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Metaverse Creativity
Volume 5 Number 1
© 2015 Intellect Ltd Article. English language. doi: 10.1386/mvcr.5.1.7_1
Daniella aguiar, luiz e. Castelões anD João Queiroz
Federal University of Juiz de Fora
Via: a coll aborative
project integrating mobile
technology, video-dance
and computer-assisted
composition in rio de Janei ro
abstraCt
We present the mobile art project VIA, which combined mobile technology, video-
dance and computer-assisted music composition. Its main goal was to endow specific
locations of Rio de Janeiro with video-dance and computer music performances,
accessed through locative media. Summarily, any user equipped with a tablet or
smartphone with an Internet connection had free access to multimedia pieces
while moving through specific points of Rio de Janeiro. Two technologies were
applied: QR code and HiperGeo. The music accompanying the videos derived from
Computer-Assisted Composition (CAC), Computer-Generated Assistance (CGA)
and ‘Sonification’-related approaches. The music can be interpreted as a sound
iconization, based on a computational methodology and assisted by the software
OpenMusic, of topological properties of the landscape used as background for the
dance. At the end, we speculate on the consequences of a responsive mobile technol-
ogy applied to art projects of investigative mapping of urban space.
keyworDs
mobile art
locative dance
video-dance
computational music
art and urban space
art and technology