São Paulo | PUBLIC SYMPOSIUM

part of URBAN MEDIA ART ACADEMY – SÃO PAULO | FEB 2018

Wednesday 21 February, 19-22h
Goethe-Institut São Paulo, R. Lisboa, 974 – Pinheiros

FREE

Keynote

by Giselle Beiguelman

Art, Public Space, and Informational Territories in São Paulo: Towards the Archinterface

Cities today, as they are increasingly expanded by digital technologies, have become unprecedentedly complex networks that entangle data from different backgrounds. There is plenty of rather trivial evidence of this process. Traffic information is made available in real time by webcams from all over the planet. Applications, such as Waze, monitor traffic thanks to drivers on the streets who share information. The urban landscape is modified by the occupation of façades with LED signs; the city equipment is increasingly reactive to our presence. All these examples together have, as their counterpoint, a significant increase in the ability of public and private powers to monitor and track our actions. Based on some art interventions accomplished in São Paulo city (Brazil), and abroad, we ask: How to explore architectural relationships with data-rich environments? How does this datasphere points to the construction of richer urban experiences? Is it possible to direct data mediation to new forms of exercising citizenship and understanding the public space?

 

PROGRAM

19.10 Welcome by Goethe-Institut São Paulo

19.15 Welcome by Tanya Toft Ag and Susa Pop (Urban Media Art Academy)

19.30 Introduction by Marília Pasculli (Verve Cultural)

19.35 Introduction by Lucas Bambozzi (Artist, Independent curator – FAAP, FAU USP) and Demetrio Portugal (AVXLab and ALT AV)

 

19.45 Keynote by Giselle Beiguelman, (Professor at Department of Architecture and Urbanity, University of São Paulo)

Title: Art, Public Space, and Informational Territories in São Paulo: Towards the Archinterface

 

20.30 Break (10 min)

 

20.40 Perspectives and panel

Title: Art and Urban Utopias

Daniela Arriado (Art Republic and Screen City Biennial)

Patricia Moran (School of Communication and Art, University of São Paulo)

Fernando Velázquez (artist and curator)

Giselle Beiguelman (Professor at Department of Architecture and Urbanity, University of São Paulo)

Moderated by Tanya Toft Ag