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Cecília Mattos MacDowell, Ana "Medium Media Mater: Experiences in art between material and subtle." PhD
, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro- UFRJ, 2019
Keywords/Fields of Study : Experience, art, technology, science, spirituality, noethic, video, plasma, body, mind, trans-sensorial, médium, media, mater, videonoethics
Abstract: The research presented invests in artistic experiments that take into account the interconnection of the knowledge of art, technology, science and spirituality. In a practical theoretical form, we investigate the aesthetic experience between the material and the subtle perceived by a kind of trans-sensoriality. As a starting point the research addresses the problem at the base of cultural construction, identified as dualism. Such an epistemic dichotomy, despite having allowed us to establish advances in knowledge, has removed the incomprehensible magic of scientific rationality, separating subjectivity from objectivity. We understand that we run an even greater risk by remaining with a certain partial vision and thus unable to converge to the integration of the corporal, psychic, intellectual, affective and spiritual dimensions. In order to do so, we focus attention on the field phenomena studied by synchronicity and resonance, which encompass technological, scientific concepts and also those not yet validated by orthodox science, such as telepathy, remote vision and mediumship. For the development of the aesthetic model we draw a triad that interconnects confluent domains: medium, media and mater. We begin with the concept of medium when we observe the emphasis given to trans-sensory states in poetic and methodological investigations, found in the historical context of art, from abstraction to surreal, conceptual practices, performance and in association with image technology. As an epistemological exercise we follow the approach of the media, applied to light and sound phenomena, as in the video that extends to the technologically mediated body, to analyse the interest in accessing the tangibility of intangible orders in principle. The mater root is directed to the need to understand matter in its sensitive aspect, by access to vibrational fields from material to subtle, such as perceptions enhanced by hybridised bodies. From the application of the concept of Technoethics (ASCOTT 1998/2003), we deal with noetic and transpersonal knowledge geared to the specific domain of video, under the term coined in this thesis by videonoetics. The practical research conjugates telematic evolutions of the video to the reach of the plasma phenomenon, as an affective device, because we consider this state of matter as a medium of action between the material and the subtle. As an exercise in this aesthetic model, we develop an opera on a self fiction narrative with experiments of field phenomena in performative rituals, which the concept of videonoetic is considered.
Department: PPGAV- EBA / Poéticas Interdisciplinares
, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro- UFRJ
Advisor(s): Carlos Augusto Moreira da Nóbrega, Maria Luiza Fragoso
