About the festivalAbout the festivalSponsored by Petrobras Cultural, INTERARTE, a festival of art, interaction and technology, will present in April

2011 in Rio de Janeiro plays, performances, installations and workshops that explore the new possibilities of

using technology in the arts. The atraction involves circus, theater, music, dance, visual arts and projections, all

available to the public at popular prices or free entrance.

The goal is to show the confluences between art and creative technology resulting from research involving scenic

equipment such as projectors, video game Wii controls, Kinetic, webcams, Arduino, sensors, infrared spotlights

and software interaction. The works that will be choosen outline a new proposal for the aesthetic and conceptual

art in general. In INTERARTE technology does not imply the robotization of the arts, a visual standardization. It is a

tool to enhance ideas.

We want to understand how technology can expand the capacity of artistic expression in its various dimensions:

voice, body, light, scenery, text and performance of interpreters. We want to see the results of these

experiments, but also participate in the new creative processes. That’s why we choose a schedule involving

performances and workshops.

What is already programmedWhat is already programmedTHEATRE PLAY

•Outside the Washing Machine (RJ)

•Author: Juliana Pamplona

•Directors: Jaime Rodriguez and Daniel Belquer

•Cast: Bruno Carneiro, Laura Limp, Alison Kescen Marcela Moura, Mariana, Rafael Ramadan, Roberto Souza.

Written by the contemporary playwright Juliana Rio Pamplona, from Rio de Janeiro, Outside the Washing Machine shows the

daily life of a unconventional family. The play is about loneliness, the hardness of communication and propose existential

questions about the artist: how far can go his desire for expression and engagement? Why do some performers put their lives

at risk on behalf of his work?

The directors Jaime Rodriguez and Daniel Belquer explore the mecanisms of interaction in service of the actor and the story.

What matters to the directors is the possibility of uncontrolled or improvisation on the scene building a technologically

controlled environment.

“We want a performative theater, in which the representation and the authors also belong to those who are on the scene",

says Daniel Belquer. To achieve this goal, the directors have assembled a cast made up of multidisciplinary professional that

comes from theater, circus, cinema and performance.

What is already programmedWhat is already programmedWorkshop 1

Musical

Musical Applications for Handheld - iOS and Android

The workshop is going to show the potential of today's handheld devices, cell phones and tablets, to create

music. Due to the large processing power and an advanced operating system like iOS and Android, these devices

are nowadays portable tools for recording, manipulation and production of audio in real time. The graphical

interface and touch-sensitive wireless data communication present in these devices also allow its use as a

mechanism of interaction and remote control of other musical systems. At the end of the workshop, participants

will create a joint musical performance using these devices.

What is already programmedWhat is already programmedWorkshop 2

Physical Computing and Interaction Design applied to the arts.

The Interaction Design and Physical Computing are disciplines that have mobilized researchers from major

universities in the world. The workshop will address the following topics: introduction to interaction design and

physical computing, and dynamic human factors research, planning and creative process, technologies and

platforms, introduction to programming; Arduino and microcontrollers, Computer Vision, Wiimote and

accelerometers.

What is already programmedWhat is already programmedINSTALLATION

•Video Interface 1

•Artist: Koji Pereira

•Belo Horizonte (MG)

Video Interface 1 is an invitation for the public to create situations where the content only depend of its imagination. The installation

consists of an empty box, an LCD display that conveys a looping video. By entering any part of the body or any object inside the box, a new

looping video is recorded and automatically starts a new play.

The work is a reflection on the aesthetics of video artist Otavio Donasci, which in the 1980s developed a video work called Creatures. The

idea was to create a Video Creatures human hybrid, a cyborg. The images were pre-recorded on VHS and a frame of PVC pipe had a screen

over the heads of actors.

To be programmedTo be programmed

An international show (theatre, dance, circus)

Performances

Installations

The producers of Interarte are inviting some groups and artists that they are interested in and the festival is going

to open a public call for new perfomances and installations on it’s website.

AccessAccess

www.mostrainterarte.com.br

On the web next week

ContactContact

Production:

Roberta Maia – roberta@mostrainterarte.com.br

Daniel Uryon – uryon@mostrainterarte.com.br

Directors:

Jaime Rodriguez – jaime@mostrainterarte.com.br

Daniel Belquer – daniel@mostrainterarte.com.br