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A global symposium of sustainable arts, science and design in the Amazon rainforest.
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eAmazonia is an immersive residency in the Amazon rainforest, which aims to be a gathering, school, platform and a collaborative creation space, combining immersion in the Amazon Rainforest and a global digital project, for artists, creatives, researchers, entrepreneurs and all interested in collaborative
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practices, and dedicated to sustainable arts, eco-arts, science and innovative design in an ecological context of deep Amazon rainforest.
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Participants will have the opportunity to present and share their artistic and scientific research - to collaborate and to create art projects or workshops.
Key note activities and workshops by the mentors Flavia Amadeu, Tania Fraga and Geert Vermeire will shape the framework and a collaborative process over the 6 day residency/symposium. The participants are invited to share their knowledge and practices, and to create works in progress. The outcomes will lead to a nomadic exhibition in significant art spaces in São Paulo, London and Miami, accompanied by a publication/catalogue. The discussions will help framing the eAmazonia network and a series of future encounters and experiences. This gathering will also compose the base of a global online and digital platform in progress. |
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The project encourages a conversation with nature and raises awareness of the environmental impact of climate change. Nature being the womb of our creation, bringing us back from where we come and where we belong.
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We call on all interested to participate to the first gathering and creative exchange in the Amazon Rainforest, between 8-14 September.
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eAmazonia is an initiative of the artists and academics Flavia Amadeu, Tania Fraga and Geert Vermeire. It is supported by IMATech-Institute for Mathematics, University of Brasilia, AMADEU - Amazonian Materials & Design United,Arts and Technology in Sao Paulo, the global Made of Walking network and other institutional and academic partners worldwide.
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As a core group, the three artists propose working on environmental issues with a global and independent media orientation. Their concern goes to the institutionalized mis-representation and banalisation of environmental issues and it belongs to their ambition as artists to foster alternative images and discourses, advance ecological economies and humane policies, going against the mainstream corporate goals, in the awareness that the future of our world is carried by a humanity embracing and creating different paths then the ones imposed by global media enterprises and large corporations.
By bringing together their artistic practices and approaches the three artists organize a collaborative creative gathering to share their creative practices, their concerns and their solutions with other artists, creatives, researchers and all others interested in the Amazon Rainforest. |
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Brazilian multidisciplinary artist and designer, having extensive knowledge and experience with sustainable materials and incorporating wearable computing into her works. Her avant-guard approach to art and fashion has made her a Thought Leader in many projects working in collaboration with scientists from engineer to chemistry. She holds a Ph.D. from the Centre for Sustainable Fashion at London College of Fashion and an MA in Art & Technology from the University of Brasilia. Flavia has participated in well-renowned exhibitions in London, Miami, Sao Paulo, Milan and Kolding, among others. At the moment, she has bringing art, sustainability and technology together, joining wild rubber from the Amazon rainforest and leading-edge technology of Blockchain, as in her last exhibition Art-Fashion Innovation during the Art Basel Miami.
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Brazilian architect and computer artist with a Ph.D. in Communication and Semiotics at the Catholic University of Sao Paulo, vice-president of the Sao Paulo Institute of Mathematics and Arts, with a Senior Post Doctoral research project at School of Communication and Arts, University of Sao Paulo, with a research grant from Sao Paulo Research Foundation, FAPESP and a Post Doctoral research project at the Centre for Advanced Inquiry in Interactive Arts and Science Technology and Art Research, UK, with a research grant from the Agency for the Improvement of Higher Education Personnel, CAPES. Visiting Scholar in 1991/1992/ 2010/2011 at the Computer Science Department at The George Washington University, USA, retired professor at the University of Brasília. Received in 1986 a grant from the Fulbright Commission, USA. She has been showing and publishing her work in many national and international events.Tania interrelates/promotes the dialogue between the digital and the physical worlds. In her interactive installations, nature, indigenous visions and beliefs play an important role in the construction of virtual realities and physical spaces.
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Is a curator, writer and interdisciplinary artist with a background in musicology and in performance arts. His artistic practice is focused on mixed reality, movement art, sound art and literature/text in public space, departing from social practices and the ethical involvement of cultural action, in an ecological perspective. Central in his work are collaborative processes, with artists, with dancers- choreographers and experts of various backgrounds. He coordinated the European eco-arts project "Mediterranean Bodies"/ “the Underwater Heart of the Mediterranean” (new technology, sound, underwater dance) with the choreographers Sophie Bulbulyan (Compagnie DK-Bel, France), Apostolia Papadamaki (Quasi Stellar, Greece), Lia Haraki (Pelma, Cyprus). Extending his interest to the relation between acoustic ecology, new technologies and walking he is, since 2010, part of the noTours-team, exploring augmented aurality in an international collective of developers and sound artists. He is as well co-coordinator and curator of Sound Walk Sunday, a global community event for sound walking. In 2017 and again in 2018 he was invited artist/curator in residence at the CUT - Cyprus University of Technology, NeMe Center for Media Arts and Politics, and at the Dancehouse Nicosia, at the Music and Technology Lab of the Kapodistrian University of Athens, at the Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of Lisbon, at NYU - Tisch School of the Arts and at Parsons - New School - Fine Arts New York. In 2019 he is invited artist at the School of Arts of the University of Sao Paulo, Brasil.
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Top London based photographer with more than 16 years of experience who has worked for several press/advertising/charity assignments for many clients and personal projects. His photos have been front page in all the UK newspapers and magazines, and also in international publications such as Time Magazine and National Geographic. Parry will register the eAmazonia encounter and the landscapes which will later become part of our platform, catalogue and publications.
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Filmmaker, photographer, designer and plastic artist, Ayana Saito is a student of Media and Audiovisual Communication at the University of Brasilia and a member of the Communication and Marketing team at FLAVIA AMADEU Design. Ayana studies the beauty of Impermanence and its reflections in art, nature and daily life. Her research is developed to become a poetic documentary about the Amazon and The Invisible.
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eAmazonia residency will take place in Alter do Chão between 8-14 September.
Plan your flight in advance, live the rest with us!
Arrival: Airport of Santarem on the 8th of September
Arrival: Airport of Santarem on the 8th of September
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Apply until 20th of June 2019 Investment: $ 3800 50% to secure your place and 50% until the 1st of August. After August: $ 4200 What is included:
Limited places. |
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Applications from May
First call 10 people Second call 13 people Approval of applicant about 7 days after submission Interview to be booked Confirmation of attendees July Event 8 - 14 September 2019 The group closes when the vacancies have finished |
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Participants receive an attestation of attendance by IMATech, Institute for Mathematics, Arts and Technology.
Publications and exhibitions are expected outcomes from eAmazonia experience. From this first Symposium, eAmazonia will become a platform to share expressions, knowledge and practices developed from collaborative immersion within the rainforest. |
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