Cesar Baio

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Degenerative Cultures

is an interactive networked installation in that physical books are used as the substrate of a fungal culture. The microorganism’s growth is analyzed by a computer vision program that replicates its behavior in a [de]generative algorithm that corrupts the digital database.

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Spaces of Failure

is a series of photographs and videos produced from the subversion of panoramic apps for smartphones. Instead of following the instructions to get a good image, I try to test the limits of the program, which ends up putting things in the wrong place. The images are not the result of effects or filters, but they emerge from the clash between the logic of the algorithms and the subjective insurgency performed in the act of photographing. This poetic gesture... read more>

Collective Identities

is an interactive installation in which the participants are invited to photograph themselves. In the installation, a self-service camera setup is made available to the public, just like a minimalist “photo booth” which takes portraits according to the standard format of ID registration systems. However, on using the system, the participant realizes that...
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Good Evening Mr. Orwell (or Dance Everywhere)

is an interactive and networked Vjing performance conceived as is a small homage to Nam June Paik. The project has a platform especially developed for the work that allows images of a customised dance floor to be used, video streams to be sent and received over the internet, and “hijacked” photos and videos of social network users to be mixed and screened...

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I Other I

is an interactive installation in which a computerized video surveillance system is installed at the end of a corridor.Although the image of the space is sharp, the visitor’s image is cropped out of the context and appears as a dark, undefined shadow. With each step towards the screen...

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Table of light

is the first interactive platform for collective audiovisual mixing. The interface is composed of a multi-touch interface that allows access to pre-recorded video “loops”, to a “live” camera that can be manipulated by the public and to various graphic effects.

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Immediations

is a platform for urban intervention that combines graffiti, urban stickers and Augmented Reality in order to produce the emergence of bottom-up narratives on affective memories in contexts of displacement, gentrification, and real state speculation.

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