MY MONO NO AWARE – Um passeio sonoro interativo para a promoção de autorreconhecimento

Ricardo Mestre; Rui d'Orey; Pedro Alves da Veiga

doi:10.34623/dbm8-m461

Ricardo Mestre Universidade do Algarve / Universidade Aberta / CIAC https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0991-0222
Rui d'Orey Universidade do Algarve / Universidade Aberta / CIAC
Pedro Alves da Veiga Universidade Aberta / CIAC https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9738-3869

Keywords: Soundscape, Soundwalk, Sound Instance, Digital Media-Art

Abstract

This article presents the process of designing, implementing and testing, albeit with a limited audience, an interactive audiovisual artefact. Inspired by the concepts of soundscape and soundwalk, the artefact uses an empirical method of exploring sound environments for the perception and understanding of human daily practices. Through the combination of sound, generative and digital media art, this artefact aims to exemplify a method of construction of individual sound representations, testing, afterwards, the degree of self-recognition of the portrayed individuals. Supported by a qualitative methodological approach of ethnographic and phenomenological nature, the artefact is developed according to the a/r/cographic method, being this article a concretization of the final stage of that method.

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Ricardo Mestre, Universidade do Algarve / Universidade Aberta / CIAC

Ricardo Mestre has a degree in Music Education from the Escola Superior de Educação, a postgraduate degree in Music Education from NOVA FCSH, a postgraduate degree in Advanced Studies in Digital Media Art and a PhD in Digital Media Art from the University of Algarve and Universidade Aberta. He began his musical career in 2012 as a singer and has participated in various musical projects in partnership with local authorities in the educational, cultural and social spheres. In 2019 he released his first original single and in 2022 his first EP, entitled "Between words and sound", fusing pop and jazz in a nostalgic atmosphere of pure reality and fantasy, with the support of several national radio stations. He is currently a researcher at CIAC and CESEM, working in the area of self-recognition through art and individual representations through sound.

Pedro Alves da Veiga, Universidade Aberta / CIAC

Pedro Alves da Veiga is a Portuguese transdisciplinary artist and researcher. He holds a degree in Computer Science (Nova University of Lisbon), a Post-graduation in Advanced Studies of Digital Media Art (Aberta University) and a PhD in Digital Media Art (a joint programme between Aberta University and the University of Algarve). He has a two-decade business career in web-design and information systems, including the launch and sale of two IT companies and several multimedia and web-design awards. He is currently a Professor at the Aberta University, in Lisbon, where he is also the subdirector of the Digital Media Arts PhD programme. He is a member of CIAC's Scientific Council (Research Center for Arts and Communication), a collaborator of ID+ research centre, and regularly publishes and shares results of his arts-based and theoretical research. His research is grounded on the intersection of art, science and technology, and is mostly focused on interactive installations, creative programming, mixed media assemblage, multimedia generative systems, new media artivism and curatorship, and theoretical work on a/r/cography – a digital arts-based creative research methodology. His artworks are an investigation into representations and conceptualisations of facts and situations as well as depictions of ideals and interventions, optimally materialised through media art. They demand and challenge the audience's attention, metaphorically expressing his intentions through aesthetics and technology, while allowing the audience to freely interpret and build the narrative through interaction and exploration. His artworks have been exhibited in Portugal, Spain, Italy, the Netherlands, Romania, Russia, China, Thailand, Brazil and the USA.

MY MONO NO AWARE – An interactive sound walk to promote self-recognition

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