Everybody's Happy Nowadays
[2008] Video 35min
4 minutes excerpt:
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In the video performance "Everybody's Happy Nowadays", a sentence taken from Aldous Huxley’s ‘Brave New World’ is endlessly repeated by performer Javier Marisco. Specific ordered actions like drinking rum and smiling to the camera are repeated systematically in accordance with the inflexible pace of a predetermined time signal. Though planned to last one hour, the performance had to be interrupted at 35 minutes. |
Don't look now!
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Video installation I have shown during the Spring Exhibition at Valand
School of Fine Arts in Göteborg, Sweden - May 2008. The viewer was required to put his face in a hole to be able to see the video and at the same time see his face replacing the faces of people in the video. The intention was to create the opposite of an amusement park: instead of seeing Mickey and Minnie you see yourself taking part in horrible scenes, from Iraq, Vietnam, executions, and also scenes from violent blockbuster movies.
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Video documentation:
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She needs an agent
Randomly dubbed video
[2007]
C:Art:Media Exhibition, December 2007 at Gallery Rotor 1 - Valand School of Fine Arts
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”I need an agent. Someone who can get me on the cover of Vogue in six months.” |
”Go to hell.” |
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The film footage was taken from an Australian TV Series from the eighties called "Return to Eden". It was the saga of a rich and ugly woman who, after having had her face disfigured by a crocodile and after she had undergone months of plastic surgery, becomes a super model and plans revenge against her husband. My work does not show any of this, though.
I just took these very short scenes and dubbed the same sentences with voices of different people, regardless of the sex corresponding or not to the images. A computer program makes the scenes come one after the other with random voices. |
When a web page becomes a maze
[2006] by Andrei R. Thomaz & Martin Heuser
Intervention on the Ecarta Foundation web site: www.fundacaoecarta.org.br
The intervention included a poster which was shown at the Ecarta Foundation Art Gallery
(Porto Alegre, Brazil):
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In this project the sounds are downloaded little by little, according to the velocity of the internet connection. Some of the sounds are played randomly, but this does not affect the overall form of the intervention.
The poster image was generated using Websites as Graphs: http://www.aharef.info/static/htmlgraph/ |
Clouds #1: Red and Blue
by Andrei R. Thomaz and Martin Heuser
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This animation is meant to be used as a 'graphic score', which means that the images can be read as a music score, according to a list of rules and advices. This work can be performed by any number of musicians and any kind of instruments. See the instructions for more details on how it should be played. |
When a page becomes a maze
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[2004] by Andrei R. Thomaz & Martin Heuser 2006 - Exhibition: Fiat Mostra Brasil - São Paulo [www.fiatmostrabrasil.com.br] 2004 - www.soundtoys.net |
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The first work of the project When a Page Becomes a Maze shows one of the pages from the book 'The Language of New Media', by Lev Manovich, through which several small circles move. Each circle is accompanied by a sound in loop whose duration corresponds to the duration of the movements of each circle (each circle has its own animation length). As the circles keep coming, new loops of sound start to be executed, and the result becomes more complex. This result is never constant because, as the loops have different durations, there is no possibility to occur any loop which could be recognizable by the user.
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