José Pinheiro is a researcher from CIAC (Research Center in Arts and Communication from Algarve University, Portugal). Has a PhD in Digital Media Arts from Algarve University/Open University and works in Advertising as consultant. Has worked in Dentsu Aegis Network and Global Media Group. He develops research in Visual Communication, Post-image, Digital Media Arts and Computational environments for Images. He is co-creator of the digital installation “Uturn”, for Artech 2015.
International Journal of Creative Interfaces and Computer Graphics, 2019
uTurn is a digital art installation that allows interaction inside a cinema-like environment or a... more uTurn is a digital art installation that allows interaction inside a cinema-like environment or a similar public space — an exhibition system in the context of an audience, retrieving an elected media from the choices made by the majority of the public. The software in its core manages the selection — a meta-remediation that elects a media block, in the form of short-story movies (Vidbits) to be watched by a crowd. The interaction model assumes the need to find a preference in the viewing room in order to identify and choose the next Vidbit. The system allows navigation through media blocks in environments like a cinema room, a summer festival, or a public event. It can be configured to support visual concepts, or to integrate a narrative system in which other types of structures in the story demand that the content follows a segmentation of media. uTurn was exhibited during the 5th Artech International Conference, in 2015. The article addresses the creative process towards the production of the digital artifact using Apple's Quartz Composer.
inVISIBILIDADES #7 - REVISTA IBERO-AMERICANA DE PESQUISA EM EDUCAÇÃO, CULTURA E ARTES, 2014
The viewing of images, an intrinsic part of our cultural heritage, is more present in everyday li... more The viewing of images, an intrinsic part of our cultural heritage, is more present in everyday life, through various formats and new and varied media. To analyze this question we need to investigate what kind of images we are producing / consuming. The production and dissemination of images, edited using new digital tools, represents an important volume of the total images that surround us. What has changed with images? Image Editing is a socially transversal act that generalized our coexistence with an altered real, starting from visual tools whose key idea is condensed by a term: Image Post-production. If we look at a past of photographic production, we can see that the potential of mutability has been there from the beginning.
ARTECH 2015 is the Seventh International Conference on Digital Arts, this time hosted by Universi... more ARTECH 2015 is the Seventh International Conference on Digital Arts, this time hosted by Universidade Aberta in the ancient village of Óbidos, Portugal. The goal of the conference is to promote the interest in the current digital culture and its intersection with art and technology as an important research field, but also as a common space for discussion and exchange of new experiences.
Cities serve as port to most of the world population. However, there is some misfit between urban... more Cities serve as port to most of the world population. However, there is some misfit between urban policies and the needs felt by citizens. The solution to this issue is usually remitted to our own role. In the end, the problem of activating a culture of participation in urban areas remains.
The artifact “uTurn" combines three distinct areas - visual arts, urban morphology and image - and uses elements of Media Art, recovering references from the Situationist movement of the 1950s. This co-production establishes a scenic space where the records of urban space can be recreated, under video-graphic form, manipulating and displaying fragments of urban culture. The relationship between elements is established through software specially developed for the artifact, which allows to introduce a form of democratic participation using a mobile voting model. “uTurn” performs as an interactive cinema space in which participation is essential to choose a path.
— As Cidades servem de porto à maior parte da população mundial. Contudo, nota-se um desajuste en... more — As Cidades servem de porto à maior parte da população mundial. Contudo, nota-se um desajuste entre as políticas urbanas e as necessidades dos cidadãos. Remete-se a resolução desta questão para o papel de cada um. No entanto, o problema da ativação de uma cultura participativa em meio urbano permanece. O artefacto "uTurn" combina três áreas distintas – artes visuais, morfologia urbana e imagem – e utiliza elementos de Média-Arte, fazendo referência às utopias do movimento situacionista dos anos 50. Esta coprodução estabelece um espaço cénico onde é possível recriar os registos do espaço urbano, sob forma videográfica, manipulando e expondo fragmentos da cultura urbana. O relacionamento entre os elementos é estabelecido através de software desenvolvido para esta peça, que permite introduzir uma forma de participação democrática usando um modelo de votação.
Scientific studies have contributed, over the last years, to an expansion of the Image concept, i... more Scientific studies have contributed, over the last years, to an expansion of the Image concept, in articulation with new developments in Computational Media, based in a stratification around technical digital properties, which frame its existence to the form of digital information-extending it beyond a visual surface idea. Biometric data, artificial intelligence, bitcoin, glitches or machine learning are examples of instantiation tools used by artists to explore elements of mediation included in Post-images. This chapter addresses today's perspectives in Contemporary Imagetics emerging from the field of Digital Media Art (DMA), curating contributions from classic postproduction techniques to computational media instantiations and contextualizing imagery creation practice in DMA.
International Journal of Creative Interfaces and Computer Graphics, 2019
uTurn is a digital art installation that allows interaction inside a cinema-like environment or a... more uTurn is a digital art installation that allows interaction inside a cinema-like environment or a similar public space — an exhibition system in the context of an audience, retrieving an elected media from the choices made by the majority of the public. The software in its core manages the selection — a meta-remediation that elects a media block, in the form of short-story movies (Vidbits) to be watched by a crowd. The interaction model assumes the need to find a preference in the viewing room in order to identify and choose the next Vidbit. The system allows navigation through media blocks in environments like a cinema room, a summer festival, or a public event. It can be configured to support visual concepts, or to integrate a narrative system in which other types of structures in the story demand that the content follows a segmentation of media. uTurn was exhibited during the 5th Artech International Conference, in 2015. The article addresses the creative process towards the production of the digital artifact using Apple's Quartz Composer.
inVISIBILIDADES #7 - REVISTA IBERO-AMERICANA DE PESQUISA EM EDUCAÇÃO, CULTURA E ARTES, 2014
The viewing of images, an intrinsic part of our cultural heritage, is more present in everyday li... more The viewing of images, an intrinsic part of our cultural heritage, is more present in everyday life, through various formats and new and varied media. To analyze this question we need to investigate what kind of images we are producing / consuming. The production and dissemination of images, edited using new digital tools, represents an important volume of the total images that surround us. What has changed with images? Image Editing is a socially transversal act that generalized our coexistence with an altered real, starting from visual tools whose key idea is condensed by a term: Image Post-production. If we look at a past of photographic production, we can see that the potential of mutability has been there from the beginning.
ARTECH 2015 is the Seventh International Conference on Digital Arts, this time hosted by Universi... more ARTECH 2015 is the Seventh International Conference on Digital Arts, this time hosted by Universidade Aberta in the ancient village of Óbidos, Portugal. The goal of the conference is to promote the interest in the current digital culture and its intersection with art and technology as an important research field, but also as a common space for discussion and exchange of new experiences.
Cities serve as port to most of the world population. However, there is some misfit between urban... more Cities serve as port to most of the world population. However, there is some misfit between urban policies and the needs felt by citizens. The solution to this issue is usually remitted to our own role. In the end, the problem of activating a culture of participation in urban areas remains.
The artifact “uTurn" combines three distinct areas - visual arts, urban morphology and image - and uses elements of Media Art, recovering references from the Situationist movement of the 1950s. This co-production establishes a scenic space where the records of urban space can be recreated, under video-graphic form, manipulating and displaying fragments of urban culture. The relationship between elements is established through software specially developed for the artifact, which allows to introduce a form of democratic participation using a mobile voting model. “uTurn” performs as an interactive cinema space in which participation is essential to choose a path.
— As Cidades servem de porto à maior parte da população mundial. Contudo, nota-se um desajuste en... more — As Cidades servem de porto à maior parte da população mundial. Contudo, nota-se um desajuste entre as políticas urbanas e as necessidades dos cidadãos. Remete-se a resolução desta questão para o papel de cada um. No entanto, o problema da ativação de uma cultura participativa em meio urbano permanece. O artefacto "uTurn" combina três áreas distintas – artes visuais, morfologia urbana e imagem – e utiliza elementos de Média-Arte, fazendo referência às utopias do movimento situacionista dos anos 50. Esta coprodução estabelece um espaço cénico onde é possível recriar os registos do espaço urbano, sob forma videográfica, manipulando e expondo fragmentos da cultura urbana. O relacionamento entre os elementos é estabelecido através de software desenvolvido para esta peça, que permite introduzir uma forma de participação democrática usando um modelo de votação.
Scientific studies have contributed, over the last years, to an expansion of the Image concept, i... more Scientific studies have contributed, over the last years, to an expansion of the Image concept, in articulation with new developments in Computational Media, based in a stratification around technical digital properties, which frame its existence to the form of digital information-extending it beyond a visual surface idea. Biometric data, artificial intelligence, bitcoin, glitches or machine learning are examples of instantiation tools used by artists to explore elements of mediation included in Post-images. This chapter addresses today's perspectives in Contemporary Imagetics emerging from the field of Digital Media Art (DMA), curating contributions from classic postproduction techniques to computational media instantiations and contextualizing imagery creation practice in DMA.
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The artifact “uTurn" combines three distinct areas - visual arts, urban morphology and image - and uses elements of Media Art, recovering references from the Situationist movement of the 1950s. This co-production establishes a scenic space where the records of urban space can be recreated, under video-graphic form, manipulating and displaying fragments of urban culture. The relationship between elements is established through software specially developed for the artifact, which allows to introduce a form of democratic participation using a mobile voting model. “uTurn” performs as an interactive cinema space in which participation is essential to choose a path.
The artifact “uTurn" combines three distinct areas - visual arts, urban morphology and image - and uses elements of Media Art, recovering references from the Situationist movement of the 1950s. This co-production establishes a scenic space where the records of urban space can be recreated, under video-graphic form, manipulating and displaying fragments of urban culture. The relationship between elements is established through software specially developed for the artifact, which allows to introduce a form of democratic participation using a mobile voting model. “uTurn” performs as an interactive cinema space in which participation is essential to choose a path.