Last Sunday (14/04/2012), Pixel and Sander presented for the first time their project Narrative Navigation to the public in São Paulo.

During the past days, Pixel and Sander have been working a lot to be ready for their first presentation of the project that will happen this Sunday in front of the Biblioteca Mário de Andrade in São Paulo.

In this photo, at the Casa da Cultura Digital, they draft how they will add routes and narratives to their AR project.

[originally posted on the labmovel blog]

Pixel and Sander walked around São Paulo to find possible routes for the Labmovel. Check it out the map:

[originally posted on the labmovel blog]

On the 3rd of April, both artists contemplated for the residency gathered with Gisela Domschke and Lucas Bambozzi, organizers from São Paulo, to define their further activities with the labmovel.
Photos by Lucas Rossi Gervilla.

From left to right: Sander Veenhof, Lucas Bambozzi and Pixel

Sander and Pixel

on the left Gisela Domschke, then Andrea Armentano and Carola Gonzalez

Pixel

Pixel and Sander

17/03/2012
Click here to listen to the statement || Clique aqui para escutar o depoimento

In this statement Pixel gives a summary of his week in The Netherlands: His visit to the exhibition at the Mediamatic. The meetings at WORM and V2 in Rotterdam. At the V2 he got the chance to see the hacker space, where he said was a “brother” of the Casa da Cultural Digital, in São Paulo, where the MemeLab is located. After these meetings in Rotterdam he felt the need to discuss with Sander, once more, about their concept.

On the 19/03, there was another meeting at the Nimk. The artists showed to Annet Dekker the last discussions and developments they had. Time flies and this is the last week of Pixel’s stay…

The meeting was once more to make the concept more clear. This week Pixel and Sander will meet a writer, to see the possibility of cooperation in the project. Because of this appointment, Annet suggested that they should make a draft of their idea, concerning the following aspects:
- framework of the work, showing specific locations and target group;
- what kind of narrative they would like to use?
- what is the relevance of their project?

On the 15/03 Pixel went to Rotterdam to get to know more about the city and visit the project spaces, WORM and V2.

At WORM he had a meeting with Walter Langelaar, that showed him the facilities and the hackerspace Moddr (photo below). The phrase Pixel picked to describe his experience in Rotterdam: “feeling like home”

On Wednesday, the 7^th of March, Sander and Pixel gave a informal presentation for the Nimk staff about their AR project.

Sander presented projects he developed with AR, starting by  his first augmented reality project with QR codes on the ground and mentioning his project proposal about story telling. Then, Pixel also explained his initial proposal, that was to continue developing the Jandig project. He explained that he is interested on the reaction by the public towards technology or public space, for example.

They also talked about their ideas for the project. Such as the AR Power Point “walking through the city from slide to slide”.

The artists showed how the content would be presented by adding AR on the facade Museum of Art of São Paulo (Masp) as an example.

10 days of the first phase of this artistic residency. The major concern right now is to define the concept that will be expressed through AR, raising fundamental questions such as: Why the artists will develop this specific project? What is the significance? Who is the target group?

After Pixel told Sander that Internet access for smart phones in Brazil is not so common, they thought about exploring an offline project, based on Pixel’s developments in Brazil. Also, researching in the collection of the Nimk for “pre-internet” artists that made works related to communication. This idea changed towards targeting specifically  the ones that have access to Internet.

The main areas of interest from both artists are related to the city and story telling. The use of images, videos or a “Power Point image like” are being considered, as well as statistic data.

After almost one week since Pixel’s arrival the concept is being developed throughout meetings accompanied by many teas, coffees and colas. Today, during their third meeting Pixel and Sander showed the first sketches of the developments of their ideas so far. The project will include story telling and information about the city, but the outcome is still not 100% agreed yet.