This dissertation investigates the interplay between a selected set of museum practices, such as online strategies, digitisation of artwork reproductions, and crowdsourcing, through a theoretically grounded perspective. Existing discourse and debate on the museum's movement from an exclusively physical, to a digital or hybrid presence display an excessive interest in advocacy, usually focusing on small examples of successful practices which are then argued as somehow empowering or resolutive, usually from a 'social justice' point of view. Conversely, in those same discourses little attention is paid to the macro-context within which these cases take place: current debates lack an articulation of how museum practices reflect ongoing trends and paradigms on a culture-wide level, and also eschew non-advocative, neutral discussion of the politics, discourses and power relations that such practice entail. I suggest that the contemporary constructivist, digital museum can be better contextualised if we frame emergent digital museum praxis within a framework that resorts to well-established, and well-described theoretical paradigms that can be observed in other cultural and social contexts as well. The advantage of such an approach is that museum practice, and the museum as an institution, can then be seen in continuity with current macro-trends, rather than as isolates whose usefulness and sustainability begins and ends within the museum's precinct. This dissertation begins this proposed shift in point of view by addressing emergent museum practices such as the drafting of digital strategies; the creation of digital reproductions of artworks for online display; and crowdsourcing in the context of theoretical frameworks such as the utopian imagination; ontology of digital-beings; and contemporary labour practices. While not comprehensive, and exploratory in nature, this dissertation contributes to the discipline by providing a new, more in-depth point of view on 'hot' practices, encouraging a contextualisation of the museum that goes beyond the museum itself, into a theoretical and interdisciplinary field that takes advantage of ideas developed within digital humanities, labour critique, informatics and cultural studies.

Este estudo questiona os modos pelos quais a autora experienciou possibilidades de presença, através da ausência na sua atuação, no espetáculo Cinco Tempos para a Morte, do grupo teatral porto-­‐alegrense Usina do Trabalho do Ator (2010). Articula‐se a noção de ausência com reflexões acerca da produção de presença, desenvolvidas pelo pesquisador alemão Hans Ulrich Gumbrect (2010) e com o pensamento de Walter Benjamin (1993) sobre a experiência. Toma‐se a ideia de experiência como algo que pode ser narrado. Problematiza‐se a ausência relacionando‐a com o jogo cênico de reações sutis, silêncios, pequenos movimentos, imobilidades sustentadas, gestos de proporções reduzidas, ausência de iniciativas, estabelecimento de um vazio interior e retenção de informações que possibilitem leituras interpretativas do espectador. Descreve‐se o processo criativo de cinco figuras criadas pela autora nesse espetáculo e compartilham‐se elementos do processo de criação correspondente a cada uma delas. Relaciona‐se a ausência à imobilidade, à presença, à omissão, ao real e à experiência. A pesquisa se aproxima do pensamento de Jacques Copeau, Corinne Enaudeau, Yoshi Oida, Eugen Herrigel, Étienne Decroux, Eugenio Barba, Georges Banu, Ariane Mnouchkine, Peter Brook, Zeami, Martin Jay, entre outros. Esta investigação observa modos por intermédio dos quais os efeitos de presença, no jogo próximo da ausência, podem ser percebidos com maior ou menor intensidade em relação aos efeitos de sentido impostos pelas interpretações. / This study questions the ways through which its author experienced possibilities of presence, through the absence in her acting, at the play “Cinco Tempos para a Morte ” (Five rounds to death), by the theater company Usina do Trabalho do Ator, 2010, Porto Alegre. The notion of absence is articulated through reflections upon the production of presence, developed by German researcher Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht (2010) as well as the thought of Walter Benjamim (1993) on the experience. The idea of experience is taken as something that can be told. Absence is brought up as it is related to the scene of subtle reactions, silence, small movement, sustained immobility, gestures of minimized proportions, absence of initiative, the setting of an empty inner space and the holding of information that might enable the spectator to build interpretative readings. The creative process of five dramatic figures created by the author is described in this performance and elements belonging to the creation process of each one of them will be shared. Absence is related to mobility, to presence, to omission, to what is real and to the experience. This study comes close to the thoughts of Jacques Copeau, Corinne Enaudeau, Yoshi Oida, Eugen Herrigel, Étienne Decroux, Eugenio Barba, Georges Banu, Ariane Mnouchkine, Peter Brook, Zeami, Martin Jay, among others. Such survey looks into ways through which the effects of presence, in a game close to absence, may be perceived with more or less intensity concerning the meaning effects imposed by interpretation.

Este estudo questiona os modos pelos quais a autora experienciou possibilidades de presença, através da ausência na sua atuação, no espetáculo Cinco Tempos para a Morte, do grupo teatral porto-­‐alegrense Usina do Trabalho do Ator (2010). Articula‐se a noção de ausência com reflexões acerca da produção de presença, desenvolvidas pelo pesquisador alemão Hans Ulrich Gumbrect (2010) e com o pensamento de Walter Benjamin (1993) sobre a experiência. Toma‐se a ideia de experiência como algo que pode ser narrado. Problematiza‐se a ausência relacionando‐a com o jogo cênico de reações sutis, silêncios, pequenos movimentos, imobilidades sustentadas, gestos de proporções reduzidas, ausência de iniciativas, estabelecimento de um vazio interior e retenção de informações que possibilitem leituras interpretativas do espectador. Descreve‐se o processo criativo de cinco figuras criadas pela autora nesse espetáculo e compartilham‐se elementos do processo de criação correspondente a cada uma delas. Relaciona‐se a ausência à imobilidade, à presença, à omissão, ao real e à experiência. A pesquisa se aproxima do pensamento de Jacques Copeau, Corinne Enaudeau, Yoshi Oida, Eugen Herrigel, Étienne Decroux, Eugenio Barba, Georges Banu, Ariane Mnouchkine, Peter Brook, Zeami, Martin Jay, entre outros. Esta investigação observa modos por intermédio dos quais os efeitos de presença, no jogo próximo da ausência, podem ser percebidos com maior ou menor intensidade em relação aos efeitos de sentido impostos pelas interpretações. / This study questions the ways through which its author experienced possibilities of presence, through the absence in her acting, at the play “Cinco Tempos para a Morte ” (Five rounds to death), by the theater company Usina do Trabalho do Ator, 2010, Porto Alegre. The notion of absence is articulated through reflections upon the production of presence, developed by German researcher Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht (2010) as well as the thought of Walter Benjamim (1993) on the experience. The idea of experience is taken as something that can be told. Absence is brought up as it is related to the scene of subtle reactions, silence, small movement, sustained immobility, gestures of minimized proportions, absence of initiative, the setting of an empty inner space and the holding of information that might enable the spectator to build interpretative readings. The creative process of five dramatic figures created by the author is described in this performance and elements belonging to the creation process of each one of them will be shared. Absence is related to mobility, to presence, to omission, to what is real and to the experience. This study comes close to the thoughts of Jacques Copeau, Corinne Enaudeau, Yoshi Oida, Eugen Herrigel, Étienne Decroux, Eugenio Barba, Georges Banu, Ariane Mnouchkine, Peter Brook, Zeami, Martin Jay, among others. Such survey looks into ways through which the effects of presence, in a game close to absence, may be perceived with more or less intensity concerning the meaning effects imposed by interpretation.

Este estudo questiona os modos pelos quais a autora experienciou possibilidades de presença, através da ausência na sua atuação, no espetáculo Cinco Tempos para a Morte, do grupo teatral porto-­‐alegrense Usina do Trabalho do Ator (2010). Articula‐se a noção de ausência com reflexões acerca da produção de presença, desenvolvidas pelo pesquisador alemão Hans Ulrich Gumbrect (2010) e com o pensamento de Walter Benjamin (1993) sobre a experiência. Toma‐se a ideia de experiência como algo que pode ser narrado. Problematiza‐se a ausência relacionando‐a com o jogo cênico de reações sutis, silêncios, pequenos movimentos, imobilidades sustentadas, gestos de proporções reduzidas, ausência de iniciativas, estabelecimento de um vazio interior e retenção de informações que possibilitem leituras interpretativas do espectador. Descreve‐se o processo criativo de cinco figuras criadas pela autora nesse espetáculo e compartilham‐se elementos do processo de criação correspondente a cada uma delas. Relaciona‐se a ausência à imobilidade, à presença, à omissão, ao real e à experiência. A pesquisa se aproxima do pensamento de Jacques Copeau, Corinne Enaudeau, Yoshi Oida, Eugen Herrigel, Étienne Decroux, Eugenio Barba, Georges Banu, Ariane Mnouchkine, Peter Brook, Zeami, Martin Jay, entre outros. Esta investigação observa modos por intermédio dos quais os efeitos de presença, no jogo próximo da ausência, podem ser percebidos com maior ou menor intensidade em relação aos efeitos de sentido impostos pelas interpretações. / This study questions the ways through which its author experienced possibilities of presence, through the absence in her acting, at the play “Cinco Tempos para a Morte ” (Five rounds to death), by the theater company Usina do Trabalho do Ator, 2010, Porto Alegre. The notion of absence is articulated through reflections upon the production of presence, developed by German researcher Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht (2010) as well as the thought of Walter Benjamim (1993) on the experience. The idea of experience is taken as something that can be told. Absence is brought up as it is related to the scene of subtle reactions, silence, small movement, sustained immobility, gestures of minimized proportions, absence of initiative, the setting of an empty inner space and the holding of information that might enable the spectator to build interpretative readings. The creative process of five dramatic figures created by the author is described in this performance and elements belonging to the creation process of each one of them will be shared. Absence is related to mobility, to presence, to omission, to what is real and to the experience. This study comes close to the thoughts of Jacques Copeau, Corinne Enaudeau, Yoshi Oida, Eugen Herrigel, Étienne Decroux, Eugenio Barba, Georges Banu, Ariane Mnouchkine, Peter Brook, Zeami, Martin Jay, among others. Such survey looks into ways through which the effects of presence, in a game close to absence, may be perceived with more or less intensity concerning the meaning effects imposed by interpretation.