Bodies dressed in electronic or digital technologies in performances by Brazilian artists

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DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5965/2595034702272022174

Keywords:

costume, masking, technologies

Abstract

The present work deals with the first artistic works that can be understood as "masking" of bodies or costumes made with electronic or digital technologies. Regarding "wearable technologies", we can understand them as prostheses and extensions not only of our physical capacities (such as glasses or a cane), but also as cognitive ones, the extension of memory and subjectivity as a form of artistic expression. The investigation was based on interviews conducted in 2015 with Luisa Paraguai about her work "Vestis" (2005) and Otávio Donasci about her dynamic mask-costumes "Videocriaturas" (1980). Both works recognize the difficulties and obstacles in relation to technical procedures, as well as an extremely current expression in contemporary debates. Among them, the role of inanimate items (such as electronic and digital technologies) with an important agency role that modulates the relationships between our bodies, society and the environment.

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Author Biography

Rafaela Blanch Pires, Federal University of Goiás

Professora de caracterização do ator e produções por meio de tecnologias digitais no curso de Direção de Arte da Universidade Federal de Goiás. Doutora em Design e Arquitetura e mestre em Têxtil e Moda pela Universidade de São Paulo. Durante o período de doutorado obteve experiência de um ano no "Wearable Senses Lab", laboratório sob orientação do professor Oscar Tomico na Universidade Tecnológica de Eindhoven (Holanda). Realizou graduação em Moda e Estilismo na Universidade do Estado de Santa Catarina e Letras-Alemão na Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina.    

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Published

2023-03-03

How to Cite

PIRES, Rafaela Blanch. Bodies dressed in electronic or digital technologies in performances by Brazilian artists . Móin-Móin Magazine - Studies in the Art of Puppetry, Florianópolis, v. 2, n. 27, p. 174–191, 2023. DOI: 10.5965/2595034702272022174. Disponível em: https://revistas.udesc.br/index.php/moin/article/view/22986. Acesso em: 22 dec. 2024.

Issue

Vol. 2 No. 27 (2022): Preservation and conservation of collections in the Puppetry

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Artigos fora do Dossier Temático

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