O Vídeo Como Tecnologia e Meio de Expressão Artística

Mauro Gonçalves

doi:10.21814/vista.4057

Authors

Mauro Gonçalves Faculdade de Letras, Universidade do Porto, Porto, Portugal https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0006-3963

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.21814/vista.4057

Keywords:

vídeo, television, video art, contemporary art

Abstract

This paper seeks to reflect on the emergence of video technology and its use as a medium for artistic expression. Focusing mainly on the period between the 1960s and 1990s, we analyse the relationship between television and other institutions within the cultural-artistic sphere and their role in developing artistic practices through video. Thus, we have established international and Portuguese examples for a plural and diverse analysis. Therefore, this work elaborates on some theories, main ideas and research concerning the role of video and television in late 20th-century society. Special attention is given to some ideological and philosophical traits transversal to the different artistic practices, authors and agents within the contemporary cultural sphere to reflect on some aesthetic elements of the works from this period. Based on a selection of works and artists, this study seeks to explore the social dimension of video, which has often operated as a democratic medium, an instrument of social and political contestation and a medium for the artist's personal reflection. In this way, an approach to the presence and representation of the body in video works and other technical and aesthetic elements is articulated to understand the theoretical dimensions involved in the imagery production of this medium.

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Author Biography

Mauro Gonçalves, Faculdade de Letras, Universidade do Porto, Porto, Portugal

Mauro Gonçalves (born 1997) holds a master in history of art, heritage and visual culture (2021) from the Faculty of Arts of the University of Porto. He completed an internship at the Serralves Foundation during which he developed the research presented in the report O Vídeo nas Práticas Artísticas Contemporâneas — Um Estudo a Partir da Coleção da Fundação de Serralves e do Museu de Arte Contemporânea (The Video in Contemporary Art Practices — A Study from the Collection of the Serralves Foundation and the Museum of Contemporary Art). In the same institution, he completed a specialisation in cinema and visual culture (2019). He also holds a degree in visual arts and artistic technologies (2018) from the Escola Superior de Educação. In 2022, he started the 3rd cycle (doctorate) in heritage studies, where he intends to continue his research on moving images and technological media.

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