Urban Interactive Installation, São Paulo 2015
A mixture of street furniture and a data visualization project, the installation invites the observer to sit on a bench, take a picture of themselves and choose between six emotions they might be feeling: love, joy, surprise, anger, fear or sadness, according to Dr. Phillip Shaver’s definition of the six basic human emotions. Each one is represented by a color, through which the image is filtered at the moment it appears on the Digital Art Gallery. The image fades into a graph which allows comparison between the predominance of emotions, both individually and socially. The images are displayed on the main façade of FIESP Building, located at Paulista Avenue - São Paulo, one of the most expressive buildings from 80’s Brazilian Architecture, a masterpiece from architect Rino Levi.
The design of the street furniture was generated by parametric design and digital fabrication, composed of recycled tetrapak plates.
“I am” is an offshoot of Guto Requena Studio investigations into memory, interactive technologies and emotions. The work is an invitation to reflect on the emotional landscapes that connect us to one another and to our urban environment.
Arquinterface
With shared curatorship by SESI-SP and Giselle Beiguelman, Arquinterface engages designers, artists, architects and thinkers in the fields of communication and audiovisual studies to discuss the new links between technology and the urban imaginary, as well as in which way the arts function nowadays, interfacing with architecture and the city itself.
