Too much | Video art loop installation
Barcelona, Spain | 2021
Too much is a video art loop installation in its form and a trigger for generating awareness about special needs like dyslexia, dyscalculia, and ADHD in its essence. Born out of an artistic and research residency on science communication through experimental visual and sound art, the author uncovers but a glimpse of the visual, auditory, and emotional dimensions surrounding special needs. This work was funded by the European Commission through the Erasmus+ program.
Too much is a video art loop installation in its form and a trigger for generating awareness about special needs like dyslexia, dyscalculia, and ADHD in its essence. Born out of an artistic and research residency on science communication through experimental visual and sound art, the author uncovers but a glimpse of the visual, auditory, and emotional dimensions surrounding special needs. This work was funded by the European Commission through the Erasmus+ program.
Apollon est Nadir Nadir est Apollon | Experimental video art
Porto, Portugal; 2020
António Baía Reis and Francisco Modesto
Apollon est Nadir Nadir est Apollon [Apollo is Nadir Nadir is Apollo] is multimedia art, experimental music, and poetic expression in its form and appropriation and expression of the universe of the artist Nadir Afonso, and of his work Apollo, in its essence. Apollo is synonymous with harmony, perfection, balance, sun, metaphysics, symbol of prophetic and artistic inspiration. Nadir is the pure expression of a mathematical artistic essence, a precision that stems from intuition and that manifests itself in the realm of painting. Apollo is immortality, a continuum. Nadir is non-time or the argument of its existence. Based on the combination of animation techniques generated by artificial intelligence with the creation of a visual aesthetic grammar using digital collage, generative art, and pixel sorting that decomposes the original Apollo painting into unique visual elements, but also the creation of an original musical and theatrical narrative inspired by the Nadirian and Apollonian universes, the authors were able to achieve a mesmerizing visual narrative drenched with dreamlike poetics and music.
António Baía Reis and Francisco Modesto
Apollon est Nadir Nadir est Apollon [Apollo is Nadir Nadir is Apollo] is multimedia art, experimental music, and poetic expression in its form and appropriation and expression of the universe of the artist Nadir Afonso, and of his work Apollo, in its essence. Apollo is synonymous with harmony, perfection, balance, sun, metaphysics, symbol of prophetic and artistic inspiration. Nadir is the pure expression of a mathematical artistic essence, a precision that stems from intuition and that manifests itself in the realm of painting. Apollo is immortality, a continuum. Nadir is non-time or the argument of its existence. Based on the combination of animation techniques generated by artificial intelligence with the creation of a visual aesthetic grammar using digital collage, generative art, and pixel sorting that decomposes the original Apollo painting into unique visual elements, but also the creation of an original musical and theatrical narrative inspired by the Nadirian and Apollonian universes, the authors were able to achieve a mesmerizing visual narrative drenched with dreamlike poetics and music.
A sculpture left to oblivion | Performative installation
Madeira, Portugal; 2020
A sculpture left to oblivion is a performative installation in its form and an aesthetic and social exorcism in its essence. Inspired by the sculpture “Daily Income” by Madeiran artist António Rodrigues, and having as a creative matrix the combination of musical, theatrical, and pictorial performance, Baía Reis manipulates sound, voice, color, and movement to make the public aware of the idea of ostracized works of art.
A sculpture left to oblivion is a performative installation in its form and an aesthetic and social exorcism in its essence. Inspired by the sculpture “Daily Income” by Madeiran artist António Rodrigues, and having as a creative matrix the combination of musical, theatrical, and pictorial performance, Baía Reis manipulates sound, voice, color, and movement to make the public aware of the idea of ostracized works of art.
What About Now Minsky? | Mixed art video
Canada; Small File Media Festival; 2020
Synopsis: Distinguished futurists make predictions for the next 7 years, Sci-Fi dares to foresee the next 100! What about now Minsky? Will a robot change my diaper in the future as I compose my music? Emotions for humans, reasoning for smart machines? Will you allow that? What about now Minsky? is a video art/musical statement created by António Baía Reis. A recycled vision of color distortion and piano performance. Inspired by Marvin Minsky's celebrated MIT classes, conveyed in his "ASMRish" voice, the author gains artistic insight into a post-pandemic future by combining Jazz improvisation originally recorded in 2015 with "selfie" Anti-HD video manipulation using a smartphone.
Synopsis: Distinguished futurists make predictions for the next 7 years, Sci-Fi dares to foresee the next 100! What about now Minsky? Will a robot change my diaper in the future as I compose my music? Emotions for humans, reasoning for smart machines? Will you allow that? What about now Minsky? is a video art/musical statement created by António Baía Reis. A recycled vision of color distortion and piano performance. Inspired by Marvin Minsky's celebrated MIT classes, conveyed in his "ASMRish" voice, the author gains artistic insight into a post-pandemic future by combining Jazz improvisation originally recorded in 2015 with "selfie" Anti-HD video manipulation using a smartphone.
Sensis | Media art installation
Braga, Portugal; Semibreve Festival; 2017
Sensis is a media art installation that allows for a sensory experience per se. By looking at the Portuguese People’s collective memory, specifically tackling with Poetry and Fado, the creators’ reflection revolves around the exploration and appropriation of symbols and meanings as the creative essence for manipulating materials.
Sensis is a media art installation that allows for a sensory experience per se. By looking at the Portuguese People’s collective memory, specifically tackling with Poetry and Fado, the creators’ reflection revolves around the exploration and appropriation of symbols and meanings as the creative essence for manipulating materials.
Emovere | Performative video art
Porto, Portugal; 2015
Emovere combines acting, music, and video art through fundamental emotions. Each emotion is conveyed through an improvisational game, merging body expression, visceral sounds, piano playing, and distorted colors. Emovere is born out of an almost primal need. It is a manifestation of the artist's adamant desire to communicate in an intuitive, subliminal way. It is a mirror of emotions, unsoiled, and without a language, just pure and raw imaginative instinct.
Emovere combines acting, music, and video art through fundamental emotions. Each emotion is conveyed through an improvisational game, merging body expression, visceral sounds, piano playing, and distorted colors. Emovere is born out of an almost primal need. It is a manifestation of the artist's adamant desire to communicate in an intuitive, subliminal way. It is a mirror of emotions, unsoiled, and without a language, just pure and raw imaginative instinct.