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'''Adriana de Barros''' (born in [[1976|1976]] in [[Caldas_da_Rainha|Caldas da Rainha]], [[Portugal|Portugal]]) is a [[Portuguese|Portuguese]] and [[Canadian|Canadian]] [[Illustrator|illustrator]], [[web designer |web designer]], and [[Poet|poet]]. Since 1999, de Barros has created innovating '''[[Visual_Poems|visual poems ]]'''that combine various disciplines—writing, designing and drawing, sound editing, and filmmaking (through the use of [[New_Media|new media]], [[Flash|Flash]] [[software|software]]). Her visual poems have been screened in American festivals Flashbang! and Flashbang 4 (2001 and 2002), The.ME.Project. (2002; showcased in [[Toronto|Toronto]], [[New York|New York]] and [[LA|Los Angeles]]), printed and awarded in poetry books and websites, as well as presented at speaker/workshop sessions at one of the top interactive events, OFFF04, and Portuguese Universities. De Barros has been recognized for "(...) '''trying to make poetry more dynamic and accessible'''." Her creations exist as she states, "so that even someone who may dislike poetry can enjoy it visually." <ref> |
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Ptasznik'', Julia. [http://www.breathewords.com/interview/artist_int_trends.html "Poetry in Motion" ]), emphasis in original, ''Visual Arts Trends'' , April 2001.</ref> |
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de Barros designs and illustrates at her own studio, Breathewords. And she is also founder and editor of Scene 360, a not-for-profit, online film and arts magazine; since 2000, it has provided numerous insightful interviews and profiles of leading web designers, artists, and filmmakers. |
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==Biography== |
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She was born in [[1976|1976]] in [[Caldas_da_Rainha|Caldas da Rainha]], [[Portugal|Portugal]] (a small city, located central on the coastline; known for its hot springs and [[Pottery|pottery]]). de Barros moved to [[Toronto|Toronto]], [[Canada|Canada]], a very big city at the age of three. As a kid she was mainly interested in sports; only when she was twelve did she realize her interest in [[Drawing|drawing]]. At age fifteen, her family decided to move back to her birthplace, Caldas da Rainha, Portugal, where de Barros faced challenges of this cultural move with her [[Education|education]] and the country's different [[Lifestyle|lifestyle]]. |
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With the years, she became passionate of art and cinema. In high school, she choose to study ''art and design'', deciding to pursue cinema in college. Upset with the lack of sophistication in Cinema colleges and film industry in Portugal, she confesses "Toronto, Canada, which would have been a better location to pursue cinema than in Portugal." She wishes to one day have the opportunity to study filmmaking in North America. <ref> |
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Burrows. [http://www.underspray.com/adriana.html "Interview Adriana de Barros" ]), emphasis in original, ''Visual Arts Trends'' , April 2007.</ref> |
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Out of high school, she began working temporarily for her family's clothing business, and that led to full time job as a fashion and graphic designer for the company, as well as co-running a copy center. <ref> |
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Burrows. [http://www.underspray.com/adriana.html "Interview Adriana de Barros" ]), emphasis in original, ''Visual Arts Trends'' , April 2007.</ref> |
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In 1999, de Barros took a turn for web design and programming, and mentions finally finding her place online by "combining various art forms into each project”. The Internet providing non-geographical boundaries and easiness for de Barros to to write and create English language projects. She began with exploration in frame-by-frame Flash visual poems to founding an online film and arts magazine, Scene 360, where she would write atypical film and art analyses and profile creative individuals. |
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<ref>[http://www.scene360.com/ARTdirect_Barros.html "Profile of Adriana de Barros", emphasis in original], Scene 360</ref> |
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De Barros is principal and creative director of Breathewords, a multimedia design studio. "Adriana's creative trademark is her multi-disciplined exploration of [[Art|art]], [[Cinema|cinema]], [[Music|music]] and [[Literature|literature]], which she incorporates into projects that span from creating film-like, frame-by-frame [[Adobe_Flash|Flash]] visual poems to founding the independent online film and arts magazine Scene 360." <ref> Gain, Heather. [http://www.lumeneclipse.com/gallery/14/recife/index.html "Invisible. Eduardo Recife + Adriana de Barros"]. Lumen Eclipse, January 2007.</ref><ref>Official Biography of Adriana de Barros, from [http://www.breathewords.com Breathewords.com]</ref> <ref>[http://www.lumeneclipse.com/gallery/14/recife/index.html "Invisible. Eduardo Recife + Adriana de Barros"]. Lumen Eclipse, January 2007.</ref><ref>Official Biography of Adriana de Barros, from [http://www.breathewords.com Breathewords.com]</ref> |
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==Visual Poetry== |
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[[Visual Poetry |Visual Poetry]], is poetry or art in which the visual arrangement of text, images and symbols is important in conveying the intended effect of the work. It is sometimes referred to as concrete poetry, a term that predates visual poetry, and at one time was synonymous with it. |
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Some of de Barros's interactive narratives and poems have been noted on [http://www.poemsthatgo.com/gallery/ poemsthatgo] ("Winter City Sleeps" and "Blinding Lights", 2001)<ref> Ptasznik, Julia. "Poetry in Motion" [http://www.breathewords.com/interview/artist_int_trends.html]), ''Visual Arts Trends'' , April 2001.</ref>, design portal [http://k10k.net K10k] ("Freedom of Expression in the Copyright Era" premiered in Issue #131, 2004), and online art gallery [http://www.lumeneclipse.com/gallery/14/recife/index.html Lumen Eclipse] ("Invisible"; featured in 2007). |
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===Selected Interactive Poems and Narratives=== |
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*[http://www.breathewords.com/flash_films/Copyright/index.html Freedom of Expression in the Copyright Era] |
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*[http://www.breathewords.com/flash_films/Invisible/index.html Invisible] |
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*[http://www.breathewords.com/flash_films/BetweenLines/Flash_Betweenlines.html Between the Lines] |
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*[http://www.breathewords.com/flash_films/Profane/intro.html Profane] |
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*[http://www.breathewords.com/flash_films/DarkCarpet/film_darkcarpet.htm The Dark Carpet] |
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*[http://www.breathewords.com/flash_films/BlindingLights/index.html Blinding Lights] |
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*[http://www.breathewords.com/flash_films/WinterCity/index.html Winter City Sleeps] |
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==Illustration Style and technique== |
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+++ Needs to be rewritten. ++"Her art revolves around issue of daily life, human [[Psychology|psychology]] analysis and [[Color|colour]], and imaginary and [[Surrealism|surrealist]] envisionment. She enjoys painting portraits of people with facial expressions. ' ''The expression and emotions of the characters, be they lovers, believers, liars or perverts, are unfolded in a single scene''.' She also intentionally leaves portions of her pieces unfinished or with imperfections."<ref>Iqani, Mehita. "Breathe Words", ''ITCH'', [http://bell-roberts.com/ Bells-Roberts] Issue 04, 2004. ISBN 0-6203-1894-5</ref> |
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===Selected Illustrations=== |
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*[http://www.breathewords.com/images/illustration/detail/detail_hello.html Hello Correggio (2007)] |
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*[http://www.breathewords.com/images/illustration/img_2006_kittylamb.jpg Kitty and Lamb in Broadway (2006)] |
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*[http://www.breathewords.com/images/illustration/img_2005_ella_dear.jpg Ella Dear (2005)] |
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*[http://www.breathewords.com/images/illustration/img_2005_eternallove.jpg Eternal Love (2005)] |
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*[http://www.breathewords.com/images/illustration/img_2004_newborn.jpg New Born (2004)] |
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*[http://www.breathewords.com/images/illustration/img_2004_bestialityIII.jpg Bestiality III (2004)] |
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*[http://www.breathewords.com/images/illustration/img_2004_anonymous_lovers.jpg Lovers (2003)] |
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*[http://www.breathewords.com/images/illustration/img_2004_anonymous_armed.jpg Armed and Dangerous (2003)] |
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*[http://www.breathewords.com/images/illustration/img_2003_noir_vanguarda.jpg Vanguarda (2003)] |
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*[http://www.breathewords.com/images/illustration/img_97_sketch_what.jpg What? (1997)] |
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==Multimedia== |
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'''[[Multimedia|Multimedia]]''' refers to the use of (but not limited to) electronic media to store and experience multimedia content. Multimedia is similar to traditional mixed media in fine art, but with a broader scope. The term "rich media" is synonymous multimedia. Multimedia means that computer info can be represented through audio, graphics, image, video and animation in addition to traditional media(text and graphics). |
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de Barros's creative web designs in both [[Flash|Flash]] and static mediums ([[css|CSS]] and [[Html|HTML]]) have been featured with design excellence in "''[[HOW...|HOW]]''’s ''Top Ten Links'' (2003, USA) ''Web Designing'' (April 2003, Japan), ''[[Taschen|Tashen]]’s 1000 Favorite Websites'' (2003, Germany)<ref> Wiedemann, Julius. "Scene360.com", ''Taschen's Favorite 1000 Websites'', [http://www.taschen.com/pages/en/catalogue/books/design/all/facts/03357.htm Taschen] September 2003. ISBN 3-8228-2586-7 / ISBN 978-4-88783-252-7</ref>, ''STEP Inside Design'' (Issue May/June 2004, USA) |
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<ref>Coupland, Ken, Scene360.com, 'Linked Up: The Top 10 Sites for Finding Design Online', [http://www.stepinsidedesign.com/ STEP Inside Design], USA, Issue May/June 2004.</ref>. de Barros's Scene 360 website has won a Portuguese Multimedia II Award (2005)<ref>Portuguese Multimedia II Award, [http://www.numero-projecta.com/ Numero Festival], Portugal, 2005</ref>, two [[SXSW|SXSW]] Web Awards nominations (2003 and 2004)<ref>Scene360.com, SXSW Interactive, Nominee, Redesign/Relaunch, 2003. <br>Breathewords.com SXSW Interactive, Nominee, Portfolio, 2004.</ref>; and Breathewords' illustrative "Theater site" was nominated in the 17th Stuttgart Filmwinter New Media Award (2004), <ref>Breathewords.com, 17th Stuttgart Filmwinter, nominee New Media Award, Germany, 2004</ref>. As well as receiving a ''Top Design Site Award'' by the American Institute of Graphic Arts ([[AIGA|AIGA]]) Cincinnati<ref>Scene360.com, AIGA Cincinnati, Selected as Top Site in the “Design” section, 2003.</ref>, a ''Site of the Week'' selection from MSN.com |
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<ref>Scene360.com, MSN.com, Site of the Week, October 2002.</ref> and a ''New and Notable'' mention by Yahoo!" <ref>Scene360.com Yahoo.com, New and Notable, issue titled 'Around the world in art and back again,'August 28th 2002.</ref> |
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de Barros is also involved in the design industry, having led a speaker/workshop session about the "Behind the scenes” work on her visual poems and films at the [http://www.offf.ws/offf04 OFFF04] convention held in Valencia, Spain." She has continued to do lectures about [[web design|web design]] at Universities in Portugal.<ref>2007. "The Challenges of Designing for the Web" [http://www.breathewords.com/xtra/coimbra_ismt/pic_01.html 1st Multimedia Encounter (ISMT)]. [http://www.ismt.pt/ University of Miguel Torga]. Portugal. |
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<br>2006 "Behind-the-Scenes to Showtime" [http://www.breathewords.com/xtra/coimbra/pic_01.html 1st Multimedia Design Encounter] (ESEC) [http://woc.esec.pt/ University of Education of Coimbra]. Portugal.</ref> |
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=== Selected Web Creations === |
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*2007 [http://hotemuluv.com HotEmuLuv] |
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*2005 [http://frivolecouture.com Frivole Couture] |
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*2004 [http://www.breathewords.com/theater/theater.html "The Twisted Show" (a.k.a. Theater Site)] |
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*2004 [http://scene360.com Scene 360 - Redesign] |
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*2003 [http://breathewords.com/flash_films/apocalypse/index.html Apocalypse Debated] A social competition film |
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==About Scene 360== |
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'''Scene 360''' is a not-for-profit film and arts [[online_magazine|e-zine]], founded in December [[2000|2000]] as a personal project of Adriana de Barros. The name "360" as in 360 degrees, represents a rotation of a film scene, i.e. selecting a movie, and dissecting/reviewing/analyzing its influences, similarities and coincidences in art, [[History|history]], [[literature|literature]], [[music|music]]... The "Editing Room" section still containing the first released articles, [http://www.scene360.com/EDITINGroom_filmanalysis.html atypical analyses] that gave birth to Scene 360. <ref>"[http://www.scene360.com/ABOUT_history.html Site History]", Scene360.com</ref> Today, this online magazine is a team mission, a quarterly publication which has profiled creative individuals such as [[Gary_Baseman|Gary Baseman]], [[Cindy_Sherman|Cindy Sherman]], [[Floria_Sigismondi|Floria Sigismondi]], [[Mark_Arminski|Mark Arminski]], [[Sagmeister|Stefan Sagmeister]], [[Hillman_Curtis|Hillman Curtis]], [[Jakob_Nielsen_%28usability_consultant%29|Jakob Nielsen]], and [[Lynda_Weinman|Lynda Weinman]]. |
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==Interviews== |
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*[http://www.breathewords.com/interview/artist_int_trends.html Poetry in Motion - Visual Arts Trends] |
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*[http://www.h2omagazine.com/design/010303_01_eng.html Poetry from Portugal - H20 Magazine] |
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*[http://www.underspray.com/adriana.html Underspray] |
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*[http://www.eruditiononline.com/04.04/adriana_de_interview.htm Web Gurus Interviews - Erudition] |
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==External Links== |
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*[http://www.breathewords.com Breathewords] - studio website |
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*[http://www.scene360.com Scene 360] - online film and arts magazine |
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==References== |
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[[Category:1976 births]] |
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[[Category:Living people]] |
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[[Category:Flash artists]] |
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[[Category:Digital artists]] |
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[[Category:Web designers]] |
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[[Category:Illustrator]] |
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[[Category:Poets]] |
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