adAMachine Experiment # 1 Machine to Create Presence was a telematic performance presented at Centro de Ars Santa Mônica, in Barcelona.
The experiment comes the experience in two residences in research centers Hangar/ Barcelona and MediaLabPrado/ Madrid, resulting from meetings among women from different professional fields involved in the interaction between multimedia languages and plasticity applied to the multimedia scene and to claim the presence of women in society, the arts, the development of digital technologies and scientific research.
At the time, we had fixed idea in machines with gear based on the calculating machine of Charles Babbage, which is what we now call the computer. To resume Babbage’s machine was resuming the story of Ada Lovelace.
More information:
Dissertation Berlindas: por uma estética do risco com acoplamentos para corpos potentes, de Paloma Oliveira
Site Cinthia Mendonça with documentation about the process
adAMachine Experimento #1 Máquina de Criar Presenças
Multimedia Telematic Performance (2011)
Authors: Cinthia Mendonça (Minas Gerais), Paloma Oliveira (São Paulo), Maira Sala (RJ/ Barcelona) Lisa Kory Chung (Hawai), Laura Malinverni (Itália) and Andrea Melissa Salvador (Buenos Aires). Virtually: Luciana Fleischman (Argentina), Virginia Maria (Rio de Janeiro) and Thiago Hersan (São Paulo).