Abstract 

Keywords: Art-Technology, Energy, Blow, Sustainability, Post-Digital

This paper talks about “Sopro” (The Blow), an interactive work energized by the public through the force created by their blowing on a propeller. This art work is based on the use of a simple technological system, a poetics of the blow and on primordial scientific principles. The system present in the work aligns itself with current energy and sustainability issues, inserting them in the context of art-technology, and post-digital thinking.

• Dr. Milton Terumitsu Sogabe, Dr. Fernando Fogliano, Dr. Fabio Oliveira Nunes, Soraya Braz, Carolina Peres & Cleber Gazana, Universidade Estadual Paulista – UNESP Instituto de Artes – cAt team, São Paulo, Brasil. The cAt team –science / Art / technology-  Art Institute, São Paulo State University (UNESP), National Counsel of Technological and Scientific Development (CNPq), created in 2009, has the characteristics of experimentation, reflection and dissemination of research from the connection between science, art and technology. Structured with interdisciplinary training profile, given the training and experience of its members, striving for the development of common projects and respect for individual projects and research. The interests surveyed by the group have the following keywords as points for experimentation, production and dissemination of knowledge, which are: Physical Computing, Image, Materiality, Interactivity and Multimedia.

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