This document summarizes research from the Laboratory of Research in Art and TechnoScience (LART) at the University of Brasilia. LART explores the intersections of art, science, and technology through projects like Living Tattoos and Biocybrid Wearable Art Systems. These projects use techniques like augmented reality, biosensors, and wireless networks to expand concepts of the body and perceptions of urban life. Researchers are developing new interfaces and examining how technology is changing concepts of the self, environment, and society.

1. ART AND TECHNOSCIENCE
Biocybrid body and rituals in urban
mixed life
Authors: Diana Domingues, Camila Hamdan, Leci Augusto
Institution: University of Brasília, LART – Research Laboratory of Art
and TechnoScience, UnB-Gama, Brazil.
Prof. Dr. Diana Domingues
Pesquisador Visitante Nacional Sênior – PVNS/CAPES
CNPq- Minyster of Science and Technology
University of Brasilia, UnB Gama – FGA BRAZIL
Programa de Pós-Graduação em Arte
LART - Laboratory of Research in Art and Technoscience

2. ART AND TECHNOSCIENCE
LART-
Laboratory of Research in Art and Technoscience
Engineering Programs: UnB GAMA
Electronic engineering
Software Engineering,
Automotive Engineering – Aero Spatial and Electronical
Enginnering
BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING
“new Leonardos”

3. For forty years the Leonardo organizations have
had the privilege of witnessing, and helping to
document, a birth of new forms of innovative
and creative practice.
Especially during the last ten years a new
generation of artists scientifically and technically
literate, “new Leonardos” , have been
creating contemporary art forms, and in the
process making new technical
inventions and in some cases, scientific
discoveries.
Roger Malina

4. How to synthesize Leonardo?
Efficient collaborative practices dissolves the old
rupture and the well-known historical divergences
between artists and scientists.
The main point of convergence is when all disciplines
investigate the same problems, all sciences become
one unique science.

5. Rengineering of Life
Reengineering of Nature
Reengineering of senses
Reengineering of culture

6. L IF E
Art and Science explore the ontology of life with
levels of reality that attempt to conciliate paradoxes
and conflicts related to changes an challenges of
life
SCIENCE OF INTERFACE - EMERGENT REALITIES – EXTERNALIZATION OF
PERCEPTS
What is landscape now?
What is body now?
What is urban life now?
The sense of presence –
expanded perception –
Social relationships
Space here and there

7. Symbiotic zones
intertwined relationships
body/environment/nets
• expanded sensorium for biofeedback: heat,
heartbeats, electrical potentials, breathing, galvanic
sensors and skin, laws and phenomena of the
cosmos, operational hermeneutics of software,
plurissensorial and crossmodal interfaces, human
physiology and the perceptive, cognitive and
affective expansion and supplementation,
trasnphysiology of passion -always mixed to our
human condition in the physical world and the hybrid
“life” of raw materials.

8. “Cyberspace arrived” –
Rheingold -virtual reality and head mounted displays
“Oh my God,
cyberspace is everywhere”
william gibson 2002
Neuromancer , 1984
(William Gibson)

9. Weiser : invisible computer in the future 2005 – 2020
The computer "disappear" and goes to the "peripheries
“ubiquitous computing”
was proposed by scientist Mark Weiser, in 1991, to designate a
profound change in computing platforms. These changes inaugurate other models of computing,
where computers are effectively integrated into the environments in all daily practices beyond the
uses and behaviors desktop metaphors machines .
“calm technologies”- transparent interfaces - mobile and portable
devices, sentient objects

10. Flash mobs AND URBAN
INTERVENTIONS :
TATTOED BODY AND THE
CITY SKYN

18. • EMERGENT SOCIAL BEHAVIORS:
• COMPORTAMENTO SOCIAL EMERGENTE
• INSETOS NA VIDA URBANA MISTURADA
• Interfaces : ubiquous computing, locative, pervasive
and sencient mobile technologies

19. Interfaces : ubiquous computing, locative, pervasive and sencient
mobile technologies
mobile interfaces: cell phones
MMS and SMS to communicate with our platform they send their
tattoos to the platform
Locative interfaces: GPS and Google Maps. GPS mapping and
tracking system generates urban flow of tattooed in the city’s
buses ( VISATE).

25. LIVING TATTOOS IN
BIOCYBRID REALITY
•
Camila Handam’ s dissertation at UNB. She has a
bachelor degree at the University of Mato Grosso do
Sul, where Prof. Dulcimira Capisani was focused on art
and technology researches. After the professor died, she
moved in 2006 to Caxias do Sul University, only to spend
a time in the NTAV Lab and to follow Diana Domingues
courses Art Department. She was invited and she got
Involved in the creative atmosphere of the Lab and
become familiar to the context on art and sciences with
all the participant of the LIVING TATTOOS ( embedded
technologies). Domingues oriented Camila to optimize
his studies at the MASTER IN ARTS of University of
Brasilia, developing researches in Augmented reality.
•
The final theoretical version denominated
Cybrid Reality is a collaboration for the field in
Brazil, and the practice adds performative
components to the Living Tattoos project. Cybrid
Reality result from tags tattooed on the skin,
and performative art allows the forms to appear
out of the body by augmented reality
techniques .
• Augmented reality
performance

26. Teste do marcador sobre a pele. Registro da 1ª experimentação que utilizou a tecnologia da realidade aumentada associada à criação de
tatuagens sintéticas e animadas em tempo real. Imagens de tatuagens 3D são inseridas sobre a superfície da pele. Experimentação
realizada no Laboratório de Pesquisa em Arte e Realidade Virtual, do Programa de Pós-Graduação em Arte da Universidade de
Brasília/UnB no dia 18 de setembro/08, com a presença de Tania Fraga e Suzete Venturelli. Modelo: Tiago Franklin. Vídeo registro
disponível no Canal do Youtube: http://br.youtube.com/user/hamdancamila
.
.

27. Opened Body Connection (performance) is a biocybrid system in augmented reality expanded
to mixed reality in a bodily continuum of flesh - cyberdata and physical space . During a ritual,
in a public event, a tattoo artist inscribed on the back of the performer the computation
language of the code a wing shape. The tattoo became a mixed reality system, only read in
computer vision and during two hours, other printed tags on the body provided threedimensional animations traveled through the body transmitted on line. Animated wings
respond to the artist´dream of flying
Opened Body Connection – Camila Hamdan, MOBILEFEST – Festival Internacional de
Criatividade Móvel. Brazil, 2009.

28. Bio Art Environmental Art

29. Biocybrid
Wearable Art System
(BWAS)
BIOSIGNALS – BIOFEEDBACK
CONNECTIONS IN CYBERSPACE- EXPANDING BODY LIFE IN PHYSICAL
SPACE - AND DATASPACELIFE AND THE BIOCYBRID CONDITION.

30. we are collaborating for the technological innovation in Art and TechnoScience, in
the field of Software Art, BioArt, Wearable Art, Device Art, developing interfaces:
hardware and software.
In the case of BWAS, with mobile wireless node of
biosensors using non-invasive sensors for the body, we use the capture of
electrophysiological signals of galvanic skin resistance, and sensors for acquisition
and transmission of breath and heartbeats.

31. - BIOSIGNALS - BIOFEEDBACK
HEARTBEATS EEG
SKIN e (Galvanic Skin Resistance)
BREATHING (strain gauge)

32. BIOCYBRID URBAN LIFE
Artworks in wearable art and biocybrid systems in LART use technological innovation
regarding the miniaturization of hardware systems that have enabled the development
of network sensor nodes, which allow new applications for interconnected wireless
networks.
According to Carvalho (2005), those sensors have the ability to detect or measure
some phenomenon of nature, processing and transmitting data or information to
other sensors. In our artworks the circuit of sensors a node of sensors are built in an
intelligent network sensor inserted in a set accessories
rings, bracelets, visors, or other wearables things
which coupled to bodies configure a Biocybrid Wearable Art System (BWAS), that
allows people to monitor, process and send to other biosensors vital signals
information and data over a long period of time.
Biosignals connections in cyberspace expand body life in
configured the biocybrid condition.
physical space and it is

33. CYBORG - suplementations and
implants
Manfred Clynes - 1960
FYBORG – expanda but not intend to supplement

34. Stelarc
Suplementação em
cultura de tecido
2006
Instalar bluethoth
“It is more of a relief at present
than an ear but it is still
recognizable as an ear. the
next step : I hope to have a tiny
microphone implanted to it that
will connect with a Bluetooth
transmitter. That way you can
listen to what my ear is
hearing. »

35. Thank You!!!