25ABRIL_SEMPRE
2021
The project was inspired by the Portuguese Carnation Revolution, which took place on 25 April 1974, ending 48 years of dictatorship - the day is known as Freedom Day, celebrated yearly as a national holiday. The red carnation symbolises the revolution as the insurgents put carnations in their gun barrels, giving the revolution its name. The main gathering of people took place in Lisbon, close to the flower market, which was richly stocked with carnations, the flowers in season.
Networked Veil
Interactive projection, machine learning, python, c++, openFrameworks
2021
Networked Veil is an interactive projection which creates new digital landscapes based on the emotional content of textual messages on grief.
For this project, I was drawn to new rituals of grief and collective memorialisation within the digital realm and how our manifestation of personal grief and fear of death is being altered through technology. In Networked Veil we look at the ancient ritual of writing a message to the deceased loved one. As our communication is severely mediated by technology, our writing a letter has been replaced with typing. As we progressively witness the advancement of technological tools, I question what tools we will use to express our grief – lighting digital candles and funeral live streams are already a reality.
Networked Veil looks at how technology is reframing our view of death and how we deal with grief. The public is invited to send a message to a deceased dear one, which will trigger a particular visual in relation to the emotions found in the message. As grief encompasses many stages of emotions, a machine-learning Python library is used to identify the emotions and their scores present in the text message sent. The projection gathers all our tributes and memories, thus it never looks the same throughout the duration of the exhibition.
Corporeal Nature
Physical computing, Arduino, MaxMSP, prototyping
2020
A speculative ecosystem in symbiosis with technology where nature responds visually and musically by proximity, humidity and touch.
It’s a reminder of the importance of disconnecting from mundane distractions to reconnect to the natural world. We can only listen to the sound of nature when we stop to pay attention to it and to its textures.