Sem Titulo/Untitled
short video work for TV3 São Paulo, 1997
the walls of São Paulo rendered as painted surface
Credits
camera: Rodrigo Minelli
producer: Eduardo de Jesus
for Associação Cultural Videobrasil
Sem Titulo/Untitled
short video work for TV3 São Paulo, 1997
the walls of São Paulo rendered as painted surface
Credits
camera: Rodrigo Minelli
producer: Eduardo de Jesus
for Associação Cultural Videobrasil
ScentDia
5:20 video, stereo sound 2025
Made for exhibition at the Museo Nazionale Scienza e Tecnologia Leonardo da Vinci, ScentDia is a videowork featuring the robot Diamandini in a nocturnal forest. The robot encounters various flowers and plants through its nocturnal wanderings, confronting the natural world and attempting to smell the scent of a wild bloom.
Credits
ScentDia video by John Gillies
Music and sound by John Gillies
ScentDia concept, interface & interaction design by mari velonaki
in collaboration with:
perfume creation by Manos Gerakinis
philosophical and ethics research by Luisa Damiano
David Rye: mechatronic systems design & integration
Ethan Jones: software development & sound and movement integration
Marc Katzef: scent mechanism adaptation & integration
Jorge Forseck Rauh Hain: vision system & testing
Frederic Robinson: robot sound design & composition
Rebecca Mannocci: research in collaboration with luisa damiano
Created at the Creative Robotics Lab and the National Facility for Human-Robot Interaction Research, UNSW, Sydney
Installed
Museo Nazionale Scienza e Tecnologia Leonardo da Vinci, Milan 2025