Paper Memories | VIDEOMAPPING + HANDCRAFT

This prototype was a partnership with Mari Nagem 🫀

The Concept

Paper Memories goes from the architectural process, passing through an archiving and writing practice until the digital ways of creating poetry. It keeps memory alive with a video mapping craft experience.

Narratives, optical effects and representations of a perspective, are all illusions. The mapping experience is a way to explore these elements combined. Normally using digital animation and effects, we forgot that all those elements were explored in the beginning of the cinema and animation, with a lot of manual work. These same hands, are the ones writing the scripts, and the ones drawing and projecting spaces.

Our proposal is to explore the hybridity ways of producing moving image, combining paper cut, filming and digital effects to render an homage to paper, architecture and history.

Presentation of Development | Collage

Our 30s video is a sample of tests we did to understand how to mix the following techniques: paper cut stop motion, filmed image, digital collage and animation with touches of silent movie effects. It is a pinch of some moments present in the narrative, a sketch. All the images will be re-filmed and re-made with the necessary adjustments for the final projection.

The soundtrack is a collage of 2 pianos works from Beethoven with some sound effects. It will be develop to become one entire piece with different rhythms and electronic interferences along the dramaturgy.

Team | FASCINATED BY ARCHIEVES

Lina Lopes

MANAUS, Amazonas, Brazil

Lina Lopes is an artist and designer in Digital Media, works with Video Mapping projects, interactivity and technical lighting. Degree in Film from the University of São Paulo and specialized in Lighting and Design. Currently, she is a researcher at the Pos Graduate Program at University Anhembi-Morumbi about Math and Design.

She has 10 years of experience working with Videomapping, having made several projections for exhibitions, events, international festivals and public facades. Among her international projects are interactive projections developed for facades and festivals in Barcelona, Madrid, Geneva and Frankfurt. In Brazil, she was the technical director of the FIESP facade, in Avenida Paulista (2013 and 2014). She made several immersive installations, such as La Casa Azul, a project made for the Frida Kahlo exhibition at the Tomie Ohtake Institute (2015) and Vesica Piscis, an installation with videomapping for a dance performance at the Museum of Contemporary Art (2016).

Her research covers the parametric design fields, projection mapping, prototyping, interactivity, wearables and internet of things. Her production in the field of new media permeates the concept of interactive installation, programming with Arduino, Processing, Raspberry Pi, prioritizing image manipulation projects in real time. In São Paulo, she is the founder of LILO.ZONE – a hub and prototype factory dedicated to the creative use of technology.

Mari Nagem

BELO HORIZONTE, Minas Gerais, Brazil

Mari Nagem is a multimedia artist, with more than 10 years experience in audiovisual and 5 years working at an architecture bureau in São Paulo, engaged in projects from small exhibition designs to big international events.Master in Visual Arts by the Haute École d’Art et Design de Genève, Switzerland, Mari deeply investigate film language and its relation to video art and to digital ways of producing moving image.

Simultaneously acting as a creative consultant, researcher and projection producer, Mari worked in big international events as the Olympics in London (2012) and Rio de Janeiro (2016). As well as the Asian Games in Turkmenistan (2017), Pan American Games in Peru (2019), and projects in Saudi Arabia, as a link between the creatives and the technical teams.

Latest exhibitions in 2019 were Estratégias do Feminino (Porto Alegre, BR) and Parallelal Screens (San Diego / São Paulo / Weimar). In 2018 she was a resident at SomoS Arts House (Berlin) and in 2017 she was invited to exhibit at The Wrong Digital Art Biennale. In the earlier years, exhibit at MIS (Museum of Image and Sound of SP), was a resident at Casa das Caldeiras (São Paulo) and Vatelón (Uruguay). She has shown videos in Brazil, Greece, Switzerland, France, Germany, festivals like FILE, ARTEMOV, CINEOP, ATHENS VIDEO ART FESTIVAL, among others.