André Gonçalves (PT)
Participating Artist
Since the late 1990s, André Gonçalves has been working in several artistic fields such as painting, music, video, installation and performance. In 2002, André began developing ‘do-it-yourself’ electronics, experimenting with sensor interfaces, soldering and programming to create personalized inter-media works. Recently projects have included collecting and recycling found electronic hardware and hacking them to create analog devices, which act like bots and have specific functions such as printing, drawing. The bot’s actions are orchestrated by PIC micro-controllers, which are small computer processors than can be programmable for controlling multiple devices, from motor sensors to heavy-duty 220v gear. Using such methods the functions and mechanisms the bots are developed to self-create TV-like graphics and sound.
André N.I.P. interests
Resonant Objects
This project explores the acoustic resonance phenomenon, bringing together sound and space through sympathetic vibrations, in which sound is used as a medium to excite space to be heard, in order to render audible it’s natural resonances. The version I hope to work on during N.I.P., will make use of several diferent hollow glass objects, each one attached to a separate system containing one solenid, a circuit board, a microphone, a speaker, an infrared sensor and one electrical lamp, these system nodes will be connected to one microprocessor board that will make them work in a network as one single interface for resonance triggering and control.
Technologies that André has used
Hardware: DIY electronics.
Software: Java, Max-MSP.