Emiliano Causa

Curriculum Vitae

 

Personal Details

 

Education

 

Teaching and University Research

At La Plata National University

  • Since 2003. Research Assistant in "Development of New Interfaces in Multimedia Environments", in charge of the lecturer Carmelo Saitta.
  • Since 2002. Senior "Applied Computing" Lecturer, Audio-visual Communication Degree Course (Cinema, TV, and Video).
  • Since 2001. Senior "Digital Sound", "Electronic Image", and "Digital Video" Lecturer, Multimedia Production Degree Course.
  • 1998-2000. Assistant in the chair of "Experimental Practice with Sound", Musical Composition Degree Course.
  • 1995-1996. Research Assistant in "Computing and Musical Education", in charge of the lecturer Mario Arreseygor.

At National University of Technology

  • Since 1999. Assistant in the chair of "Artificial Intelligence", Information Systems Engineering Degree Course.

 

Artistic Executions

The following works have been presented several times in contemporary music concerts, art video and shorts exhibitions, seminars and conferences in La Plata (Dardo Rocha Passage, MACLA, Fine Arts Faculty, etc.), in Buenos Aires (Colón Theatre, Recoleta Cultural Centre, MALBA, etc.), and in Rosario (Faculty of Architecture and Town Planning)

I- Interactive Art, multimedia, WEB pages:

  • Enjambre (Swarm) -2002- (explanatory text)
    Interactive application of visual art on the Internet. Also implemented as an interactive multimedia installation in big screen with movement detectors in "CHELA" (Latin-American Hypermedia Experimental Centre) in Buenos Aires.
    Emiliano Causa (management, design, and programming, animation algorithms, SeCoMe adaptation), Christian Silva, Tarcisio Pirotta and Juli�n Isacch (visual art),Victor Suarez (SeCoMe adaptation).
  • Vasarely Gen�tico (Genetic Vasarely) -2002- (explanatory text) (Download setup files -ZIP Compressed- Disk 1/2 Disk 2/2 )
    Genetic art software application based on paintings by Víctor Vasarely. In this application, paintings from a collection can be selected to be genetically reproduced, producing a new painting that combines its progenitors� characteristics.
    Emiliano Causa (design and programming).
  • El Jard�n de los Sonidos (The Garden of Sounds) -2003- (explanatory text)
    Web art software application where the spectator can interact with musical modules, which respond to gravity. It is a first prototype of what is going to be a series of interactive musical objects.
    Emiliano Causa (design and programming).
  • Calidoscopio (Kaleidoscope) -2003-
    Web art software application, where the spectator can send graphics in order to be turned into kaleidoscopes.
    Emiliano Causa (design and programming), Tarcisio Pirotta (assistance).

II- Art video based on electro-acoustic music, experimental animation:

  • C�rculo y cuadrado (Circle and Square) -2003- (explanatory text)
    Art video of experimental animation based on electro-acoustic music dealing with Victor Vasarely Op Art.
    Emiliano Causa (management, 2D and 3D animation, animation algorithms), Tarcisio Pirotta (management assistance, 2D and 3D animation, presentation and titles), Mat�as Romero Costas (musical composition and animation), Leonardo Garay (3D animation), Andrea Sosa (audio-visual assistance).
  • Organismos (Organisms) -2002- (explanatory text) (Download a demo file -Quiktime-)
    Art video of experimental animation based on electro-acoustic music. In this work, imaginary beings that literally react to sound were created, generating choreography that imitates a wild life scene.
    Emiliano Causa (management, sound design, animation, and animation algorithms), Christian Silva (management assistance and animation), Tarcisio Pirotta (management assistance and animation), Mat�as Romero Costas (musical composition and sound design), Juli�n Isacch (animation), Andrea Sosa (audio-visual assistance).
  • Acecho, Persecuci�n y Muerte (Stalk, Pursuit, and Death) -2001- (explanatory text) (Download a demo file -Quiktime-) (Download complete sound track -ziped MP3-)
    Art video of experimental animation based on electro-acoustic music. Its topic is the hunt between animals in pursuit of food and survival.
    Emiliano Causa (music and animation), Christian Silva (animation).
  • Dos Discursos (Two Speeches) -2000- (explanatory text)
    Art video of experimental animation based on electro-acoustic music.
    Emiliano Causa (music and animation), Christian Silva (animation).

III- Contemporary and electro-acoustic music:

  • Preludios para piano (Preludes for piano) -1997-(Download MP3 #2 #3 #4 #5 )
    Contemporary music for piano. Presented in Col�n Theatre (5/30/03-Juan Carlos Panarace, piano).
  • Fragmentaci�n e Interferencia (Fragmentation and interference) -2000- (Download MP3)
    Electro-acoustic music. Broadcast by 90-Celular Pirate (Canada) from 4th until 8th October, 2002.
  • Estoy as�... (This is how I am...) -2000-
    Mixed electro-acoustic music for sax and tape.
  • Organismos Sonoros (Sound Organisms) -1999-
    Electro-acoustic music based on sax sound processing.
  • Hambre, hombre (Hunger, man) -1999-
    Electro-acoustic music based on the words "hambre" and "hombre" processing.

IV- CD-ROM and Information Kiosk, Institutional and Formative:

  • CD-ROM Sonomontaje (CD-ROM Sound Montage) -1999-
    Interactive multimedia CD-ROM explaining the typology of "the Treaty of musical objects", by Pierre Schaeffer.
    Emiliano Causa (artistic management, computing design, and programming), Carmelo Saitta (artistic management), Christian Silva (artistic management and visual design), Daniel Reinoso (artistic management and sound design), Pablo Loudet (addition of a soundtrack), Leonardo Garay (programming).
  • CD-ROM Institucional de la UTN (Institutional CD-ROM of the National University of Technology) -1998-
    Interactive multimedia institutional CD-ROM.
    Emiliano Causa, Juan Coronel, Diego Spinedi, Ra�l Peralta and Sergio Sandoval.
  • CD-ROM Hotel en Berisso (Berisso Hotel CD-ROM) -2000-
    Interactive multimedia CD-ROM containing panoramic VR pictures.
    Emiliano Causa, Christian Silva, Denis Giuliani.
  • Kiosco de informaci�n edilicia de la Facultad de Bellas Artes (Kiosk of building information for the Fine Arts Faculty) -2000-
    Emiliano Causa and others (as a member of the production team of the Multimedia Department of the U.N.L.P Fine Arts Faculty.

 

Publications

Article Title: Genetic Vasarely
Book Title and CD-ROM: Anales, SIGraDi 2003 ("Digital Graph International Congress", organised by the Digital Graph Latin American Society)
Author: Emiliano Causa.
Editorial: Laborde Editor.
Year: 2003.
ISBN: 987-9459-51-2.

 

Membership

 

Other activities

As personal research and as part of his studies, he made audio-visual processing software (for expanding sound and generating sound morphing); he made musical composition software assistant (using Schillinger's theories). He also carried out research on neural network, and software for speech recognition (using "Backpropagation" neural networks). He has made software for investigating music scales. He has also created image animation programmes based on sound stimuli (using FFT).

 

Software command

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