My research is comprised of two connected components – a written report, and an original artwork. In the written segment of the research, I critically assess arguments sourced from digital theorists writing mainly in the 1990s, who positioned “cyberspace” as means of bodily escape, physical transcendence and disconnection from lived reality. I link their writings to a larger notion of technological determinism. I use a combination of theoretical sources and case studies to argue that these determinist attitudes are being challenged by the emergence of a recent artistic practice (termed “locative art”), itself made possible through changes in the understanding of the integration of digital information into the material world. The second part of my research consists of an original locative work, entitled “Tree ID”. It is integrated into my written research in my third chapter, in which I discuss the technical function and conceptual background of the work. “Tree ID” functions alongside my case studies as an artistic response to technological determinism, and, additionally, as a practical investigation into the South African context of locative art.

Paralelas Cruzadas: propostas poéticas em arte móvel apresenta uma pesquisa teórico-prática que mergulha no potencial criativo dos dispositivos portáteis tecnológicos com conexão em rede a distância, inseridos no contexto da computação ubíqua, pervasiva e sensiente. Foram retomados temas relacionados à conexão poética existente entre a mobilidade, a tecnologia e a cibercultura, em especial arte móvel, arte locativa, realidades mistas e realidade aumentada. Durante o percurso, três práticas artísticas se concretizaram: Paralelas Cruzadas, projeto híbrido que envolve arte móvel, arte locativa, artes visuais, performance e realidades mistas, desenvolvendo-se durante residência artística em La Paternal Espacio y Proyecto (Buenos Aires/Argentina), Fundación Casa Tres Patios (Medellín/Colômbia); São Paulo/Brasil; Corpo In (Visível), criação de Cássia Aranha e Danilo Patzdorf, contemplado no edital Dança em Site Specific do CCSP / 2015; Código Facial, criação artística de Cássia Aranha e Luciana Mantovani; obra de arte híbrida que envolve artes visuais, realidade aumentada, dramaturgia e videoperformance, a partir de uma criação em site specific, contemplada no Edital da ProACArtes Integradas/ 2015 da Secretaria de Cultura do Estado de São Paulo. / Crossed Parallels: poetic proposals in mobile art presents a theoretical-practical research that plunges into the creative potential of technological, portable devices, with distance network connection, within the context of ubiquitous, pervasive, and sentient computing. Themes and issues were taken up related to the poetic connection existing in between mobility, technology, and cyberculture, in special the mobile art, locative art, mixed realities, and augmented reality. Along the way, three artistic practices materialized: Crossed Parallels, hybrid project developed during artist residency in La Paternal Espacio y Proyecto (Buenos Aires / Argentina), Fundación Casa Tres Patios (Medellín / Colombia); São Paulo / Brazil, and involving mobile art, locative art, visual arts, performance and mixed realities. Body In (Visible) (creation of Cassia Aranha and Danilo Patzdorf contemplated in the Dance Edicts for Site Specific CCSP / 2015); FaceCode (a site specific artistic creation by Cassia Aranha and Luciana Mantovani; hybrid work of art involving visual arts, augmented reality, drama, and video performance, addressed in the Edicts of ProAC - Integrated Arts/ 2015, by the Government of the State of São Paulo - Secretary of Culture).

Paralelas Cruzadas: propostas poéticas em arte móvel apresenta uma pesquisa teórico-prática que mergulha no potencial criativo dos dispositivos portáteis tecnológicos com conexão em rede a distância, inseridos no contexto da computação ubíqua, pervasiva e sensiente. Foram retomados temas relacionados à conexão poética existente entre a mobilidade, a tecnologia e a cibercultura, em especial arte móvel, arte locativa, realidades mistas e realidade aumentada. Durante o percurso, três práticas artísticas se concretizaram: Paralelas Cruzadas, projeto híbrido que envolve arte móvel, arte locativa, artes visuais, performance e realidades mistas, desenvolvendo-se durante residência artística em La Paternal Espacio y Proyecto (Buenos Aires/Argentina), Fundación Casa Tres Patios (Medellín/Colômbia); São Paulo/Brasil; Corpo In (Visível), criação de Cássia Aranha e Danilo Patzdorf, contemplado no edital Dança em Site Specific do CCSP / 2015; Código Facial, criação artística de Cássia Aranha e Luciana Mantovani; obra de arte híbrida que envolve artes visuais, realidade aumentada, dramaturgia e videoperformance, a partir de uma criação em site specific, contemplada no Edital da ProACArtes Integradas/ 2015 da Secretaria de Cultura do Estado de São Paulo. / Crossed Parallels: poetic proposals in mobile art presents a theoretical-practical research that plunges into the creative potential of technological, portable devices, with distance network connection, within the context of ubiquitous, pervasive, and sentient computing. Themes and issues were taken up related to the poetic connection existing in between mobility, technology, and cyberculture, in special the mobile art, locative art, mixed realities, and augmented reality. Along the way, three artistic practices materialized: Crossed Parallels, hybrid project developed during artist residency in La Paternal Espacio y Proyecto (Buenos Aires / Argentina), Fundación Casa Tres Patios (Medellín / Colombia); São Paulo / Brazil, and involving mobile art, locative art, visual arts, performance and mixed realities. Body In (Visible) (creation of Cassia Aranha and Danilo Patzdorf contemplated in the Dance Edicts for Site Specific CCSP / 2015); FaceCode (a site specific artistic creation by Cassia Aranha and Luciana Mantovani; hybrid work of art involving visual arts, augmented reality, drama, and video performance, addressed in the Edicts of ProAC - Integrated Arts/ 2015, by the Government of the State of São Paulo - Secretary of Culture).