Academic Posters
Here are some academic posters I have made for events at Stanford.
Categories: Graphic Design, History • Tags: Brazil, History, Literature
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Rivers and Whirlpools
Rivers and Whirlpools: a spatial and historical interpretation of La Vorágine The initial scene of the 1972 film, Aguirre, the Wrath of Good, depicts a sixteenth-century expedition descending from the Andeans highlands into the Amazonian lowlands. The expedition led by Francisco Pizarro is in search of the mythical city of El Dorado. The movie, directed by Werner Herzog, is a hodge-podge of different exploratory travels of sixteenth-century conquistadores, from Francisco de Orellana’s upriver Amazonian voyage to Lope de Aguirre’s downriver […]
Categories: History • Tags: Amazon, Brazil, Colombia, Eustasio Rivera, History, La Vorágine, Literature, Spatial History, The Vortex
The Posthumous Memoirs of Bras Cubas
Memórias Póstumas de Brás Cubas / The Posthumous Memoirs of Bras Cubas The Posthumous Memoirs of Bras Cubas is an animation showing the social network formed by the characters in the Machado de Assis‘s nineteenth-century Brazilian novel. This visualization is part of a larger research project on social networks in Brazilian literature led by Zephyr Frank at Stanford University’s Spatial History Project. In this narrated visualization, the characters in Machado de Assis’s masterpiece are presented in the space of social […]
Categories: History • Tags: 19th Century, Bras Cubas, Brazil, History, Literature, Machado de Assis, Network Analysis, Rio de Janeiro
Frederico Freitas 