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As an artist, my work reflects my own life experiences, allowing me to reinterpret and process difficult events in a new light. Creating art is a therapeutic process for me, enabling me to explore and understand my past and my own Self. In line with James Baldwin's views, I believe that the duty of an artist is to provide their audience with an opportunity to rediscover themselves; to help them explore their inner selves. In my experience, to achieve that goal, the first and most important hurdle the artist needs to cross is exploring themselves. In the process of answering questions about their own selves, they can touch many other souls. In Fragmented Self, I employ composited 3D animations of my own body parts juxtaposed over still and moving images. Each body part and piece in Fragmented Self is a metaphorical representation of a specific experience I have lived through. The resulting pieces are meditative, surreal, and abstracted spaces that speak to the complexities of life experiences. I believe each body holds messages from the past, and in Fragmented Self, I disembody and fragment my own body to study and explore my own Self. Drawing inspiration from Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass in which he proclaims, "I contain multitudes", I see my Self as a composite of various selves shaped by different life experiences coming together to form one Self. I believe that I am a constantly evolving individual, influencing my everyday encounters and choices. As in the Japanese tradition of Kintsugi, in Fragmented Self, I trace the gold lined cracks that unite my multitudinous selves into one in hopes of answering the question "What makes me who I am today?" / Master of Fine Arts / Fragmented Self is a body of artwork created in an effort to learn about my own Self. The work explores how I see my Self as containing multiple selves. The project utilizes video and 3D rendering to create digital composites with semi-realistic aesthetics. The finished work includes 3 pieces focusing on ideas of time, perception, and fragmentation.

Esta dissertação busca mapear as redes de artistas, intelectuais e eventos responsáveis, na década de 1970, por introduzir discussões e linguagens da arte contemporânea no eixo Sul do Brasil. Para tanto, debruça-se sobre os maiores centros urbanos da região, cujos campos artísticos estão mais bem estruturados e são mais longevos, as capitais Curitiba (PR) e Porto Alegre (RS). Por meio especialmente de pesquisa de arquivo e entrevistas, são analisadas as especificidades socioculturais e políticas que conformaram as condições para a emergência de um campo de liberdade artística e ruptura de cânones dos chamados anos de chumbo do regime ditatorial ao início do período da redemocratização. Privilegiam-se, nos estudos de caso, ações coletivas e experimentais ligadas aos conceitualismos nas artes visuais que procuraram romper com as tradições e discursos regionalistas, expandindo as fronteiras estatais , concebidas por agentes envolvidos com o pensamento contracultural em voga a partir do final dos anos 1960. / This dissertation seeks to map the networks of artists, intellectuals and events responsible, in the 1970s, for introducing discussions and languages of contemporary art in the Southern axis of Brazil. As such, it focuses on the regions largest urban centers, the capitals Curitiba (PR) and Porto Alegre (RS), whose artistic fields are better structured and longer-lived. Especially through archival research and interviews, the sociocultural and political specificities that shaped the conditions for the emergence of a field of artistic freedom, of rupture from canons, are analyzed from the so-called anos de chumbo of the dictatorial regime to the beginning of redemocratization. In the case studies, greater attention is given to collective and experimental actions linked to conceptualisms in visual arts which sought to break from regionalist traditions and discourses, expanding the state boundaries conceived by artists involved with the countercultural thinking, in vogue since the early 1960.

La vision multiple et la perception simultanée d’images et d’informations sont au cœur de notre vie quotidienne ; l’omniprésence des écrans et des fenêtres, de l’espace urbain à Internet, produit une vision sur-cadrée et fragmentée du monde qui transforme notre rapport à l’image. La révolution artistique des 19ème et 20ème siècles accompagna le développement des techniques de production de l'image photographique et cinématographique manifestant une certaine préoccupation pour la décomposition du mouvement et l’échantillonnage du temps. La naissance des technologies numériques, dont le développement est intimement lié à celui des réseaux de télécommunication et notamment d’Internet, a renouvelé cette tendance en faisant de la mobilité, de la téléprésence, de l’ubiquité et de la vision simultanée les caractéristiques fondamentales de la pensée visuelle de notre époque.Les systèmes figuratifs de l’image numérique, qui héritent des techniques d’enregistrements optiques tout en y adjoignant celles de la simulation par ordinateur, inaugurent-ils une attitude différente vis-à-vis du réel ? Leur parenté avec Internet et avec les systèmes temps réels les investit-t-elle d’un autre mode d’expression temporel, qui viendrait se substituer à l’histoire de la peinture classique et tendrait à renouveler la présence performative et le direct de l’art vidéo ? C’est à travers le concept du fragment, considéré comme outil au service de l’expérimentation artistique, que cette thèse de recherche-création examine la manière dont l’image numérique animée reprend et transforme les codes de la pratique figurative en peinture et en cinéma pour organiser une nouvelle découpe de la vue et du temps. / Multiple vision and simultaneous perception of images and information are at the heart of our daily lives; The omnipresence of screens and windows, from urban space to the Internet, produces an over-framed and fragmented vision of the world that transforms our relationship to the image. The artistic revolution of the 19th and 20th centuries accompanied the development of photographic and cinematographic image production techniques, expressing a certain concern for movement decomposition and time sampling. The birth of digital technologies, whose development is intimately linked to that of telecommunication networks and especially the Internet, has renewed this trend by making mobility, telepresence, ubiquity and simultaneous vision the fundamental characteristics of the visual thinking of our time.Do the figurative systems of digital image, which inherit the techniques of optical recordings while adding those of computer simulation, inaugurate a different attitude towards reality? Does their kinship with the Internet and real time systems invest them in another mode of temporal expression, which would replace the history of classical painting and would tend to renew the performative and direct presence of video art? It is through the concept of fragment, considered as a tool in the service of artistic experimentation, that this research-creation thesis examines the way in which the animated digital image takes over and transforms the codes of figurative practice into painting and film to organize a new cut of sight and time.

This report focuses on social networks surrounding visual music, a sub-field of audiovisual experimental art in which hearing and seeing intersect, often through the music-oriented manipulation of abstract imagery and audio-visual synchronization. The discussion evolves from my fieldwork in Los Angeles, where I interacted with artists, archivists, publishers, institutions, software developers, and scholars. Taking into account Howard Becker's notion of art world, Pierre Bourdieu's ideas of cultural and economic capitals, and Bruno Latour's actor-network theory, I try to understand how these groups have been trying to establish visual music-networks. Although elements of visual music have been present in various media and artistic trends (color organs, abstract films, VJing-DJing, etc.), the field's history and premises are still little known, in part because the very term 'visual music' is a contested one. Due to its entertainment/cultural industries, Los Angeles is a place where multiple processes of high tech differentiation coexist; since the 1930s the city's technocultural environment (from film production to academic programs on computer animation) has lured artists interested in visual music. Not surprisingly, the city holds the only two institutions directly related to visual music in the country. I navigate through this field by considering some intersections between science, art, and technology. / text

Esta dissertação busca mapear as redes de artistas, intelectuais e eventos responsáveis, na década de 1970, por introduzir discussões e linguagens da arte contemporânea no eixo Sul do Brasil. Para tanto, debruça-se sobre os maiores centros urbanos da região, cujos campos artísticos estão mais bem estruturados e são mais longevos, as capitais Curitiba (PR) e Porto Alegre (RS). Por meio especialmente de pesquisa de arquivo e entrevistas, são analisadas as especificidades socioculturais e políticas que conformaram as condições para a emergência de um campo de liberdade artística e ruptura de cânones dos chamados anos de chumbo do regime ditatorial ao início do período da redemocratização. Privilegiam-se, nos estudos de caso, ações coletivas e experimentais ligadas aos conceitualismos nas artes visuais que procuraram romper com as tradições e discursos regionalistas, expandindo as fronteiras estatais , concebidas por agentes envolvidos com o pensamento contracultural em voga a partir do final dos anos 1960. / This dissertation seeks to map the networks of artists, intellectuals and events responsible, in the 1970s, for introducing discussions and languages of contemporary art in the Southern axis of Brazil. As such, it focuses on the regions largest urban centers, the capitals Curitiba (PR) and Porto Alegre (RS), whose artistic fields are better structured and longer-lived. Especially through archival research and interviews, the sociocultural and political specificities that shaped the conditions for the emergence of a field of artistic freedom, of rupture from canons, are analyzed from the so-called anos de chumbo of the dictatorial regime to the beginning of redemocratization. In the case studies, greater attention is given to collective and experimental actions linked to conceptualisms in visual arts which sought to break from regionalist traditions and discourses, expanding the state boundaries conceived by artists involved with the countercultural thinking, in vogue since the early 1960.

[ES] La animación experimental se desarrolla en festivales, muestras, exposiciones y está estrechamente ligada a las producciones gráficas, pictóricas, musicales, fotográficas, en definitiva es utilizada como medio de expresión artística. Debemos por tanto plantearnos la animación como un nuevo soporte de difusión de obra, acorde con las nuevas formas de ver y entender el mundo y las necesidades de la sociedad. Analizado este nuevo soporte descubrimos que las técnicas que se emplean son tan variadas y diversas como los artistas que las utilizan, encontrando entre ellas técnicas como la pintura o el grabado, ambas poseedoras de un amplio abanico de procedimientos y resultados. Centrando nuestra atención en el grabado, descubrimos que para un grupo de animadores experimentales, éste es la base de sus producciones, algunos influenciados por sus pioneros Len Lye y Norman McLaren, utilizan la técnica en su esencia más pura, otros toman como punto de partida su estética y sus características para desarrollar sus producciones con la ayuda de otras técnicas. El grabado ofrece la posibilidad de trabajar con distintas técnicas atendiendo a su matriz y su estampa, considerando los procesos técnicos, los sistemas de estampación y la manipulación e intervención de las estampas como un amplio abanico de nuevas posibilidades. Nuestra Tesis plantea la realidad del grabado animado experimental, ofreciendo a los artistas cada día más interdisciplinares, nuevas posibilidades de creación. / [EN] Experimental animation is developping in festivals, demonstrations and exhibitions and it is closely joined to the graphic, pictorical, musical and photographical productions. Definitively it is used as artistic expression medium. Therefore we should see animation as a new support of broadcasting the work, according to the new ways of seeing and understanding the world and the needs of the society. Analyzing this new support we discover that the techniques employed are so different and diverse like the artists self that use them, finding between them techniques like painting or engraving, both possessors of a wide range of procedures and outcomes. Focussing our attention on engraving, we discover that, for a group of experimental animators, this is the base for their produccions. Some of them influenced by the pioneers Len Lye en Norman McLaren, use the technique in its purest essence, some others use their aesthetics and characteristics as a starting point in order to develop their productions along with other techniques. Engraving offers the possibility of working with different techniques attending to his mould and printing, considering the technical procedures, the printing methodes and the manipulation and intervention of the printings as a wide range of new possibilities. Our Thesis pose the reality of experimental animated engraving, offering the artists, each day more in the mixed media, new possibilities of creation. / López Izquierdo, MA. (2006). El grabado animado experimental: nuevas posibilidades de creación técnica y simulación estética [Tesis doctoral]. Universitat Politècnica de València. https://doi.org/10.4995/Thesis/10251/204798

The Ghost Machine is a practice-based research project that explores the process of embodiment in animated film. It describes the process of transfiguration from the artist’s/auteur’s point of view and not from an outside position. The dissertation follows the embodiment of a dramatic text, the Ghost Sonata by August Strindberg (1907), into an animated film. The starting point is my experience of the drama, at the age of thirteen, when staged by Ingmar Bergman at the Royal Dramatic Theatre. As a teenager, the world of the grown-ups seemed to be corrupt, twisted and ruled by violent power plays and economic sanctions, and this play confirmed my world view. Was I right, as a thirteen-year-old boy? What kind of world emerges in my version of the Ghost Sonata? In this thesis work, the films and the experimental research process meet the practice and art of writing. Using text, not as “theory” separated from “practice” but as a bodily art practice, creates a shifting border between the results and intentions of art and filmmaking, and the results of writing. At the same time a unity emerges where the results of the research process can be seen and experienced in the interaction between the texts and the artwork. The Ghost Machine is a totality where the text, films and artworks included in the project are equally important and must be seen as a unity. The Ghost Machine is a work journey where travelling, animated film practice, networking with colleagues and collecting data are mixed with experiments using methods from contemporary arts practice, performance, reenactment, appropriation and transfiguration, blended with traditional puppet animation in classic Czech style. In collaboration with actors, mime artists, puppet makers, musicians and a minimal film crew, century old stop-motion animation is combined with computer animation.  The textual part of the work falls into two categories: life stories and work stories. The work stories traces the forming of an artwork in all aspects. The life stories are related to the subject of ghosts. Suddenly, dead friends and dear family members claimed their space. The understanding of the Ghost Sonata came to be a process of sorting out and following lines of memory using an inverted version of the Orpheus myth as a guide. Instead of never turning around, when walking the dead out of oblivion, I chose to look back, again and again, until I hit something and could not write anymore. / https://www.uniartsplay.se/slin

Cette thèse est une étude du mouvement Cobra à travers les œuvres collectives, une de ses composantes caractéristiques. Il s’agit tout d’abord de comprendre le mouvement, ses origines et influences, ainsi que sa visée d’un art libre, ouvert, expérimental, partie prenante de la vie. Dans un contexte social d’après-guerre, souvent politisé, Cobra défend l’action collective, définie notamment dans les notions d’antispécialisme et d’interspécialisme. Il convient de mettre en exergue les origines de cette pratique, et saisir les divers aspects qu’elle arbore, notamment au travers de revues, d’expositions ou de créations partagées. Le poète Christian Dotremont, animateur et âme de Cobra, favorise le travail de collaboration et contribue à son développement en stimulant les rencontres artistiques. Il se fait le passeur et le permanent "agitateur"» de cette notion. Les peintures-mots qu’il crée avec d’autres artistes participent à sa réflexion majeure sur l’écriture et la peinture. Ce lien interpelle quelques artistes belges comme Pierre Alechinsky, mais il passionne Christian Dotremont qui ne cesse de multiplier les expériences à ce propos, pour aboutir à ce qu’il nomme les logogrammes, remarquable fusion de la peinture et de la poésie, et aboutissement de toute une vie de recherche. <p>Ce travail est structuré en trois points. Le premier établit une étude du contexte artistique et social des années précédent Cobra puis la mise en place du groupe. Le second aborde les années d’intense activité "officielle" du groupe, au service du collectif. Enfin, le troisième propose de suivre l’évolution post-Cobra des œuvres collectives et des recherches sur l’écriture et la peinture. / This thesis is a study of the Cobra movement through one of its characteristic components: the collective works. First of all it's about understanding the movement, its origins (three countries), its influences and its purpose of a free art, open, experimental, involvement with life. In a social after-war context, often politicized, Cobra defends collective action, notably defined in concepts of anti-specialism and inter-specialism. We should therefore underline the origins of this practice and undestand different aspects that it shows, in particular through publications, exhibitions or shared creations. The poet Christian Dotremont, leader and soul of Cobra, promotes cooperative work by collaboration and contributes to its development by stimulating artistic meetings. He is the purveyor and permanent "agitator" of this concept. The words-paintings that he creates with other artists, take part of his major thinking about writing and painting. This link interpellates a few Belgian artists like Pierre Alechinsky, but it fascinates Christian Dotremont who keeps experimenting on it, in order to reach what he calls the logograms, a remarkable fusion of painting and poetry, and a culmination of a life-time of research.<p>This work is structured in three parts. The first one draws a study of the artistic and social context of the years preceding Cobra and the setting up of the group. The second one talks about years of intense "official" activity of the group serving collective way of work. Finally, the third one offers to follow the post-Cobra evolution of collective works and researches about writing and painting. / Doctorat en Histoire, art et archéologie / info:eu-repo/semantics/nonPublished