Paisagem diagonal: práticas políticas e poéticas nas redes digitais

Abstract

The research in hand analyses political and poetic aspects present in digital communications networks and their extension to the social and public spheres. The research parts from the assumption that these networks- physical, virtual and flexible permit critical reflections as to the configurational complexity of contemporary societies through an informational paradigm. This hypothesis is founded on the reflections of Manuel Castells, Geert Lovink and Lúcia Santaella regarding communications, control and democracy. Through the course of the dissertation, there is a discussion of poetic endeavors that are formed in the flux of information provided by online communications networks. From a base of bibliographic research, theoretical and epstimological reflection, field research based on interviews and an the observation of works by net artists such as Antoni Abad, Denise Agassi, Eduardo Salvino, Fernando Velázquez, Giselle Beiguelman, Lucas Bambozzi e Rafael Marchetti, there is a mapping of different types of authorship that emerge in the relationship between the public and creators, founded on the manipulation and interaction of available content, through the key word indexing of online social networks. Lastly, there is a presentation of the production processes utilized in the experimental net art project ―edo(ar)do‖, executed by the author of the dissertation, focussing on dialogues that provoke questions involving poetic subjectivety and activism. The theoretical background covers references regarding the aesthetics of online databanks and audiovisual features (Geert Lovink, Lev Manovich e Victoria Vesna), technical images and their contexts of diffusion (Vilém Flusser), creative processes and networks (Cecília A. Salles), art, media and discussion (Anne Cauquelin, Herbert Mcluhan and Rosalind Krauss), poetic endeavors and network politics (Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari), videoart and artmedia (Arlindo Machado, Christine Mello, Edmond Couchot, Giselle Beiguelman, Lucia Leão and Lúcia Santaella). In this way, the research questions contemporary communication processes, allowing reflection on the ambivalent nature of democratic actions and aesthetic productions involving on and offline networks, concretizing reflections regarding social, political and philosophical aspects in the environment of technology and communicational aesthetics