André Sier
Lampsacus is a playable city. An interactive audiovisual environment where a virtual city is recreated, modifiable, inhabited by its human visitors, at the installation space, as well as computational resident agents in the three-dimensional space. This environment is distributed in different and playable points of view in the virtual city’s space, which can be activated and navigated by people moving in front of the projection. The motion data, the continued difference between images communicates interactions between the parameters obtained from computer vision and elements of the three-dimensional simulation which are dynamically generated. The city grows, expands, contracts, builds and reconstructs new geometries, opens new empty fields, breaths with the movement of people.
Autómatos Universais 3D are hypnotic progressions of Cellular Automata algorithms in space, made in a 3D printer, frozen in sculptures of an approximate dimension of 7cm3.
Heliades are mathematical palaces generated computationally. The Heliades are abstract architectonic sculptures made in a 3D printer, with approximate dimensions of 16cm3, which also inhabit virtually the Heliosphere installation. They are architectonic objects that fix and emit the endless generator side the solar star provides, percolated through time into spaces.
BIO
André Sier (Portugal) is an artistic engineer with training in sciences, arts and philosophy. Working since 1997 at s373.net/x studios, he exhibits and performs works worldwide, with more than 25 solo exhibitions and over 80 participations at collective shows, festivals and artistic events. Sier works with code, 3D, video, sound, electronics, drawing, sculpture and videogames, and was awarded at Jovens Criadores, Bienal de Cerveira and three times at Lisbon MakerFaire. Regular teacher of electronic interactive arts since 2002, he’s currently a doctoral student at the Planetary Collegium. He is one of the five finalists of the Sonae Media Art Award 2017.
