This study addresses the process of creating three interactive installations about the space of
the city of Belém in the field of Art and Technology. In the research, electronic modifications
were made in analog industrial objects appropriated as symbols of larger structures that involve
the city’s dynamics in artistic installations, with aesthetic messages about the urban, river and
forest space of Belém. Among the installations, there is a telephone that simulates connections
with distant birds; a tap, that spurts reports from city’s residents about their relationship with
water; and, an umbrella that reproduces soundscapes as it moves through space. The memorial
contains the work's triggering ideas and the lines that sew the network that connects academic
concepts to practice, the outside of the city to the inside of the gallery, the past and the present,
the analog and the digital, the aesthetic and the communicational, art and life. The research
involved reflection about the poetic use of technologies for sensory experiences with
augmented space in interactive interfaces. The project had the collaboration of several
professionals from different areas for its realization, as well as the participation of residents of
the city. In addition to the installations Telephone, Umbrella and Tap that were mounted in the
Long-Distance Call exhibition, the memorial describes the work Sound Waves that was
developed after the exhibition as an offshoot of the research.
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