Guto Nóbrega | Brasil

Parla, consists of an interactive work, based on the “animation” of a virtual body according to the emission of our sound energy. This body, vertically subdivided in about ten parts, will remain unaltered until it receives a sound input, that should be generated by human presence. This way, when we penetrate a space and produce a noise or sound (sound or gesture energy), the system will modify the virtual body presented combining its sections with parts of other bodies stored in its memory.

The interface generated in this work creates a kind of human level since it makes digital bodies respond in a qualitative way to alterations in the sound energy levels. The way it works is based on a code that analyses audio levels collected by a microphone (transdutor), transforms this data in dynamic variables and applies them to the digital body, causing its ten parts (layers) to change according to the current sound. In other words, when a person makes a low sound (a word, phrase or whisper), the body shown will change on its lower parts, the feet. On the other hand, when the visitor shouts in the room, the changes will occur in different levels, starting from the feet and going up to the head, that is, following precisely the emission and evolution of a state of energy produced by the viewer of this interactive work.

Biography

Guto Nóbrega was born in 1965, in Brazil. He graduated in Engraving from the School of Fine Arts at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ) in which, since 1995, he works as professor and researcher. He is a Ph.D candidate in Technology of Communication and Esthetics at the School of Communication (UFRJ where he achieved his masters in Communication and Technology of Image and currently is a member of the N-Imagem research centre. He worked as art director, designer and illustrator with a main interest in electronic image. As an artist he has developed works that explore interface and interactivity in electronic media. His work has been exhibited in festivals in Brazil and abroad, as in Interactiva (México), Digital Art (Cuba), Center of Photography, Woodstock (New York), FILE (Brazil), International Simposium -Sensorial Net. Art, science and technology, among other.