Deslocamentos tecnológicos e artísticos na prática dos microrroteiros da cidade

Abstract

This research proposes a reflection about how the technological dimension in the practice of Microrroteiros da Cidade constitutes a fundamental factor of its co-construction and mediation processes of circulation, dynamics and deployment possibilities. Microrroteiros’s project was created in 2009 by the artist and screenwriter Laura Guimarães. Its approach involves small script intentions that invites São Paulo’s population to imagine and visualize scenes that happen in the city. The language used in microrroteiros texts is, at the same time, a relativization of screenplay and Twitter’s technical code – a microblogging plataform that priorizes the share of 140 character messages. Through photographic survey, interview and collection of data, we made a transit mapping of this dynamics and, after that, we developed an analysis of the typographic options, the various media, compositions and connections between different geographic areas identified. The theoretical foundation of this research is based on Andrew Feenberg’s Critical Theory of Technology, and on considerations that this author does about Herbert Marcuse’s theorical position on technology and art. Supported by Néstor García-Canclini and Jesús Martín-Barbero, we observe some shifts of artistic and communication processes triggered from the 1960s by a Latin American theoretical bias, in order to analyze how the practice of Microrroteiros da Cidade and their technical and aesthetic dimensions are constitutive in the dynamics of social media and urban codes in which it is located. Thus, we understand the hybridizations of this artistic practice as displacements that occur in a nonlinear way, but crossed and simultaneous, blurring boundaries of autorship and enabling other visual, collective and random constructions, mediating processes of reinterpretation and reappropriation of the city.