Dispositivos tecnológicos e suas aplicações em poéticas audiovisuais

Abstract

This thesis, titled Technological devices and their applications in audiovisual poetics, presents my research object after the period I describe in chapter 1, specifically in the authorial video performance Multiple Faces of the Void, which can be representative of a catharsis of my state of mental exhaustion and my burnout during the COVID-19 pandemic. After this attempt to express a moment of anguish, I directed my research toward innovative technologies and their applications in audiovisual poetics, particularly Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Stable Diffusion, by creating, in chapter 2, a dialogue between the animation Omegaville and Jean-Luc Godard’s film Alphaville that could represent the essence of human creativity and poetry. Chapter 3 complements my analysis of the poetics of interactive audiovisuals in three stages. In the first stage, in the context of Virtual Reality (VR), in Imogen Heap’s interactive show and the game No Man’s Sky by the independent producer Hello Games. In the second stage, in the context of Augmented Reality (AR), in the game Pokémon GO, in Gabriel Barcia-Colombo’s Choir. In the third stage, in Mixed Reality (MR), in Realities IO’s Puzzling Places, and in the posthumous work KAGAMI by Ryuichi Sakamoto and Tin Drum studio. In these analyses, which justify the objectives of my research after burnout and present the corpus of this thesis, highlighting my role as an author and producer, I thought of concluding with the trilogy of authorship-productionspectatorship. My goal was to briefly trace the trajectory of innovative technologies from Méliès’ magic tricks through the advent of sound and television to Gene Youngblood’s concept of "expanded cinema" and Manovich and Weibel’s "post-media" concepts. Regarding the spectator, I mention the concepts of spectator-interactor, co-author, visitor, emancipated, and repertorial. Through these analyses and cited concepts, I formulate the hypothesis that cinema and audiovisual have been updated through innovative technologies that allowed for a creative immersion with their multiple possibilities.