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- Blended reality: an analysis through the recent evolution of digital media art ecosystemsPublication . Veiga, Pedro Alves daThis chapter proposes an analysis of the impacts that three economic concepts that gained traction in the last decades of neoliberalism – experience, attention and ubiquity – cause in digital arts and artists, driving the establishment of blended-reality as the current inhabited space, and altering the relationships between artists, audience, curating, public spaces, academia, industry and markets. Using the Internet as a technological backbone, the global digital art ecosystem has become a network of relationships and relational mechanisms, where creativity and innovation are being commoditised, organised and consumed like products. By analysing pairs of concepts and the paradoxes involved, it also offers insights on how the blending concept is also being applied to what could have once been considered as extreme opposites. It concludes by showing how artivism and hacktivism rise as the new innovation forces in a networked environment that is written and reads itself, blending materiality and virtuality.
- Digital narratives & urban artivist networks: a theoretical-methodological approachPublication . Carvalho, Isabel Cristina; Viegas, Sílvia LeiriaThis article explores the disciplinary and thematic convergences of digital media art, urban life and social activism (in the digital plan), merging into a cohesive exploration of digital narratives and their role in supporting and boosting urban artivist networks. In fact, digital tools provide unique opportunities to broaden the scope and impact of socially-engaged art, primarily through artivist practices, while highlighting and emphasising inspiring existences and positions concerning urban rights and building citizenship. As such, in this exploratory essay, we seek to stress the importance of building counter-narratives from the grassroots based on ways of life, habits, customs and everyday experiences historically overlooked by dominant systems while at the same time building theoretical-methodological framework to deconstruct urban strategies and practices and support different forms of self-representation. We will use two complementary dimensions to build our approach: (1) collecting, interpreting and processing data and (2) giving visibility to the referred alternative narratives. Regarding urban processes and physical spaces, these dimensions follow Lefebvre’s structural thinking on the production of social space and the right to the city, pointing out activist methodologies, e.g. those following principles of social justice, human rights, inclusion and equity, among others giving voice and space to the vulnerable individuals and communities.
- Post-fake artivism: how activism and art can break reflexivityPublication . Veiga, Pedro AlvesThis text explores the historical evolution and intertwinement of propaganda, black-boxing, and attention control over the last century, and their combined roles in influencing the masses, more specifically through the spread of fake information in various media formats. In this scenario, artivism (art + activism), in its many forms, hacks the black boxes and exposes their inner workings, algorithms, and strategies. Thus, the author highlights key aspects of propaganda, as posited during the Second World War, and their subsequent spread into advertising, becoming an intrinsic part of global politics and businesses. The concept of black-boxing, as introduced by Latour to designate an opaque process that takes input A and transforms it into output B, while hiding its inner workings or hidden purposes, is then extended and applied to all modern content and media production – including propaganda and advertising – that occludes its sources and information transformation from the public. The reflexive use of these extended back-boxes, together with technological determinism, is fostering what is presented as a widespread phenomenon, turning fake into real, largely supported by a culture rooted in propaganda, thriving in attention-capturing mechanisms and in the conscious use of logical fallacies to maximize public impact, epitomized by the phrase “if faking it gets the job done, who cares?” Form has become more important than function, in the pursuit of goals. The appeal to emotion – overriding reason and fact – is privileged in public communication. Recent advances in generative AI black-boxed systems have densified the scenario, making it nearly impossible to distinguish between highly polished, often hyper-realistic, machine-generated deep-fakes and actual, human-generated media. In a post-fake reality punctuated by a barrage of cognitively overlaid buzzwords – from the simpler like, friend, or tag to the more complex Internet of behaviors, artificial intelligence, extended reality, or enhanced connectivity – created and controlled by dominant cultures to inculcate habits and norms, and to consolidate power, the dismantlement of this unprecedented curtain of clichés becomes urgent, and post-fake artivism (art+activism) may be a step in the right direction.
- Realidade Pós-Fake: uma visão através da arte digitalPublication . Veiga, Pedro Alves daNa era dos prefixos e das buzzwords este artigo apresenta o pós-fake como um fenómeno amplamente disseminado, embora desfocado pelo determinismo tecnológico consubstanciado em caixas-negras. Tem as suas origens na propaganda e na utilização consciente de falácias lógicas e na captura da atenção, com o objetivo de afetar de forma impactante a realidade. Esta análise é conduzida através da arte digital, onde os exemplos de caixas-negras abundam, desde os modernos aplicativos móveis, como o FaceApp ou o TikTok, até ao ubíquo Photoshop. O autor propõe a utilização artivista do pós-fake para a exposição dos meandros internos e ocultos destas caixas-negras, através da sua subversão criativa e utilização crítica, ao serviço de uma melhor e mais transparente comunicação, para a compreensão das estruturas e mecanismos subjacentes às estruturas do tecido social.
- The Everywhere Museum of Everything: the curatorship challenge, from digital urban art to NFTsPublication . Veiga, Pedro Alves daThis article focuses on the overproduction of aestheticised digital content, a testament to social, cultural or recreational experiences, paradoxically short-lived and forgotten. These public aestheticised digital records of social interactions, intellectual engagement or consumerist indulgence are uploaded onto social networks and represent not only a real and abundant ethnographic portrait of contemporaneity, which could be searchable by geography, demography or subject, but also acquire remarkable potential as raw material for creative and artistic research, remixing, digital archaeology or exhibition. From this point of view, their curation is justified. The Everywhere Museum of Everything is the designation given by the author to the augmented urban spaces, populated by these layers of original and remixed digital audio-visual information, interconnected by hashtags and geo-tags, which can be rendered visible through augmented reality tools, thus transforming any urban space into a digital gallery of their recent social, aesthetic or ethnographic history.
- Uma visão internacional da inovação nas Cidades MIL de UNESCO: reflexões e casosPublication . Chibás, Felipe; Marcos, Adérito; Leonardi, Andrea; Pantaleon Matamoros, EfrainO presente artigo é fruto do painel Visões internacionais da Inovação desde a perspectiva das Cidades Inteligentes/ MIL de UNESCO, apresentado pelos autores no marco do 1ro Simpósio de Avanços em Inovação e Ciências Tecnológicas, celebrado na Escola de Ciências e Tecnologia da Universidade Federal de Rio Grande do Norte (UFRN) no 29 de fevereiro de 2024. O objetivo principal do mesmo é mostrar as novas oportunidades que abre para os espaços urbanos a inovação vista desde o paradigma das cidades MIL de UNESCO. Durante o mesmo se discutem os conceitos de Cidade MIL, Alfabetização Mediática e Informacional (AMI) e se apresentam o Curriculum AMI de UNESCO e a Carta da Diversidade Cultural de UNESCO. Também se apresentam o Sistema dos 13 Indicadores e 252 métricas das Cidades MIL, a Metodologia das 20 Barreiras à Comunicação e 5 Dimensões de Criatividade (20 BCC - 5 DCR) e a metodologia das Narrativas Biográficas, no intuito de analisar a importância de entender a inovação e o uso da Inteligência artificial nos novos espaços urbanos híbridos, presencias e digitais.