Sem Titulo/Untitled
short video work for TV3 São Paulo, 1997
the walls of São Paulo rendered as painted surface
Credits
camera: Rodrigo Minelli
producer: Eduardo de Jesus
for Associação Cultural Videobrasil
Sem Titulo/Untitled
short video work for TV3 São Paulo, 1997
the walls of São Paulo rendered as painted surface
Credits
camera: Rodrigo Minelli
producer: Eduardo de Jesus
for Associação Cultural Videobrasil
ScentDia
5:20 video, stereo sound 2025
Made for exhibition at the Museo Nazionale Scienza e Tecnologia Leonardo da Vinci, ScentDia is a videowork featuring the robot Diamandini in a nocturnal forest. The robot encounters various flowers and plants through its nocturnal wanderings, confronting the natural world and attempting to smell the scent of a wild bloom.
Credits
ScentDia video & direction: John Gillies
image, music & sound: John Gillies
ScentDia concept, interface & interaction design: mari velonaki
in collaboration with:
perfume creation: Manos Gerakinis
philosophical & ethics research: Luisa Damiano
mechatronic systems design & integration: David Rye
software development, sound & movement integration: Ethan Jones
scent mechanism adaptation & integration: Marc Katzef
vision system & testing: Jorge Forseck Rauh Hain
robot sound design & composition: Frederic Robinson
research in collaboration with luisa damiano: Rebecca Mannocci
created at the Creative Robotics Lab and the National Facility for Human-Robot Interaction Research, UNSW, Sydney
Screeings
Moving Image Art Prize, Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin, Paris 2025 (forthcoming)
Museo Nazionale Scienza e Tecnologia Leonardo da Vinci, Milano 2025