Project selected by Secretaria de Cultura do Estado do Rio de Janeiro.
By the fist time I wrote the project I was working at the Contemporary Art Museum of Niterói, RJ. This is an especial museum designed by architect Oscar Niemeyer. In the educational projects we were able to be in a privileged place where we can see the landscape of Rio and the Guanabara bay. A sublime site where you experience the history of Rio just pointing to natural and urban monuments, as the sugar loaf and the entrance of the bay. Me and Silvia where thinking about mobility in Rio but which function it would have?
I had also a fantastic experience to work with artist Nelson Felix who works with natural fenomena, culture, architecture, the time concept and so forth. So while writing the project, which by surprise (well, it carries the Experimental as a surname) I had the idea of puting all these ideas together and create EME's platform which after Silvia gave great inputs and fantastically directed the project in the 2nd edition in 2010 financed by FUNARTE, while I was doing my MA at Interfaculty ArtScience in Den Haag, NL.
By Ivan Henriques
http://paralelo.wikidot.com/
I was invited by the British Council to introduce GEMA and EME to PARALELO having submitted an application to Artists Links for funding the project due to happen in Rio for the first time where Ivan had already been awarded by Rio's State Culture department to produce to first edition of the EME projects.
Ivan and I decided he would be the best representative of the project, since also I was in London, to attend the meeting and represent us the group. We worked arduously towards a presentation which we hoped I would be present virtually via Skype. Due to some tecnical problems at MIS, I was not able to participate as we had intende. But nevertheless the event was a great success and a unique opporunity to meet great artists, scientists and researchers working in the same field. The meeting also encouraged Ivan to apply to a Masters at Interfaculty in Holland, having met Taco Stolk. Before I left for Rio again I made a point of meeting Active Ingredient in Nottingham who's work particularly resonated with my ambition to bridge between London and Rio.
"This was a unique five day project - workshops, symposia and live events - supported and organised by the British Council in Brasil and the UK, hosted by the Museum of Image and Sound in Sao Paulo and the Centro Cultural de Brasil, with support also from the Mondriaan Foundation and the Virtueel Platform in the Netherlands and the Arts & Humanities Research Council in the UK."
" It brought together artists and designers working with media from three different countries - Brasil, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom, to discuss different ways in which collaborations across disciplinary and cultural borders can enable research and new insights into global and local ecological problems."
EXPERIMENTAL MOBILE STUDIO - RIO DE JANEIRO
The 3D animation of EME was produced by the designer Daniel Bisetto with thanks to the introduction by my father Dr. Mario Jorge F. De Oliveira of COPPE/UFRJ.
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