ESSYS*: Sharing #UC

ARTISTS
Sérgio Rebelo, Mariana Seiça e Pedro Martins

LOCAL
MUSEU, Praça Cortes de Coimbra

OPENING HOURS
open 24h/day

ESSYS*: Sharing #UC is a participative installation that presents a multimodal environment representing the content shared online, on Twitter, about the University of Coimbra. This installation is a mirror to an audiovisual environment, created by an artificial system that throughout the detection and textual recognition, classifies the content based on the eight basic and prototypal emotions: joy, anticipation, trust, fear, anger, disgust, surprise and sadness. The detected emotions are feedstock to the generation of sonic-typographic artefacts. The sonic compositions travel melodic and harmonically in a musical universe that breathe these emotional atmospheres, emerging from the most provocative contents in the form of probabilities of sound parameters. On the other hand, the typographic compositions translate the emotional charge of the contents into visual variables, inspired by the production processes of letterpress. In addition to the physical installation, one may access an online version of this installation in http://sharing-uc.dei.uc.pt.

Sérgio Rebelo is a graphic designer, researcher, coder and cross-media artist. He explores the employment of algorithmic processes in the development of generation, modelling and simulation techniques to create audiovisuals. His work was been presented in several international cultural and scientific events and venues. Currently, he is a PhD student at the Department of Informatics Engineering of the University of Coimbra and a researcher in the Cognitive and Media Systems group from the Centre for Informatics and Systems of the University of Coimbra. Since 2017, he is a teaching assistant in the bachelor on Design and Multimedia from the University of Coimbra.

Mariana Seiça is an audiovisual designer, with a Bachelor and Master’s Degree in Design and Multimedia at the University of Coimbra. She is currently enrolled in the Doctoral Program in Information Science and Technology, as well as a teaching assistant in the Master degree course. Her research and artistic practices focus on the use of sound as a communication tool, embodying her enthusiasm for musical forms that travel between the fields of Sonification, Sound Design, Human-Computer Interaction and Computational Music.

Pedro Martins holds a PhD degree in Computer Science, an MSc degree in Informatics and Systems, and a BSc degree in Mathematics, with a major in Computer Science, from the University of Coimbra. His main research interests are in the fields of Computational Creativity, Computer Vision, Computer Graphics, and Computational Art. Currently, he is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Informatics Engineering and College of art, both at the University of Coimbra. Also, he is a researcher at the Centre for Informatics and Systems of the University of Coimbra (CISUC) and the current coordinator of a bachelor degree in Design and Multimedia.

ESSYS*: Sharing #UC is an artwork produced with the support of Iniciativa de Apoios Financeiros para Promoção da Cultura Científica da Universidade de Coimbra (in the scope of the celebration of 730 years of UC) and CAPC. The artists like to thanks to the following institutions and people: João Bicker, F. Amílcar Cardoso, (Rui) Buga Lopes, Penousal Machado, Serviço de Informática e Comunicações do DEI/FCTUC, Círculo de Artes Plásticas de Coimbra, Jorge das Neves, Tiago Martins, Pedro Silva, Centro de Informática e Sistemas da Universidade de Coimbra e Departamento de Engenharia Informática da Universidade de Coimbra. Sérgio Rebelo and Mariana Seiça are suported by Fundação para Ciência e Tecnologia under the grants SFRH/BD/132728/2017 and SFRH/BD/138285/2018, respectively.