Will technology drive us apart or bring us closer together?
Edson Pavoni is an artist and technologist
investigating human intimacy in its intersection with technology.
Video introduction, 3 min.
Selected Works
site specific / 2022
The first satellite from the Global South with an
artistic mission. With it, anyone will be able to send
to heaven the name of someone that has passed away.
Orbital Temple in space.
3D rendering by RiseNY&Partners.
3D rendering by RiseNY&Partners.
Orbital Temple installation
at the Mercosul Biennial,
in Porto Alegre, Brazil. Photo by Clara Marques.
in Porto Alegre, Brazil. Photo by Clara Marques.
exhibition + performance / 2023
The exhibition was the result of three years of research by
the artist on topics involving loss, memory and grief,
with an emphasis on the Covid-19 pandemic. The exhibition
is a development of the Inumeráveis Memorial
project, which has gathered thousands of stories of victims of the coronavirus in Brazil since 2020.
What we cannot forget at Casa Cósmica, São Paulo.
Images by Estúdio Em Obra.
Images by Estúdio Em Obra.
performatic installation / 2022
An installation made with brain monitors capable of
reading the neural activity of two participants as they
look at each other. The data collected is then used to
create a generative drawing that is projected over an
oil painting by Lyora Pisarro.
Two people participate in the Landscapes of the Mind
installation, in New York, USA. Photo by the artist.
installation, in New York, USA. Photo by the artist.
exhibition / 2022
A collection of AI-generated digital paintings that
reinterpret what we consider sacred. Together with
artist Juliana Freire, the works were co-created with
software that analyzed over 14 million images of
multicultural representations of what we think is holy.
Sacred in Flux shown in
São Paulo, Brazil.
Photos by Filipe Berndt.
Photos by Filipe Berndt.
kinetic installation / 2022
An installation that captures real-time wind movements
of a protected forest in the South of Brazil and
translates it into a kinetic 10-meter long panel with
around 160 paper sculptures, assembled in one day by
over 500 participants.
The Crown Shyness installation.
Videos by Clara Marques and Piero Davila.
Videos by Clara Marques and Piero Davila.
architecture and digital platform / 2020-
A digital platform and a plan for a physical monument
dedicated to telling the stories of Coronavirus' victims
in Brazil.
Plan for the Inumeráveis Monument.
3D Renderings by RiseNY&Partners.
3D Renderings by RiseNY&Partners.
installation / 2020
A 24-meter tall light sculpture that materializes the
unseen connections of the Hungarian art world. Also an
NFT collection made in collaboration with pioneer
network scientist Albert-Laszlo Barabási.
Invisible Blue at the Ludwig
Museum of Contemporary Art.
Photographed by Bálint Jaska.
Photographed by Bálint Jaska.
kinetic installation / 2019
An installation consisting of six self-watering hanging
gardens that move, through a specialized mechanism,
according to the plants' needs. When approached by human
visitors, the garden places itself at their eye level.
Over the Face of New Waters, images by Gee Galvão.
scenography / 2019
An immersive experience at the intersection between
theater and performance. Written and starred by Gabriela
Veiga, the play uses generative projections and visuals
to explore themes of pain, beauty, mourning and life
after death.
Gabriela Veiga interacts with projections made using
generative
technology. Images by Rodrigo Rosa and Giorgio D'Onofrio.
technology. Images by Rodrigo Rosa and Giorgio D'Onofrio.
site-specific installation / 2018
An interactive mirrored installation that gets activated
when three visitors stop in each of the installation's
corners. It addresses an intense state of connection in
which its result leads to the fragmentation of its full
structure.
Participants engage with A Petal for Three in São Paulo.
Photographed by Rafael Socrates.
Photographed by Rafael Socrates.
kinetic installation / 2017
A 22 meter panel that reflects walkers passing by
through algorithmic generated creature-like images that
react to their movements.
The White Mirror panel
gets activated when visitors pass by it.
Images by Rafael Socrates.
Images by Rafael Socrates.
photography series / 2015-
An ongoing photographic series in which the artist
researches human responses to touch and the quality of
the connections that arise from this act.
First Sense is an ongoing
photography series
by Edson Pavoni.
by Edson Pavoni.
installation / 2013
A performatic installation that transforms participants’
love stories into unique 3D printed sculptures.
The Love Project was a
performatic installation.
Images by Jorge Teivelis Neto.
Images by Jorge Teivelis Neto.
site-specific installation / 2013, 2015
A sensory bridge first installed between China and
Brazil. When one person touched the glass of the
installation in Beijing and another touched the glass in
São Paulo, the two physically felt as if they had
touched each other. In 2015, it was also presented in
two different districts of Dubai.
A Place to Departure in
China, photographed by Pedrinho
Fonseca. Images of the installation in Dubai by Edson Pavoni.
Fonseca. Images of the installation in Dubai by Edson Pavoni.
Poetry
In Honor of the Land
2022
in honor of the land
I pledge my attention
to the mountains of colored minerals
that raised themselves
before there were any eyes to see
how the sky painted them with light
in honor of the land
I pledge my attention
to the green fields that spoon
the gray line of the horizon
were the last wild horses run
in honor of the land
I pledge my attention
to the ocean of green trees
the forest being protect by my ancestors
and the xapiripë spirits
in honor of the land
I pledge my attention
to the rivers from below
painted in gold by the nearest star
drawing themselves
in curved unproductive lines
in no hurry to find the ocean
in honor of the land
I also pledge my attention
to the rivers of above
swimming in the sky before being rain
and the rain, my friend,
way before touching anything
will seduce you with its perfume
as Oxum, the Orixá of seduction does
in honor of the land
I pledge my attention
to the best roommates on this planet
the other sentient beings
having the best time when we are not around
in honor of the land
I pledge my attention to outer space
our environment above the sky
with the lights from the past
and the technology of the present
helping me see our world as finite as I am
in honor of the land
I pledge my attention.
I pledge my attention
to the mountains of colored minerals
that raised themselves
before there were any eyes to see
how the sky painted them with light
in honor of the land
I pledge my attention
to the green fields that spoon
the gray line of the horizon
were the last wild horses run
in honor of the land
I pledge my attention
to the ocean of green trees
the forest being protect by my ancestors
and the xapiripë spirits
in honor of the land
I pledge my attention
to the rivers from below
painted in gold by the nearest star
drawing themselves
in curved unproductive lines
in no hurry to find the ocean
in honor of the land
I also pledge my attention
to the rivers of above
swimming in the sky before being rain
and the rain, my friend,
way before touching anything
will seduce you with its perfume
as Oxum, the Orixá of seduction does
in honor of the land
I pledge my attention
to the best roommates on this planet
the other sentient beings
having the best time when we are not around
in honor of the land
I pledge my attention to outer space
our environment above the sky
with the lights from the past
and the technology of the present
helping me see our world as finite as I am
in honor of the land
I pledge my attention.
Video poetry, 2 min.
Half Oxum
2019
behind the curtain of a waterfall
standing half Oxum half mirror
a woman showing no fear of being naked
opens her eyes looking exactly into mine
and without moving anything but her arm
takes a rose crystal egg from
the place in her body that bleeds
standing half Oxum half mirror
a woman showing no fear of being naked
opens her eyes looking exactly into mine
and without moving anything but her arm
takes a rose crystal egg from
the place in her body that bleeds
