Influenza (Raquel Rennó e Rafael Marchetti) - Brazil

http://www.influenza.etc.br/logcam

http://www.influenza.etc.br/

http://www.influenza.etc.br/mapa

http://www.influenza.etc.br/logcam

Cameras used for cinematic and photographic purposes, videos and web-cams serve as the gateway to information, which, through its extreme referentiality, creates objects which become confused with reality, lacking in the "true essence" of the real world. Logcam is a project that carries the debate along a different path: this image is not an image, but a system created from codes the input and output of which continue to reproduce results already obtained. Here the approach of the digital image as graphic interface is once again taken up; an image-system where the output and input of information create one dynamic whole. The objective here is the exact opposite of realistic visual experiences in order to explore what is not immediately visible or at least to build a whole, which is geared towards experimentation into the particularities of the support itself and how it relates to the surrounding media environment. It is based on an inter-related vision, far from the realm of metaphor that we can promote new discussions on the technological environment and its surroundings.

http://www.influenza.etc.br/
The skin combines XML and quicktime and constitutes the main interface. It adheres to all opened windows of your computer, invades your desktop, contaminating everything. You open Influenza and it loads automatically the skin. It is possible to access, by the skin, some of the web sites developed by Influenza.

http://www.influenza.etc.br/mapa
This is an online work based on an algorithmic equation that creates a non-game, a non-interactivity based on a distructure of navigation created on a city map. A map that diverts. The user accesses a series of windows where he/she will find a sequence of geometric grids. Kinetic relationships resulting from random combinations emerge in expansive movements in the two-dimensional surface of the screen. The pictorial and lineal possibilities presented at every click of the computer mouse are challenged by the proposal.

Rafael Marchetti is bachelor of fine arts and studied programmation since 1989, design and webdesign since 1996. Raquel Rennó is currently developing a Phd’s thesis in Media and urban context for the Communication and Semiotics programme at the Catholic University of São Paulo (Brazil). Together they form the digital art duo Influenza.
Some of Influenza's works were exhibited at Tohu Bohu Gallery (individual exhibition at Marseille, France), Soundtoys (England), FILE (Brazil), Peam Meeting (Italy), VII Digital Art Salon in Havana, among other places. Between 2004 and 2005 they've developed the project/installation Non_sensor at Cyprès institute in France. In 2005 Influenza will develop a project about residual communication in urban spaces at Medialab Madrid.

Portfolio: http://www.influenza.etc.br/work