The conference FRAME[scapes] – para uma geocinemática da cidade, by CICANT collaborators, Hugo Barata and Júlio Alves, will be hosted in the auditorium of Museu Coleção Berardo, in Lisbon, on October 19, 2022, at 5 pm.
In 2022, the authors launch FRAME[scapes] - para uma geocinemática da cidade, a transdisciplinary exploratory project that aims to develop a way to study the city and the territory through the moving image. Following an initial set of micro-films and theoretical papers, this project assumes a working process of mapping through the poetic eye, having in the moving image a relevant research tool in the scope of Communication Sciences and Media Theory. The potential of the city to establish itself as an image from within the omnipotence of integrated circuits, as Kittler states, crosses specific concepts of space, time, architecture and cinema. As already stated by Eisenstein architecture is the far-removed relative of the kinema, and the boundary between public space vs. private space is more and more blurred, becoming an imagetic and videographic research for an understanding of bodies and things in the landscape. The understanding of the Real is assumed as a psycho-videographical and geo-psychic practice from the technological extensions able to record, in a loop, all movements, and all places. Thus, as a consequence of this thought, the authors jointly idealized a project influenced by the tension exerted by the recent armed conflict in Europe. Here, to think the city is to think another geography, inherently extending to our everyday space, watered down by the images brought to the fore by the press and TV world coverage. The precession of this "other city", constructed by as many looks as there are people who own a television, is brought back to life from this great archive.
Bios:
Hugo Barata has a PhD in Media Art. He teaches at the School of Communication, Arts, Architecture, Arts and Information Technologies at Lusófona University. He is a visual artist and curator since 2002. His main areas of interest are Art, Design, Media Theory, Education Theory, Education and Cultural Mediation. He is a collaborator researcher of CICANT and an Integrated researcher at COW - Center for Other Worlds.
Júlio Alves holds a PhD in Communication Sciences and a Master in Film Studies. Since 2015, he has been teaching at the School of Communication, Architecture, Arts and Information (ECATI). He has been a researcher at CICANT since 2020. In 1995 he makes his directorial debut with the film A Fachada, followed by: O Despertador (1996), Alferes (2000), Ossudo (2007), O Jogo (2010), 42,195 KM (2010), O Regresso (2012) A Casa (2012), A Casa Manuel Vieira (2014), Casa Encantada (2018), Objetos Entre Nós (2018), Sacavém (2019), Arte de Morrer Longe (2020), Chantal + Pedro (2020), Companhia (2021), Diálogo de Sombras (2021).