Rede_em_rede: cartografias artísticas na produção do coletivo

Abstract

The dissertation "REDE_EM_REDE: ARTISTIC CARTOGRAPHS IN THE PRODUCTION OF THE COLLECTIVE", was developed in line of research "Art and Technology" of PPGART /UFSM. Starting from the production of digital collaborative narratives, we investigated how a proposal in web art can update network potentials in the contemporaneity. We're questioning how to operate possible connections through art and technology in a poetics of collaborative web art, and specifically, as informational geographic networks - apparently stagnant and deactivated - can be reconnected in cyberspace. These narratives have as main theme the stories of individuals connected to the railway communities in the central region of the State of Rio Grande do Sul. The aim was to put in communication flow the scenarios of each city and the organization of a virtual community around the railway legacy. For the organization of a virtual community were used different digital platforms in network such as: Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, Wix.com, and the application CODATA (Collaborative Data Community), developed by LabInter (Laboratory Interdisciplinary Interactive). The acts of this research were articulated through cartography, since no object was represented, and, yes, processes and acts were followed, as emphasized by Gilles Deleuze, Felix Guattari and Virginia Kastrup. In dialoguing with the question of narrative we look for in Walter Benjamin references about the narrative in a pre-digital era and how this narrative was understood before the interaction of the human with the digital of contemporaneity. In this sense, the Actor-Network Theory (TAR) coined by Bruno Latour was the theoretical basis for the discussions about human-non-human interactions and the formation of networks. The concept of informational territory developed by André Lemos, was used to elucidate the formation of digital cartographies about the city. In this way, the dissertation contributes to contemporary art, especially with art and technology, with the elaboration of a web art proposal, produced in a collaborative and shared network. This research reinforces the political character of art, pointing out that from visualities and sensitive mappings, the collective is produced.