Orientador: Rosangella Leote / Resumo: O presente trabalho se desenvolve na fronteira entre a produção artística, científica e tecnológica. É uma procura da interface humana de significado no ambiente, que culminou na elaboração da exposição “A Senhora do Balé: Ancestralidade Maquínica”, que é a junção de diferentes abordagens para os objetos tecnocientíficos. Este trabalho perpassa questionamentos sobre o que são as máquinas, que se revelam na exposição de obras/máquinas, repleta de um imaginário místico e de ferramentas que formam colagens antropomórficas, em um ambiente artístico imerso em luzes e sombras. Se tem como base teórica: O panorama das máquinas mecânicas feitas por Abbott Payson Usher e o Conceito de Tecnologia de Álvaro Vieira Pinto. A pesquisa de Paula Sibila sobre o Pós-orgânico; os conceitos de Emoção e Consciência de António Damásio e as experimentações das interfaces de comunicação entre humano e robô, de Zaven Paré. Como base de processos de criação, se examina obras de Jean Tinguely, que surgem como caminhos para a estrutura do trabalho. Pretende-se, ainda, que as obras sejam metáforas que operem entre diversos sentidos do interator, estimulando-os, gerando assim, material para o estudo da Emoção como agente direto da cognição. De forma artística, o trabalho “Máquinas e Emoções na Arte”, busca paradoxos em quantificar o qualitativo e qualificar o quantitativo. / Abstract: The present work is developed on the frontier between artistic, scientific and technological production. It is a search for the human interface of meaning in the environment, which culminated in the elaboration of the exhibition “A Senhora do Balé: Ancestralidade Maquínica” that is the junction of different approaches for the technoscientific objects. This work raises questions about what machines are, which are revealed in the exhibition of works / machines, full of a mystical imaginary and tools that form anthropomorphic collages, in an artistic environment immersed in lights and shadows. Its theoretical basis is: The panorama of mechanical machines made by Abbott Payson Usher and the Technology Concept of Álvaro Vieira Pinto. Paula Sibila's research on the Postorganic; the concepts of Emotion and Consciousness of António Damásio and the experiments of the communication interfaces between human and robot, by Zaven Paré. As a basis of creation processes, Jean Tinguely's works are examined, which appear os paths to the work structure. It is also intended that works are metaphors that operate between different senses of the interactor, stimulating them, thus generating material for the study of Emotion as a direct agent of cognition. In an artistic way, the work "Machines and Emotions in Art", seeks paradoxes in quantifying the qualitative and qualifying the quantitative. / Mestre

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Artist statement Nao Yamamoto The environment I grew up in allowed me to cultivate an appreciation for both contemporary art and traditional craft, and I still respect the Japanese culture. However, experiencing contemporary art based on a different society and environment changed my perspective and I felt like it took me beyond the narrow culture of Japan. Since I recognized my art as a way to represent myself, or even to have conversations with tnyself, I became devoted to a contemporary art practice. It has been so exciting to see my thoughts made visual and how I've been changed by creating my art. I have long created my pieces based on the simple beauty of glass. I was looking fof a way to emphasize what I see in it. During the glassblowing process, I would . sometimes see the molten glass as a creature that has a consciousness that tries to challenge my skill or mastery. This idea helped me to create a different body of work which represented my experience or relationship with glass sculpture rather than the materiality of glass. Now glass has become not only a material, but also my fickle friend which. reflects my inspiration and concentration. I believe that there is nothing that compares with the beauty of nature. For me it is overwhelming because any life form doesn't think about the meaning of life, but only thinks about surviving. When I am at a beach, in a forest, or in the middle of a desert, the simple, pure, clean force of life in nature inspires me to just live, strongly but simply. I believe we have lost that n~tion in complicated contemporary lives. What I atn trying to do is to reinterpret elements from nature to celebrate the power of life, both in its significance and in its insignificance.

Being First generation born Mexican American I am looking into the blend of the two cultures and the disparity between them. The border is the core of my investigation; by traveling across the border I have become conscious of the differences among both sides and duality within myself. My identity has developed from a synthesis of these two cultures, and my wok explores these two factions that cannot be one without the other. fusion is apparent in my self-portraits where I dress up with the colors from both sides of the border. But I also take a personal look into understanding the history and identity of each nation. I create a juxtaposition with these two identities that become one and explore the social, cultural, and political issues we face in the everyday. I recreate my “investigation,” by trying to dig deeper, exposing the layers, and facing my own identity crisis in the process.

The Break is a personal investigation into problems and possibilities of representing my specific transgender identity. Trans as a tactic to speak about a state of forever becoming, forever in between, outside of and in opposition to dominant social norms of being. Trans as a model for a different way of viewing and being in the world. Can we form a different kind of horizontal shared power though a collective refusal to play into existing structures from which we have been excluded? What are the potentials for modeling other ways of being, other ways of (dis)engaging, other ways to be in the world? What if we can disengage words from their established meanings? Can we re-see each other without the language that upholds the social conditions that maintain internalized categories? Can we collectively create the conditions to imagine the possibility of building other worlds in this world?

A compendium of horizontality through the means of theory, facts, fictions, questions and other ruminations on the Caribbean and the diasporic experience.

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By using the creative process as a means to reflect this work delves into the themes of memory and identity as they relate to my struggle, as an adolescent, to define my sexual orientation.

Fundamentally, creative endeavors are affected by the personal philosophy of artists which are greatly concerned with their perception and interpretation of life and death. These two concepts form a reality which consists of this dichotomy. As `unity' has been an underlying goal in the work of many artists, it challenges the polarity conveyed in this viewpoint causing contemplation and conversation around the framing of their own existence through their work.

It's about living It's about feeling incomplete It's about nostalgia It's about culture It's about joy It's about how life flashes before our lives It's about sorrow It's about what's hidden under the rug It's about fitting in It's about getting away It's about a journey It's about language It's about class It's about how something clean can leave a stain It's about goodbyes It's about fiction It's about place It's about blame It's about obsession It's about feeling stranded It's about itching a scratch It's about holding on It's about being found It's about how we all settle eventually It's about desire It's about conflict It's about you It's about me It's about future It's about community It's about failure It's about wondering which one of us is next It's about the American dream It's about right now It's about the people we will become It's about the search It's about routine It's about finding It's about change It's about living