Interview

What was the first art/design/architecture work that impressed you?


It is quite difficult to choose one work. But, mainly the art works where the aesthetical part is very present and where the public can interact.

How do you reflect on light as a material or media in your work?

Without light our work would not be possible. It is the medium with witch we can express ourselves in this art work “Human Tiles”. It allows us to fulfill the walls of a building with virtual tiles in a very quick way…and adding movement and interactivity to them.

What was the guiding interest in your conceptual approach of your work we see during GLOW?

The ephemeral movements of people in urban places creating constantly moving patterns is the main issue in our work. We wanted it to be interactive and in real-time, like the lives of the public making part of it.

What made it interesting to work in Eindhoven?

Fact is that our project uses the typically Portuguese tiles distribution method.
It is very interesting to us to project them in a completely different urban environment, mixing both cultures (tiles from Portugal projected in the Netherlands urban environment)

What kind of respond do you expect from the audience?

We expect people to have fun while they discover this interactive art work where their movements, shapes and colors are transformed in light and used to create virtual human tiles, with constantly moving patterns made of themselves.

Anything you would like to add?

The modularity of the project makes it to be possible to adapt to almost any building. And that is one of our objectives, to cross-culture the Portuguese virtual “Human Tiles” with other countries architecture and landscape.