Authors:François Soulages Pages: 5 - 19 Abstract: François Soulages’ opening lecture for the 4th Colloquium RETiiNA. INTERNATIONAL in São Paulo, UAM. PubDate: 2023-09-25 DOI: 10.29147/datjournal.v8i3.757 Issue No:Vol. 8, No. 3 (2023)
Authors:Emilio José Martínez Arroyo Pages: 20 - 30 Abstract: The Transductor Ecomedia project aims to make visible the difficulties faced by natural spaces, taking as a model the space of the Marjal dels Moros in which the CEACV is located, in contact with widely entropied territories, due to traditional agricultural uses and new industrial uses that are not always attentive to the environmental sensitivity for which they are responsible. We start from the idea that artistic projects are a good tool to approach social problems from a broad and inclusive perspective that help us reflect and act on them, helping to create a collective conscience.. Transductor Ecomedia, is an artistic project about the visibility of data, the territory and sustainability. It is one of the results of the research project that we are currently developing within the R+D+i program of the MINISTRY OF SCIENCE AND INNOVATION 2020, carried out in collaboration between the research group of the Polytechnic University of Valencia and the Center for Environmental Education of the Valencian Community (CEACV). PubDate: 2023-09-25 DOI: 10.29147/datjournal.v8i3.764 Issue No:Vol. 8, No. 3 (2023)
Authors:Marilia Lyra Bergamo Pages: 31 - 45 Abstract: This article presents an approach to the design of robotics that values the notion of assemblage. The term assemblage can represent an intermediate state between iterative and design experimentation. Developing robotic integrated systems, such as small network communication between metastable individuals, is costly. As a result, fully integrated automated systems are usually preferred over experimental open methods. That integra[1]ted automated process diminishes the potential of establishing assemblage in favours of more arborescent solutions. Here it will present an approach that concentrates on the stability of the microcontroller board and allows the development of the assemblage. At the same time, it opens the exploring potential of differential parts in physical computing. PubDate: 2023-09-25 DOI: 10.29147/datjournal.v8i3.765 Issue No:Vol. 8, No. 3 (2023)
Authors:Matheus Montanari, Gilbertto Prado Pages: 43 - 65 Abstract: Thinking of different forms of existence in the digital is an exercise of articulating the technobiodiverse agents of their environment. We propose an ecological thinking that encompasses technology through poetic creation. Thus, we discuss the interactive installation “monoculture, monotenic, mononature” in the context of an ontological investigation of technology, reviewing the Modern ruptures between culture, technique and nature. We start with an investigation with the Eucalyptus, the most planted tree in Brazil, but of Australian origin. While in its native territory it is responsible for maintaining much of the local biodiversity and is seen as sacred by the aboriginal populations, in Brazil it was introduced in a monoculture system that interferes with biodiversity and generates conflict in territories with local populations. Therefore, we propose a reflection with distinct elements of the artwork, from the concept of cosmotechnics, to highlight the conflicts of multiple and technobiodiverse existences in the current hegemonic technological systems, pointing out how the construction of a poetics of care can indicate new paths for technological thinking. PubDate: 2023-09-25 DOI: 10.29147/datjournal.v8i3.766 Issue No:Vol. 8, No. 3 (2023)
Authors:Reynaldo Thompson, Tirtha Mukhopadhyay Pages: 66 - 73 Abstract: In this paper, we shall refer to approaching digital art with a sense of critical reflection now that AI gains momentum and comes to its point of an almost overwhelming no-return. The Technosphere, which is already confronted by discriminatory access because of distinctive ecologies of industrial production and consumption, is defined by this always one-sided inclination and the anxieties thereof. The lack of access or deprivation of technological instruments may create absolute separation of cultural blocks and differences in people’s self-esteem within a connected world. Ritualized emotive behaviors lie at the root of allegiances and culturally sensitive performances. This passionate reflex towards the living continuum of history has been fed into AI channels – that is how the glory of digital practices are defined in underprivileged economies. A good example is the basic sensor actuated installations of Fernando Palma. Once again, we refer to a specific pro[1]ject from Mexico, and bear in mind projects on Indigenous electroacoustics. PubDate: 2023-09-25 DOI: 10.29147/datjournal.v8i3.767 Issue No:Vol. 8, No. 3 (2023)
Authors:Milton Sogabe, Fernando Fogliano, Renato Hildebrand, Fabio Oliveira Nunes, Ive Rubini , Rodrigo Dorta Marques, Cleber Gazana, Soraya Braz, Caio Netto Dos Santos, Barbara Jaqueline Soares Milano Pages: 74 - 84 Abstract: In the context of the Anthropocene, Post-Human and Post-Digital, technology in Art gains a complexity that goes beyond the exploration of its possibilities, involving Other environmental and social concerns. From these discussions comes the proposal to build a triptych of works that incorporate current issues. In this sense, we present three works of Art-Technology, which propose to eliminate the use of commercial electricity or batteries, as well as the non-use of computers or digital processors in their structure. However, the proposal maintains the interactivity of the human with the machine and technological devices. Breath, Touch and Gesture form the triptych, in which each work explores modes of interaction, technologies, materials, shapes and meanings, based on simplicity and transparency, so that it gains energy and life through contact with the human body, generating different poetics and symbologies. PubDate: 2023-09-25 DOI: 10.29147/datjournal.v8i3.758 Issue No:Vol. 8, No. 3 (2023)
Authors:Daniel Jesus de Souza Prazeres, Suzete Venturelli Pages: 96 - 107 Abstract: This article aims to reflect on nature and activism in the smart city, questioning the planning, administration and organization of urban spaces that involve technology in the search for greater efficiency and profit for institutions and some social groups. Sustainable or conservation actions are seen as an attack, as they define nature as a separate and unchanging entity. In this regard, the text briefly conceptualizes the term “Natur.vismo”, crafted by the author of this article, which consists of the fusion of the words “nature” and “activism”, understood as a social construction according to the vision of Bruno Latour and Edward O. Wilson. The Manifesto of Nature addresses the context of cities with the main objective of making the population aware, especially social groups that, faced with the need for survival, withdraw from decisions. The manifesto seeks to boost the cultural and social debate regarding urban events. PubDate: 2023-09-25 DOI: 10.29147/datjournal.v8i3.768 Issue No:Vol. 8, No. 3 (2023)
Authors:Valzeli Figueira Sampaio Pages: 108 - 121 Abstract: This article is a first approach to Maja Smrekar’s works, which evoke experiences where being together, living together inter-species causes multiplicities, changes and problematizations. The myth of humanity, based on its uniqueness, is imploded, revealing in the works under the title K-9:Topology the experience of co-parenting and co-domestication between humans and animals. Proposing to rethink the social and ideological instrumentalization of the woman’s body. A woman’s body is influenced by social norms and objectification. Behind its spectacular and, for some, controversial appearances, K-9_topology offers us the opportunity to reflect on uncomfortable issues such as the instrumentalization and objectification of female bodies, the problematic position of the human species at the top and center of the ecosystem, the ambiguities of biotechnological practices and promises, the relationship between art and multispecies life. These works of art point to other ways of life, other ways of kinship, other ways of producing knowledge about art, reality, nature, and the place of the human among terrestrial species. PubDate: 2023-09-25 DOI: 10.29147/datjournal.v8i3.769 Issue No:Vol. 8, No. 3 (2023)
Authors:Andréia Machado Oliveira, Hermes Renato Hildebrand Pages: 122 - 131 Abstract: In this article, we seek to think of digital artistic objects as mediators between subjects and means, based on two philosophers who, in different ways, treat reality in a relational and procedural way. For Gilbert Simondon, techno-aesthetic objects have the role of mediating worlds and transforming collective relations, being understood from an ontogenetic approach that does not dissociate culture, technology and nature. Charles S. Peirce also assesses the complexity of the world from the perspective of different aspects that go beyond the human. In his Semiotic Theory, we find the “abductive, inductive and deductive” logical inferences associated with complex systems. In fact, these philosophers lead us to reflect on the relationships between technologies, living organisms, nature and complex environmental and cultural systems. Thus, we understand that digital artistic objects are defined and define their associated environment, as well as being configured in processes of mediation and interaction. PubDate: 2023-09-25 DOI: 10.29147/datjournal.v8i3.771 Issue No:Vol. 8, No. 3 (2023)
Authors:Agda Carvalho, Helena Hernández-Acuaviva Pages: 132 - 142 Abstract: In our daily lives we live with rapid audio and image responses that are inaccurate, incorrect, imperfect and unreliable. Here we look at the situations that operate in contemporary unpredictability with the biases given to automated translations by Artificial Intelligence, especially with regard to gender. This discussion results in the work “Sesgos y traducción automática” (2023), an artistic project developed by artists Helena Hernández Acuaviva and Agda Carvalho, which is part of the ASTER Research Project (University of Seville). Its aim is to show the gender biases that exist in automatic translations and image and sound manipulation. This reflection focuses on the interference of algorithms in our daily decisions, since they inhabit the networks and help us access diverse information. PubDate: 2023-09-25 DOI: 10.29147/datjournal.v8i3.761 Issue No:Vol. 8, No. 3 (2023)
Authors:Eduardo de Jesus, Alessandra Bergamaschi Pages: 143 - 158 Abstract: The 22nd SESC_Videobrasil Biennial celebrates its 40-year journey in 2023, drawing inspiration from Waly Salomão’s poem: “Memory is a editing station.” The parallel and historical exhibition Videobrasil 40 Years Special is a living archive, a space of activation, reverberation, and potential immersions into a collection comprising over 2,000 works. This recollection places the artworks in a series of new dialogues and contemporary approximations, within a performative process that triggers new layers of meaning in the gaps between the present and historical time. We will showcase the exhibition’s construction process, which attempts to narrate the history of Videobrasil through multiple axes and intersections. In doing so, we engage historical and conceptual questions, bringing together curation, design, and research. PubDate: 2023-09-25 DOI: 10.29147/datjournal.v8i3.762 Issue No:Vol. 8, No. 3 (2023)
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