Sunday, 4/30/2017
GNRation, Braga
Two students from the Master Programme in Technology and Digital Art (MTAD) of the School of Engineering of the University of Minho (EEUM) presented their works in the Open Day of GNRation, a space oriented to the promotion of artistic activities and digital arts. The exhibition took place in the 30th April 2017, in Braga.
Diogo Cunha and Ismael Graça, both students from the Master Programme in Technology and Digital Art (MTAD) of the School of Engineering of the University of Minho (EEUM) were present in the GNRation’s Open Day, in Braga, to show the work developed in this 2nd cycle programme. The event of this year counted with the exhibition of the Dutch’s artist Tarik Barri, who has worked with well-known music names such as Nicolas Jaar and Thom Yorke (Radiohead).
The
exhibition of the two students aimed to show artistic installations related to
media art – arts involving interactive media or digital media –, so that public
can interact with those works of art through technological means. The purpose
of these artistic installations produced by students was to communicate
science, using concepts of nanotechnologies combined with media arts. The work
of Ismael Graça consisted of an interactive installation where people could
touch a screen projection, which served as a metaphor for the atomic
microscopes used in nanotechnology. Diogo Cunha’s work was a mobile video game,
which used geolocation and augmented reality to show the user the nanoscale
world – which allows to see, through simulation, what is not visible to the
naked eye. “We are able to create interactive experiences by leveraging
technologies such as computer vision, augmented reality and mobile
applications. Nanotechnology is not visible to scale and naked eye, so we turn
to digital art to create metaphors and communicate the concepts of quantum
physics”, Diogo Cunha, student of the MTAD explained.
The MTAD of the EEUM is a multidisciplinary master’s degree that brings
together professors from four Schools/Institutes of the University of Minho
itself – School of Engineering, School of Architecture, Institute of Social
Sciences and Institute of Education. This master’s degree explores Engineering
aspects such as programming, electronics and computer vision, but aims to apply
them to the artistic world: “A programmer works on software, databases, while a
digital artist uses digital algorithms to create visual effects, music and
interactive experiences”, Diogo Cunha reinforced.
The MTAD is oriented towards the construction of a professional profile
that develops specialist competencies that support autonomous and qualified
interventions, and scientifically-controlled experimentation in the area of the
application and exploration of technologies in the domains of digital art,
cultural expression, education and entertainment. Along the two years of the
course, the following components will be privileged: theoretical, which relates
to the methodological research and synthesis projects; practical, which relates
to experimenting through multidisciplinary projects; research and development,
in work environment. The graduates will be able to carry out the development of
new applications, products and aesthetic narratives in the following aspects of
such areas as the multimedia industries, education, entertainment and cultural
expression.
+ info: http://mtad.dsi.uminho.pt/
