Portugal, estamos a chegar!
45 Symbols — Clay to Code has been selected for the Porto Design Biennale.
We brushed up our Processing skills to code a new animation—introducing 45 selected projects from the past ten years. That’s 2,025 visual elements coming to life on screen. The exhibition opens on October 23rd and runs until spring 2026:
“TIME IS PRESENT. Designing the Common is the title chosen for the 4th Porto Design Biennale edition and it invites for a shift in our daily perspective: instead of critically tackling the anxiety of modern temporality, it suggests to observe the potential of qualitative time. The present is not seen as a crisis to overcome, rather as a gift filled with collective possibilities waiting to be activated. This perspective fully inhabits the now rather than projecting into speculative futures.”
Find more information about the biennale on the website
The installation/ animation was created by Olivier Arcioli, Pascal Glissmann, and Andreas Henrich—co-directors who also led the curation, initiation, and design of the project since 2013.
Participating artists:
Julio Aguirre, Dos Mundos (2018); Esalee Andrade-Guerrero, Baile Folklórico (2018); Carolina Arciniegas, Hinter Gittern (2013); Taylor Baker / Childers, Suburban Midwest (2014); Tracy Bassil, Urbic (2017); Sean Burgess, Genomics (2017); Johanna Buehler, Try To Trace The Tracks (2018); Li Wen (Peter) Chang, Shan Hai Ching (2014); Li Chung (George) Chang, Zen (2014); Nicoletta Corbett, Holding On (2023); Vianey Diaz, Carbon Fingerprints (2023); Cole Finch, Changing Cities (2017); Stefan Fitze & Maxim Staehelin, Earports (2019); Farida Foda, GLITCHED (2020); Andrea Sara Gallo, Shaping Language (2019); Patricia Grabowicz, Chews a Character (2018); Madelene Imhof & Franziska Krenmayr, The PET Proof of Identity (2018); Raafia Jessa, /ˈlo.kwiː/ (2016); Yoko Kristiansen, Watching You (2016); Chloe Koo, Hanbok (2014); Onur Köroglu, Melting Glaciers (2019); Chieh-Ting Lee, Living With Gods (2016); Aslin Yu-Heng Lin, LGBT in Taiwan (2016); Lena Meier, Deltas in Danger (2018); Christina Möser, ST. Peter (2014); Ghida Nadar, 3al labne (2019); Salomé Anna Neuhaus, Monoculture (2018); Celine Pereira, Human Database (2018); Ali Razzak, Screen Scrying (2020); Isaac Sanchez, AI Generated Language (2018); Bryton Scott, Muhammed Modhien & Deirdre Okumu, The Code of Gumboot (2018); Pedro Silva, Instamorphs (2023); Lily Taggart, Dialectic Dancescape (2023); Karen Trachsel, Rounded Biographies (2019); Ricardo Vega, Chile Stamp (2014); Chandelle Wilsnagh, Mmatshepo Simelane, Ashir Ajudhiya & Dobyl Malubane, The Navigators (2018)
