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Fábio Purper Machado
Artista visual com pesquisa voltada a processos de criação de narrativas em movimento, especialmente entre os campos da escultura, dos quadrinhos e do vídeo. Doutor em Arte e Cultura Visual (PPGACV - UFG), Mestre em Artes Visuais (PPGART - UFSM), Licenciado e Bacharel em Artes Visuais (UFSM), Especialista em T.I.C. Aplicadas à Educação (PESRS - UFSM). Atuou como Professor Temporário de Escultura, Cerâmica e HQ no Instituto de Artes da Universidade Federal de Uberlândia (IARTE-UFU, 2018-2019), como Desenhista de Produção na produtora A Casa do Cinema (Goiânia, 2017), e como Professor Temporário de Desenho e História da Arte no curso de Desenho Industrial na UFSM (2012-2013). Participante do Uivo: Matilha de Estudos em Criação, Arte e Vida (UFU), do Grupo de Pesquisa em Cinema, Animação, Identidade Cultural e Novas Tecnologias (UFG), do Grupo de Estudos e Pesquisa em Arte, Educação e Cultura (GEPAEC-UFSM), do Grupo de Pesquisa em Arte Momentos-Específicos (UFSM) e da Associação de Pesquisadores em Arte Sequencial (ASPAS).
Researcher in visual arts focusing sculpture, comics and video. Worked as substitute professor at Visual Arts course at UFU and at Design course at UFSM. PhD in Art and Visual Culture (FAV-UFG). Master in Visual Arts (PPGART-UFSM). Member of Group of Research in Cinema, Animation, Cultural Identity and New Technologies, of GEPAEC (Group of Studies and Research in Art, Education and Culture) and of Group of Arts Research: Specific-Moments.
Supervisors: Rosa Berardo, Paulo Gomes, and José Francisco Flores Goulart
Researcher in visual arts focusing sculpture, comics and video. Worked as substitute professor at Visual Arts course at UFU and at Design course at UFSM. PhD in Art and Visual Culture (FAV-UFG). Master in Visual Arts (PPGART-UFSM). Member of Group of Research in Cinema, Animation, Cultural Identity and New Technologies, of GEPAEC (Group of Studies and Research in Art, Education and Culture) and of Group of Arts Research: Specific-Moments.
Supervisors: Rosa Berardo, Paulo Gomes, and José Francisco Flores Goulart
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quadrinhos? Seja como cópia, como imitação ou como citação, a apropriação de referenciais culturais é peça chave dos processos criativos de uma quantidade considerável de narrativas
visuais. São inicialmente comentadas HQs desenhadas pelo autor desta escrita, com destaque para os referenciais de arte e cultura popular apropriados/citados. Embasada em conceitos como pós-produção, narrativa menor e apropriação cultural, esta discussão conta também com comentários sobre processos de alguns quadrinistas que se apropriam de personagens literários e de elementos da estética de quadrinhos produzidos em outros tempos ou lugares.
ABSTRACT:
What happens to literature quotes, images from cinema, history and art, when they are displaced from their original contexts to inhabit the pages of a comic book? Whether as a copy, imitation or quotation, the appropriation of cultural references is a key part of the creative processes of a considerable amount of visual narratives. Comic books designed by the author of this writing are initially commented, with emphasis on the appropriated/cited references of art and popular culture. Based on concepts such as post-production, minor narrative and cultural appropriation, this discussion also includes comments on the processes of some comic artists who appropriate literary characters and aesthetic elements from comics produced in other times or places.
KEYWORDS: comics; cultural appropriation; Intersemiosis of comics, postproduction in Arts.
RESUMEN: ¿Qué sucede con las citas de la literatura, las imágenes del cine, la historia y el arte, cuando son desplazadas de sus contextos originales para habitar las páginas de un cómic? Ya sea como copia, como imitación o como cita, la apropiación de referentes culturales es una parte clave de los procesos creativos de una cantidad considerable de narrativas visuales. Inicialmente se comentan historietas dibujadas por el autor de este escrito, con énfasis en referencias apropiadas/citadas a la cultura y el arte popular. A partir de conceptos como postproducción, narrativa menor y apropiación cultural, esta discusión también incluye comentarios sobre los procesos de algunos dibujantes de historietas que se apropian de personajes literarios y elementos estéticos de historietas producidas en otros tiempos o lugares.
PALABRAS CLAVE: historietas; apropiación cultural; Intersemiosis de las historietas,postproducción en Artes.
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A Few Artistic Appropriation Processes in Comics
Abstract: What happens to literature quotes, images from cinema, history and art, when they are displaced from their original contexts to inhabit the pages of a comic book? Whether as a copy, imitation or quotation, the appropriation of cultural references is a key part of the creative processes of a considerable amount of visual narratives. Comic books designed by the author of this writing are initially commented, with emphasis on the appropriated/cited references of art and popular culture. Based on concepts such as post-production, minor narrative and cultural appropriation, this discussion also includes comments on the processes of some comic artists who appropriate literary characters and aesthetic elements from comics produced in other times or places.
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Abstract:
Starting from movements between the fields of sculpture, photography, and comic strip, it is possible to characterize the narratives addressed in this text as hybrid poetics (BELLOUR, 1997), in a blurring of boundaries characteristic of contemporary artistic manifestations. Comments on HQ by Luiz Gê, Willian Hussar, Rodrigo dMart, Indio-San, Neil Gaiman and Dave McKean, and also some of the author, are featured in this discussion, where photographs of sculptures or dolls or hybridizations of the drawing with collages of objects compose the scenes of the stories told. In the study of these creations from the In the study of these creations from the notion of "HQ-sculpture", it is also possible to operationalize concepts such as the sculpture effect (DUBOIS, 1988), the expanded or expanded field of sculpture (KRAUSS, 1979) and the philosophy of the black box (FLUSSER, 2002). Attention to the ways in which different artists expand their fields of activity and thereby stablish hybrid poetics, in addition to creating a set of references for the actions of an art researcher, also raises thinking about operational concepts.
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Abstract:
This article approaches an arts research in movement between the fields of sculpture, comics and video, and focuses on its relations with some of its operational concepts. Among them, image-time, minor literature and fabulation from Deleuze, Guattari and Bergson are emphasized, with brief passages through other theories from the areas of visual poetics, especially photography and video, as well as a reference coming from the production of tactile visions of José Val Del Omar.
VideoComicSculpture: narrative poetics.
Abstract:
These are the processes of an artist researcher who discusses his poetic and traces its dialogues with operational concepts from different origins. The artistic work that is covered here consists of a series of creations of my own, which I call videocomicsculptures, and are defined as narratives in movement between the artistic fields of sculpture, comics and video. I choose to focus this research on the ones that result in videos, and that come to be permeated by issues from the fields of film, photography and animation. Relations between the senses of touch and vision that are experienced with the videocomicsculptures dialogue with the “Tactile Vision Theory” (José Val Del Omar) and with the concept of “image-time” (Gilles Deleuze), which contributes to this work with the notion of a cinema that proposes blocks of sensation with the materiality of filmed objects. There is a dialog with the “sculpture effect” (Régis Durand, Phillipe Dubois), by valuing tridimensionalities in the flat support of the video, and with the notions of “transmedia narrative” (Henry Jenkins, Edgar Franco) and “expanded comics” (Gazy Andraus), among other concepts that involve the plurality of means of telling stories. Relations between image and writing that are present in the videocomicsculptures are also addressed, as well as issues in common with poetics of other artists within these areas and especially in movement between them. Moreover, the tergiversative feature present in the textual portion of several of the works that compose the body of this research is taken as the guiding thread for the establishment of a fictional universe, here baptized “Fictional Tergiverse”. Some parameters and benchmarks are then developed for an initial exploration of an artistic field that is made of movements and boundary works between these chosen artistic fields.
As videoHQesculturas são narrativas em movimento entre as linguagens artísticas da escultura, da história em quadrinhos e do vídeo. Nelas são comuns atos de tergiversar atribuídos a esculturas em ferro e papel, rodeios discursivos com palavras abstratas ou inventadas em seus balões de fala, que se constituem então como bases para um universo ficcional em construção, denominado “Tergiverso Ficcional”. Entre seus referenciais, são aqui abordadas o ga-nime “H.P. Lovecraft’s Dunwich Horror and Other Stories” (Toei, 2007), onde esculturas em argila atuam em sua estaticidade como personagens de contos de horror, e os “Aguagramas” da artista chilena Patricia Claro (2013), onde figuram caligrafias extraídas de reflexos de água corrente, num diálogo entre uma linguagem escrita intraduzível e durações de tempo videográficas.
- ABSTRACT:
VideoComicSculptures are narratives in movement between the artistic languages of sculpture, comics and video. Common to them are acts of tergiversation attributed to sculptures of iron and paper, discursive rodeos with abstract or invented words inside their speech bubbles, that constitute themselves as bases for a fictional universe in progress, named “Fictional Tergiverse”. Amongst its references, here we focus on the ga-nime “H.P. Lovecraft’s Dunwich Horror and Other Stories” (Toei, 2007), where clay sculptures stacticly act as horror tales’ characters, and the “Aguagramas” by chilean artist Patricia Claro (2013), where calligraphies are extracted from reflexes on running water, on a dialog between an untranslable written language and videographic time durations.
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Este escrito es sobre el desarrollo de producciones audiovisuales cuyos guiones, en su apertura narrativa, priman por la valorización de la materialidad de esculturas en hierro y papel junto a elementos estéticos del lenguaje de las historietas. Además de los estudios teóricos sobre técnicas de construcción de guion en las historietas y el cine, una referencia a estos procesos creativos es el concepto de imagen-tiempo desarrollado por el filósofo francés Gilles Deleuze, relativo a las obras cinematográficas en el que la prioridad no es la narración de situaciones sensorio-motoras, sino más bien una presentación de duraciones de tiempo visuales e sonoras para ser experimentada por el público. También contribuye a este estudio la teoría de la visión táctil llevada a cabo por el cineasta español José Val del Omar, que trata de la posibilidad de que la textura y la tridimensionalidad de esculturas adquieran nuevo impacto narrativo en vídeo por el trabajo con movimientos de cámara y la luz.
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This text crosses the elaboration of audiovisual productions with narratively opened scripts that excel at valuing iron and paper sculptures’ materiality, along with aesthetic elements from comics’ language. The references to these creative processes are contributions about theories and techniques of comics’ and cinema’s script construction, along with french philosopher Gilles Deleuze’s concept of time-image, related to movies that, instead of narrating sensorimotor situations, prioritize presenting audiovisual durations of time to be experienced by its public. This study is also counts on the Spanish film-maker José Val Del Omar’s tactile vision theory, that deals on the possibility of giving a new narrative impact to sculpture’s texture and three-dimensionality through a work with movements of light and camera.
Abstract:
This text emphasizes questions that are inherent to an ongoing arts research, the creation of VideoComicSculptures, in which these three nominated languages relate between themselves and with cinema and animation. Such relations occur by the use of stop-motion techniques and in filmic studies involving light, framing, camera movements and montage. Amongst this poetics referentials, this text focuses on the films and the Theory of Tactile Vision by José Val Del Omar (1961), which seeks to appreciate three-dimensional forms on video, and the concept of minor narrative according to Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari (2014), about narratives where the preoccupation with their languages canons is replaced by minoritarian experimentations inside them.
Abstract:
This paper emphasizes the technologies that are involved in some of the steps of the creative processes of VideoComicSculptures - audiovisual narratives composed by sculptures in iron and paper and aesthetic elements of Comics’ language. From these processes’ movements, here we specifically choose the one that starts from the materiality of sculpture and comics towards the digital domain of the video, through questions related to the language of cinema. Spanish filmmaker José Val Del Omar’s Tactile Vision Theory (1992) serves as a primary referential as it deals on the valorization of sculpture’s texture and threedimensionality by giving them new narrative impact through a work with camera and light movements. Such movements are studied in their possible relations with theoretical contributions about script construction at the languages of comics - Gian Danton (2010) - and cinema - Marcel Martin (2005), Robert McKee (1997), amongst others -, and also with the concept of time-image developed by Gilles Deleuze (2005). This concept relates to cinematographic works where what is prioritized is not the unambiguous narration of sensory-motor situations, but a presentation of visual and sonorous time durations to be freely experimented by its audience.
Abstract: This paper relates to creative processes of visual narratives in movement through the artistic languages of sculpture, video and comics. For being experiences of intensive use of the languages through which they pass, and not of communication of absolute truths or ideal values, they approach the “minor narrative” concept, adapted from Deleuze and Guattari (1975). Also for being artistic creations where the making of the visual uses to precede themes’ or contents’ elaboration, being the VideoComicSculptures’ narrative developments created through the processes of sculpture modeling, of video scenes’ construction and of comics’ text and diagramming.
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Abstract:
“The Names and their Men”: A Comics-Sculpture and its Creation Processes.
This paper emphasizes a specific situation at a poetics research on fusions between the artistic languages of sculpture and comics. “Os Nomes e seus Homens” (The Names and their Men) was projected together with visual artist Tamiris Vaz, initially to be a “sculpture-comics”, a bi-dimensional comics sequence with photographs of sculptures, but it resulted on a “comics-sculpture”: a threedimensional piece (built on iron and paper) with elements that are common at comics, such as narration and speech bubbles. The transitions between artistic modalities that this narrative has undergone at its creation and their relations with the concept of simulacrum (DELEUZE, 2011) are dealt at this text along with possible convergences with pieces of artists that also put narrative and sculpture into dialog: Willian Hussar three-dimensional comics and Karine Giboulo’s dioramas. Though here studied through a specific work, such movements and fusions between languages involve contemporary visualities’ own displacements and inconstancies.
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This text deals on the creative processes of two visual narratives where specificities of sculpture, video and comics are set in motion. The resulting “Video-Comics-Sculptures” occur at a blurring of frontiers, at the construction of open realities that can be associated to the concept of simulacrum (DELEUZE, 2011), because by starting from the three-dimensionality of sculptures, transitions of a narrative take place between different languages. On these movements, there is the repetition of an idea, although differing from the latter in many aspects, always taking new paths.
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This dissertation is the partial prerequisite of a Visual Arts research which investigates narrative possibilities on movements between two artistic languages, sculpture and comics. The text initially approaches the paths which led to this research: the emphasis on clay’s materiality and on the action of chance on modeling and the theme of grotesque came from there. This research’s main points are the use of sculptures as reference to a two-dimensional creation and of comics’ narrative resources to the three-dimensional creation. Through these experiences, theoretical reflections about narratives in art, about Deleuze’s repetition and also about micro-narratives and communicational noise are shown. Finally, the present research is founded on works’ instauration processes, their procedures and adopted rules, and also through some of their thematic unfoldings and their insertions into editorial, academic and artistic contexts.
Anti-Monuments between Sculpture and Comics
This text emphasizes an artistic intervention occurred inside a project which allies sculpture and comics’ languages. Some of its poetic references (Gustavo Nakle, Honoré Daumier and Angelo Agostini) and questions about its processes of creation and reception are also explicated, on a dialog with humor and with the concepts of communicational noise and anti-monument."
DOI: 10.5902/198373487083
This text, about art and interventions in extra-urban spaces in Latin America, deals about a sculpture research where clay's materiality and modeling gesture are emphasized, about the proximities between its figures and poetic-philosophic comics' language (Santos Neto, 2009), about their possibilities of questioning social issues and ethical values, and their peak at a public space: the sculpture "Le Sujet Appareillé", projected to the Education Center (UFSM Campus) sculpture garden, as the author's graduation job on Visual Arts Bachelors Degree at the same institution, and allied to the project of revitalization of the same space, emprehended by Prof. Ms. José Francisco Flores Goulart.
Some ideas, influences and readings which trace a conductive line to the comprehension of this research path are brought, along with questions which involve its current moment, amongst them the dilemma between public monument/antimonument and ideological interests (Alves, 2005), and the accumulations, appropriations and imagetic disseminations of cyberculture (Couchot, 2003), on an approach done by the author at Visual Arts Bachelor's Degree on Education at UFSM. On this artistic research it is reflected a relation with a jeering laughter, and also the laugh of when we face the abyss..."
In: II° Seminario Internacional sobre Arte Público en Latinoamérica, 2011, Vitória: GEAP Latinoamérica, UFES. Anais... Arte Público y espacios políticos: interacciones y fracturas en las ciudades latinoamericanas. Belo Horizonte: C/Arte, 2011. v.2. p.396 - 406. ISBN 978-85-7654-118-9.
Mais informações em http://artepublica2011.blogspot.com.br
ABSTRACT:
Here are discussed some educational questions like the relation between the discipline-based school and the rhyzomatic knowledge construction through Visual Culture and the Technologies of Information and Communication. A dialog between these questions is also proposed through a brief analysis of the presence of image on Moodle platform and a sketch of a learning/teaching interface which is based on the aesthetic of comics."
quadrinhos? Seja como cópia, como imitação ou como citação, a apropriação de referenciais culturais é peça chave dos processos criativos de uma quantidade considerável de narrativas
visuais. São inicialmente comentadas HQs desenhadas pelo autor desta escrita, com destaque para os referenciais de arte e cultura popular apropriados/citados. Embasada em conceitos como pós-produção, narrativa menor e apropriação cultural, esta discussão conta também com comentários sobre processos de alguns quadrinistas que se apropriam de personagens literários e de elementos da estética de quadrinhos produzidos em outros tempos ou lugares.
ABSTRACT:
What happens to literature quotes, images from cinema, history and art, when they are displaced from their original contexts to inhabit the pages of a comic book? Whether as a copy, imitation or quotation, the appropriation of cultural references is a key part of the creative processes of a considerable amount of visual narratives. Comic books designed by the author of this writing are initially commented, with emphasis on the appropriated/cited references of art and popular culture. Based on concepts such as post-production, minor narrative and cultural appropriation, this discussion also includes comments on the processes of some comic artists who appropriate literary characters and aesthetic elements from comics produced in other times or places.
KEYWORDS: comics; cultural appropriation; Intersemiosis of comics, postproduction in Arts.
RESUMEN: ¿Qué sucede con las citas de la literatura, las imágenes del cine, la historia y el arte, cuando son desplazadas de sus contextos originales para habitar las páginas de un cómic? Ya sea como copia, como imitación o como cita, la apropiación de referentes culturales es una parte clave de los procesos creativos de una cantidad considerable de narrativas visuales. Inicialmente se comentan historietas dibujadas por el autor de este escrito, con énfasis en referencias apropiadas/citadas a la cultura y el arte popular. A partir de conceptos como postproducción, narrativa menor y apropiación cultural, esta discusión también incluye comentarios sobre los procesos de algunos dibujantes de historietas que se apropian de personajes literarios y elementos estéticos de historietas producidas en otros tiempos o lugares.
PALABRAS CLAVE: historietas; apropiación cultural; Intersemiosis de las historietas,postproducción en Artes.
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A Few Artistic Appropriation Processes in Comics
Abstract: What happens to literature quotes, images from cinema, history and art, when they are displaced from their original contexts to inhabit the pages of a comic book? Whether as a copy, imitation or quotation, the appropriation of cultural references is a key part of the creative processes of a considerable amount of visual narratives. Comic books designed by the author of this writing are initially commented, with emphasis on the appropriated/cited references of art and popular culture. Based on concepts such as post-production, minor narrative and cultural appropriation, this discussion also includes comments on the processes of some comic artists who appropriate literary characters and aesthetic elements from comics produced in other times or places.
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Abstract:
Starting from movements between the fields of sculpture, photography, and comic strip, it is possible to characterize the narratives addressed in this text as hybrid poetics (BELLOUR, 1997), in a blurring of boundaries characteristic of contemporary artistic manifestations. Comments on HQ by Luiz Gê, Willian Hussar, Rodrigo dMart, Indio-San, Neil Gaiman and Dave McKean, and also some of the author, are featured in this discussion, where photographs of sculptures or dolls or hybridizations of the drawing with collages of objects compose the scenes of the stories told. In the study of these creations from the In the study of these creations from the notion of "HQ-sculpture", it is also possible to operationalize concepts such as the sculpture effect (DUBOIS, 1988), the expanded or expanded field of sculpture (KRAUSS, 1979) and the philosophy of the black box (FLUSSER, 2002). Attention to the ways in which different artists expand their fields of activity and thereby stablish hybrid poetics, in addition to creating a set of references for the actions of an art researcher, also raises thinking about operational concepts.
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Abstract:
This article approaches an arts research in movement between the fields of sculpture, comics and video, and focuses on its relations with some of its operational concepts. Among them, image-time, minor literature and fabulation from Deleuze, Guattari and Bergson are emphasized, with brief passages through other theories from the areas of visual poetics, especially photography and video, as well as a reference coming from the production of tactile visions of José Val Del Omar.
VideoComicSculpture: narrative poetics.
Abstract:
These are the processes of an artist researcher who discusses his poetic and traces its dialogues with operational concepts from different origins. The artistic work that is covered here consists of a series of creations of my own, which I call videocomicsculptures, and are defined as narratives in movement between the artistic fields of sculpture, comics and video. I choose to focus this research on the ones that result in videos, and that come to be permeated by issues from the fields of film, photography and animation. Relations between the senses of touch and vision that are experienced with the videocomicsculptures dialogue with the “Tactile Vision Theory” (José Val Del Omar) and with the concept of “image-time” (Gilles Deleuze), which contributes to this work with the notion of a cinema that proposes blocks of sensation with the materiality of filmed objects. There is a dialog with the “sculpture effect” (Régis Durand, Phillipe Dubois), by valuing tridimensionalities in the flat support of the video, and with the notions of “transmedia narrative” (Henry Jenkins, Edgar Franco) and “expanded comics” (Gazy Andraus), among other concepts that involve the plurality of means of telling stories. Relations between image and writing that are present in the videocomicsculptures are also addressed, as well as issues in common with poetics of other artists within these areas and especially in movement between them. Moreover, the tergiversative feature present in the textual portion of several of the works that compose the body of this research is taken as the guiding thread for the establishment of a fictional universe, here baptized “Fictional Tergiverse”. Some parameters and benchmarks are then developed for an initial exploration of an artistic field that is made of movements and boundary works between these chosen artistic fields.
As videoHQesculturas são narrativas em movimento entre as linguagens artísticas da escultura, da história em quadrinhos e do vídeo. Nelas são comuns atos de tergiversar atribuídos a esculturas em ferro e papel, rodeios discursivos com palavras abstratas ou inventadas em seus balões de fala, que se constituem então como bases para um universo ficcional em construção, denominado “Tergiverso Ficcional”. Entre seus referenciais, são aqui abordadas o ga-nime “H.P. Lovecraft’s Dunwich Horror and Other Stories” (Toei, 2007), onde esculturas em argila atuam em sua estaticidade como personagens de contos de horror, e os “Aguagramas” da artista chilena Patricia Claro (2013), onde figuram caligrafias extraídas de reflexos de água corrente, num diálogo entre uma linguagem escrita intraduzível e durações de tempo videográficas.
- ABSTRACT:
VideoComicSculptures are narratives in movement between the artistic languages of sculpture, comics and video. Common to them are acts of tergiversation attributed to sculptures of iron and paper, discursive rodeos with abstract or invented words inside their speech bubbles, that constitute themselves as bases for a fictional universe in progress, named “Fictional Tergiverse”. Amongst its references, here we focus on the ga-nime “H.P. Lovecraft’s Dunwich Horror and Other Stories” (Toei, 2007), where clay sculptures stacticly act as horror tales’ characters, and the “Aguagramas” by chilean artist Patricia Claro (2013), where calligraphies are extracted from reflexes on running water, on a dialog between an untranslable written language and videographic time durations.
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RESUMEN
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Este escrito es sobre el desarrollo de producciones audiovisuales cuyos guiones, en su apertura narrativa, priman por la valorización de la materialidad de esculturas en hierro y papel junto a elementos estéticos del lenguaje de las historietas. Además de los estudios teóricos sobre técnicas de construcción de guion en las historietas y el cine, una referencia a estos procesos creativos es el concepto de imagen-tiempo desarrollado por el filósofo francés Gilles Deleuze, relativo a las obras cinematográficas en el que la prioridad no es la narración de situaciones sensorio-motoras, sino más bien una presentación de duraciones de tiempo visuales e sonoras para ser experimentada por el público. También contribuye a este estudio la teoría de la visión táctil llevada a cabo por el cineasta español José Val del Omar, que trata de la posibilidad de que la textura y la tridimensionalidad de esculturas adquieran nuevo impacto narrativo en vídeo por el trabajo con movimientos de cámara y la luz.
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ASTRACT
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This text crosses the elaboration of audiovisual productions with narratively opened scripts that excel at valuing iron and paper sculptures’ materiality, along with aesthetic elements from comics’ language. The references to these creative processes are contributions about theories and techniques of comics’ and cinema’s script construction, along with french philosopher Gilles Deleuze’s concept of time-image, related to movies that, instead of narrating sensorimotor situations, prioritize presenting audiovisual durations of time to be experienced by its public. This study is also counts on the Spanish film-maker José Val Del Omar’s tactile vision theory, that deals on the possibility of giving a new narrative impact to sculpture’s texture and three-dimensionality through a work with movements of light and camera.
Abstract:
This text emphasizes questions that are inherent to an ongoing arts research, the creation of VideoComicSculptures, in which these three nominated languages relate between themselves and with cinema and animation. Such relations occur by the use of stop-motion techniques and in filmic studies involving light, framing, camera movements and montage. Amongst this poetics referentials, this text focuses on the films and the Theory of Tactile Vision by José Val Del Omar (1961), which seeks to appreciate three-dimensional forms on video, and the concept of minor narrative according to Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari (2014), about narratives where the preoccupation with their languages canons is replaced by minoritarian experimentations inside them.
Abstract:
This paper emphasizes the technologies that are involved in some of the steps of the creative processes of VideoComicSculptures - audiovisual narratives composed by sculptures in iron and paper and aesthetic elements of Comics’ language. From these processes’ movements, here we specifically choose the one that starts from the materiality of sculpture and comics towards the digital domain of the video, through questions related to the language of cinema. Spanish filmmaker José Val Del Omar’s Tactile Vision Theory (1992) serves as a primary referential as it deals on the valorization of sculpture’s texture and threedimensionality by giving them new narrative impact through a work with camera and light movements. Such movements are studied in their possible relations with theoretical contributions about script construction at the languages of comics - Gian Danton (2010) - and cinema - Marcel Martin (2005), Robert McKee (1997), amongst others -, and also with the concept of time-image developed by Gilles Deleuze (2005). This concept relates to cinematographic works where what is prioritized is not the unambiguous narration of sensory-motor situations, but a presentation of visual and sonorous time durations to be freely experimented by its audience.
Abstract: This paper relates to creative processes of visual narratives in movement through the artistic languages of sculpture, video and comics. For being experiences of intensive use of the languages through which they pass, and not of communication of absolute truths or ideal values, they approach the “minor narrative” concept, adapted from Deleuze and Guattari (1975). Also for being artistic creations where the making of the visual uses to precede themes’ or contents’ elaboration, being the VideoComicSculptures’ narrative developments created through the processes of sculpture modeling, of video scenes’ construction and of comics’ text and diagramming.
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Abstract:
“The Names and their Men”: A Comics-Sculpture and its Creation Processes.
This paper emphasizes a specific situation at a poetics research on fusions between the artistic languages of sculpture and comics. “Os Nomes e seus Homens” (The Names and their Men) was projected together with visual artist Tamiris Vaz, initially to be a “sculpture-comics”, a bi-dimensional comics sequence with photographs of sculptures, but it resulted on a “comics-sculpture”: a threedimensional piece (built on iron and paper) with elements that are common at comics, such as narration and speech bubbles. The transitions between artistic modalities that this narrative has undergone at its creation and their relations with the concept of simulacrum (DELEUZE, 2011) are dealt at this text along with possible convergences with pieces of artists that also put narrative and sculpture into dialog: Willian Hussar three-dimensional comics and Karine Giboulo’s dioramas. Though here studied through a specific work, such movements and fusions between languages involve contemporary visualities’ own displacements and inconstancies.
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This text deals on the creative processes of two visual narratives where specificities of sculpture, video and comics are set in motion. The resulting “Video-Comics-Sculptures” occur at a blurring of frontiers, at the construction of open realities that can be associated to the concept of simulacrum (DELEUZE, 2011), because by starting from the three-dimensionality of sculptures, transitions of a narrative take place between different languages. On these movements, there is the repetition of an idea, although differing from the latter in many aspects, always taking new paths.
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This dissertation is the partial prerequisite of a Visual Arts research which investigates narrative possibilities on movements between two artistic languages, sculpture and comics. The text initially approaches the paths which led to this research: the emphasis on clay’s materiality and on the action of chance on modeling and the theme of grotesque came from there. This research’s main points are the use of sculptures as reference to a two-dimensional creation and of comics’ narrative resources to the three-dimensional creation. Through these experiences, theoretical reflections about narratives in art, about Deleuze’s repetition and also about micro-narratives and communicational noise are shown. Finally, the present research is founded on works’ instauration processes, their procedures and adopted rules, and also through some of their thematic unfoldings and their insertions into editorial, academic and artistic contexts.
Anti-Monuments between Sculpture and Comics
This text emphasizes an artistic intervention occurred inside a project which allies sculpture and comics’ languages. Some of its poetic references (Gustavo Nakle, Honoré Daumier and Angelo Agostini) and questions about its processes of creation and reception are also explicated, on a dialog with humor and with the concepts of communicational noise and anti-monument."
DOI: 10.5902/198373487083
This text, about art and interventions in extra-urban spaces in Latin America, deals about a sculpture research where clay's materiality and modeling gesture are emphasized, about the proximities between its figures and poetic-philosophic comics' language (Santos Neto, 2009), about their possibilities of questioning social issues and ethical values, and their peak at a public space: the sculpture "Le Sujet Appareillé", projected to the Education Center (UFSM Campus) sculpture garden, as the author's graduation job on Visual Arts Bachelors Degree at the same institution, and allied to the project of revitalization of the same space, emprehended by Prof. Ms. José Francisco Flores Goulart.
Some ideas, influences and readings which trace a conductive line to the comprehension of this research path are brought, along with questions which involve its current moment, amongst them the dilemma between public monument/antimonument and ideological interests (Alves, 2005), and the accumulations, appropriations and imagetic disseminations of cyberculture (Couchot, 2003), on an approach done by the author at Visual Arts Bachelor's Degree on Education at UFSM. On this artistic research it is reflected a relation with a jeering laughter, and also the laugh of when we face the abyss..."
In: II° Seminario Internacional sobre Arte Público en Latinoamérica, 2011, Vitória: GEAP Latinoamérica, UFES. Anais... Arte Público y espacios políticos: interacciones y fracturas en las ciudades latinoamericanas. Belo Horizonte: C/Arte, 2011. v.2. p.396 - 406. ISBN 978-85-7654-118-9.
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Here are discussed some educational questions like the relation between the discipline-based school and the rhyzomatic knowledge construction through Visual Culture and the Technologies of Information and Communication. A dialog between these questions is also proposed through a brief analysis of the presence of image on Moodle platform and a sketch of a learning/teaching interface which is based on the aesthetic of comics."