Multimedia Master
FEUP - Engineering School | Porto University | Portugal

This Multimedia Master offers specializations in Multimedia Art, Multimedia Communication, Educational Multimedia, Multimedia Technology and Media Economy. The Master goal is to create new skills in new media trough multidisciplinary and inter-disciplinary research projects, produced in the classes and workshops ambit.

Lecture "Human-Computer Interfaces: Body mapping, immersion and interaction"
FEUP | 17h00 | December 11

sicc.fe.up.pt/mmup
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TELL
Passos Manuel Theatre | Porto | Portugal
November 13, 20, 27 and December 4 | 2008

The event production challenges several artists to create a piece with approximately 10 minutes long for a theatre that is always dark without any kind of light source, except during the intermissions between the artists presentations.

Performance "Insightful" | 22h00 | November 27
Insightful propose a journey through the character’s interior landscape. Teel, William Tell. The apples and the imaginary arrows that go through them narrate his story. And what remain are the nature and the sensations from his time.

Creation and performance: Vera Santos and Tiago Dionísio | Collaboration: Elisa Santos | Photos: Júlio M.

tell1artista1euro.blogspot.com
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Ciência Viva Forum
Knowledge Pavilion | Parque das Nações | Lisbon | Portugal
November 22 - 23 | 2008

Interactive Audiovisual Performance "Swap" | 20h00 | November 22

From Physics to Biology, from Engineering to Social Sciences, students, teachers, science association’s members and investigators exhibit and share their work through different activities, debates and workshops. The Ciência Viva Forum is a unique opportunity to know is being developed in Portuguese Science and Technology

forum.cienciaviva.pt
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LCD - Digital Creation Laboratory
Audiência Zero | Porto | Portugal
October - Dezember | 2008

Lecture "Human-Computer Interfaces: Body mapping, immersion and interaction"
Arménio Losa Gallery | 21h00 | November 18

LCD is a project that provides the necessary conditions for knowledge and experience share in multidisciplinary creative projects production. The goal is to develop the Creativity and Technology Centre through workshops, lectures, exhibitions and projects production that catalyze the convergence of high motivated people from different professional backgrounds.

www.audienciazero.org
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boDig 08 - Absent Interfaces Lab
Istanbul | Turkey
September 15 - 25 | 2008

Interactive Audiovisual Installation "eDGe" | Ekav Art Gallery | September 15 - 25
Absent Interfaces Lab 1 | Santral Istanbul | September 15 - 16
Interactive Audiovisual Performance "Swap" | MaaN Theatre | 21h00 | September 17

boDig 08 consists of artistic presentations, educational activities, discussions and occasions for collaborative creations, within the frame of the International Project “Absent Interfaces Lab”and organized by boDig-Istanbul. These series of events focuses on the relation of the bodies and its technologies, and it seeks to problematize this relation in the post-digital era.

www.bodig.org
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Interdisciplinary and Technological Performance Arts Course
Modern Art Museum | Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation | Lisbon | Portugal
June 16 - August 23 | 2008

The Gulbenkian Creativity and Artistic Creation Programme and The Faculty of the postgraduate programs in Performance and Interactive Media Arts at Brooklyn College of the City University of New York will offer a 10-week intensive in performance, interdisciplinary collaboration, and interactive media technology. The Lisbon Interdisciplinary and Technological Performance Arts (ITPA) program has the following courses:

PIMA 701: Sound, Image, Space, & Performance; Interactive Media Programming I
PIMA 721: History, Theory, & Criticism
PIMA 732.1: Experimental Performance Ensemble and Composition

Twelve artists from all disciplines will come together in intensive collaboration, realizing several performance works per week while working towards two major concerts.

itpa.gulbenkian.pt | interactivearts.org | programacriatividade.gulbenkian.pt
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Reset 2008 - IV Design Students Exhibition
Universidade da Beira Interior | Covilhã | Portugal
June 09 - 13 | 2008

Interactive Video Art Workshop
Body Reactive Augmented Reality Environments
June 11 - 13 | 2008

In this workshop, I will introduce Processing programming language when different concepts of drawing, animation, interaction, generative and video analysis techniques are explored. In this sense, the technical knowledge will be acquired to respond the needs that resulted from the artistic reflection and experimentation. The goal is the creation of immersive augmented reality environments that explore intuitive, exploratory, manipulative and collaborative interaction methods, where the subject body expression and the virtual objects behaviour establish an insightful dialogue in a continuous feedback loop process.These tools allow to translate the artist thought into a commands sequence, resulting in personal aesthetic vocabulary with constant principles and irreproducible results.

www.ubi.pt
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XIII Biennal of Young Artists from Europe and the Mediterranean
Fiera del Levante | Bari | Italy
May 22 - 31| 2008

Interactive Audiovisual Performance "Swap" Presentation
20h00 | May 25 | 2008

The theme for the XIII Edition of The Biennial 2008 is: "Our Creative Diversity: kairos " (Greek word pronounced keeros, meaning fit time, opportunity, a point in time where change is possible).

More than 1,000 young artists from 46 European and Mediterranean countries will participate to the XIII Biennial: it is the first time that other 18 countries from the European Union are going to participate along with the 27 countries of last Edition held in Naples on September 2005.

46 participating countries: all Europe (25 countries: Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, The Netherlands, United Kingdom), "Rive sud" (10 countries: Algeria, Egypt, Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, Morocco, Palestine, Syria, Tunisia, Turkey), Greater Mediterranean (Albania, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Croatia, FYROM, Serbia, Montenegro) with Kosovo, Norway, Republic of San Marino, and Rom Nation.

www.bjcem.org
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Audiovisual and Multimedia Comunication Technologies Open Week
ESMAE - Music and Performance Arts School | Instituto Politécnico do Porto | Portugal
May 11 - 16 | 2008

Lecture "Augmented Body"
Body Mapping, Immersion and Interaction in the Digital Era"
May 15 | 2008

tcav.ipp.pt | esmae.ipp.pt
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Interdisciplinary Projects
School of Arts | Portuguese Catholic University | Porto | Portugal

Lecture "Augmented Body"
Body Mapping, Immersion and Interaction in the Digital Era
April 14 | 2008

"In this lecture, I describe the principles, motivations and methods in the research, conception, formalization and reflection of my artist practice.
The development of Software-Art and Custom Human-Computer Interfaces need a transdisciplinar context through the convergence of the arts and the computer sciences domains. These Interactive Augmented Reality Environments apply computational algorithms to capture and analyze the body shape and motion and to create the user digital body representation in an immersive space. In these environments, the user interacts with digital objects and establishes intuitive and emotional relations that render the intervenient subjectivity. In this process, the body is the central composition element and produces interactive sound and visual contents in constant adaptation feedback loop process, modifying the user conception and perception of his/her role."

artes.ucp.pt
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Olhares de Outono 2007 - Digital Arts Festival
School of Arts | Portuguese Catholic University | Porto | Portugal
October 31- November 3 | 2007

In 2007, the activities chosen for the “Olhares de Outono”, fall within the area of GENERATIVE ART. Generative Art gives artists the possibility of developing ideas and concepts as if they were a genetic code, and of thus generating series of events, images, objects, architecture, music, ambiences; always different and unpredictable. This approach is one of the most creative forms of expression in an increasingly complex society where artificial spaces naturally emerge.

On your right, the images 1 and 2 are frames from two generative works developed in my first experience with Processing programing language, during the Marius Watz workshop "Play" and the Zachary Lieberman workshop "Making things move: Advanced Processing", in Olhares de Outono 07 Digital Art Festival, Porto, Portugal.

artes.ucp.pt/olhares-outono/2007
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To contact me, please send a email to: tiagodionisio.net@gmail.com

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Keywords: interactive art, installations, performance, augmented reality, body reactive, gesture extention, expresiveness, body language, motion graphics, sound synthesis, 3D environemnts, generative, real time, transdisciplinar, computer vision, programming, software development.

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