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Dancers from Fortaleza and Barcelona will be dancing in Barcelona in real time and along with "Galatea", a robot that will be physically in Natal and that will teledirected through sensors attached to the body of a Brazilian dancer.

To join the event via Internet, visit the sites www.lavid.ufpb.br/lgtmda and www.mapad2.ufba.br. In addition, the show can be seen at Teatro Sea Dragon, in Fortaleza, Brazil, and in the Citilab auditorium of Cornella in Barcelona, Spain.

The purpose of the activity is to question the behavioral changes caused by the relativity between the near and far, present and absent, real and virtual, result of the increasing incorporation of digital devices in our lives that extend, reduce and convey our identity to other dimensions.

The concept of the show is from the choreographer and researcher specializing in dance with technological mediation, Ivani Santana, and the implementation counts with the collaboration of engineers from LAVID/UFPB, NatalNet Laboratory / UFRN, National Network of Education and Research, Konic Catalan Group Lab (Rosa Sanchez and Alain Bauman), the i2CAT Foundation, Internet and Digital Research of Catalonia and the Citilab-de Cornella, Spain. This collaborative project is the result of the Working Group on Digital Media and the Arts and coordinated by Guido Lemos Tatiana Tavares (UFPB).

The launch of 'e-Pormundos Afeto' is developed in the context of the Working Group, Digital Media & Arts (GT-MDA), one of the Working Groups (WG) of the National Network of Education and Research in Brazil, RNP. The aim of this Group is to implement a software and hardware infrastructure to support distributed execution of media events.

Added to this is the experience of the Research and Technological Poetics of Dance, specializing in mediating between body art and new media and in the last four years, the development of research on the Internet. The e-Pormundos Afeto show was attended Konic Catalan group, a pioneer in dance with technological mediation in Spain.

MDA GT studies integrate the results of previous studies developed by the Laboratory for Applications of Digital Video (Lavid) of the Federal University of Paraíba (UFPB), combining the support components for transmitting high quality video and communication in real time between user groups.

For more information about the Working Groups of the RNP, visit: http://www.rnp.br/pd/gt.html visit

DATA
Show 'e-Pormundos Afeto', a telematic dance performance
Date: October 6th 2009

Brazil
Time: 18 hours
Held in the Center Theater of the Sea Dragon Art and Culture
Address: Dragão do Mar street, No. 81, Iracema Beach, Fortaleza (CE)

Spain
Time: Spain: 22 hours
Location: Citilab - Cornellà
Address: Pl Can Suris, s / n, Barcelona,
08940 Cornellà de Llobregat
Tel: 93 551 06 60. Fax 93 551 06 78

*Free admission*

Technical Sheet
Design and art direction: Ivani Santana (GP Poetics / UFBA).
Technology Coordinator: Tatiana Tavares and Guido Lemos (Lavid / UFPB).
Dancers in Brazil: Aline Rosas, Fernando Silva (GP Poetics / UFBA).
Dancers in Spain: Rosa Sanchez (Konica).
Musician Brazil: Guilherme Bertissolo (GP Poetics / UFBA).
Musician Spain and interfaces developer: Alain Bauman (Konica).
Video: Anderson Soares Caldas (GP Poetics / UFBA).
Interactive image: Marcella Brayne and Ivani Santana (GP Poetics / UFBA)
Network Engineering: Team Lavid / UFPB: Erick Melo, Ricardo Dias, Alexandre Pinto, Julio Cesar Silva, Rennan Toscano.
Robotics and 3D: UFRN NatalNet team Luiz Marcos Garcia Gonçalves (coordinator), Rummenigge Rudson Dantas, Josivan Xavier, Julio Cesar, Claudio A. Schineider and Renato Gardiman, collaboration Achilles Burlamaqui MF (UERN), Denio MT Sousa (CEFET / PB).
iCAt2Foundation: i Sebastia Sallent Ribes and Xavier Esteban Peiró i (direction), Artur Serrra (coordination).
RNP Coordination: Ana Lucia de Moura.
Salvador Support: POP-BA, Claudete Alves, Luiz Claudio Mendonça, Rafael Bittencourt and Jeronimo Bezerra.