2025
Domestic Data Streamers
Video-mapping
This video-mapping aims to highlight “artificial blindness”: showing how surveillance algorithms can mistake traditional festivities for riots, as they are unable to understand their cultural context. The piece has been screened at the AIxD Film Festival in Amsterdam and Aachen, Germany, and was later mapped at the Design Museum.
While reading about the sound of correfocs, I came across an article in the newspaper Ara discussing whether modern batucada groups have given these celebrations a more “carioca” tone, moving away from their original intention of evoking the sound of hell. I found this perspective interesting and tried to keep it in mind when designing the sound.
To do so, I used the Toc d’encesa of the Diables de la Canonja, played with deep drums. This sample is repeated and gradually modulated, creating echoes and distortion. This forms the base of most of the film, until the end, when the Ball de Dimonis of Massalfassar—sped up—joins in to bring the piece to its climax.