Writing Samples: Wall labels and Content for Digital Wall
The content displayed here was created for Inhotim Institute, Brazil, and San Mateo Historical Association, California. It is the result of in-depth research done in the fields of contemporary art and groundbreaking technology. In addition to writing and research, some of these works are also examples of translation and localization of Portuguese/English. I am fluent in both languages.
Inhotim Institute, Claudia Andujar's Photography
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Experiencing until her adolescence the context of the horrors of World War II, Claudia Andujar lived the first years of her life in transit. Leaving Oradea, in Transylvania, where she spent her childhood, she spent three years in the country of her birth, Switzerland, and then moved to New York.
Inhotim Institute, John Gerrard's Installation
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In the tranquil landscape of the North American town of Richfield, worker Angelo Martinez uses an oil stick, a kind of crayon much used by artists, to paint one square meter per day of the grain silo that stands out against the horizon. The landscape, the silo, and the worker are all digital re-creations of real references, presented here in an imagined situation.
Inhotim Institute, Phil Collins' Installation
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free fotolab is a traveling project created by artist Phil Collins in 2004. To carry it out, Collins chose cities such as Milton Keynes (England), Belgrade (Serbia), Eindhoven (Holland), among others, and publicly announced to their inhabitants that he would develop, at no cost, the 35 mm negatives of anyone who would grant him the right to use the images.
Inhotim Institute, Marcellvs L.'s Installation
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Overground, whose title is a word often used in the sense of “on the surface” but which can also denote something obscure that becomes known and established, is an experience of image and sound that destabilizes us. In the small, dark room, a screen takes up a large part of the low ceiling.
Inhotim Institute, Victor Grippo's Installation
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Shown now for the first time since it became part of Inhotim’s collection, Tiempo forms a simple circuit that transforms chemical energy into electrical energy able to power a digital clock. A trained chemist, painter, printmaker, and one of the key names of conceptual art in Latin America, Victor Grippo bases his work on objects from everyday life.
Inhotim Institute, Elisa Bracher's Sculptures
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Since the beginning of the 1990s, Elisa Bracher has developed works that make use of different techniques and languages. Her narratives comprise engravings, drawings, and sculptures. Interested in testing the limits and tensions of the materials with which she works, Bracher’s sculptural work took on a monumental dimension in a few years, and her pieces started being exhibited in squares and other public spaces.
San Mateo County Historical Association, Innovators Digital Wall ― Varian
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When the brothers Russell and Sigurd Varian got together with Stanford faculty members in the late 1930s, they were looking to develop a radio-based technology that could efficiently detect airplanes and warn of possible bombing raids during the World War II. After years of research, the brothers together with William W. Hansen invented the Klystron tube.