Simone Michelin | Brasil |
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The web site (www.smichelin.art.br/lilliput) is one of the parts
of the Lilliput project, that also happens in a 3D actual public
space and in the system of mobile telephony. The web site is the
most steady interface of the project and constitutes a center of
documentation and distribution of content, that could be expanded.
Lilliput is a metaphor that reflects aspects of the relations of
constitution of the public domain. In the context of late capitalism
that produces the most sophisticated technological prosthesis that
embody human desires in n-gadgets, the technology of mobile communication
represents the last (temporary) frontier. The system of the workmanship
places in relief the scene of the contemporary society of control
where, each time more, the construction of the reality depends on
the ability in the joint of forceful images. Simone Michelin is an artist represented by the gallery A Gentil
Carioca, in Rio de Janeiro. She is a researcher and professor at
the School of Fine Arts of the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro.
She incorporates technologies of communication and production of
images, photography, video, computer systems and architectural constructions
for producing artworks. Her research investigates the nature of
contemporary public space, focusing on the convergence of Art, Architecture,
Science and Technology, articulating strategies within the existing
transformation of production means and the categories of subject,
object, time and space that we witness nowadays. She was an independent
researcher at Temple University PA/USA, 1998-99; a doctor at the
program CAIIA-STAR – University of Plymouth/UK, 1999-2000;
and a doctor in Visual Languages at PPGAV/EBA/UFRJ, 2003-2005. Among
her recent production are the interactive installations LILLIPUT,
for cell phones, Internet and museums, at the Centro Cultural Telemar,
may-july 2005, and ADA, Anarquitetura do Afeto, commissioned by
the Bienal Brasileira de Arte e Tecnologia EMOÇÃO
ART.FICIAL II – Divergências Tecnológicas, at
Instituto Itaú Cultural, São Paulo, 2004; the individual
exhibition VIVI VIU O VÍDEO, at the gallery A Gentil Carioca,
from June 19 to July 19, 2004, in Rio de Janeiro; and Terras em
transito: paseos por el arte audiovisual contemporáneo de
Brasil, at Museo Tamayo |
