Casa das M´ aquinas : An Artiﬁcial Dialogue of Portuguese Poetry Mariana Sei¸ ca 1(B ) , Jo˜ ao Couceiro e Castro 1 , S´ ergio Rebelo 1 , Pedro Martins 1 , Ana Boavida 2 , and Penousal Machado 1 1 University of Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal {marianac,srebelo,pjmm,machado}@dei.uc.pt, jccastro@student.dei.uc.pt 2 Department of Informatics Engineering, Centre for Informatics and Systems of the University of Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal aboavida@fba.pt Abstract. Casa das M´ aquinas is an audiovisual confrontation between two artiﬁcial engines—M´aquina de Ouver and M´aquinaCanora —in a multimodal dialogue that explores the poetic language of M´ario de S´a- Carneiro. The poems Ep´ ıgrafe, Anto and Fim, serve as feedstock to the machines, with their words oiling the internal engines of both entities, pulsating their mechanical universe and stimuli. Keywords: Media art · Installation · Typography · Soniﬁcation · Poetry · M´ ario de S´a-Carneiro 1 Introduction Over time, poets and writers explored the visual arrangement of typography to insert expressiveness into their works. Although this practice was already visible in the work of some Ancient Greek poets, some Modern artists, such as Futurists and Concrete poets, typeset their work in nonstandard, dynamic and non-linear layouts to fully transmit the emotional charge of their works [2, 3]. Casa das M´ aquinas is an audiovisual installation that generates and presents audiovisual artefacts, aiming to bring its audience into a sensory, emotional experience of the textual inputs, based on the perceptions of these contempo- rary digital “machines”. Two artiﬁcial beings, M´ aquina de Ouver and M´ aquina Canora , appropriate and explore the work of Portuguese Poet M´ ario S´ a-Carneiro (1890–1916), each revealing its own interpretative dimensions of his work. 2 The Engines M´ aquina Canora is a confrontation between two mechanical entities, in a pul- sating and vocal conversation, that breathes the poetic language of M´ ario de S´ a- Carneiro. In the installation, three of his poems are presented, namely Ep´ ıgrafe [4, p. 4], Anto [4, p. 30], and Fim [4, p. 78]. These poems serve as feedstock for c  IFIP International Federation for Information Processing 2021 Published by Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021 J. Baalsrud Hauge et al. (Eds.): ICEC 2021, LNCS 13056, pp. 509–512, 2021. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-89394-1_46