"Paranoia" is a reactive sculpture in form of a mouth that when someone gets close to it, it open, scream and smile. Paranoia is part of a series of sculptures called "Psychosomatic Bodies" that investigates the human behaviors through the construction of suspended members that express unconscious desires and feelings using the digital in a search of interconnection with the material. In the series, I re-signify concepts of psychology as fear, anxiety, memory, affective disorders, alienation, safety, trauma, ego. Such investigations are physically materialized forming behavioral and sensitive sculptural beings. Within this research I am questioning the possibility of inserting psychological behavior into expanded sculptural machines, with the purpose of making it to express some feelings that becomes visible for the public through the sensitivity of the eye, the presence or the touch. The project was developed in collaboration with the Electronic Engineer Akinori Kinoshita from Gigabyte Company in a residence in Taipei Artist Village in Taiwan, a grant from Sacatar Foundation.

Anaisa Franco (1981) creates robotic sculptures that interconnect the physical with the digital, re-signifying concepts of psychology; she provides behaviors, imagination and feelings for the sculptures. Franco works as an artist. Since 2007 she has been developing works in medialabs and residences at Medialab Prado, Mecad, MIS, Hangar and Taipei Artist Village. She has been exhibiting internationally in Europe, America and Asia. She has a Masters in Digital Art and Technology at the University of Plymouth in England and graduated in Visual Arts at FAAP in São Paulo.

http://www.anaisafranco.com