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11 a 15 de Out @Fábrica Centro Ciência Viva de Aveiro• Precious Plastic Portugal

Precious Plastic is a plastic recycling workshop that provides analysis of plastic and its various recycling forms.  The experience allows plastic identification and separation from the “garbage” and its transformation process into a new object using specialized machines and different molds.

Precious Plastic is also a global community of hundreds of people dedicated to finding solutions to combat plastic pollution.

This activity, during Tech Week, will be dedicated to the educational community, then will continue for a one year period and will be available to the entire community.

More information by email fabrica.cienciaviva@ua.pt

11 a 15 de Out | 09h30 - 12h30 @Escolas Básicas de 2º e 3º Ciclo do Concelho • Lançamento dos Tech Lab 2º e 3º CEB nas 7 Escolas do 2º e 3º Ciclo

After the installation and implementation of the Tech Lab Project in all 1st Cycle and Secondary Education Schools, the Municipality will proceed with installation in all 2nd and 3rd Cycle Schools, this covering the entire Aveiro School Network. The Tech Labs project aims to promote interest and mastery of STEAM skills in the educational community through the provision of spaces for experimentation, to provide the contact with electronics, robotics, tools, various machinery and 3D printer, to the practice and acquisition of essential skills.

During Aveiro Tech Week, we will provide all schools involved with free and monitored access to the various equipment in a circuit format, to enable students and teachers to participate.

12 de Out | 17:30 - 19:30 @CEdifício Atlas, Piso 2 • Workshop Creative Tinkering

Do you like to use tools and learn to use them? In this workshop you will give free rein to your creativity and build gadgets, using different materials and different tools. Come tinkering: dismantle, build, innovate, create and above all, have fun!

This Workshop, dedicated to young people from the age of 10, will be promoted by the Fábrica Centro Ciência Viva de Aveiro and is limited to 15 participants.

Participation in this event is subject to registration by email fabrica.cienciaviva@ua.pt

14 de Out | 17:30 - 19:30 @Casa da Cidadania • Workshop Vem aprender a soldar

In this workshop you will assemble electrical circuits, learn to solder and even build an electronic device. Mud, Panda, Lion, Rabbit, Sheep and Giraffe... choose one of the 6 animals, build your project and make it interactive. It's simple and fun. Sign up! This Workshop, dedicated to children and young people from the age of 10, will be promoted by the Fábrica Centro Ciência Viva de Aveiro and is limited to 12 participants.

Participation in this event is subject to registration by email fabrica.cienciaviva@ua.pt.

16 de Out | 10:00 - 12:00 @Fábrica Centro Ciência Viva • Workshop Brincar com o Equilíbrio

Sometimes we see objects in everyday life that are “strangely” balanced and we have toys that are always falling and then there are the tightrope walkers, who walk perfectly just on a very thin wire!!! Ohhh?!  In this workshop, we will have a lot of fun understanding all this, while we build "stubborn puppets", made with corks, pencils and metallic threads! Sign up now! This Workshop, dedicated to children from 4 years of age, will be promoted by the Fábrica Centro Ciência Viva de Aveiro.

Participation in this event is subject to registration by email fabrica.cienciaviva@ua.pt.

16 de Out | 14:00 - 17:00 @Fábrica Centro Ciência Viva • Open Tech Lab 1.º CEB

The Tech Labs project aims to promote interest and mastery of STEAM skills in the educational community. It intended is to creatively promote knowledge in Science, Technology, Engineering, Art and Mathematics, through provision of spaces for experimentation, which provide students contact with electronics, robotics, tools, various machinery and 3D printer, to the practice and acquisition of essential skills for your academic, professional and personal future. In this initiative, we challenge families to experience the equipment and STEAM dynamics that Tech Labs provide in teachers and students in a school context.

Participation  is subject to registration by email fabrica.cienciaviva@ua.pt.

15 e 16 de Out | a partir das 20h00 @Parque Infante D. Pedro • I Want to Belong

"I Want to Belong" is an artistic installation integrated in Festival Prisma and executed in collaboration with the Educational community. The idea started in Aveiro’s secondary schools and came to practice with teachers and students.

This installation aims to reinforce the importance of our “sense of belong”, which the pandemic has shaken. We want to be in the company of other people, as a part of a shared experience, to fill a significant need typical of our species that increases our feeling of security.

The bird is the main element of this artistic creation with a social character, by artist @PIA.LEPPIS

15 e 16 de Out | a partir das 20h00 @Parque Infante D. Pedro • Precious Plastic

Em atualização.

Between Human Nature

Artista / Coletivo: Mecha Studio Local: Edifício da Capitania

Data: 14-16 de outubro

Horário: dias 14 a 16 - 10h00–12h30 / 13h30–18h / 20h00–24h00

This piece is an invitation to the public to participate in an exercise in creative reflection on the relationship between human beings and nature. An interactive audiovisual installation is presented, developed as an active dialogue, between transdisciplinary contributions from the studio team, and the audience itself, which is invited to interact and transform the audiovisual result.

The process starts with the capture of original video — an exercise in observing the natural world, which is so often overlooked in the urban frenzy. From these images, processes of generative visual distortion are produced, which enable a disruptive and decontextualized look, promoting new perspectives born from the intersection between the organic and the digital world. The result is reproduced in an immersive audiovisual installation, which highlights an overlap between the aesthetics of technology and technique, and the natural world it presents.

Finally, the installation delivers to the audience the continuation of this exercise — the movement of the body, captured by 3D sensors, transforms the visual elements presented in real time. A new frame of reference is created, seeking to promote the restless and divergent exploration of new meanings for the coexistence between humanity and the universe that encompasses us.

Holywell

Artista / Coletivo: Maotik (Fr) Local: Igreja das Carmelitas

Data: 11-16 de outubro

Horário: dias 11 a 13 - 10h00–12h30 / 13h30–18h00 / dias 14 a 16 - 10h00–12h30 / 13h30–18h / 20h00–24h00

Holywell is a multi-sensory experience that explores the nature and mathematical principles of sacred geometry. The work consist in the development of algorithms to create many forms observed in nature and their relation to religious patterns. The use of digital technology offers the possibility of reproducing various combinations making graphics evolve in the form of controlled randomness that creates complex patterns that fully embraces the architecture of the church.

The interactive will give a sense of direct contact with the divine of the church as their movement will modify the visual content projected on the ceiling and the floor and will change the perspective of the environment. As dome projection, the light projected on the cupula of the church will play with its architecture and change the perception of it.

The sound of the installation will follow the theory of Pythagoras that explained that patterns in nature are like the harmonies of music as arising from numbers.

The Fragility of Complexity / A Fragilidade do Complexo

Artista / Coletivo: Neil Mendoza (GB) Local: Capela do Museu de Aveiro/ Santa Joana

Data: 11-16 de outubro

Horário: dias 11 a 13 - 10h00–12h30 / 13h30–18h00 / dias 14 a 16 - 10h00–12h30 / 13h30–18h / 20h00–24h00

Broken Bulbs is an investigation into motion, light and fragility as glass and metal perform a never ending ritual of periodic motion.

This installation is like an essay on the fragility of the human being and the environment in which we live, on the forces that continuously oppose each other. This piece is placed in a place that inspires meditation and reflection.

COMBATscience Augmented

Artista / coletivo: Ruth Schnell (Aus) (em colaboração com Patricia Köstring (Aus)

Local: Museu de Aveiro/ Santa Joana – Coro Alto

Data: 11-16 de outubro

Horário: dias 11 a 13 - 10h00–12h30 / 13h30–18h00 / dias 14 a 16 - 10h00–12h30 / 13h30–18h / 20h00–24h00

COMBATscience Augmented takes advantage of the latest holographic technology to bring to light fundamental issues of ethics, scientific responsibility and feminism. The HoloLens as interface offers a mixed reality environment, digital holographic scenarios unfold amidst the real sur¬roundings, the installation is experi¬enced from an individual viewpoint.

The interactive installation takes the life stories of scientist Fritz Haber (1868–1934) and his wife, the chemist Clara Immerwahr (1870–1915), to discuss topical matters of scientific responsibility, tackling questions of feasibility at any cost and dual use fields of research.

Realized in cooperation with Patricia Köstring. Software design: Thomas Hochwallner.

From object to affect: proposals for future archives after the media

Artista / Coletivo: Patrícia J. Reis e Carla Cabanas

Local: Museu de Aveiro/ Santa Joana,

Data: 11-16 de outubro

Horário: dias 11 a 13 - 10h00–12h30 / 13h30–18h00 / dias 14 a 16 - 10h00–12h30 / 13h30–18h / 20h00–24h00

Sinopse: de objecto a afecto: propostas para futuros arquivos depois dos media

In the light of the current context of the big data in which data processing, data curation, storage, transfer, visualisation and privacy are major topics of discussion, artists Carla Cabanas and Patrícia J. Reis collaborate for the second time on an artist project that aims to reflect upon alternative ways of digital archiving, materialisation and/or dematerialisation of private objects. from object to affect: proposals for future archives after the media suggests that traditional modes of digital archiving will be obsolete and ineffective for a future realm — after the media. Rather than being concerned with preserving things as they are or look like, the artists take advantage from the mutability and fluidity of the digital media by acknowledging its time-continuous, transforming data into another data, ultimately experienced physically by the participant.  

In the interactive installation, the participant is invited to place a personal object inside of a box, close the box, and take the key with her. Inside the box, an apparatus displays and video records the object in a 360ª continuously perspective. The video is connected to a computing system that translates the digital information of the pixels into vibration feedback. While caring the key, the participant is invited to experience the object through vibration feedback offered by a standing massage bed. The sensorial experience carries the data of the original object; the participant becomes the ultimate receptacle of the archive.

Luz e Espaço

Artista / Coletivo: Tiago Margaça

Local: Museu de Aveiro/ Santa Joana

Data: 11-16 de outubro

Horário: dias 11 a 13 - 10h00–12h30 / 13h30–18h00 / dias 14 a 16 - 10h00–12h30 / 13h30–18h / 20h00–24h00

This installation intends to bring the public closer to the work in order to reduce the space between the viewer and the work of art, thus creating a habit of consumption and cultural enjoyment. Installation is in itself a way of creating closeness to the spectator.

The light will focus and reveal the space to the protagonist's eyes, bringing him/her closer to the creative process and in practical terms the spectator when moving will be detected by sensors which will give them the ability to manipulate the light in various directions. The passage of light through various devices, such as prisms, lenses and mirrors will allow some control that create new light spacing, in the sense that this sensation and control of the effect provokes the spectator to experiment more until creating their own path.

MM/A: E

Artista / Coletivo: Kondition Pluriel (Aus/Can)

Local: Antiga Estação da CP

Data: 11-16 de outubro

Horário: dias 11 a 13 - 10h00–12h30 / 13h30–18h00 / dias 14 a 16 - 10h00–12h30 / 13h30–18h / 20h00–24h00

Two poles that come together and from whose interference emanates a composition in permanent mutation. This installation starts from the structuring elements of the Magnetic Machine project — percussion, computation, interaction — which are articulated in a new piece that is an autonomous performative machine.

Swarming Lounge

Artista / Coletivo: Máquina Magnética (Gustavo Costa, Miguel Carvalhais, Pedro Tudela, Rodrigo Carvalho), produção Sonoscopia

Local: Antiga Estação da CP

Data: 11-16 de outubro

Horário: dias 11 a 13 - 10h00–12h30 / 13h30–18h00 / dias 14 a 16 - 10h00–12h30 / 13h30–18h / 20h00–24h00

What fashions the presence of the virtual characters? What makes them endearing to us? What becomes of our own presence, constantly extended by the surveillance devices that we are using? Swarming Lounge deals with the multi-layered affective and autopoïetic links, engendered by the stratification of the states of presence of mixed realities and questions our addictive relationship with the miniaturized worlds of screens. In this journey, the persistence of virtual presences haunts us, like an unsolvable enigma.

Escultura 3D

Artista / Coletivo: Hamzan kirbas

Sinopse: Escultura 3D

Hamza KIRBAŞ, 1992-Batman / Turkey, graduated from Batman University Faculty of Fine Arts Painting Department in 2017. He continued his education at Silesia University Faculty of Fine Arts, Graphic Design Department in 2014/2015. He graduated master from Hacettepe University Fine Arts Institute in 2020.

In my works, I offer concepts and analyses to the audience; I aim for viewers to understand, solve and complete them with their thoughts. My works consist of hybrid structures that use past and present images together.

The artist uses mediums such as video installation, sound installation, interactive installations, sculpture, data visualization, site-specific installation, 3D animation in versatile art practice. His work is shaped around socio-political concepts such as space, public space, identity, gender, and migration.

His works; especially in Turkey, It was exhibited in many international exhibitions, festivals, and biennials in England, New York, Baja California, Colombia, Malta, Hungary, Brazil, Poland, France, Germany, Spain, Finland, China, Ecuador, Greece, and Italy.

Escultura 3D

Artista / Coletivo: Sofia Suazo (Chi)

Sofía Suazo is a multimedia artist working in the intersection of photography, art philosophy and interactive media. Her work, influenced by media archeology theory, explores the political and cultural role of media in society.

Escultura 3D

Artista / Coletivo: Studio Above&Below (Daria Jelonek, Perry-James Sugden) in collaboration with Einar Fehrholz (GER/GB)

Studio Above&Below is a London-based art and technology practice founded by Daria Jelonek and Perry-James Sugden after graduating from the Royal College of Art. Their work combines computational design, data and digital art in order to draw together unseen connections between humans, machines and the environment.

Escultura 3D

Artista / Coletivo: Mário G. Salinero (Esp)

Sinopse: Escultura 3D

Visual and digital artist and VJ, since first coming into contact with 3D modeling and rendering, he has deepened his technique self-taught, creating his own aesthetics within, giving birth to pop, surrealist, or vaporwave-infused scenes.

He’s worked as VJ with renowned clubs and musical artists in Barcelona and his work has been showcased in exhibition. Currently he develops his own art in 3d rendering and also works in teaching 3D.

Escultura 3D

Artista / Coletivo: Joana Burd (Bra)

Sinopse: Escultura 3D

Joana Burd is an artist, educator and researcher of new media art who explores the possibilities of tactile and interactive sculptures, videos and sound installations. She is currently a doctorate student at Universidad de Barcelona and member of the research group Connected Bodies and iMarte. She also holds a Bachelor of Education and a Master’s degree in Visual Arts (UFRGS, Brazil), was co-founder of an independent art space and recently participated in Art Festivals in Aveiro (PT), Barcelona (ES) and Berlin (DE).

Escultura 3D

Artista / Coletivo: Nouf Aljowaysir (AS)

Sinopse: Escultura 3D

Nouf Aljowaysir is a Saudi-born NYC-based New Media Artist. She blends art and computation to explore how emerging technologies will shape our future—from branded environments to digital products and non-traditional interfaces. Her recent artistic explorations focus on collaborating with Artificial Intelligence to produce generative designs and speculative futures while questioning their underlying structures from an ethical perspective.

In Summer 2020, she was awarded the ThoughtWorks Arts Residency, an incubator for artists and technologists, to investigate the impacts of synthetic media on industry, culture and society. Her work has been exhibited in galleries and festivals in the US and Europe, including the International Documentary Festival Amsterdam (IDFA), SXSW 2019, NeurIPS Conference for Creativity and Design, The Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition and others. Last June - her project, Alexa, Call Mom!, premiered at Cannes XR Virtual as part of Tribeca Film Festival’s selected XR projects.

Escultura 3D

Artista / Coletivo: Julian Young (Usa)

Sinopse: Escultura 3D

Jullian Young is a multidisciplinary artist based in Denver, Colorado where she is a Visiting Professor at the University of Denver. She works with various tools including 3D modeling and digital fabrication, data visualization, interactive technologies, algorithmic processes, animation and techniques in video art. She has exhibited at the Leon Gallery, Vicki Myhren Gallery, and presented work with re.riddle and the LAST/RESORT Club at the 2020 Ars Electronica Festival. Jullian recently exhibited a projection mapped installation on the Daniels and Fisher Clocktower in downtown Denver.

Jullian’s work engages with the critical dialogue surrounding networked systems, and our participation as a species with the environment at large. Her artwork seeks to make connections between ecosystems and organisms that often go unnoticed, and challenge the dynamics of care, control, and power in an interwoven network of creatures that ultimately necessitates balance.

Escultura 3D

Artista / Coletivo: Clelio de Paula (Esp)

Sinopse: Escultura 3D

Clelio de Paula (Rio de Janeiro), is a visual artist who uses computer programs to create, generate and consume experiences that are mostly interactive.

His main working materials are sculptures, head pieces, three-dimensional scans and photogrammetry, which are normally consumed through Virtual and Augmented Reality. His works have three main aspects:

The audience's ability to interact and influence the outcome of the experience.

The affective and aesthetic relationship of the three-dimensional record of people and spaces in time, and their infinite consumption possibilities.

And the mix between the physical and the virtual.

Um certo olhar

Artista / Coletivo: Waves of Youth Local: Geral

Data: 11-16 de outubro

Horário: sem horário

How do visitors view the artists and their work? How does a visitor look at another visitor? To understand this external gaze, the WavesofYouth team will “talk” with Criatech's stakeholders through an artistic point of view. They will even talk to the objects on display.

ANGELS OF FREEDOM

Angels of Freedom is a beautiful social and interactive light art installation that reveals the inner beauty of everyone by turning them visually into angels. A stark reminder that everybody counts, is amazing and in need of love and care. Angels of Freedom is a creation of OGE Group studio that was founded in 2007 by architects Merav (Salush) Eitan and Gaston Zahr and is based in Haifa (Israel).

These social sculptures reveal the inner beauty of each of us by turning you visually into angels. They animate the visitors to interact and to take photos and selfies with it and to be shared on social media. Giant colorful wings with a white halo invite the visitors to come close and turn into angels.

This artwork has travelled major light festivals around the globe.

AV FLOATER

RaumzeitPiraten on the next level. After their PRISMA 2020 successful appearance, for 2021 the location for this site-specific installation will be the water surface! One boat full of great lightning gadgets and various floaters will surprise the passerby.

BALANCING PEOPLE

Balancing People proposes a reflection on the state of balance and equilibrium experienced by humans amid their perpetual movement. It is a contemplative and symbolic work that invites people to stop and observe the balance of people projected. This work was never formally exhibited, only sections of it were projected informally and spontaneously in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, during the pandemic in August 2020.

BUBBLES

Physical fragility, softness, vulnerability, a game of shade and light. These are just some of the aspects of BUBBLES by Nina A. Šošková. This artwork balances between the statue and the architectural intervention, giving a new charm to the beautiful Art Nouveau building of Aveiro City Museum.

SPACE POLICE

Space and Auronautics: Conquest of the Mars, rockets, space creatures and police…mixed not stirred, as James Bond would say, with famous sci-fi movies music and a large portion of self-irony. This is the base for a lasermapping show that will bring together unexpected characters from different worlds. Of course the police force can’t be missed at this location.

GRAFFITIMAPPING

A new mural by the street artist SKRAN and a videomapping show on it during PRISMA 2021.

SECOND LITANY

An artistic installation of Slovakian artists Boris Vitazek and Zuzana Sabova that combines large scale paintings, videomapping and sound. This all creates a unique and very unconventional show that leaves no barriers between reality and illusion.

Second Litany features polygonal figures set in poses inspired by traditional Christian artworks. Worship rites and sacraments of organized religions and cults have been part of society from its beginnings. Nowadays people might find its counterparts in rave culture, which might seem like an unlikely place, but it might offer some form of reflecting and unwinding for people. Dancing fuses together with suffering and praying of ancient figures to the slow beat that gives the whole experience almost meditative quality.

SÃ LINE

Aveiro born artist and technical manager Dino da Costa created for Prisma 2021 a project that is inspired in his childhood memories of the salt fields, salt pyramids and light mirrors of the extraction of this precious element of our lives, one that needs a delicate balance between water, sun and wind to season the daily life of people.

ANIMALS

An interactive land-art installation highlighting the beauty of nature, more specifically the eyes of animals living both above the ground and in the water. Armenian photographer Suren Manvelyan created an impressive collection of high resolution photos of animal eyes and this material served to Czech innovator Ivo Opl as a base for creation of this interactive installation. Visitors can observe several devices showing the eyes of different animal species, like the Caiman, Chimpanze, Muflon, Raven, Zebrafish. As in real life animals are sensitive on distraction and will hide if you can’t be silent enough. Some are shyer some can switch into the offensive mode. But don’t worry, they don’t bite.

I WANT TO BELONG

Aveiro 2027 – Candidate City to European Capital of Culture meets the finish city Oulu, that holds the title of European Capital of Culture 2026. The core idea of this project is an eco-friendly participatory driven light installation consisting of one thousand origamis.

LASER LABYRINTH

Laser Labyrinth in an interactive installation allowing to visitors became a thief on a mission trying to escape to spider web of laser beams and bringing back the trophy in a record time. Laser Labyrinth is both and interactive game but also beautiful visual piece of art.

FLOWERS AND ANGELS

An archaic analogic device, that allows the projection of light through glass blades, creates powerful and creative images, changing our perception of a place. That is the proposal of this installation, made of drawings made to measure for this device and created specifically for PRISMA 2021.

SCHOOL OF VIDEOMAPPING

As in 2020, PRISMA promoted the School of Videomapping, a training action with the community guided by the Italian artist Luca Pulvirenti. This installation reveals the outcome of this initiative, as well as artworks by Pulvirenti and a piece entitled “Negro Mar”, created by Francisca Cardoso Lima, winner of the last edition School of Videomapping.