rio gathers some of the most impressive projects made by Design students from that school.

The objective of this website/installation is to offer a proposal in opposition to the hierarchical structure of digital environments. Here the visitor chooses the project to be explored through a globe that prioritizes non-hierarchy of its elements and the encounter with the unexpected. At Deriva (Portuguese for Drift), the visitor leads his journey, and consequently his experience, in an encounter with the unknown.

In this project i was responsible for writing the experience proposal, forming the developing team and leading the code sessions and the project roadmap.

Acess Deriva here!

Made with Javascript and the Three.js library.