In its 13th edition, Videobrasil celebrates the launching of the project that underlines its concern in investing and promoting research on electronic art. With this new initiative, the Festival, which has always encouraged investigations and experimentations, opens space for the premiere of works and the presentation of projects to be realised in the future. The authors will present the main ideas involved in each work, discussing and raising issues essential for the dialogue between and the advance of media and supports.

Kicking off the programme, Lucas Bambozzi will present 4 Walls/4 Paredes, a project developed over a research period in Britain. An artist with a video background who is now investigating and exploring new platforms, Lucas Bambozzi proposes an important and objective discussion about privacy in an era marked by the emergence of a new and vast public space constituted by the Internet. 4 Walls/4 Paredes is a project originally presented for Videobrasil. This will be the author’s first incursion into an area bringing together installation, performance, internet and CD-ROM.

German Bobe, in his turn, premieres his Lovemoderne, the first film for the internet made by the Chilean "enfant terrible". Humour and irony mix in the work of this iconoclastic artist. With the premiere and the meetings, Videobrasil extends its role of not only exhibiting, but also stimulating research that will result in new challenges of form and language. From now on, meetings with authors who are challenging traditional concepts will be an integral part of the Festival.

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Project 4Walls - Interactive Portraits and Invasive Situations

The images of this project are proposed like mirrors. Situations representing experiences linked to the act of seeing and being seen: the feeling of being an invader in a private space. The project suggests that the spectator perceive him or herself as an individual inserted in a web between the public and private domains.

In the form of short audio-visual narratives, the images show situations that supposedly happen between 4WALLS (sex, intimate movements, actions repeated or apparently meaningless to the observer). Ambiguously simple and charged with meaning, these movements represent ordinary situations of a real world, feelings arising from the observation or contact with the other. By proposing a reverse situation, an inversion of roles in which the public becomes the invader, the project deals with the simulation of specific sensations, not exactly linked to a representation of voyeurism or of perversion, but of those sensations arising from confrontations people generally avoid in social contact.

Connected to a type of public space that is being virtually formed on the internet, these moving portraits can expresses feelings compatible with the "truths" printed on people’s faces and actions. Indefinite, imperfect and raw emotions are elements valuable to the project.

ASSOCIAÇÃO CULTURAL VIDEOBRASIL, "13º Festival Internacional de Arte Eletrônica Videobrasil": de 19 a 23 de setembro de 2001, p. 223, São Paulo, SP, 2001.