The Inter Faces performance uses augmented reality to replace the performer’s body – including self-portraits – with digital images framed on a screen. The performers will act in a space that fuses the real with the digital. Their actions will likewise occur by crossing in between these two worlds, exploring simulacra and making it evident it from digital contents that seemingly appeal to us, even as it also makes clear how such temptations can exert a narcoticizing, hallucinogenic effect on us.
Biography:
Régis Costa de Oliveira is a PhD student in the Performative Arts and Image in Motion, and a Professor of Visual Arts at the Federal Institute of Maranhão – Brazil. He investigates the relationship between performance, self-portraiture and augmented reality technology, with an emphasis on the construction of critical discourses on the effects of presence and absence in the relationship between the tangible and digital.
