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| Author(s): |
Eli Borges Júnior
Total Authors: 1
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| Document type: | Doctoral Thesis |
| Press: | São Paulo. |
| Institution: | Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Escola de Comunicações e Artes (ECA/SBD) |
| Defense date: | 2020-03-04 |
| Examining board members: |
Massimo di Felice;
Giselle Beiguelman;
Ricardo Nascimento Fabbrini;
Anderson Vinícius Romanini;
Wagner Souza e Silva
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| Advisor: | Massimo di Felice |
| Abstract | |
As a result of a master\'s research also supported by FAPESP, this thesis presents a theory on the possibilities of transforming the status of the image and its modes of enjoyment from the hypertrophy of digital communication and information technologies, focusing on one of its fundamental elements: the algorithms. This study starts from the construction of a historical-theoretical path that seeks to relate the emergence of media technologies to the changes in the modes of operation and enjoyment of images. The construction of this path was simultaneous with a mapping of representative cases, images of different natures, which led us to establish two models of operation and enjoyment of the image: one before and the other after the advent of digital. We describe, then, these two models (forms) from what we identified as their main origins, characteristics and resonances: 1) the spectacular form, characterized by frontality, representation and rationality; and 2) the algorithmic form, articulated by familiarity, expression and sensoriality. The thesis focuses on this second model, building what is defined as an \"Atlas\" of \"algorithmic images\" in order to describe, from a technical and philosophical perspective, its constituent elements. We propose that these elements would not only be traces of these images, but they would also resonate, beyond them, as precipitants of another modus percipiendi, expressed in urgent phenomena of our times, a hypothesis that we explore in the last part of the thesis: the crisis of the notion of image (and of spectator), the problem of existence (and of truth) and the crisis of political action (and its gestures). (AU) | |
| FAPESP's process: | 16/03588-7 - Between an aesthetics and an ethics of algorithms: presentation of the Algorithmic Form Theory (Fruition - Image - Action) |
| Grantee: | Eli Borges Júnior |
| Support Opportunities: | Scholarships in Brazil - Doctorate |