Website

http://www.myspace.com/hugopaquete

Relationship status

in a relationship

College / University

ESAD CALDAS DA RAINHA 2008

Program

PLASTIC ART AND NEW MEDIA

Member type

Artist

If you're an artist, what kind of art do you make?

Conceptual, Drawing, Installation, Performance, Photography, Sculpture, Video

I am...

Matosinhos - portugal, 1979
works and lives in oporto, -portugal.

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http://myspace.com/hugopaquete
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Hugo Paquete has developed an exploratory course into visual arts and new media, exploring the complex relationship between man and the real and their language, perception and technological paradigms. His works transport us to a purified and synthesized language, with the intent of portraying a structuralist aesthetics of mental landscapes, trying a more conceptualist relationship with objects, in which from departing logic we attain abstraction. Project SSTFM (synthetic sound to fit mind) comes in the development of audio-installation and performative research he has realized. Exploring the relation between space and communication, with complex sound structures, transporting us to journeys of recognition of sound while a physical, tangible, tactile matter. Sound art In my sound and installation research, I try to develop a minimalist aesthetics, recurring only to the potential character of sonic situationism, that sometimes is constructed for a given physical space. My aim is to develop a physical and psychological sound experience, distancing the receptor to a sonic universe, without a directly induced image, leaving him in an open space to his reactivity and potentiating an experience of rupture with the contemporary media society, where images proliferate. This research is a point of resistance that intends to construct with the receptor's sensory system an image of spatial music elaborated according to some acoustics principles, distance and rhythm, thus building a mental and physical experience according to the frequencies used. In my work I explore concepts that go from the reality to the abstractive elements from exploring their symbolic dimension and the form that we recognize them in there spatial and cognitive dimension. The importance of this research is the sound situations that I construct exploring concepts about perception and space knowledge and the boundaries about the human perception and art that are fundamental to the perceptive theories that are important to the understanding of the visual world that surround us with all the divergent information. My sound work is a contribution to the perceptive theories and to the organisation and understanding of the visual and sound phenomenology's, exploring the human aesthetic, and the contemporary universes of the media. Human vs. machine vs. reality a relation of dependence and antagonism...

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About my artwork

As an artist I develop an exploration in visual arts, video and sound installation, exploring the complex relation between the man and the Reality and there paradigms of language, perception and technology. In my work I explore a purified synthesized language with the objective to construct a aesthetic of mental structuralism landscapes, trying construct a more conceptual relation with the object, where from the logic we reach the abstraction.
Usually I explore a very multidisciplinary work passing from a different range of techniques with the objective is find the best way to communicate my concepts and my aesthetics.
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By topics.
Sound installation and object installation

Since 2001 I have been working on an expanded concept of sound space and communication not only incorporating space according to its spatial characteristics in the narrow sense (acoustic, architectonic, sculptural, perspective, communicative and ambient).
Beyond this my installation works conceive of space in its site-specificity, usually existing in several layers: a social layer, the communicative between emission and reception, a situational layer exploring the concept of understanding of the reality and perception.
This concept of space is thus not limited to interior spaces and architectonic-formal relationships, a position which naturally also defines my working methods: only subjective, on-site research fields a explore from concrete sound the understanding of that sounds out of the spatial contest.
In some installations I explore this concept with several sound speakers and players giving different sound signal to the space to construct a more complex situation according with the conceptual explanation of the communicative space interception and brain selective information.
This concept explores and process of work installation I call sound situations.
This means first that I open myself up to situations – usually in public spaces – in order to sense their site-specific tensions and to draw them out in all their possible relationships.
Secondly, I alter these situations in order to make them denser through intensification. The concept can be defined as articulating the space, the site; for this reason I prefer to work with site-specific acoustic and visual material found at the site, but also introduce foreign material when it serves to reinforce communication with the site and its occupants and visitors.
In this process of work I am interesting in explore the knowledge from the reality and the process of communication that go beyond the common perceptive of that elements, I use elements from communication to understand the conscience level that we have in the contemporaneity, exploring the notion of space habitability I can construct tension with the public and make a distension of there sound perception of concrete elements in the reality.
Following the ‘conscious creation of situations’ conceived by Guy Debord (International Situationists) in the 1950s.
In general in sound work and installation I explore a very minimalist process of representation in some of my work I don't use any image support, because I want explore the creative power of the sound situation, which I construct for some exact spaces.
Exploring with frequencies that are the visual representation of the sound and the waves that are the physic part of the sound constructing the physically and psychological art experience.
With this sound and visual emptiness I want manifest a resistance to the free image word of the contemporary media society, making a introspection that goes directly to the perceptive system headed for explore the imaginative dimension of the visual images, exploring the process when the receptor use is visual and sound knowledge to appreciate the work and give a visual and sound suggestion to the represented concept.
Following this process I Denney the image in some of my work and I tray raise an ambiance that is propitious to the reflexive process of thinking in the visual interpretation of the sound, is like experimenting a mystic situation of the mental labour. With the objective of demonstrating the multiplicity of interpretation and concepts in art.
In my work I explore concepts that go from the reality to the abstractive elements from exploring their symbolic dimension and the form that we recognize them in there spatial and cognitive dimension.
The importance of this research is the sound situations that I construct exploring concepts about perception and space knowledge and the boundaries about the human perception and art that are fundamental to the perceptive theories that are important to the understanding of the visual world that surround us with all the divergent information.
My sound work is a contribution to the perceptive theories and to the organisation and understanding of the visual and sound phenomenology’s, exploring the human aesthetic, and the contemporary universes of the media.
Human vs. machine vs. reality a relation of dependence and antagonism…

Immersive video installations
My work is often presented in dark spaces meant to immerse the audience.
Please enjoy the mixture of words, sounds, images, and videos and understand that they come up short compared to experiencing the work itself...
In video my interest is focus in the exploration of strong symbolic images that can represent moments of physiological tension and reflexive mental exercise, about communication and understanding of language and information. And make a reflexive analysis from the medium that I am exploring and is limits focus in is interior language.
Other of my interest the video immersive installation when I can develop interaction through the space and work the video as an sculptural element to construct communicability between divergent images, actions and sounds into the scene composition.
My video installations are construct to pass subliminal concepts about the contemporanety and the human capability to understand the information overload and the mass manipulative massages, and fouling this concept I construct situation that apparently are not violent but they past some broken massages and unfinished codes to broken the communication and provoke disconnected filings.
And in this way my video conceptual analyses go from the human perceptive elements to the analyses of the medium and there internal structure.


Photography

With this medium I am interested in analyse the process of function of the machine and the possibility to transform the reality with the technical artificiality of this mechanism.
In my photo work I tray analyse the capability of transform a common element image in something different exploring in the object the possibility of a mental recombination of there value and contextual function, and fowling this process of manipulative reality plus understanding I explore different photographic resists some of them I analyse very carefully the place and the object when I go make the photograph because some of my works they are painting of light.
Some of my photographs I use for some frame projected installations.


In conclusion I can expose some of the concepts that I explore in my artistic research.
The paradigm of man in contemporaneity reality and perception.
Identity as a element of space and personality.
The information and the process of communication and understanding
Exploration of concrete concepts to retch the abstraction
The identity of the spaces and there identity, destruction and situations.
The sound perception as a element in the space.
The antagonism sound element in the space.
Sculptural sound situations.
Visual logic and perceptive theory.

I can say that my work is an interdisciplinary research and I work different medias with the objective of representing my conceptual vision of the contemporanety world and there evolution pardons, and for that I explore different techniques like video, sound, object, but I am always interested in work with a close relation with the space when I go present my visual research.
Some persons call me media artist other say that I am a mixed media artist for me all this concepts can be integrated in my work process but in the end I am just a visual experimentalist and a project situations artist.
Out of the center.

Artists I like

As an artist I develop an exploration in visual arts, video and sound installation, exploring the complex relation between the man and the Reality and there paradigms of language, perception and technology. In my work I explore a purified synthesized language with the objective to construct a aesthetic of mental structuralism landscapes, trying construct a more conceptual relation with the object, where from the logic we reach the abstraction.

-ARTISTIC EXPERIENCE:

(BETWEEN THE REAL ONE AND THE VIRTUAL ONE)- COLECTIVE OF YOUNG EUROPEAN ARTISTS ORGANIZED BY PEOPLE ET CULTURE LR, MONTPELLIER, 2000 FRANCE

SIXTH PRIME YOUNG PAINTERS SEGURADORA FIDELIDADE PORTUGAL

MOSTRA, SAMPLE OF EXPERIMENTAL PORTUGUESE VIDEO, 2001 PORTUGAL

FESTIVIDEO, INTERNATION FESTIVAL OF VIDEO AND PHOTOGRAPH OF OPORTO (INDIVIDUAL), 2002 PORTUGAL

FESTIVIDEO, INTERNATION FESTIVAL OF VIDEO AND PHOTOGRAPH OF OPORTO, 2002 PORTUGAL
(COLLECTIVE 2H PHOTO EXPERIENCE GROUP)

RSFF GALLERY ALVAREZ SALAUM, 2003 COLLECTIVE EXPOSITION PORTUGAL

ART COLOGNE 2003 INTERNATIONAL ART FAIR, COLONY GERMANY

ALVAREZ HORROR ART SHOW GALLERY ALVAREZ SALAUM, 2003 COLLECTIVE EXPOSITION PORTUGAL

ALVAREZ SALAUM, 2004 COLLECTIVE EXPOSITION PORTUGAL

I.M.A.N FESTIVAL, 2005 PORTUGAL

XXIII INTERNATIONAL BIENNIAL OF ART, OF VILA NOVA DE CERVEIRA, 2005 PORTUGAL


ART CHANNEL.INF TELEVISION AS ART FRANCE, 2005

ART LET ALVAREZ SALAMUM 2006 PORTUGAL

ART TECH MEDIA FESTIVAL, 2006 SPAIN

OUTVIDEO FESTIVAL, 2006 RUSSIA

ART CHANNEL.INF TELEVISION AS ART, EMERGENCES FESTIVAL, 2006 FRANCE

I.M.A.N FESTIVAL, 2006 PORTUGAL

ART CHANNEL.INF TELEVISION AS ART, MAC MANIFESTATION D, ART CONTEMPORAIN, 2006 FRANCE

ARCHIVE OF VIDEOKUNST DEUTSHER KÜNSTLERBUND, 2006 BERLIN

50 ANOS GALLERY ALVAREZ SALAUM, 2006
COLLECTIVE EXPOSITION PORTUGAL

"FILMS IN THE WINDOW" GALLERY AFERRO, 2006 NEWARK, NJ, U.S.A

"DATA TRANSFER" EXHIBITION OF TECHNOLOGY DRIVEN-ART, SCENE METROSPACE GALLERY, 2007 USA

ART CHANNEL.INF TELEVISION AS ART, FESTIVAL VIDEO FORMS, 2007 FRANCE

2 KARGART INTERNATIONAL VIDEO FESTIVAL, 2007 TURKY

JUNO GALLERY, 2007 BERLIN

THE 15TH PERFORMANCE ART ONFERENCE E.P.I ZENTRUM EUROPÄISCHES PERFORMANCE INSTITUT, 2007 BERLIN

I.M.A.N FESTIVAL, 2007 PORTUGAL

FESTIVAL DAW07, 2007 ZÜRICH

XIV BIENAL INTERNACIONAL DE ARTE DE VILA NOVA DE CERVEIRA, 2007 PORTUGAL

ATA GALLERY, 2007 USA

GALLERY13 SÉVIGNÉ ART CHANNEL EXHIBITION, 2007 PARIS

OK VIDEO. INTERNATIONAL VIDEO FESTIVAL, 2007 INDONESIA

FILE FESTIVAL 2007 SÃO PAULO BRASIL

"DIAL-A-DIVA" 2007 U.K

ART TECH MEDIA . 2007 SPAIN

-INDIVIDUAL EXHIBITIONS:

(REALIDADEPARADOXALMENTRUIDOSA) SEQ-ERROR MATCHING GALLERY ALVAREZ SALAUM 2003, OPORTO

(XYZ) GALLERY ALVAREZ, 2006 OPORTO

(ARTICULATION FUNCTION) GALLERY ALVAREZ, 2008 OPORTO

-PERFORMANCE:

M:F:S, ESSR 2000 OPORTO

I.D.P.T, ESSR 2000 OPORTO

RATIO, ARTEMOSFERAS 2001 OPORTO

PRE-MANUFACTURED 55, ESSR 2002 OPORTO

AGAINST CARTOGRAPHY, ARTEMOSFERAS 2002 OPORTO

SENTIDOS GRATIS – COIMBRA NATIONAL CAPITAL OF CULTURE.2003
HUGO PAQUETE VS ALEX COSTA GALLERY ALVAREZ SALAUM 2003

NOIZE COLECTIVE, TASCOSKOPOS 2003 OPORTO

0+1=1-0, I.M.A.N FESTIVAL 2005 PORTUGAL

SSTFM- MENOS Q ZERO 2005 PORTUGAL

SSTFM- MAUS HÁBITOS CLUB 2006 PORTUGAL

FABRICA DO SOM ,SYNTHETIC SOUND TO FIT MAIND PORTUGAL 2007 PORTUGAL

MUSEU DA OLARIA BARCELOS 2007 PORTUGAL

MAUS HABITOS CLUB 2007 PORTUGAL

DF ARTE CONTEMPORANEA GALLERY 2007 SPAIN

MAUS HABITOS CLUB 2008 OPORTO

-AUDIO CD

DISAFFECTED, MIMI RECORDS 2007

COMMUTATIVE, TEST TUBE 2007

Interests

Soundcreation Music and Sound gives Images the right atmosphere and feeling. This is what we can do for you; we give your images the sound and music that the audience will feel what you want them to. We can provide simple Loops over Sound effects up to full Soundtracks for your Projects. ..

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