Joao Martinho Moura
About the Artist
Fig.1 the picture of Joao Martinho Moura
João Martinho Moura is a Researcher, Digital Media Artist, Software Designer and also a Musician; he is an Interactive Media Artist and Researcher born in Portugal. His interests are focused in intelligent interfaces, digital art, digital music and computational aesthetics. He has a special interest in body driven digital artifacts. He worked in several projects in fields of education, media, entertainment, telecommunications and health industries, in Portugal, Israel, France and United Kingdom. He recently participated, as a visual artist, in the International Symposium on Computational Aesthetics in Graphics, Visualization, and Imaging (CAe). João Martinho digital art work has recently included in the curate selection of the Processing.org platform, from the Aesthetics and Computation Group at the MIT Media Lab. João Martinho Moura, in 2009, also presented his work at the OFFF - International Festival for the Post-Digital Creation Culture. He recently participated in the World Congress on Communication and Arts 2010. His master thesis work, NUVE (2010), was recently presented, under the artistic supervision of Né Barros (Balleteatro), and technical supervision of Adérito Marcos (University of Minho) and Pedro Branco (University of Minho). João Martinho Moura is doing research, at University of Minho's EngageLAB. João Martinho Moura is an Invited Assistant Professor at the Master Program in Technology and Digital Arts (MTAD), at University of Minho, Portugal, teaching Programing for Digital Arts.
João Martinho Moura has spoken at conferences around the world, including:
· the International Festival for the Post-Digital Creation Culture OFFF (2008)
· World Congress on Communication and Arts (2010)
· SHiFT - Social and Human Ideas for Technology (2009)
· International Symposium on Computational Aesthetics in Graphics
· Visualization, and Imaging - CAe (2008)
· ARTECH (2008), ARTECH (2010)
· Computer Interaction (2009), Pluto-Festival (2009)
· ZON Digital Games (2007), International Creative Arts Fair (2008)
· ZON Multimédia Premium (2008)
· Le Corps Numérique - Centre Culturel Saint-Exupéry (2011)
· International Conference on Tangible, Embeded and Embodied Interaction (2011).
His work has been shown in a variety of places in Portugal, Brasil, UK, France, Hong Kong and Belgium.
Choice of media(1 installation based )
The media I chosen from his artwork is YMYI (You Move You Interact) it is an interactive installation art that consist sound, graphic, and animation that can interact by user (real time).
How is the installation work?
The whole installation consists projector screen, speaker, computer, they use Processingjs as their programming language (http://processingjs.org )Microsoft Kinect (used to track the z depth information of the user interactions.) the installation will detect the human gesture and transform it into animation in various way. This installation can have 1 more people to interact with it.
My personal comment:
The installation gives user freedom to explore the art by moving our gesture. If we compare with the static art that we usually seen on the art gallery, their art is always have the certain meaning only, but in YMYI , people can interact and create art based on their creativity, and also give different expression and feeling if we experience it at different venue or different time.
The YMYI give me an inspiration that 1 installation art can actually communicate into many message. People appreciate art is very personal and subjective. In now days, art can actually interact with people and respond to people when interact with it.
For my opinion, this installation art can add more color to make it more dynamic and more interesting, from what I browse on the internet, the sound is only consists ambience sound only, if add the sound effect from the instrument like piano, drum, and guitar etc, I think this will make the installation art more interesting.
For my opinion, this installation art can add more color to make it more dynamic and more interesting, from what I browse on the internet, the sound is only consists ambience sound only, if add the sound effect from the instrument like piano, drum, and guitar etc, I think this will make the installation art more interesting.
Choice of Meida(Media based)
ARTWORK BY JOAO MARTINHO MOURA
HTML5 Visual Art - ”Transversal Lines, 2011 "
Transversal Lines: infinite abstract visual black & white line work,
by artist João Martinho Moura, 2011.
This is the Processing language created by Ben Fry and Casey Reas.
This artwork is created using HTML 5, and the artwork need to be open in browser to see it.
Personal comment:
This is the artwork appear in Media based. It create a random artwork every time you open it , although the line and structure and size is always the same, but the position and the length of the artwork is not same that give people different visual feeling every time they play it.
Conception:
YMYI (You Move You Interact) is an interactive installation, user have to interact with the machine or the installation art to perform a new art. The project let people to create their own creativity. The artwork use line and dot as the animation to direct people into a new experience and let people feel it. The installation also consists music that emphasis the atmosphere.
The concept the written by the Joao Martinho Moura
"It narrates a story, the story of a living organism unexpectedly astonished by performing its own change status while representing an object. However, what strikes the most is the fact that the knowing entity responsile for the act of astonishing is only created throughout the astonishment narration process."
(*Copy from http://ymyi.jmartinho.net/) :
