EXHIBITION
CIAC organises Interactive Media Art exhibition
The Interactive Media Art exhibition BSide, by the artist Rudolfo Quintas, organised by CIAC and the Visual Arts Course of the University of the Algarve opens on January 15, at 7:30 p.m., at Faro Municipal Museum. Bside is an exhibition made up of portraits of those who visit it. The portraits are created through software designed by the artist, which identifies faces in photographs and generates a graphic composition with them. This work investigates and focuses on aspects of image representation of visual culture and of popular culture on the Internet, where the public is a consumer but also a producer.
The exhibition runs until January 31, 2015 and can be viewed from Tuesday to Friday, from 10:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m.
About the artist: Rudolfo Quintas has a degree in Sound and Image and a master’s degree in Digital Arts. He is a Portuguese artist and researcher creating multidisciplinary projects focused on Digital Arts. Since the late 1990s he has been creating audiovisual installations, performances and pieces of software in the intersection between art, design, technology and science. He has done several artistic residencies and given, internationally, more than 20 talks and workshops in digital arts, and in Portugal he has taught at the School of Art and Design of Caldas da Rainha and at the University of Beira Interior. Quintas has presented his work around the world in galleries and at festivals, such as Transmediale (Berlin), Dox Galery & ENTER (Prague), Fundació “La Caixa” (Barcelona), Casa Encendida (Madrid), Moozak Festival / Media Opera (Vienna) Todays Art (Den Hagg), STEIM (Amsterdam), e- PULSE (Breda), Santralistanbul & Bodig (Istanbul), Pixelache / Kiasma (Helsinki), NIME (Sydney) OFFF (Lisbon), Royal College of Art (London). In Portugal at ZDB (Lisbon), Carlos Alberto Theatre (Oporto), Vila Flor Cultural Centre (Guimarães), among other venues. He was awarded, out of 995 artists from around the world, the renowned Transmediale Distinction Award. His work has been published in specialist publications, such as Performance Research (Routledge), at conferences, such as NIME, and art publications such as Younger Than Jesus: Artist Directory co-published by New Museum New York and Phaidon Press.
Conception and Creation: Rudolfo Quintas • Development: Rudolfo Quintas and Miguel Teixeira • Text: Mirian Tavares • Communication: Isa Mestre
Production: Artech-International
Support: Universidade Aberta • CIAC/Ualg • Faro Municipal Council/Faro Municipal Museum • Project co-funded by DGartes.
BSide is a multimedia installation, which is part of the ‘Pr(e)SENSE’ project curated by Veronica Metello.
See the museum text here.
Find out more at:
www.facebook.com/rudolfoquintas
www.rudolfoquintas.com
