This artist’s writing discusses Project Amoreiras , developed by the Poéticas Digitais Group. The proposal is an urban intervention involving art, technology and environment, configured as an interactive installation of mulberry trees on the Paulista Avenue (São Paulo, Brazil). The article highlights its poetic and technological elements as critical positioning on pollution in the metropolitan environment, the processes of autonomy and artificial learning, the emergent behavior of the trees, the application of John Conway’s neighborhood principles to the project as well as the positive reception of the proposal by the pedestrians during the exhibition.

The author explores the transformation and derivations in the field of artistic experimentation on the Net. The article examines the accomplishments artists have made with the “new poetics” of the dynamic universe of telematic art, expressed in contemporary artistic production. The text introduces five distinctive projects in multi-user virtual environments that were recently produced in Brazil and then places the projects within the more general context of art on the Net.

The recent use of streaming video on the World Wide Web for the distribution of live images has enabled an interface that supports a new phenomenon of virtual, defered, remote presence, extending perception and expanding the possibilities of remote interaction. The purpose of this essay is to provide a brief survey of the use of these live images in artistic spaces specifically conceived for this medium. These environments will be presented in three different categories, which propose transformations in possibilities of participation, interference, and the participants' self-expression.