NEWART centre – Centro de arte digital y tecnológico en Reus

Uberlândia, 1981.

Anaisa Franco

Seeking the expansion of the senses, Anaisa Franco creates interfaces that artistically develop an “affective” situation where people expand their senses through interaction with the sculptures, creating new forms, relationships, and experiences between people, the chosen subjects, and the technological materials available on the market.
She holds a Master’s degree in Advanced Architecture from the IAAC Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia in Barcelona. One year of M-Arch 1 at SCI-Arc in Los Angeles, a Master’s degree in Digital Art and Technology from the University of Plymouth in England, and a Bachelor’s degree in Visual Arts from FAAP in São Paulo. In recent years, she has developed responsive public art installations and new media artworks for museums, public spaces, galleries, medialabs, residencies, and commissions such as Shanghai City Life Festival, Medialab Prado, Mecad, MIS, Hangar, Taipei Artist Village, China Academy of Public Art Research Center, Mediaestruch, Cite des Arts, ZKU, SP_Urban, MAC Fenosa, VIVID Sydney, EXPERIMENTA Biennale Melbourne, RUMOS Itaú Cultural, URBE, and many others. Her work “Expanded Eye” won the 6th edition of the ARCO-BEEP Electronic Art Award Works in the collection: – Expanded Eye – Neuronnexió http://www.anaisafranco.com/

Expanded Eye, 2008

Expanded Eye is an interactive light sculpture composed of a large suspended sculpture of transparent eyes; the large eye looks at the user, but in fact it is the user’s eye that is projected inside the sculpture. The sculpture recognizes the blinking of the user’s eyes and generates an interactive animation from it. Each blink multiplies the number of eyes in the projection in a fragmented, hexagonal, and dislocated way. The core of the piece is to expand human vision, transforming it into a multiple and hexagonal expansion similar to the structure of the compound eyes of an ultra-complex insect.

The Expanded Eye project was developed during Interactivos 2008 at Medialab Prado in Madrid. It was developed in collaboration with: Jacqueline Steck, Alvaro Cassinelli, Carles Gutiérrez, Oswald Aspilla Pérez https://vimeo.com/47768582

https://www.anaisafranco.com/expandedeye

https://vimeo.com/47768582

Neuronnection. 2021

Expanded Eye is an interactive light sculpture composed of a large suspended sculpture of transparent eyes; the large eye looks at the user, but in fact it is the user’s eye that is projected inside the sculpture. The sculpture recognizes the blinking of the user’s eyes and generates an interactive animation from it. Each blink multiplies the number of eyes in the projection in a fragmented, hexagonal, and dislocated way. The core of the piece is to expand human vision, transforming it into a multiple and hexagonal expansion similar to the structure of the compound eyes of an ultra-complex insect.

The Expanded Eye project was developed during Interactivos 2008 at Medialab Prado in Madrid. It was developed in collaboration with: Jacqueline Steck, Alvaro Cassinelli, Carles Gutiérrez, Oswald Aspilla Pérez https://vimeo.com/47768582

https://www.anaisafranco.com/expandedeye

https://vimeo.com/47768582