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Adriana de Barros (born Adriana Aleixo Pereira de Barros in 1976 in Caldas da Rainha, Portugal) is a Portuguese and Canadian illustrator, web designer, and poet. Since 1999, de Barros has created innovating visual poems that combine various disciplines—writing, designing and drawing, sound editing, and filmmaking (through the use of new media, Flash software). Her visual poems have been screened in American festivals Flashbang! and Flashbang 4 (2001 and 2002), The.ME.Project. (2002; showcased in Toronto, New York and Los Angeles, printed and awarded in art/poetry books and websites. [1] As well as presented in workshop session at one of the top interactive events OFFF, 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." [2]

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.

Biography

She was born in 1976 in Caldas da Rainha, Portugal (a small city, located central on the coastline; known for its hot springs and pottery). de Barros moved to the largest city of Canada, Toronto, at the age of three. [3][4] As a kid she was mainly interested in sports; and only when she was twelve did she realize her interest in drawing.[5] At age fifteen, her family decided to move back to her birthplace Caldas da Rainha, Portugal, [6] where de Barros faced cultural move challenges with her education and lifestyle.

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. [7] Out of high school, she began working temporarily for her family's clothing business, and that led to a full time job as a fashion and advertising designer for the company, as well as co-running a copy center with design section. [8]

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”. [9] The Internet providing non-geographical boundaries and easiness for de Barros 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. [10][11]

de Barros not having a formal degree is self taught. [12] Today, she still runs her copy center, as she designs in her studio—she is principal and creative director of Breathewords.com. Her work encompasses various mediums from hand-painted illustrative magazine covers [13] to e-commerce and wacky Flash sites for poets (e.g. HotEmuluv).

Visual Poetry

Some of de Barros's interactive narratives and poems have been noted on poemsthatgo ("Winter City Sleeps" and "Blinding Lights", 2001)[14], design portal K10k ("Freedom of Expression in the Copyright Era" premiered in Issue #131, 2004), and online art gallery Lumen Eclipse ("Invisible"; featured in 2007).

Selected Interactive Poems and Narratives

Illustration Style and Technique

"Her art revolves around issue of daily life, human psychology analysis and colour, and imaginary and surrealist envisionment. (...)"[15] She likes to paint portraits of people with distinguishing facial expressions.[16] And objects commonly found in her artwork are... hands, angel wings, butterflies, and animals.

de Barros's prominent style is "(...) intentionally leaves portions of her pieces unfinished or with imperfections."[17] She has a duo passion of old era with contemporary living. From inspirations of the Golden Age of Cinema to Renaissance (e.g. unfinished sketches by Leonardo da Vinci). This combined with a Pop Art impression [18]—her paintings of kids in animal masks, Disney characters; and tattoo-styled outlines with bold color backgrounds. Her creative process is noted for its clear difference from a fine artist and cartoon animator, because it many times begins with writing—inspired by a theme, song, daily life interpretation—and than composed into a visual. [19]

de Barros's painting technique is acrylic only to using mixed media with watercolor, color pencils, spray paint, and collage.

Selected Illustrations

Multimedia

de Barros's web designs in both Flash and static mediums (CSS and HTML) have been featured with design excellence in "HOW’s Top Ten Links (2003, USA), Web Designing (April 2003, Japan), Tashen’s 1000 Favorite Websites (2003, Germany)[20], STEP Inside Design (Issue May/June 2004, USA) [21]. She has won a Portuguese Multimedia II Award (2005)[22], two SXSW Web Awards nominations (2003 and 2004)[23] a nomination in the 17th Stuttgart Filmwinter New Media Award (2004)." [24]. American Institute of Graphic Arts's (AIGA, Cincinnati) has noted her work with a Top Design Site Award [25], MSN.com with a Site of the Week [26] and Yahoo! a New and Notable mention. [27]

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 OFFF04 convention held in Valencia, Spain. She has continued to do lectures about web design at Universities in Portugal.[28]

Selected Web Creations

About Scene 360

Scene 360 is a film and arts e-zine, founded in December 2000 as a personal project of Adriana de Barros. "It’s an informative web space providing example of the artist’s work, and also giving some insight about their career, their techniques, their inspirations, etc." [29] Today, this online magazine is a team mission, a quarterly publication which has profiled creative individuals such as Gary Baseman, Cindy Sherman, Floria Sigismondi, Mark Arminski, Stefan Sagmeister, Hillman Curtis, Jakob Nielsen, and Lynda Weinman.[30]

Origin of the Name

The name was originally titled "16 mm production," and before official website launch it was altered to "Scene 360". "360" as in 360 degrees, represents a rotation of a film scene. Taking a topic—e.g. a film or an art piece—and flip it in various angles so that you analyze its influences, similarities and coincidences, which can be found in history, art, literature, music... The "Editing Room" section still contains these first released articles, atypical analyses that gave birth to Scene 360. [31]

Personal, Fun Facts

Childhood Superhero: Wonder Woman. [32]

Favorite Painter: Salvador Dali.

Favorite Movies: The Silence of the Lambs, Pulp Fiction, Se7en, The Shawshank Redemption, As Good as It Gets, Good Will Hunting, Moulin Rouge, The Matrix, Chicago, Billy Elliot, Scent of a Women and Bound. [33] [34]

Favorite Actors: Jodie Foster, Robert DeNiro, Edward Norton, Susan Sarandon, Samuel Jackson, Al Pacino, Robin Williams, Gary Oldman and Natalie Portman. [35]

Interviews

References

  1. ^ "Adriana de Barros", reference of Flashbang event and poetry publications, Cloud King
  2. ^ Ptasznik, Julia. "Poetry in Motion" , emphasis in original, Visual Arts Trends, April 2001.
  3. ^ "Profile of Adriana de Barros", Scene 360, 2001.
  4. ^ Caldas da Rainha and Toronto, City's characteristic qualities based from Wikipedia.org, emphasis in original.
  5. ^ "Adriana de Barros - Poetry from Portugal, H20 Magazine, March 2003.
  6. ^ "Profile of Adriana de Barros", emphasis in original, Scene 360, 2001.
  7. ^ Burrows. "Interview Adriana de Barros" ), emphasis in original, Underspray , April 2007.
  8. ^ Burrows. "Interview Adriana de Barros" ), emphasis in original, Underspray , April 2007.
  9. ^ "Adriana de Barros", emphasis in original, Cloud King
  10. ^ "Profile of Adriana de Barros", Scene 360, 2001.
  11. ^ Gain, Heather. "Invisible. Eduardo Recife + Adriana de Barros". Lumen Eclipse, January 2007.
  12. ^ Gain, Heather. "Interview with Eduardo Recife + Adriana de Barros". Lumen Eclipse, March 2007.
  13. ^ Magazine cover design for Car Busters, Issue 24, related with article "Gender Blind in the Phillipines," 2005. Original Reference found on Breathewords.com
  14. ^ Ptasznik, Julia. "Poetry in Motion" [1]), Visual Arts Trends , April 2001.
  15. ^ Iqani, Mehita. "Breathe Words", emphasis in original, ITCH, Bells-Roberts Issue 04, 2004. ISBN 0-6203-1894-5
  16. ^ Iqani, Mehita. "Breathe Words", ITCH, Bells-Roberts Issue 04, 2004. ISBN 0-6203-1894-5
  17. ^ Iqani, Mehita. "Breathe Words", emphasis in original, ITCH, Bells-Roberts Issue 04, 2004. ISBN 0-6203-1894-5
  18. ^ "Profile of Adriana de Barros", Scene 360, 2001.
  19. ^ Ptasznik, Julia. "Poetry in Motion" , Visual Arts Trends , April 2001.
  20. ^ Wiedemann, Julius. Taschen's Favorite 1000 Websites, Taschen September 2003. ISBN 3-8228-2586-7 / ISBN 978-4-88783-252-7
  21. ^ Coupland, Ken, Scene360.com, 'Linked Up: The Top 10 Sites for Finding Design Online', STEP Inside Design, USA, Issue May/June 2004.
  22. ^ Portuguese Multimedia II Award, Numero Festival, Portugal, 2005
  23. ^ SXSW Interactive, Scene360.com, Nominee, Redesign/Relaunch, 2003.
    SXSW Interactive, Breathewords.com, Nominee, Portfolio, 2004.
  24. ^ 17th Stuttgart Filmwinter, Breathewords.com, nominee New Media Award, Germany, 2004
  25. ^ AIGA Cincinnati, Scene360.com, Selected as Top Site in the “Design” section, 2003.
  26. ^ MSN.com, Scene360.com, Site of the Week, October 2002.
  27. ^ Yahoo.com, Scene360.com, New and Notable, issue titled 'Around the world in art and back again,'August 28th 2002.
  28. ^ 2007. "The Challenges of Designing for the Web" 1st Multimedia Encounter (ISMT). University of Miguel Torga. Portugal.
    2006 "Behind-the-Scenes to Showtime" 1st Multimedia Design Encounter (ESEC) University of Education of Coimbra. Portugal.
  29. ^ "Curb-Control Interview with Adriana de Barros". emphasis in original, Curb-Control. November 2002.
  30. ^ Reference of individuals found on Scene 360
  31. ^ "Site History", Scene360.com
  32. ^ "Interview with Adriana de Barros", Nervousroom.com, February 2002.
  33. ^ "Sceyelines Visual Design & Lifestyle Magazine Interview". September 2003.
  34. ^ "adriana de barros, scene 360 . +05, People and their Five Favorite Movies. Film-Kunst.de
  35. ^ "Sceyelines Visual Design & Lifestyle Magazine Interview". September 2003.


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