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At the Transeuntis Mundi Concert, an immersive, live performance presentation explores the sensory language shared between visual art and music. Created from a transdisciplinary, transmedia and collaborative interaction, which combines human interaction and artificial intelligence to create photographs, cinema, sounds and music.
The sound works were created by 8 transcultural composers – originating from the territories where Deriva 01 passed through. They are composers from Colombia, Brazil, England and the United States. Responding to an invitation from the Transeuntis Mundi Project, these composers worked on the sound and transcultural archive of this work and presented a map of readings in multiple musical aesthetics for the theme of this work. There are songs, fugues, electroacoustic pieces under soundscapes, piano work, poetry, and live performance informed by the theme of ancient migration and transculturality.
The visual works are created in real time, through a generative action of artificial intelligence using sound photographs from the Transeuntis Mundi collection. The result is an always surprising and expressive creation, centered on the colors, shapes and textures of transculturality, on the human journey and its nuances.
The Concert at MAC explores in its architectural format the form of Transeuntis Mundi creations: the circular. The circular is in our 360-degree recordings, in the virtual reality space, in our photographs, in the spatialization of our sounds – and in the format of the MAC hall designed by Brazilian architect Oscar Niemeyer. A 6-channel sound system will immerse the audience in a circular and itinerant sound and audiovisual experience, as the audience walks around the concert, and in this way explores the different acoustic interactions with the MAC space.
The concert features works by composers: Cândida Borges (Brazil/USA), Rodrigo Henao (Colombia), Natália Henao (Colombia), João MacDowel (Brazil/USA), Esteban Henao (Colombia), Kerry Priest (England), Rafael Mejía (Colombia), Ana Maria Romano (Colombia). The concert has artistic direction by Cândida Borges and Gabriel Mario Velez, broadcast/audiovisual creations by Esteban Henao and broadcast/live performance by musician Rodrigo Henao and his collection of Colombian and world flutes.
On August 5, 2023, the artists from the Transeuntis Mundi project launched the Artist’s Book Transeuntis Mundi Deriva 01, at the Museum of Contemporary Art (Niterói/RJ), a version that celebrates 5 years of migration and the art of this work.
The book is part of the project’s transmedia creations, defined as a portal for photographs, stories and sounds in augmented reality.
Special thanks to MAC – Museu de Arte Contemporânea (Museum of Contemporary Art) for opening its doors to welcome us once again and to Complexo Hospitalar de Niterói -CHN (Niterói Hospital Complex), which is part of Dasa, the largest integrated health network in Brazil, for investing in innovation, research and Brazilian contemporary art! Culture is good for your health!
Creators | Researchers | Artists
Cândida L. Borges (Brasil/ US)
Musician and transmedia artist, educator, composer, and scholar. Ph.D. in Computer Music from the ICCMR of Plymouth University (UK), Master in Music Performance/Piano from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (BR), Co-founder and director of the Transeuntis Mundi Project and the Brazilian Non-Profit Casa de Arte e Cultura.
Musician, composer and transmedia artist. She carries out artistic projects with emerging technologies, exploring the themes of transculturality and migration. PhD in Arts from the University of Plymouth (UK, 2022), Bachelor and Master in Music/Piano from UFRJ (RJ/BR, 2005), specialized in Electronic Music Production from the SAE Institute (NY/US, 2013), Cândida develops a career as an artist and educator. As a musician, she has been performing in concerts and festivals since a young age, from classical to electronic music. Her trajectory has important moments, such as the renowned Brazilian Award from the National Foundation of the Arts Funarte in 2012, the selection as an artist by the New York Foundation for the Arts, and the various festivals, congresses, conferences and awards for which her works were selected, such as the Lumen Prize (2022) and Best Sound of the Year Award (2023). Her works “Palm Hand” and “Mutations” stand out, part of the creations and research of his doctoral thesis “Transeuntis Mundi: a nomadic artistic practice”. Her research was developed between 2018-2021 at the ICCMR Interdisciplinary Center for Computer Music Research, in partnership with the University of Antioquia and as a visiting researcher at Columbia University (New York). The research resulted in several articles and publications in England, Portugal, Argentina and the United Kingdom, being recognized in the list of the top authors in the art, science and technology fields by the publication Leonardo MIT. Borges worked as a professor at the main universities in Rio de Janeiro (UNIRIO, UFRJ and Cândido Mendes) and as a guest professor at international universities. She founded and runs the NGO Casa de Arte e Cultura since 2001, promoting art and education. Her work and career can be found at www.candidaborges.com.
Gabriel Mario Vélez (Colômbia)
Visual and transmedia artist, professor, arts administrator and scholar from Colombia. Dean of the Antioquia University School of Arts (Medellín, Colombia), Pos-Doc from the National University of Córdoba (Argentina, 2011), Doctor/Master of Fine Arts from the Complutense University of Madrid (Spain, 2004) and Bachelor in Fine Arts from the University of Antioquia (Medellín/ Colombia, 1993). Co-founder and artist of the Transeuntis Mundi Project.
Transmedia and visual artist, teacher and researcher. The Dean of the Faculty of Arts of the University of Antioquia since 2017. About his education, he is a Post-Doc from the National University of Córdoba (Argentina, 2011), Doctor/Master in Fine Arts from the Complutense University of Madrid (Spain, 2004) and graduated in Arts from the University of Antioquia (Medellín/Colombia, 1993). He teaches undergraduate and graduate programs at the University of Antioquia and as a visiting scholar for other international programs. His work has been presented individually and collectively, in exhibitions with special representation in Latin America; among other spaces, in the Museum of Modern Art of Medellín, the Buenos Aires Film School (Argentina), the Artistic Development Center of Havana (Cuba) and the Museum of Contemporary Art of Niteroi (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil 2023). His artistic work has received awards in different circuits and his texts have been published in books and magazines; among others, the Colombian Photography Salon (winner in 1998 and 2000), his book “Photography as a magical device” (University of Medellín Press); the multimedia “The minimal stories of the anonymous passerby” (University of Antioquia Edition); and the book “The death of the subject and emerging subjectivity” (University of Córdoba Press), presenting the results of his postdoctoral research. His professional activity includes international conferences, curatorships, the development of social, cultural and artistic projects. Among his main current artistic projects, we point out the “Transeúntes Medellín” and “Transeuntis Mundi”, which have been exhibited worldwide and received funds and recognition from various international calls, such as the Lumen award for art and technology (UK, 2022). His work can be seen at www.gabrielmariovelez.com.
Transeuntis Mundi is a journey about how mobility through space and time has created geographies and the actual transcultural and transnational humanity. It evokes the power of ancestry, identity and legacy by presenting a conceptual piece of new technology art, powered by 3D audio and virtual reality, projections, sound sculptures and performative actions.
The Transeuntis Mundi Project proposes to capture the sound and visual memory of peoples, cultural expressions and places to artistically tell the story of the millennial passersby that have been crossing the world. It currently portrays the diversity of various countries and continents and generates a poetical/documental archive of human cultural heritage.
The expression Transeuntis Mundi comes from Latin, the lingua franca of the expansion of Western Culture. It personifies the human being who has been taking the adventure to discover and explore the world.
Its methodology employs Walkscapes recordings with immersive 360° technology. From this archive, it starts a process of transmedial composition: the creation of virtual reality works, videos, photographs, sound art, musical compositions and performance, with the aim to immerse the observer/participant into an experience beyond their space and time. In short, it is a combination of knowledge, innovation and poetics, supported by the processes of artistic research and mediated by transmedial technology.
3D sound and image – To be watched with headphones and preferably with VR Headsets. In the computer, touch the video and slide it to rotate and experience the interactive 3D audio and image.