Creative Practice Showcase
Researchers and innovators present projects or art programs and initiatives. All presentations should be grounded in presenters' research experience. Promotional conversations are permissible, however, products or services may not be sold at the conference venue.
Architecture of the Air
Creative Practice Showcase Christopher Janney
Trained as an architect and jazz musician, Christopher Janney has been combining these two disciplines for more than thirty years. He makes architecture more like music by designing and building permanent interactive installations all over the globe. T His art focuses on is urban issues of overcrowding and “urban alienation”, a theory that cities are so dense that the environment is not conducive to building communities. Janney will show how his interactive installations proactively generate community interaction and strength this social fabric. He has also created installations for children’s hospitals and high-stress transportation centers with the goal of providing engagement and interaction. Janney will illustrate the benefits of his interactive pieces as “social foils” in these circumstances, providing much-needed curiosity, humor and stress-relief in these otherwise tense environments.
The Cena 11 Dance Group Spectacle Pfdfsri and the Breaking of Narratives
Creative Practice Showcase Cláudia Paixão, Richard Perassi, Luciane Fadel
The spectable "PFdFSRI" of the Santa Catarina Group "Cena 11" stands out for its co-creative interaction that occurs through the use of scenic and technological elements which are integrated in order to highlight the different types of human behaviors generated. In this spectacle, hypermediation is provoked in three main moments, at the beginning, middle and end. In addition, the story extends into a set of transmedia elements that can be perceived from the pre-spectacle until the post-spectacle moment by means of the booklet and all the following elements like the live soundtrack, the facial recognition program, and their interdependent relationships, which succeed in a chain for a new way of composing dance. In this article, the Close Reading methodology is used in order to analyze and raise a discussion around the emergent narrative composition that, through these interactions, are perceived through the "Frestas" (gaps), that is, the details that are unfold throughout the spectacle.
