Encontros Provisórios: Exercícios de Autoria Colaborativa com Base na Imagem Fotográfica questiona a figura do autor nos trabalhos de arte colaborativa para a internet. A proposta analisa o caso da imagem fotográfica como base para este tipo de criação virtual. Faz igualmente uma aproximação crítica à figura do autor da internet em relação ao contexto e apresenta finalmente uma série de trabalhos práticos como conclusões do percurso teórico. / Provisory Encounters: Collaborative Authorship Exercises Based on the Photographic Image inquires the authors role in collaborative art pieces for the internet. The proposal examines the case of photographic image as a base for this type of virtual creation. Makes at the same time a critical approach to internets author role in relation to the context and finally presents a series of practical works as conclusions of the theoretical one.

Encontros Provisórios: Exercícios de Autoria Colaborativa com Base na Imagem Fotográfica questiona a figura do autor nos trabalhos de arte colaborativa para a internet. A proposta analisa o caso da imagem fotográfica como base para este tipo de criação virtual. Faz igualmente uma aproximação crítica à figura do autor da internet em relação ao contexto e apresenta finalmente uma série de trabalhos práticos como conclusões do percurso teórico. / Provisory Encounters: Collaborative Authorship Exercises Based on the Photographic Image inquires the authors role in collaborative art pieces for the internet. The proposal examines the case of photographic image as a base for this type of virtual creation. Makes at the same time a critical approach to internets author role in relation to the context and finally presents a series of practical works as conclusions of the theoretical one.

The objective of this thesis draws on my experience acquired during the internship in Galeria De Arte Servando in Havana, where I have been given the opportunity to learn about Cuban culture as well as to witness the restrictions and difficulties in gallery activities due to the communist government. The first part of the thesis focuses on historical facts highlighting the art exchange between Czechoslovakia and Cuba, a common part of running the state institution in the past. It was a common practice both in Havana´s House of Czechoslovak Culture and in the House of Cuban Culture in Prague. After the collapse of the Soviet Union, both houses were closed and the Czechoslovak-Cuban relations in art and culture have never been restored. The study subsequently discusses the concept and realization of the exhibition prepared in collaboration with Cuban curator Yenisel Osuna Morales. The aim of the thesis is to try to initiate a dialogue between two countries, Cuba and the Czech Republic (former Czechoslovakia), countries with many differences, and probably even estranged nowadays. However, their relations were warm before, and they could be in many ways an inspiration. The primary outcome of this thesis is the exhibition project aimed at the topic of censorship in independent art, its influence on gallery activities and freedom of artistic expression in Cuba. The selection of cuban artists carried out by curator Yenisel Osuna Morales represents the topic of pluriculturalism, migration and diaspora. By means of exhibition exchange, I would like to refer to the terminated friendship between Cuba and former Czechoslovakia in the field of art. The purpose of these exhibitions is not only to present Czech contemporary art in Cuba but also to present Cuban art in the Czech Republic without any restrictions.