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Thesis Info

LABS ID
00587
Thesis Title
Computer Art and Actor­Network Theory: Actants and Intersubjective Associations in Scene
Author
PRAUDE, Carlos Corrêa.
2nd Author
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3rd Author
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Degree
PhD
Year
21-Dec-2015
Number of Pages
247
University
Universidade de Brasília, Brasília, Brazil.
Thesis Supervisor
Suzete Venturelli
Supervisor e-mail
suzeteventurelli AT gmail.com
Other Supervisor(s)
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Language(s) of Thesis
Portuguese
Department / Discipline
Universidade de Brasília, Instituto de Artes, Programa de Pós-Graduação em Artes.
Languages Familiar to Author
English, Portuguese
URL where full thesis can be found
repositorio.unb.br/handle/10482/19018
Keywords
Actor-Network Theory, Informational Aesthetics, Computer Art, Art and Technology, Art.
Abstract: 200-500 words
The objective of this research was to establish associations between the Actor-Network Theory (ANT) and Computer Art. ANT originated from researches investigating the dynamics of knowledge production within laboratory with the use of technological artifacts where humans and non-humans, called actants, were analyzed with the same level of importance. Computer Art finds its roots in Information Theory and in the signs systems that are proposed as objects from the perspective of Informational Aesthetics, as stated by Abraham Moles and Max Bense. Throughout Mole’s heuristic methodology process of recoding, which consists in importing the concepts from one area of knowledge into another, I articulated concepts known as actant, association, translation and inscription, from ANT, based on definitions presented by Bruno Latour, with the terms repertoire of elements, message, object and aesthetic states, from Informational Aesthetics. Developing the analysis of interactive installations, of my own creation, most of them being applied in theatrical staging, I investigated how ANT contributes to the innovation of aesthetic states in artistic production and I built a theoretical framework that collaborates to the creative process in terms of Computer Art. Expanding Informational Aesthetics with ANT, this research proposes an Aesthetics of Associations, which takes a different view focusing on the connections established between the actants participating in the art object.