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Item Actividade e comunicação: o sujeito perante os media(Quimera, 2007) Damásio, Manuel JoséO presente artigo apresenta uma perspectiva material de compreensão da relação entre os sujeitos e os media centrada no conceito de actividade. A partir da discussão deste conceito no contexto de diferentes abordagens no campo dos estudos da comunicação, pretendemos centrarmo-nos na denominada “teoria da actividade” para introduzir uma concepção da actividade enquanto vector central da relação entre sujeito e media. Esta relação constrói-se de acordo com esta perspectiva, não como uma relação passiva baseada na exposição, mas sim como uma relação produtiva de uso dos media enquanto objectos no contexto de actividades colectivas e individuais de objectivação de uma relação produtiva de consumo suportada na mediação de artefactos.Item Anatomy Primitives(Edições Centro de Investigação em Artes e Comunicação, 2021-10) Azevedo, Hugo de; Araújo, AntónioWe propose an installation that investigates the notion of the anatomical canon and its conceptual and practical role in the artistic modeling of human anatomy. This installation guides the visitor through the synthesis of a digital canon built from standard 3D primitives. Through a model that can be interactively constructed or deconstructed step-by-step, using simple controls, the visitoris invited to study, and draw, the human surface anatomy and its main features as interpreted through the natural tools of digital modeling.Item Architectural detail or the end of the virtual(2022) Pinto, Bernardo de Castro Norton VazArchitectural tectonics have become the central resistance, in the discipline of architecture, against the virtual simulations of reality that dominate our cultural landscape. Within that discussion, the study and critique of the architectural detail as a central aspect of architecture needs to be re-considered today, simply because it relates directly with materiality, physical materiality, of architecture. The enormous social-cultural transformations, since the turn of the century, triggered by the electronical and then digital innovations, have permitted the appearance of a virtual world that is competing with the physical role and subsequent meaning of the discipline of architecture. Alvin Tofler´s The Third Wave, Castells’ The Rise of the Network Society, Nicholas Negroponte’s Being Digital , all reflected the changes that are now a consummated fact: we have become more and more dependent on the non-physical, on the nonmaterial aspects of technology. Paraphrasing Negroponte, it is the shift from atoms (material and mass) to bits (digital). The construction of a virtual, nonphysical world, as the late phenomenon of the metaverse, the NFTs, or non-fungible tokens, confirm this tendency in the development of a nonphysical world. The challenge presented to architecture, as the discipline of the construction of meaningful physical environments, is that it cannot exist only in appearance. It needs to have existence, physical existence and permanence. The role of the architectural detail, present since the dawning of the discipline, needs to be re-discussed: The meaning of architecture, as it has always been, can be revealed within the understanding of the construction detail. The joint and the construction detail have evolved through history, from symbolic representations of nature, to metaphors of structural elements, to glimpses of the way buildings are put together. The advent of the digital revolution, and the changes of the architectural process, the appearance of the possibility of the “fold”1, and other algorithm processes of designing, triggered the disappearance of the edge and the joint, and detail has become surpassed, forgotten in praise of the seamless extension of the perfected architectural surface. To understand the role of architecture today is, to a large extent, to understand the meaning of the architectural detail.Item Artistic-architectural micro-narratives in the city(2022) Barbas, iSABELIn the current 'burnout society' (Byung Chul Han), or 'liquid modernity' (Zygmunt Bauman), or 'red fish civilization' (Bruno Patino), in which the individual finds himself immersed in a diffuse, confused, global, where the boundaries between the private and the public, work and leisure, the specific and the global, the material and the immaterial are diluted, producing a new kind of 'habitat', what role can perform ‘artistic installations’ and small-scale ‘architectural installations’ on public space, in the debate about the current society, that is also committed to emerging ecological values? Taking into account its small scale, economy of materials, costs and reduced times, compared to the 'disciplinary' urban and architectural operations established in city 'design' policies, and above all taking into account its 'power of communication', of more immediate and performative interaction appealing to 'new aesthetic senses' [expanded field of art/architecture], we propose to look at the 70's - decade in which a freer artistic intervention was democratized but also more objective and committed to new ideas about the 'Polis', about the need to reactivate its use value [work] to the detriment of exchange value [profit], producing 'playfully' (Huizinga) and 'phenomenologically' new spaces of interaction (Lefebvre) and the influences they can play today. Appealing to the 'participation', 'activation' and even 'co-authorship' of the inhabitants, this type of artistic intervention on a 'human scale' in the city acts, either by 'adherence' or even by 'confrontation' – which is also a form of contact –, a dialogue with the public, which is thus involved in the construction of new 'micronarratives' about the city; awakening new personal critical senses about the 'common space', underlining the importance of the 'micro' in the 'macro' which is, perhaps, a possible way to build a more ecological society. Keywords: Art-architecture Installations in Public Space / Critical and ecological art-architectural practices in the city / Mediation, participation and co-authorshipItem A atmosfera fílmica como consciência(Edições Universitárias Lusófonas, 2002) Gil, InêsThe concept of "cinematic atmosphere" is complex because its analysis raises the problem of the cinematographic formal construction as inductive medium of the film atmosphere. Moreover, the proper notion of "atmosphere" reveals other concepts more or less controlled by the cinematic elements that will have all the same goal: the recognition of these concepts through the manifestation of the atmosphere.Item Dansbana! in the context: performative process for inclusive public space(2022) Selberg, TeresThe historical building typology ‘dansbana’ was important social spaces, especially among young people, in Sweden and the Northern parts of Europe, in the beginning of the 20th century. They were typically small-scale structures built of wood, a lot of times designed and constructed as a community activity. The music was played live, and the dance would be different kinds of steering dances, where girls were waiting to be asked out to the dance floor. Dansbana! is an organization (run by the architects Anna Pang, Anna Fridolin and Teres Selberg), creating public spaces for dance with hands-on, dance-specific methods, founded to change statistics showing that young girls are heavily underrepresented as users of public spaces for activities. At the same time the concept of the traditional building typology ‘dansbana’ is updated to meet the needs and wishes of local dance communities and young girls in today’s contemporary world. Gender inequality is global and one of the biggest obstacles to sustainable development, economic growth and poverty reduction. This research aims to produce and communicate alternative methods to work together towards the SDGs, challenging norms within urban development and broadening the spectrum of how to execute practice-based research globally. Using the experiences from three projects by the organisation Dansbana! in the region of Stockholm, Sweden as well as their most recent installations in Istanbul, Turkey and Akron, USA this research aims at a) visualizing methods of inclusive and context-specific production of public space with young girls as focus group b) developing further the cross-disciplinary participatory methods used within the organization Dansbana! today c) expanding the role of the architect through playful, performative investigationsItem Digital sex work?: Creating and selling explicit content in OnlyFans(Routledge, 2022-11-10) Cardoso, Daniel; Chronaki, Despina; Scarcelli, Cosimo MarcoRecently, we have seen relatively unknown platforms, like OnlyFans, rise to popularity among producers and consumers of sexual(ised) digital content. This seems to be especially so in the case of young adults who were affected by a sudden disappearance of entry-level jobs in hospitality, retail and associated functions, or diminished university experiences compared to expectations, due to the COVID-19 crisis. Although there is an increasing amount written on young people, sexuality and the media, research on both young adults and their experiences with sexuality online and online sex workers is still lacking, and more so in the case of the use of patronage platforms to sell sexual(ised) content. Focusing on younger women producers, this chapter illustrates their challenges within patriarchal societies and the way in which sex work is heavily gendered. By relying on Thematic Analysis of 20 interviews of Italian emerging adults, our analysis focuses on the self-definition of our participants as sex workers. It examines how OnlyFans creators articulate their professional self through the production of contents, marketing practices and customer relations to understand if and how it is possible to speak about deplatformed sex, and to understand that negotiating the identity of ‘sex worker’ is less about the specific material conditions of those doing content production, and more about the hallmarks of what a ‘job’ is. keywords: sex work ; OnlyFans ; porn ; content producer ; platform laborItem The digitalization of analogue stereo photographs and the creation of the digital stereo archive(Society for Imaging Science and Technology, 2019) Luz, Filipe Costa; Peixoto, Rodrigo; Oliveira, JorgeThis paper analyzes the problems arising from the remediation of the relief effect in the transition from analog to digital of stereo photography. One of the main problems in this conversion is the portability of the awe effect that constitutes an important part of the experience when viewing a stereo pair. This image conversion process, necessary to the creation and dissemination of digital files of 19th century stereoscopic photography, is not linear. The digital stereoscopic projection cards present a number of difficulties for a proper consistency reproduction of the relief effect. Through the study comparison of different viewing apparatus (both digital and analogue including 3D and VR) of a specific stereo image, we will present important results achieved with a sample of 134 participants that were exposed to these devices and propose a guideline manual for the digital stereo archive.Item O discurso político e a “revolução democrática” em Portugal: Análise dos discursos presidenciais de Ramalho Eanes e Mário Soares(Escola Superior de Comunicação Social do Instituto Politécnico de Lisboa, 2013) Vieira, Marta Santos; Álvares, CláudiaEste artigo pretende investigar a construção do conceito de democracia nos discursos dos dois presidentes portugueses, Ramalho Eanes e Mário Soares, no período que marca a consolidação da democracia após a autocrática ditadura de Salazar e Caetano que durou quase cinco décadas. O nosso objetivo é caracterizar o discurso presidencial de Ramalho Eanes e Mário Soares, e observar o lugar que o conceito de democracia ocupa nesse discurso e a forma como é abordado. Com este artigo pretendemos apurar como se manifestam as crenças, os assuntos estratégicos e a liderança retórica de Ramalho Eanes e Mário Soares, e onde convergem ou divergem as suas prioridades políticas?Item 'Field work' : drawing lessons from urban agriculture to facilitate transitions towards sustainable cities(2022) Simon, SandrineBased on a research project focused on urban agriculture initiatives in Lisbon, this article explores the three dimensions (economic, ecological and social) of sustainability, in view of improving our understanding of what a ‘sustainable city’ may be. In particular, it describes how urban agriculture is helping i) to meet one of the most basic human needs for food; ii) to improve both people’s health - by tackling people’s diet – and the ‘environmental health’ of a city – and by introducing more ecologically-friendly agricultural processes that also help fight climate change and water problems; and iii) to tackle social cohesion issues – by facilitating exchanges and learning within communities. Three critical policy areas where ‘back to human scale’ can have a global impact are then investigated, using the lessons drawn from Urban Agriculture (UA): a) Education for sustainability – and how territorial and social learning can also have an impact on global citizenship education; b) Participatory governance – linking citizen science with urban governance, using ICTs; and c) Political ecology – including fighting climate change through new forms of activism such as ‘proximity and disruptive dissent’ and improving people’s awareness on the political dimensions of food production through alternative food networks dealing with food democracy. The article demonstrates the contribution that modest practical actions undertaken by individuals at neighbourhood levels could have at policy levels if advances in ‘participatory urban governance’, put forward by policy-makers and researchers, are to be taken seriously and better connected to the realm of ‘practical (field-) work’Item Healthy living places: a pedagogical experience between health and architecture(2022) Neiva, Ana; Leão, TeresaThe places where people inhabit determine their health and wellbeing. Architects, as designers of the physical characteristics of living and working spaces, and their surrounding urban atmospheres, can thus influence environmental conditions, social interactions, and the individuals’ downstream lifestyle factors. A person-centred training may help future architects to learn their potential as health promoters through architecture and urban planning and obtain the basic tools. The “Health, Wellbeing and Architecture” interdisciplinary course offered students (from the Medical and Architecture schools) a user-centred perspective, following a student-centred approach. By guiding students through the common contents of Architecture and Public Health in lectures with teachers and researchers from both fields, exposing them to the perspectives of inhabitants in field visits, and providing space to discussion, students learned to analyse real-world examples of neighbourhoods, discussed how housing conditions and neighbourhood characteristics could be influencing health problems, and proposed solutions to improve the users health and wellbeing. Students complemented technical architecture skills with public health evidence, and social participation to propose the design of healthier living environments. - 2 - Student- and user-centred approaches were key to facilitating dialogue among both areas’ students, teachers, researchers, and users. Their reactions and the technical outcomes were very positive, with students reporting to be able to think about health from a broader perspective and to think about architecture considering its impact on the health of its users. Bridging architecture and public health and centring teaching practices on students and users perspectives is fundamental to put people’s health and wellbeing as a priority for Architecture.Item How an audio-visual instrument can foster the sonic experience.(MIT Press, 2013) Sá, AdrianaThe chapter formulates an understanding of how an audio-visual instrument can be composed in such a way that the experience is driven through sound organization – modulated, but not obfuscated, by a moving image. This is particularly challenging, as normally the audio-visual relationship is skewed in favor of the visual. The investigation is motivated by insights derived from artistic practice. It outlines psychophysical boundaries with the aid of existing cognition/ attention research, and it describes three principles for the creation audio-visual instruments. As an example, the article describes how they are explored in a specific audio-visual instrument, combining an acoustic zither and modified software from audio processing and video-game technologies. This instrument addresses the three principles while exploring the disparities between an acoustic and a digital output. Keywords: NIME, Audio-visual relationship, Musical expression, Perception, Multisensory integrationItem How the portuguese media represented the first racialized female MP head of a political party(2021) Cardoso, Carla Rodrigues; Lamy, Sónia; Cerqueira, Carla; Martins, Carla; Cardoso, Daniel; Barradas, Alexandra; Ragasová, AnnaThis paper is part of an ongoing research that analyses the news coverage of the first six months of the parliamentary term of Joacine Katar Moreira, the first racialized woman head of the political party LIVRE (meaning ‘free’) in the general elections of 2019 in Portugal. PhD in African Studies, black woman, feminist and anti-racism activist, the first MP with a stutter, Joacine Katar Moreira arrived at the House with a renowned academic career and a history of engagement in the social area. The starting question which guides this research is: how did the national press – in both print and digital formats – represent Joacine Katar Moreira from 6 October 2019 to 6 April 2020? This period of analysis enables us to follow the two initial stages of her MP’s term - the debut as MP and the exit from LIVRE following irreconcilable disagreements. In February 2020 she became an independent MP and from this date onward, the media agenda was dominated by the issue of the COVID-19 pandemic. In the aftermath of the 2019 parliamentary elections, three new political parties entered the Portuguese Parliament: Chega! (meaning ‘Enough!’, far-right), Iniciativa Liberal (meaning ‘Liberal Initiative’, right-wing) and LIVRE (left-wing). It was expected that after the new parliamentary composition was settled, routine would set in which would dilute the novelty conferred by the media to the presence of these three parties. This would not be the case with LIVRE, as a result of the processes of Othering performed by the media, vis-a-vis the social situatedness of Joacine Katar Moreira. Throughout nearly four months, LIVRE and Joacine Katar Moreira would take up the media agenda, going from the euphoria of victory and the focus on the MP’s differentiating features, to the disputes between her and the party she was elected for. The process would come to a head on 3 February 2020, when LIVRE withdrew its political trust in Katar Moreira, who refused to leave the Parliament and became a non-attached member. The research aims at understanding how the Portuguese national press represented, framed and narrated the Joacine Katar Moreira case, not only the surprise of her election but to which extent her political persona defied the established patterns of Portuguese political news coverage. This paper will share the first results of the study. The corpus includes the front pages of newspapers, covers of magazines and homepages of nine selected media, both quality and popular press with different political approaches: Correio da Manhã, Diário de Notícias, Expresso, jornal I, Jornal de Notícias, Observador, Público, Sábado and Visão. The news and opinion pieces of the selected media are analysed using an intersectional approach, seeking to ascertain the dimensions used by newspapers, magazines and websites to represent Joacine Katar Moreira at their most important device as well as the implications of this social construction.Item Infinite atmospheres for vulnerabilities of spaces: ambiances and architectural design(2022) Evangelia, Paxinou; Nicolas, RemyIn the frame of the B-AIR co-funded program by the European Education and Culture Executive Agency, architects, designers, artists, anthropologists, radio artists have been exploring the theme of social, environmental, and spatial "vulnerabilities” trough the ordinary listening in the public spaces. Ambiances theory for architectural design address the theme trough the discussion between the infinite atmospheres and the last concerns on the happiness business. The paper shows that creating atmosphere in public spaces can facilitate the design of places with sensible qualities and the improvement of the humans’ living conditions, beyond the «narcissistic» production of sterile and stereotypical architectural objects with no social background.Item INTER-FACE: International Conference on Live Interfaces 2014(Universidade do Porto, CECL & CESEM (Universidade NOVA , MITPL (University of Sussex), 2015) Sá, AdrianaINTER-FACE, the second International Conference on Live Interfaces, was dedicated to problematizing convergences and divergences between different understandings of performance technology. It sought to expose a variety of motivations and approaches, and discuss how specifc understandings of ‘liveness’, ‘immediacy’, ‘timing’ or ‘fow’ manifest in performance with digital media. INTER-FACE gathered paper presentations, performances, interactive installations, poster demonstrations and workshops. It happened in Lisbon, Portugal, at the Fine Arts Faculty of the University Lisbon (FBAUL); the School of Music of the National Conservatorium (EMCN); ZDB; the National Museum for Contemporary Arts (MNAC) and the Institute of Art, Design and Enterprise (IADE). The Conference is biannual, and these Proceedings are published a year after the conference itself. The authors had the opportunity to strengthen their work after the presentation at the conference, beneftting from the feedback of the other participants and the editorial peer-review. Keywords: Live interfaces, Performance, Art installation, instrument design, NIMEItem Internet móvel em Portugal: variáveis de acesso, uso e consumo(2012) Botelho, Inês Teixeira; Henriques, Sara; Damásio, Manuel JoséA emergência de novas formas de acesso à internet vem reforçar a necessidade de desenvolvimento de iniciativas de I&D que facilitem a melhor compreensão dos processos de transformação associados à evolução tecnológica e aferir se de tais processos resultam novas consequências sociais ao nível das formas de uso e consumo de uma tecnologia e arranjos sociais associados. Este projecto pretende avaliar o papel e relevância das tecnologias móveis de acesso à internet, a importância da mobilidade e dos dispositivos móveis como instrumentos na promoção do envolvimento social, da interação e da expressão subjectiva. Na sequência da aplicação de metodologias qualitativas numa fase exploratória, através de entrevistas com os principais representantes da indústria das comunicações móveis e dos estudos de mercado, e de metodologias quantitativas com a aplicação de um questionário a uma amostra representativa da sociedade portuguesa, temos como objectivo desenvolvimento de um protótipo para uma aplicação móvel no contexto educativo do ensino superior, ligada ao apoio aos alunos e docentes e incluindo conteúdos escolares, institucionais e de envolvimento social. Esta aplicação vem corresponder às necessidades dos utilizadores de acordo com os resultados obtidos anteriormente. A análise do uso desta plataforma e consequências daí resultantes em termos de participação, usabilidade, actividades e potencial para produção de capital será realizada com base na análise de redes sociais (SNA). Através desta pretendemos observar e estudar as relações e os padrões de relacionamentos entre os utilizadores de internet móvel num contexto educativo.Item Introduction of non-topological costs in syntactic analyses : the case of Gulbenkian estate(2022) Fernandes, Pedro AfonsoSpace syntax is a set of theories and techniques for analysing urban settlements and buildings. Focused on the study of the configuration of convex spaces, space syntax is based on the concept of topological depth, that is, in the number of steps to go from some space (or axial line) to every other space in a spatial complex. Typically, non-topological costs like stairs, ramps, accentuated slopes or walls are not considered in space syntax analyses, or are incorporated in an insufficient fashion, namely, with the arbitrary introduction of axial lines in order to increase depth. This article proposes an innovative method to deal with these costs that uses logic programming with Prolog language. In this way, it is possible to better understand the relative segregation of the Gulbenkian estate within its urban environment, the city of Odivelas near Lisbon (Portugal), noting that it was the largest public housing estate built within the scope of the resettlement plan for those displaced by the great floods of November 25-26, 1967, established by the Ministry of Public Works and the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation in the late 1960s. Keywords: Space Syntax, Non-topological costs, Liveability, Logic Programming, Public housing estates, Great Lisbon’s floods of 1967Item Jogadores ou Espectadores? Pontos de vista no cinema e nos videojogos(Universidade de Aveiro, 2009) Luz, Filipe CostaIn this work we intent to explore similarities or differences between the point of view in cinema and video games. The issue that we will explore is what type of relations we can discover in camera angles and film plane definitions with first, third and god point-of view in videogames.Item Live Interfaces: Seeds of Debate(Universidade do Porto, CECL & CESEM (Universidade NOVA , MITPL (University of Sussex), 2015) Sá, AdrianaItem Lugares Sagrados: Corpo e Sensualidade no Cinema(Faculdade de Belas -Artes, 2009-10) Gil, InêsIn film, Eros manifests itself in the image temporality to wake the sensation up. But the image needs to remain ambiguous to suggest and not to show. In suggesting, it maintains a distance between the body representation and its sensuality. In showing, the image may turn into another genre: the obscene or the pornographic one. That is why Eros has a sacred place in film because it always maintains a veil upon its presentation: the body exteriority and interiority become mystery. It is the filmic "aura" of Eros.
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