Tecnologias digitais open source: análise de comunidades na construção das tecnologias para a produção artística

Abstract

This research discusses whether the rise of technology use in the independent artistic field may be related to increased access to new digital tools and the emergence of new online communities. The search for answers to this question begins with the author’s artistic project, which is based on free software and low-cost hardware for creating artistic objects. Therefore, the objective was to analyze communities in the construction of open source digital technologies for artistic production and specifically to describe a training process in workshops for artistic development through open source digital technologies; describe the open source digital tools that are part of the formation of online communities experienced for the artistic environment, in addition to verifying whether the strengthening of voluntary networks in free initiatives facilitate the artist’s contact with contemporary digital technologies. As a constructive and interpretative method for the analysis of the documentation, it produced information about the relationship between the development of technology, its availability and the practice of artistic activity that can be seen as the guiding principle of the search for new means, techniques, supports and audiences, being based on Qualitative Epistemology by González Rey and authors with a historical-dialectical materialist approach and in the field of studies in Science, Technology and Society (STS). As a result, online communities allow for more conscious choices about the use of technology in art, in addition to enhancing the artist’s participation process in the development of technological resources and in order to develop citizenship.