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Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Wales College, Newport, 1999. / CAiiA Research Centre (Centre for Advanced Inquiry in the Interactive Arts) Thesis submitted to the University of Wales for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy. Includes bibliographical references (p. 400-456). Available in PDF via the World Wide Web.

Introduction: We, i.e. contemporary Western man, live in a society which has increasingly embraced Science and Technology as the ultimum bonum. The Machine, i.e. Science and Technology, has come to be seen as an impersonal force, a New God - omniscient, omnipotent: to be worshipped and, alas, also to be feared. This mythologem has come to pervade almost every sphere of our lives in a paradigmatic way to the extent where it is hardly ever recognized for what it is and hence fails to arouse the concern it merits. While some of the more perceptive minds - such as Erich Fromm, Rufino Tamayo, Carl Gustav Jung, Konrad Lorenz and Arthur Koestler, to mention but a few - have started ringing the alarm bells, the vast majority of our species seem to plunge ahead with their blinkers firmly in place (more or less contented as long as they can persude themselves that these blinkers were manufactured according to latest technological and scientific specifications). Man’s uniquely human powers - his creative intuition, his feelings, his moral and ethical potential, have become sadly neglected and mistrusted. Homo sapiens – “homo maniacus” as Koestler suggests? - is now at a crossroads: he has reached a point where the next step could be the last step and result in the annihilation of man as a species. Alternately, avoiding that, there is the outwardly less drastic but essentially equally alarming possibility of men becoming robots, while a third alternative has yet to be found. While it does appear as if a lot of young people, noticeably among students, have started reacting against the over mechanization of life, these reactions often tend to follow the swing-of-the-pendulum principle and veer towards the other extreme, throwing out the baby with the bathwater and falling prey to freak-out cults in a kind of mass-irrationalism, rejecting science and technology altogether. Artists who by their very nature perhaps are particularly sensitive - in a kind of seismographic way - to the currents and undercurrents of their age, have become aware of the effects of science and technology on our way of living, and many of them have in one way or another taken a stand in relation to the position of man in our highly technological world. Looking at the art produced over the last four decades, it is truly astonishing to what extent our changed world reflects in our art - a world and a Weltbild very different from that of our ancestors even just a few generations ago. The purpose of the present study is to survey some of the observations and commentaries that painters and certain kindred spirits from the sciences over the last few decades have offered, in the hope of, if not answering, at least defining and posing anew some of the questions that confront us with ever-increasing urgency.

One of the most frequently repeated questions of our time is what is art? Since we have become conditioned to the idea that ''significant art - a much overworked modern term - belongs to the revolutionary avant-garde, artists carry their search for the new at all costs into the field of non art. P.1

Made available in DSpace on 2014-06-11T19:35:04Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2013-01-11Bitstream added on 2014-06-13T19:05:11Z : No. of bitstreams: 1 oliveira_ggm_dr_assis_parcial.pdf: 102845 bytes, checksum: bf3cb9dfd2bf064bcae89d1fe74eff88 (MD5) Bitstreams deleted on 2015-07-02T12:36:13Z: oliveira_ggm_dr_assis_parcial.pdf,. Added 1 bitstream(s) on 2015-07-02T12:37:33Z : No. of bitstreams: 1 000711223_20230123.pdf: 96218 bytes, checksum: eac00a405bd849fdc1ac67d084225576 (MD5) / Nas duas últimas décadas do século XX, ocorreram significativos avanços tecnológicos, sobretudo no campo da Informação, no qual houve uma crescente convergência de tecnologias para a criação de um sistema altamente integrado, com efeitos em toda atividade humana, individual e coletiva, e que acabaram por se configurar como formas de controle social, e, por isso, representando uma séria ameaça à subjetividade. O problema que nos interessa nesta tese é pensar como resistir ao controle dessa Sociedade da Informação em que estamos enredados. Ao contrário das sobreposições de imagens que a configuram, capturando, sujeitando, consumindo e levando a consumir, encontramos, na experiência com a arte, a possibilidade de linhas de fuga, a possibilidade de resistência, pois, para dizer como Gilles Deleuze, além dos compostos melódicos que constituem a natureza, a obra de arte, como composto estético, com os monumentos erguidos pelas sensações, abre-nos um plano de composição sinfônica infinito / Throughout the last decades of the 20th century, meaningful technological advancements took place, mainly within the field of Information, in which there was an increasing convergence of technologies for the creation of a highly integrated system, having effects on every human activity, both at individual and collective level, and which ended by configuring itself as social control devices, and, for that reason, becoming a serious menace to subjectivity. The issue we intend to broach in this dissertation is to ponder on how to provide resistance against the control exerted by that Information Society in whose net were are entangled. Contrary to the superposition of images which configure it, capturing, submitting, consuming, and leading people to consumption, we find out, in experience with arts, the possibility of vanishing lines, the possibility of offering resistance, since, by using Gilles Deleuze’s own words, besides the melodious compositions which compose nature, the work of art, as an esthetic composition, with the monuments built by sensations, provides us with an infinite symphonic composition plan

Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-02T11:16:51Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2011-12-16Bitstream added on 2014-12-02T11:21:19Z : No. of bitstreams: 1 000797288.pdf: 6000849 bytes, checksum: 66bec66a5e47b130ecdfe2b93654d077 (MD5) / Objetivo: Uma pesquisa acerca das características, forma e estética do cinema underground paulistano da década de 1960, na qual utilizou-se de um trailer falso construído a partir das observações de alguns filmes de cineastas chave deste movimento do cinema como um trabalho equivalente que complemente a pesquisa. Metodologia: Trata-se de uma análise qualitativa onde foram coletados dados de como se construir um trailer e a sua história desde sua criação e exibição e com isso, produzido através de um trabalho equivalente um trailer falso que imitasse boa parte dos filmes feitos pelo movimento “Boca-do-lixo”. Resultados: Feitas as pesquisas sobre filmes e sobre a vida dos diretores, observase algumas persistências de assuntos em comum, suas repetições de encenação e o mesmo senso de dúvida para onde o país seguiria em pré-ditadura, fazendo com que os personagens dos filmes se tornassem errantes, figuras perdidas e sem direção em seu posicionamento político. Conclusão: O “desbunde”, o deboche típico do Cinema Udi-Grudi, se tornou um dos caminhos palpáveis para os atos dos personagens no cinema. O trabalho equivalente tenta se aproximar desta mesma atmosfera. / Purpose: Research the characteristics, form and aesthetics of São Paulo’s underground films of the 60’s, in which a fake trailer was made using what was observed from key filmmakers of this film movement as a corresponding work that completes the research. Methodology: Qualitative analyses in which information was obtained on how to create a trailer and its history from its inception until exhibition, and through that, done an equivalent fake trailer that would copy the majority of the “boca-do-lixo” films. Results: Done the research on films and the life of directors, it can be noticed some common ideas through its repetition and the same sense of doubt as to where the country would go in this period of pre-dictatorship, making the characters in the films nomads, lost and no political ideals. Conclusion: Excess became a way which the characters could follow on the films. The matching work tries to follow this atmosphere.

Made available in DSpace on 2014-06-11T19:22:26Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2008-08-25Bitstream added on 2014-06-13T19:07:54Z : No. of bitstreams: 1 domingues_gs_me_ia.pdf: 3714759 bytes, checksum: db11c344ff901b285ef180bee209403e (MD5) / Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP) / Esta pesquisa reflete sobre a invenção de interfaces informáticas especiais produzidas pelo autor antes e durante o período de desenvolvimento do trabalho e seu uso artístico em instalações interativas multimídia. Nesses sistemas, nos quais o interator se comunica com o computador em sentido bidirecional, a interface atua fazendo a mediação e conversão de sinais entre dois sistemas de naturezas diferentes, o biológico e o tecnológico. Essa comunicação passa por várias etapas de conversão , camadas de interfaceamento que permitem a entrada de informações por meio desses dispositivos físicos, as interfaces tangíveis, que transformam os dados captados por sensores em sinais digitais, que são processados e retornam ao interator por meio de outras interfaces. Ao longo da breve história da informática digital, as interfaces se aprimoraram e proporcionaram novas possibilidades interativas, tornando a relação do homem com o computador mais intuitiva, amigável e rica, permitindo assim a ampliação do uso da informática em várias áreas, inclusive nas artes. O artista, incorporando o computador em suas obras, acaba também por se envolver na criação de novas interfaces, por isso a importância da investigação de caráter conceitual e técnico, que também é o escopo desta pesquisa, que busca encontrar e desenvolver soluções técnicas acessíveis à comunidade artística para o desenvolvimento de novos dispositivos, para uso de obras de arte interativas. / This paper is a reflexion on the invention of the special interface computer science, produced from all the period of the time of the author's research and their artistic use in interactive multimedia facilities. In these systems in which the interator communicates with the computer bi-direcional way, the interface acts doing the mediation and conversion of the sings between two different nature systems, biological and technological. This communication goes through several conversion steps, interface process layers, allowing the information entry through those physical devices, tangible interfaces, changing the collected data by sensors in digital signs, prossessing and returning to the interator through others interfaces. Along the brief history of the digital information science, the interfaces improved and provided new interactive possibilities, becoming the relation between the man and the computer more intuitive, friendly and rich, allowing thus the enlargement of the use of technology in several areas, including in the arts. When the artists incorporate the computer in their works, they also involve themselves in the creations of new interfaces, therefore the importance of conceptual and thecnical investigation character, that is also the scope of this research, searching and developing accessible technical solutions to the artistic community for the development new devices, using in interactive art works.

Made available in DSpace on 2014-06-11T19:22:29Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2011-11-21Bitstream added on 2014-06-13T18:07:02Z : No. of bitstreams: 1 leal_ff_me_ia.pdf: 549031 bytes, checksum: c8e3b72d43b47053ad53f6c6c350268a (MD5) / Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP) / O presente trabalho equivalente e relatório circunstanciado trata da crítica cinematográfica do ponto de vista da proximidade do crítico em relação ao objeto de análise, levando em conta como principal fundamento da peça cinematográfica a forma como o espectador é tocado.Como recurso é usada uma bibliografia específica sobre cinema e uma filmografia que juntas funcionam como base para a pesquisa. Foram utilizados, ainda, quatro curtas-metragens dirigidos pelo próprio autor entre 2008 e 2010. Um média-metragem documentário foi produzido como trabalho equivalente, onde os conceitos abordados por esta dissertação são exemplificados e discutidos através da pesquisa, sempre tendo como objetivo primário a interação entre espectador e obra / The present equivalent work and detailed report treats the cinematographic critic under the point of view of the proximity of the critic in respect to the object of analysis, taking as main basis of the cinematographic play the way that the viewer is reached. As resource it’s used a specific bibliography about cinema and a filmography which together work as basis to the research. It were also utilized, four short-cut movies directed by the author himself between 2008 and 2010. A medium-cut documentary was produced as equivalent work, where the studied concepts by this dissertation are exemplified e discussed through the research, always having as primary objective the interaction between viewer and work