http://www.procurasehelenealberti.com
2022
Where does this memory of freedom come from? In what void has the human utopia of ascending to the skies revealed itself? Between Icarus and Elon Musk, Santos Dumont as a child announced: “Man flies!”. And so also believed Helene Alberti, an American opera singer, who in 1931 dressed her wings and set out on a flight demonstration, inspired by the Greek cosmic laws of motion. Faced with a suprareal proposition, “Searching for Helene Alberti” offers a search that goes beyond historical facts and spills over into fiction, along with Artificial Intelligence tools. In the gallery “Memórias Artificiais” (Artificial Memories), for example, it is possible to see the memories of a pataphysical encounter between Helene and Alberto Santos Dumont, the “father of aviation”, performing images from the collection. The site also has a form used for sending information and it is displayed on the Internet without mentioning authorship, also generates an incognito factor about its nature.“Searching for Helene Alberti” is an open research, a point of convergence of information and aesthetic production based on data, available for the multiplication of possibilities. A theory-practice about reflections on new utopias in the field of art.
Larissa Campello
Brazil
Larissa Campello is an Artist and develops research on the relationship between art, science and technology. Collaborates with the research group “Labfront – Laboratório de Poéticas Fronteiriças” (Labfront – Laboratory of Frontier Poetics) at the State University of Minas Gerais. She has experience in the audiovisual sector and also works in the area of museological communication.