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The Open Repository is the institutional repository of Universidade Aberta and was built with the aim of storing, preserving, disseminating, and providing access to UAb's intellectual production in digital format. The goal is to gather, in one place, the entirety of UAb's scientific publications, thereby contributing to the increase of its visibility and impact while ensuring the preservation of its intellectual memory.

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Interactive media arts and sustainability: the challenges of human-nature connections
Publication . Cruz, Sara; Vieira, Célia; Bidarra, José
The relationship between art and nature has gained increased prominence over the past few decades, as the concept of sustainability has become more significant. Ultimately, in this equation, art seeks ways to rekindle the connection between human and nature, writing a utopia of happiness that depends on the balance between the human microcosm and the planetary macrocosm. We wonder if technological developments in art provide artists with more resources to facilitate this reconnection. From Van Gogh's "Starry Night", a two-dimensional painting, to "Starry Night" in an immersive exhibition, New Media Arts takes the viewer's experience into a new dimension, virtual, augmented, three-dimensional, immersive. Are these resources more conducive to an aesthetic experience that helps reduce the fracture between human and nature? Throughout this article, after reflecting on the relationship between art, sustainability and new media, we will describe two installations developed with the aim of understanding the challenges facing media arts in the context of an artistic practice committed to environment preservation.
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Leonardo Turriano e la produzione in fabbrica in Portogallo nel primo quarto del XVII secolo. Il suo contributo al complesso tecnologico-militare di Barcarena (Oeiras)
Publication . Cardoso, João Luis; Alessandrini, Nunziatella; Russo, Mariagrazia; Sabatini, Gaetano
João Luís Cardoso presenta nel suo saggio la figura di Leonardo Turriano, ingegnere cremonese che contribuì significativamente alla produzione industriale portoghese nel XVII secolo, in particolare nella progettazione del complesso tecnologico-militare di Barcarena (Oeiras). La fabbricazione di polvere da sparo, documentata in Portogallo già dal XV secolo, crebbe durante l’espansione ultramarina, rendendo necessaria l’importazione di salnitro dall’India. Nel 1617, Turriano fu incaricato dal Conselho da Fazenda di costruire un impianto per la produzione di polvere da sparo. Il sito, logisticamente vantaggioso per la vicinanza al Tago e a Lisbona, divenne operativo nel 1618. L’opera testimonia l’ingegno di Turriano, figura chiave nel panorama scientifico e tecnologico portoghese dell’epoca.
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Arte indiana e indo cristã
Publication . Instituto de Tecnologia Educativa; Vaz, Luís Armando
Exposição de obras da coleção do Instituto de História e Cultura Indiana Heras (Bombaim, Índia), patente em 1981, na Galeria de exposições temporárias da Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, Lisboa.
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A pasta celulósica
Publication . Sousa, Olga de; Carmo, Cristina; Contreiras, José Miguel
Programa realizado pelo Instituto de Tecnologia Educativa em 1986, sobre a floresta, fator de equilíbrio ecológico e fonte de matéria-prima.
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O fabrico do papel
Publication . Sousa, Olga de; Carmos, Cristina; Contreiras, José Miguel
Este programa realizado pelo Instituto de Tecnologia Educativa em 1986, aborda as fases do tratamento da pasta celulósica até à obtenção do papel, as operações de corte e empacotamento do papel segundo a sua utilização.
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