Afonso Tostes
Árvores
Afonso Tostes vem se dedicando nos últimos anos ao que se pode chamar de investigação sobre as estruturas. As esculturas são feitas em madeiras recuperadas de demolições e canteiro de obras pela cidade. Estas peças são colocadas estrategicamente nos espaços, provocando a cada montagem uma sensação diferente no que se refere ao apoio, escora, e interdependência entre as partes. A série “prédios” remete à memória da origem do material, são peças que têm pulsação própria e ativam o espaço em torno através dos antagonismos entre o bruto e o refinado, o espontâneo e o erudito. Afonso Tostes tem uma produção irrequieta, suas esculturas assim como pinturas e desenhos nunca se acomodam no lugar comum, o artista imprime a velocidade do mundo em que vive; a observação daquilo que a princípio passaria desapercebido, para ele é matéria prima e fundamental.
MICHAEL JOAQUIN GREY
LONGSTERN RUM BUD
mike pelletier
МАЙК ПЕЛЛЕТЬЕ
Coordinated Movement
O artista holandês Mike Pelletier é um especialista interativo e artista digital. Experimentando novas maneiras de usar o Kinect, da Microsoft, ele usa a ferramenta como um scanner 3D, utilizando os recursos da câmera para criar incríveis portraits multi-dimensionais.
Daan Roosegaarde
Intimacy Dress
INTIMACY is a high-tech fashion project exploring the relation between intimacy and technology. Its high-tech garments entitled ‘Intimacy White’ and ‘Intimacy Black’ are made out of opaque smart e-foils that become increasingly transparent based on close and personal encounters with people. Social interactions determine the garmentsʼ level of transparency, creating a sensual play of disclosure.
STEVE WILHITE
STEVE WILHITE
R.I.P
dancing baby
GIF (JIF)
graphics interchange format
The inventor of the Gif file has revealed that the world has been mispronouncing his creation.
Steve Wilhite, who invented the Gif file in 1987, told the New York Times that the word is pronounced “jif” not “giff”.
“The Oxford English Dictionary accepts both pronunciations. They are wrong. It is a soft ‘G,’ pronounced ‘jif.’ End of story,” he said.
The internet has reacted strongly to Wilhite’s claim, pointing to a range of evidence from the White House announcing their allegiance via a note on their Tumblr: “Animated GIFs (Hard ‘G’)”, to simple common consensus.
Others have suggested that the hard ‘G’ relates to the acronym that the word springs from, which stands for Graphical Interface Format.
The Gif has enjoyed a surge of success in the last five years thanks to Buzzfeed-style listings of puppies and kittens and ‘live-giffing’, a form of on-the-spot reporting that had its first major outing during the 2012 presidential debates.
Wilhite may be the parent of the Gif, but most agree that the creation has outgrown its creator.
When even the White House is on the other side of the debate, it seems it might be best if Wilhite concedes defeat with grace.
princemio and onformative
Pathfinder
Created by Princemio in collaboration with onformative and presented at Choreographic Coding laboratory in Frankfurt 2013, the Pathfinder project was created with aim to contribute to the creative processes of choreographic development. To achieve this algorithms have been developed to stimulate the dancers and to create visual inspirations. By doing this, the software becomes its own creative building block, questioning the classical master slave paradigm.
Joyce Lin
Exploded Chair
This piece takes traditional conception of what a chair is, dismantles it, and places it in clear perspex containers. The maple-wood chair that sits loosely within its crystalline sarcophagus looks much like the archetypal kitchen seat. As the ‘Exploded Chair’ is moved, its wooden pieces rattle around inside their compartments. The piece is both familiar and disorienting, playful and disconcerting — a dichotomous piece on which to seat yourself.
ANGELIN PRELJOCAJ
フレスコ画
“アンジュランプレルジョカイのラフレスコ画のインスピレーションは、古代と現代の両方です。表面的には、修道院に到着した2人の巡礼者が、5人の女性を描いた壁画（フレスコ画）に出くわした、700年前の中国のおとぎ話に基づいています。男性の一人（チューという名前）は、絵の中の女性のイメージに夢中になり、彼女の世界に夢中になります。彼らは、男がフレスコ画の内側の聖域から嫉妬深いクランスタイルの黒人の騎士に襲われて絵から投げ出される前に結婚します。チューはその後、死すべき世界でほんの数秒しか経過していない間に、彼がこの別の人生を生きてきたことを発見します。プレルジョカイの現代的なひねりは、ポケモンゴーの流行が絶頂に達した2016年にこの作品を作成したことから生まれました（若者は携帯電話で漫画の生き物の画像を探していました）。彼は、仮想現実のこれらの遠い類似点をつかみ、古代でも現代でもなく、物語と抽象の両方であるこのフルレングスの作品を作成しました。” Graham Watts
Jaime Pitarch
Bad Manners
Il punto di partenza del mio lavoro risiede nella contraddizione tra la sfiducia che serbiamo nei confronti delle strutture sociali e il desiderio di farne parte. Rifletto su questa contraddizione osservando l’ordine che fa da supporto a qualsiasi forma di produzione, nel tentativo di trovare aspetti comuni tra il design, per esempio di una sedia, e il disegno di una strategia politica o economica. Credo infatti che le motivazioni che risiedono dietro queste forme di produzione non siano molto distanti.
HSIEHYUCHENG
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Birch Cooper and Brenna Murphy
MSHR is a collaborative project by New York-based artists Birch Cooper and Brenna Murphy. The duo produces sculptural synthesizers, ritualistic installations and performances that use light and audio feedback to generate sensory experiences. MSHR emerged in 2011 from the five-person art collective Oregon Painting Society.
KHALIL CHISHTEE
Халиль Чишти
Pursuit
El artista pakistaní Khalil Chishtee ha encontrado en las bolsas de plástico, de esas que llevamos en los supermercados o usamos para tirar la basura, la materia prima idónea para modelar sus increíbles esculturas antropomorfas, muchas de las cuales resultan realmente espeluznantes a la vista y dan la impresión de ser especies de momias o de cadáveres en descomposición, erguidos o colgados de la pared. El escultor asegura que “El arte no siempre tiene que ser bonito”.
DESIREE DOLRON
Xteriors XVI
CLAIRE MORGAN
Клер Морган
كلير مورجان
克莱尔·摩根
クレア·モーガン
클레어 모건
Strange Fruit
A primera vista, estos objetos parecen estar en movimiento. Objetos que dan la sensación de caerse como en el caso de la manta fresa. La escultura de Belfast, Claire Morgan utiliza objetos naturales como plumas, frutas y flores que deja suspendidos de hilos de nylon obteniendo sensaciones de ingravidez o de parada del tiempo.
GABRIEL DAWE
غابرييل داوى
加布里埃尔·道伊
Габриэль Доу
Plexus
Donato Maniello
das eismeer
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FILE SÃO PAULO 2025: SYNTHETIKA – Marc Samper
A Dreamscape Cartography
Marc Samper
FILE SÃO PAULO 2025: SYNTHETIKA – Art and Technology
Electronic Language International Festival
A Dreamscape Cartography – Spain
A Dreamscape Cartography is a 3D digital artwork created from scans and navigated via Blender. The piece reimagines the ancient ritual of dream incubation, fusing inner realms with virtual environments. Using scans of abandoned houses in the Cyprus Security Zone, it creates a space that blends dreamlike and physical dimensions. Narrated by texts by Paul Celan, the work seeks to build a bridge between imaginary and lived experiences, inspiring new connections between space, memory, and existence.
BIO
Marc Samper is a visual artist, experimental filmmaker, and photographer from Barcelona, currently based in Paris. Graduated in Philosophy from the University of Barcelona and with a Master’s in Cinema from Pompeu Fabra University, his work investigates the ontology and phenomenology of images in global media, speculative metaphysics, and the intersection between mysticism and technology.
Thijs Biersteker
DARK DISTORTIONS
‘Dark Distortions’ – was inspired by Euclid, a forthcoming ESA mission to study the mysterious nature of dark matter and dark energy, which is due to launch in mid-2022. Dark matter is thought to account for 85% of the matter in the universe. Visible stuff within galaxies – such as stars and planets and dust – has insufficient gravitational pull to prevent galaxies from disintegrating as they rotate. But galaxies don’t fly apart in this way, so astrophysicists proposed that they must contain “dark” matter that has sufficient mass to keep galaxies intact – but which has never been seen directly.
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ТЕМНЫЕ ИСКАЖЕНИЯ
«Dark Distortions» – был вдохновлен Евклидом, предстоящей миссией ЕКА по изучению загадочной природы темной материи и темной энергии, запуск которой запланирован на середину 2022 года. Считается, что темная материя составляет 85% материи во Вселенной. Видимое вещество внутри галактик – например, звезды, планеты и пыль – обладает недостаточным гравитационным притяжением, чтобы предотвратить распад галактик при их вращении. Но галактики не разлетаются таким образом, поэтому астрофизики предположили, что они должны содержать «темную» материю, обладающую достаточной массой, чтобы сохранить галактики в целости, но которую никогда не видели напрямую.
ANDRE ERMOLAEV
volcanic rivers
