Kinetic and interactivity in the visual art: a route to art and technology

Author(s)

Paula Monseff Perissinotto

• Document type: Master's Dissertation
• Press: São Paulo.
• Institution: Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Escola de Comunicações e Artes (ECA/SBD)
• Defense date: 2001-06-12

Examining board members

Artur Matuck; Arlindo Ribeiro Machado Neto; Sergio Bairon Blanco Sant'Anna

• Advisor: Artur Matuck

Abstract

Abstract This study intends to analyze the relationship between visual arts, science and technology. Its initial reference is the idea written by two Russian Constructivist artists, Naum Gabo and Anton Pevsner, in the Realist Manifesto, in 1920. The two artist, that were also brothers, were trying to free visual arts of its static art's stigma. For that, this research followed some artists' itinerary that developed researches with this approach in the 20th century, such as Archipenko, Duchamp, Flatters, Pevsner, Moholy Nagy, Mari, Bury, Tinguely, Schöffer, Takis, Tatlin, Rodchenko, Man Ray, Calder, Reads Parc, Palatinik, Lígia Clarck, Robert Rauchemberg, Christa Sommer&Laurent Mignonneau, and Jeffrey Shaw. This work went trough the kinetic art history and examined artists that have explored the interaction pointing in their works (the perceptive interaction, the space interaction and the new potential interaction that appeared from the relationship between art and technology), and examined as well as artists that have found solutions in others discipline, such as science. The complexity of this interdisciplinary relationship created formal, structural and aesthetic concepts changes in the art world. Finally, the study also focuses in how the artist’s adhesion to new technologies provoked transformations in the institutions that motivates and promotes the contemporary visual arts. (AU)