Tornando visíveis as ‘Cidades Invisíveis’: uma poética em Arte e Tecnologia no Minecraft

Abstract

The present research of Master in Visual Arts, in the line Art and Technology, deals with the use of the game Minecraft like artistic support. The importance of the study comes from the fact that there is a recent growth in the research on electronic games in the academic environment, which is different from the others for the purpose of using an electronic game as artistic support. In this sense, the work refers to the game as an aesthetic process, cultural, as art, based on the creation processes involved. To that end, he discusses the subject, brought by John Huizinga, Lévi-Strauss, Ane Cauquelin, Romero Tori, Suzete Venturelli, Arthur Bobani, Arlindo Machado, among other thinkers, researchers and theorists. Also it analyzes the subject with respect to the present artistic manifestations through electronic games, in different productions legitimized by official institutions or not. In its practical production bias, it is composed of artistic creations made mainly by the author on the platform of the game Minecraft. The literary work 'Invisible Cities' by Italo Calvino was selected as the element that instilled personal poetics, starting with the proposition of creation through the narrative, via the cities described in the work, which generated a series of productions in gameart, called, homonymously, Invisible Cities'. In this way, it was tried to demonstrate the importance of studies in this emergent form of artistic creation, configured from the universe of electronic games and gameart in the context of art and technology.