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News | INET-md takes part in European Researchers' Night 2024 with science, art and technology
INET-md will be present at another edition of the European Researchers' Night (ERN), with interactive activities in Lisbon and Aveiro that promote the integration of science, art, and technology. The event, taking place on September 27th, is free and open to all ages.
This Friday, September 27th, several cities across Portugal will celebrate the European Researchers' Night (ERN), an annual event to bring science closer to the public. The 2024 edition, themed "Science for Global Challenges" seeks to raise awareness of the major environmental, economic, and social challenges facing the world today, fostering dialogue between scientists and citizens. In Portugal, the ERN will feature various activities combining scientific research, innovation, and public interaction.
INET-md will actively participate in this edition with a rich and diverse program, including interactive demonstrations of research projects that unite science, technology, and art. The activities will occur in Lisbon, at Jardim do Príncipe Real, and in Aveiro, at Fábrica – Centro Ciência Viva.
27.09.2024 | 8 pm -12 am| Jardim do Príncipe Real (Lisboa) and Fábrica - Centro Ciência Viva (Aveiro) | Free entrance and in person
In Lisbon
In Lisbon, from 8pm to 8:45 pm at Jardim do Príncipe Real, INET-md researchers Ana Maria de Sousa Leitão and Maria João Alves will present the project DAST - Dancing Simply Together: Exploring the Connections and Flows between Dance and Complexity. This initiative examines how bodies organize collectively through movement, using principles from complexity theory to recreate a collective dance experience.
The activity Moving Together: More than the Sum of the Parts? invites the public to take part in a collaborative dance experiment. Inspired by the synchronized movements observed in animal groups, such as flocks of sparrows or schools of sardines, the goal is to create a collective choreography based on simple connection rules between participants. Through this experience, the aim is to explore how organized structures emerge from simple interactions, drawing an analogy to self-organization found in nature.
This project is funded by CNPq 420222/2022-7, with indirect support from FCT through INET-md's Multiannual Funding 2020-2023 UIDB/00472/2020, and the 2021 PhD scholarship 2021.07216.BD.
For the full ERN program in Lisbon, click here.
In Aveiro
In Aveiro, from 9pm to 12 am at the Fábrica - Centro Ciência Viva, three INET-md researchers will present two research projects that highlight the potential of technology in the recovery and creation of musical heritage.
The first project, Liber|Sound: Innovative archival practices toward sound memory liberation. Recorded music, transcontinental experience, connected communities, funded by FCT, will be presented by Juliana Pérez González and Isaac Raimundo, respectively a researcher and a PhD candidate at INET-md. This project offers an innovative approach to preserving musical recordings stored on historical media such as 78 rpm records and cassettes. It seeks to reactivate sound memories from Portugal, Mozambique, Brazil, and India (Goa)—countries connected by shared political and cultural histories. During the presentation, the audience will have the opportunity to listen to historic recordings and interact with an old gramophone and the LP "Sonoro Mar," which recreates repertoires recorded during the early years of the phonographic industry.
The second project to be presented is entitled (Electromyographic Music Avatar) – a gestural hand controller for real-time performance and composition, developed by PhD candidate João Coimbra. EMMA is a musical controller that uses electromyography sensors to capture electrical signals generated by hand muscles. This innovative device, composed of a fingerless glove and a sound generator, enables real-time music creation by controlling sounds and compositions through gestures. The project, supervised by researchers Henrique Portovedo and Sara Carvalho, in collaboration with experts from other institutions, including Luís Aly (INESC-TEC) and Tiago Bolaños (IST), represents a new approach to musical performance and composition. It allows musicians to overcome physical barriers and create new forms of musical interaction.
