The Algarve Art Lab collective, of which I am a member together with Vasco Ramalho, Rui Travasso, Rui d'Orey and Luís Marques, presented at the Som Riscado Festival a performance with live music and performative generative art, developed specifically for the occasion.
My part was developed from a dataset of photographs of the Geopark Algarvensis, grouped into general landscape, underground, flora and fauna, rock formations and aquifers. From these categories, and from the mathematical equation known as the Superformula, I developed a variety of generative graphics that can be controlled in real time in scale, transparency and speed of mutation, among many other parameters. The computer thus becomes an instrument that allows its player to accompany the musicians on stage, adjusting the visuals to the music through human mediation.
The range of combinations is vast, as the images below show:
