This thesis analyzes contemporary participatory installation art, play theory, especially Johan Huizingas seminal Homo Ludens, and the aesthetic theories of Nicolas Bourriauds Relational Aesthetics and Jacques Rancires Politics of Aesthetics. Ping Pond Table 1998 by Gabriel Orozco and Test Site 2006 by Cartsen Hller are studied to illustrate how play and the aesthetic can become political by repositioning the contemporary viewer as an active and playing participant in the artwork, prompting an awareness of the matrix of power between audience, artwork and institution, and by creating the possibility for dynamic social roles. This thesis, like the artworks it examines, invokes a conception of play as a vital construct of culture rather than simply the domain of childhood imagination. Overturning the dominant concept of play and reinstating play in adult life becomes a political act because it engages adults in liberated, creative thinking that challenges traditional, consumer-driven, practical and thus constructive behaviours.

This thesis will examine the practice of relational aesthetics as it involves the viewer, as well as the way in which it plays out within and outside of the institutional setting of the museum. I will focus primarily on two unique projects: that of The Machine Project Field Guide at Los Angeles County Museum of Art on November 15, 2008, produced by Machine Project, a social project operated out of a storefront gallery in Echo Park; and David Michalek's Slow Dancing at the Lincoln Center Festival in New York City, July 12-29 2007.

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Created environment with the intention of enhancing the relationships between objects and the space itself, the understanding of which derives from the impression created by the viewer and his physical experience.

Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-26T18:17:57Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Ana Carolina da Cunha.pdf: 999430 bytes, checksum: 04828c376e3f4f5a3c79333cb1ca6102 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2009-05-11 / Secretaria da Educação do Estado de São Paulo / This research has as main objective the analysis of projects 2 and Karlskrona Superchannel of collective Superflex, Denmark, and projects Frivolity and Folly and Fripperies and Trimmings, of the group De Geuzen, the Netherlands, in the light of the theory of relational aesthetics of Nicolas Bourriaud. From the 1990s, Bourriaud set the parameters for contemporary artistic production that is based on and is embodied from social exchanges. Given this theoretical framework, the relevance of the research lies in the fact that focus on productions that use digital cyberspace and language as means of dissemination and transmission of artistic proposals - language and tools then viewed with reservation by Bourriaud. The problem of research, ultimately theoretical, lies precisely in this tension between the internal relational aesthetics of the French philosopher and the chosen corpus. Established relational groups, such as De Geuzen and Superflex, advocate the use of technological devices and declare that, in some art propositions, technology and the Internet facilitate and potentialize objectives of social exchange. Both groups focus more on the network relations provided by the Internet than the technology it encloses. They both make use of the digital language as relational/communicational tools. Thus, it is clear that, unlike what Bourriaud thought, it is not the fact that these groups use the technology that they lose their relational character. For the demonstration of this reflexive perspective, this work has considered alongside the research, the theories of Lemos, Lovejoy, Lévy, Trivinho, Virilio and Baudrillard on cyberculture, and the reflections of Musso, Parente, Prado, and Miltrop Latour, among others, on the networks. The theory of society as a network, designed by Castells and for which contributed Mafessoli, had significant importance in this research. Other important findings were made by direct research on the groups websites and through personal analysis of their works and access to documents submitted by them in symposia and electronic publications. In addition to the corpus of the study, art expressions that use technology and social exchange, as the foundation of production, were also presented, such as the propositions of tactical media and locative media as well as experiments in social networks / A presente pesquisa tem como principal objetivo a análise dos projetos Karlskrona 2 e Superchannel, do coletivo Superflex, da Dinamarca, e os projetos Frivolity and Folly e Fripperies and Trimmings, do grupo De Geuzen, da Holanda, à luz da teoria da estética relacional de Nicolas Bourriaud. A partir dos anos 1990, Bourriaud estabeleceu parâmetros para a produção artística contemporânea que se calcava nas e se corporificava a partir das trocas sociais. Dado esse referencial teórico, a relevância da pesquisa reside no fato de centrar-se em produções que utilizam o ciberespaço e a linguagem digital como meios de divulgação e transmissão de propostas artísticas ferramentas e linguagem até então vistas com ressalva por Bourriaud. O problema da pesquisa, teórico em última análise, reside justamente nessa tensão interna entre a estética relacional do filósofo francês e o corpus escolhido. Grupos relacionais consagrados, como o De Geuzen e o Superflex, defendem o uso dos aparatos tecnológicos e declaram que, em algumas propostas artísticas, a tecnologia e a internet facilitam e potencializam objetivos de intercâmbio social. Ambos os grupos focam mais as relações em rede que a internet proporciona do que as tecnologias que ela encerra. Utilizam as linguagens digitais como ferramentas relacional-comunicacionais. Dessa forma, fica claro que, diferentemente do que pensava Bourriaud, não é pelo fato de esses grupos utilizarem a tecnologia que eles perdem o seu caráter relacional. Para a demonstração dessa perspectiva reflexiva, foram consideradas, durante a pesquisa, as teorias de Lemos, Lovejoy, Lévy, Trivinho, Virílio e Baudrillard sobre a cibercultura, bem como as reflexões de Musso, Parente, Prado, Latour e Miltrop, entre outros, a respeito das redes. A teoria da sociedade em rede, concebida por Castells e para a qual contribuiu Mafessoli, teve importância relevante no trabalho. Outras constatações importantes foram realizadas mediante pesquisa direta em páginas eletrônicas dos grupos, bem como por meio de análise pessoal das obras e de acesso a documentos apresentados pelos grupos em simpósios e publicações eletrônicas. Em complementação ao corpus do estudo, manifestações artísticas que utilizam, como base fundamental de produção, a tecnologia e as trocas sociais também foram apresentadas, como, por exemplo, as propostas de mídia tática e mídia locativa e as experimentações em redes sociais

Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-26T18:18:43Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Mauricio Penteado Trentin.pdf: 2390746 bytes, checksum: a64320c9192af1289fb7448c959c9969 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2010-05-24 / The research aims at developing a new structure for mapping and analyzing works of art starting with their communicational characteristics. It is based on the hypothesis that there are possibilities in readership, understanding and categorization of objects of art in contemporary production that can be reached by the analysis and interpretation of communication aspects between interpreters and works of art; out of which possible relationship patterns arise. From a methodological point of view, the research is based on bibliographic research, presentation of works that present the communication categories and possibilities and artwork creation, a way to expand the discussion to other medium and interfaces. The goal is to verify the relationship possibilities between the immaterial counterparts of the objects, their meanings, and the observer. The logic is that the communication relationship between the work and the interpreter could permeate different media, the media being no more relevant than the main components of comprehension and readership, the meaning that the works carry and the way in which these meanings are learned by the interpreter. Even when the choice of medium is made in direct relationship with the subject matter, criticism or poetics of the work, the immaterial representation engulfed by the object and noticed by the observer is paramount to the comprehension of contemporary art. Analyzing the implications and theoretical relationships of the proposal, the dissertation aims at establishing discussion about the real space of the contemporary art experience, its communicational and relational scope, the contact between meanings and interpreters. The hypotheses, therefore, is presented by the means of two discourses: theoretical/analytical and artistic. In the artistic discourse, a series of works that operate in different levels of contact with the observer will be created and presented. In the theoretical discourse, relational categories created stemming from the communication possibilities between interpreters and contemporary works of art will be proposed and have their general validity accumulated with the presentation of relevant theoretical relationships. From the theoretical point of view, the discussion is built on the concepts of post-historic art of A. C. Danto, contemporary art of C. Cauquelin, Peircean semiotics based on the reading of L. Santaella, and the crucial importance of the interpreter, initially indicated by Duchamp, to investigate the possibilities of communication in contemporary art. It shows that the categorization of an artistic production is possible as long as the parameters are communicational/relational (Peirce s universal categories applied to the work/interpreter relationship, perceiving works as interfaces between artists and interpreters, close to the Cultural Interfaces, in Manovich s terms, however not necessarily digital), take into consideration specific interpretations and aren t based exclusively on the physicality of the works / A pesquisa visa lançar bases para uma nova estrutura de mapeamento e análise das obras de arte, partindo de suas características comunicacionais. Parte-se da hipótese de que existem possibilidades de leitura, discernimento e categorização de objetos de arte na produção contemporânea que podem ser feitas pela análise e interpretação de aspectos comunicacionais entre intérpretes e obras de arte; dos quais decorrem possíveis padrões relacionais. Do ponto de vista metodológico, a investigação apóia-se em pesquisa bibliográfica, discussão de obras que apresentam as categorias e possibilidades comunicacionais e criação de obras próprias que expandem as questões centrais da investigação em outros suportes e interfaces. O intuito é verificar as possibilidades relacionais entre as contrapartes imateriais dos objetos, seus significados, e o intérprete. A lógica é que a relação comunicativa obra/intérprete pode permear mídias e suportes diferentes, suportes esses que não são mais relevantes do que os componentes principais da compreensão e leitura, a carga de significado que as obras transportam e a maneira como esses significados são apreendidos pelo intérprete. Mesmo quando a escolha da mídia ou suporte faz relação direta ao assunto, crítica ou poética da obra, a carga imaterial de representatividade encapsulada pelo objeto e percebida pelo intérprete é central na compreensão da arte contemporânea. Analisando implicações e relações teóricas da proposta, a dissertação visa estabelecer discussão sobre o espaço real da experiência artística contemporânea, o campo comunicacional e relacional, o contato entre significados e intérpretes. A hipótese, portanto, é apresentada por meio de dois discursos: teórico/analítico e artístico. No discurso artístico, séries de obras que operem em níveis diferentes de contato com o intérprete serão criadas e apresentadas. No discurso teórico, categorias relacionais criadas a partir das possibilidades comunicativas entre intérpretes e obras de arte contemporâneas serão propostas e terão sua validade geral adensada com a apresentação de relações teóricas relevantes. Do ponto de vista teórico, a discussão baseia-se nos conceitos de arte pós-histórica de A. C. Danto, de arte contemporânea de C. Cauquelin, na semiótica peirciana, partindo da leitura de L. Santaella, e na importância crucial do intérprete, inicialmente indicada por Duchamp, para investigar as possibilidades de comunicação da arte contemporânea. A investigação demonstra que uma categorização da produção artística contemporânea é possível desde que os parâmetros sejam comunicacionais/relacionais (categorias universais de Peirce aplicadas à relação obra/intérprete, percebendo obras como interfaces entre artistas e intérpretes, próximas as Interfaces Culturais, nos termos de Manovich, porém não obrigatoriamente digitais), levem em conta interpretações específicas e não partam exclusivamente da fisicalidade das obras

This thesis will examine the practice of relational aesthetics as it involves the viewer, as well as the way in which it plays out within and outside of the institutional setting of the museum. I will focus primarily on two unique projects: that of The Machine Project Field Guide at Los Angeles County Museum of Art on November 15, 2008, produced by Machine Project, a social project operated out of a storefront gallery in Echo Park; and David Michalek's Slow Dancing at the Lincoln Center Festival in New York City, July 12-29 2007.

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In this dissertation I investigate photographs not only as images of something, or as objects we can hold, but I also investigate how they are acts grounded in place. That is, I consider the photograph as event. The backbone of my research is a hybrid social science and visual art undertaking in which I produce both academic texts and art installations through visual inquiry into the intensely imagined places that are Canadian national parks. I examine how the myth of wilderness is made concrete in visual images of Waterton Lakes National Park, Alberta. I explore the situatedness of photography through ethnographic and archival research into the conditions that produced over four-hundred photographs of Waterton from the late 19th century to the present. This research advances understanding of how specific historical photographic events shape dominant systems of environmental knowledge in Canada. I explore the intertwined histories of place and representation in Waterton over the past 150 years and how they emerge in the present. To unravel the politics of representation in national parks in Canada I address three key questions: First, how do images that portray and represent wilderness in Canada affect not only our imagination about national parks, but our experiences in, and actions in, national parks? In particular, how are photographs not just representations of national parks but how do we form a relationship to space and place through them? Second, I carry out a visual investigation of Waterton Lakes National Park to study the photograph as event, and ask, how photographs, not just as images and objects, are acts grounded in place? Finally, I ask: What new approaches can be deployed to investigate existing visual collections and to bring them to bear on the history and present of the national park space? I describe how visual methods can generate new ways of thinking about photography and place.

Marken är något fundamentalt. Jag dras till att skapa hålrum och att gjuta av dem. Låta händerna leda. Det är något som attraherar mig med att inte riktigt kunna föreställa mig formen av hålrummet i tanken, att det är ett glapp i överföringen mellan händernas rörelser och tankens. Att värdera det definierade högre än det odefinierade, vill jag lägga i en parantes.  Vi använder språk som materia, vi bygger betydelser, rum som skapar sammanhang, stödkonstruktioner, konstruktion som är dikt, som är en rörelse som är jord som är ett arbete som är sten som är en förflyttning som är trä som är en handling som är metall som är nära intill, att skulptera en tanke. Det är idén om att kroppen har en korrekt form som gör kroppen korrupt. Den brutna cirkeln är på ett sätt en helhet av två korrupta kroppar. Kategorier och definitioner är något verkligt, oavsett hur de är skapade eller kommit till. Vi uppmärksammar genast om något är konstigt. Två enheter som vi uppfattar som separata, är separata. Om de inte varit separata skulle vi uppfattat de som ett och inte som två. Det här ser vi omedelbart. Om vi inte är i ett främmande sammanhang med främmande definitioner, men då kommer säkerligen någon ganska snart att uppmärksamma oss på hur saker hänger ihop. Människor är hjälpsamma på sådant sätt. / My work may be described as bordering between sculpture and installation, intuitive and conceptual, it could in a way be seen as a broken circle, as one, but i will work hard to make the two entities, the two seemingly half circle shaped entities, to be separate, to be two.  I will assert they are one work but also not, I will assert their indepencence, they are two. The bridge, the connection, will (or will not) happen in the thought, not by sight. There will be no side-by-side, object dialog in near space, rather association through memory and through distance. Like an object or some kind of occurence is planted early on in a movie and then reoccurs later on with the purpuse to further the understanding of course of events.  We tend to read two half circles near each other as a whole circle. Robert Morris made two half circles with only a thin lit gap underlining their distinct form, but at the same time dissolving them as a broken circle. It is the idea of of a correct body that makes a body corrupt. The broken circle is in a way the whole of two corrupt bodies.