From concretism to the amusement park? The course of technological art in the Brazilian artistic field

• Grant number: 17/13635-5
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Post-Doctoral
• Start date: November 01, 2017
• End date: February 28, 2022
• Field of knowledge: Humanities - Sociology - Other specific Sociologies
• Principal Investigator: Sergio Miceli Pessoa de Barros
• Grantee: German Alfonso Nunez Canabal Junior
• Host Institution: Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas (FFLCH). Universidade de São Paulo (USP). São Paulo , SP, Brazil
• Associated scholarship(s): 19/00626-3 - The American influence in the development of Brazilian technological art, BE.EP.PD

Abstract

Emerging in northern hemisphere in the mid-sixties, technological art proposes the artistic use of new information technology that rises in the post-war period. Usually centred over digital computers, by the end of that decade this art surges in Brazil through the efforts of São Paulo concrete artists. Witness of the privileged position of its first proponents, this Brazilian technological art quickly comes to light in Biennales, museums and on articles arranged between the seventies and eighties. Seen by some of these poets and artists as a normative development signalling a future art, by the beginning of the twentieth century its situation was very different. Via petitions and mobilizations, these producers were now publically organizing themselves with the intention of salvaging an art that, from their point of view, was unjustly forgotten and excluded from both the artistic field and State funding sources. Consequentially, if we take its original position into consideration, what were the reasons for such a drop in legitimacy? Following the dilemma caused by this displacement, here we intend to investigate this genre under the light of Bourdieu's science of cultural works. Here we aim a research that, following the model proposed by the French sociologist, investigates the three levels of social reality that our problem unveils: regarding the genre's position and evolution within the structures of power, the internal disputes of the artistic field that result in the subjugation of technological art and, finally, the condition of agents which today claim to represent the genre.

Scientific publications

(References retrieved automatically from Web of Science and SciELO through information on FAPESP grants and their corresponding numbers as mentioned in the publications by the authors)

GERMAN ALFONSO NUNEZ. O beijo da morte e o seu contexto cultural e social: uma introdução à emergência da arte tecnológica ou digital. ARS (São Paulo), v. 17, n. 35, p. 93-115, 2019-05-02. (17/13635-5)