Aura e vestígios do audiovisual em experiências estéticas com mídias locativas: performances algorítmicas do corpo no espaço urbano

Abstract

This thesis deals with the regimes of visuality which arise as consequence of the massive presence of mobile computing technologies in the contemporary mediatic culture. As a matter of fact, it specially concerns the processes of agency of the look (and body) that are effected in the field of new audiovisual formats - which are called locative audiovisual - employing communication and geolocation mobile technologies on their formal and aesthetic processes. It is called into question what relations (aesthetic, symbolic, performative) are established among technical images on the screens of mobile devices and cityscape. It is also questioned the role taken over by the body of users of mobile devices in contexts of interaction with locative audiovisual applications. Therefore, we have developed a method of inventive constellations of affinities, based on Walter Benjamin’s cartography, from which we carry out our observation through a double movement: on one hand we draw connections to other contemporary phenomena that take form in the field of aesthetic and experimental production with locative media. On the other hand we tried to establish genealogical movements of retrieval, comparison, belonging and rupture of the perceived trends in the analyzed objects with cultural forms from the past. This way we put notions derived from the image field of study - such as canvas, frame and framing, field and off the field, assembly, among others - into perspective. Finally we aim to defend the idea that today images that stand out crossed by cultural codes of locative medias are produced in order to be intuited rather than perceived and thus they require analysis that are able to comprehend their potential to produce effects of presence more than to represent or simulate other worlds.