Jury for the Semibreve Award 2012

I was recently jury member for the Semibreve Award, part of the Semibreve Festival taking place this weekend (4-6 October 2012) in Braga and Guimarães (Portugal). Full list of winners and jury members here.

The winner was: “Entra na minha casa” (“Come into my house”) by Catarina Figueiredo and Teresa Abreu (Portugal).
Project video: https://vimeo.com/47537257
An article about the winners can be found here (in Portuguese).

More about the award: “With the aim to promote and recognize the digital media art production, the organization of the Semibreve festival, in collaboration with the engageLab at the University of Minho and the 2012 European Youth Capital, established this year the first edition of the Semibreve Award. The award is open to national and international submissions focusing on artistic projects based on interactivity, sound and image.”

Jury for the Cut&Paste Helsinki design competition – Motion Graphics category

On the 4th February 2012, I was jury member of the Cut&Paste design competition at Korjaamo, part of the Helsinki – World Design Capital 2012 event: http://www.cutandpaste.com/index.php/events_hel_en/helsinki_en

Participants had 8 hours to produce a 15 second video. The topic was “Invention”, and part of the brief was an emphasis on narration. The entries had all a strong aesthetics, some of them stronger on the narrative side, others on the aesthetics. The winner was Henrik Axlund.

Jury for the EuroITV 2011 Grand Challenge

This June, I was part of the jury for the EuroITV 2011 Grand Challenge competition:
http://www.euroitv2011.org/index.php/euroitv-grand-challenge
http://www.euroitv2011.org/index.php/committee

The prize was awarded 1/July, and the winners were:
1st place:
“Leanback TV Navigation Using Hand Gestures”
2nd place:
“Video-Based Recombination For New Media Stories”
and 3rd place:
“Astro First”

More information:
http://www.euroitv2011.org

The proceedings can be downloaded here:
http://www.scribd.com/doc/58835687/EUROITV2011-Adjunct-Proceedings

Presentation on Interactive Audiovisual Projects, Culture Lab, Newcastle University

Today (16/5/2011) I will make a “lunch talk” presentation at Culture Lab, Newcastle University, on the following topic:
“Interactive Audiovisual Projects: Toys, Art Works or Tools?” Link to related project: www.avclash.com

Slideshow: https://www.slideshare.net/CorreiaNuno/n-correia-digitaltools201105

Thank you to Andrzej + Ewelina and Atau Tanaka @ Culture Lab for the invitation.

Culture Lab has excellent facilities: a renovated historical building (listed building erected in 1889; award-winning renovation) in the center of town. It is also very well equipped. Despite its relative youth (it was founded in 2006), the research conducted there seems quite mature (in areas such as gestural/touchscreen interaction design and social inclusion).

Photos from visit to Culture Lab, Newcastle University: https://www.flickr.com/photos/nunocorreia/sets/72157626729330604/

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Presentation on Visual Music, European Humanities University, Vilnius

On 7/5/2011, I had a presentation at Europen Humanities University, Vilnius, on the topic: “Visual music: from the early 20th century to the Internet age”.
Description of the presentation: “In this presentation Nuno Correia will present his own audiovisual work as part of Video Jack Studios (www.videojackstudios.com) and present other works that have explored the visualization of sound – from the early days of cinema to contemporary new media art works.”
Many of the videos I presented are available in this YouTube playlist:
http://www.youtube.com/playlist?p=PL4AC134C3EF3501C9
Thank you to Tatsiana and Anastasia Kulazhenko for the invitation.

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Photos: https://www.flickr.com/photos/nunocorreia/sets/72157626567617089/

During my trip, I also had the chance to visit the Vilnius Academy of Arts. Excellent facilities, situated in the historical center of Vilnius. Good student works on display throughout the building.

Presentation on Visual Music and Video Jack projects, Satta, Vilnius

On 23/2/2011, I had a presentation on audiovisual art and my work as Video Jack at Satta club in Vilnius. It was organized by Bangos, the first of a monthly series of talks entitled Teorija.

One Lithuanian blog wrote an accurate post about the event (in Lithuanian):
http://dubauskaite.lt/731912/blogas/sssss-portugaliska-teorija

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Photos: https://www.flickr.com/photos/nunocorreia/sets/72157626134711936/

Panel discussion on digital tools, Design Museum Helsinki

Yesterday (25/1/2011) I took part in a panel discussion entitled “New Digital Tools, New Media Art and Design“, at the Design Museum Helsinki, organized by Media Lab Helsinki, as part of the Avoin 140 exhibition celebrating the 140 years of TaiK / School of Art and Design. The remaining participants were other members of the Media Lab staff: Koray Tahiroglu, Markku Reunanen, Rasmus Vuori, Till Bovermann.

My presentation centered around the development of my latest project, AV Clash, as an example of an art work on the threshold of becoming a tool. I also mentioned Reactable and Tenori-on as projects in the frontier between art work and tool.

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Photos: https://www.flickr.com/photos/nunocorreia/sets/72157625909973048/



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Presentation about AV Clash, 11-2010

Event: Media Lab Helsinki Workshop with Klaus Krippendorff
Place: Aalto University, School of Art and Design, Media Lab
Date: 12/11/2010

Today I will make a presentation on AV Clash, and framing it within my research, at the Media Lab Helsinki Workshop with Klaus Krippendorff. Link to related project: http://www.avclash.com

Slideshow: https://www.slideshare.net/CorreiaNuno/ncorreia-av-clash-20101111

Presentation at e-Vent, Tallinn University 05/2010

On May 18 2010, I presented my project AV Clash at e-Vent, a “demo day” type of event at Tallinn University (Estonia), organized by its Institute of Informatics. I was a guest researcher at the Institute of Informatics between 2009 and 2010.

AV Clash was under development at the time. The prototype shown at e-Vent lacked any animation material, and the graphical user interface was incomplete. Still, it was interesting to present a prototype of AV Clash for the first time, before showing a beta version at SMC Barcelona a couple of months later.

Research Presentation on Master and Margarita at University of Helsinki

Event: From Interdisciplinarity to Intermediality
Place: University of Helsinki, Finland
Date: 4/3/2010

Slideshow: https://www.slideshare.net/CorreiaNuno/ncorreia-master-and-margarita-201003

Today I will make a presentation on “Master and Margarita – An Interactive Audiovisual Adaptation of Bulgakov’s Novel” at the seminar “From interdisciplinarity to intermediality – A change in the research paradigma?”, at University of Helsinki, Finland.

Seminar link: http://helsinginyliopisto.etapahtuma.fi/Default.aspx?tabid=310&id=701

Link to related project: http://www.videojackstudios.com/masterandmargarita