Ⓥ 6.2 Mixed
Tracks
Track 2
Tuesday, June 25, 2024 |
3:30 PM - 5:30 PM |
Plaza P6 |
Overview
This session will be livestreamed from Brisbane for virtual delegates
Speaker
Dr Tracey Benson
Treecreate
P: Weaving Water: Connecting to Place, Practice and Protocol
3:30 PM - 4:15 PMAbstract
This panel consists of four international experts who have collaborated and connected on a diverse range of projects for over 20 years. The discussion focuses on a recent interdisciplinary residency in Australia, Weaving Water @ Yarun, designed to support relational ways of being, share cultural practices, and provide artistic and theoretical frameworks that acknowledge a deep connection to place. The residency tied together social and cultural knowledge about water as an essential element to support human and more-than-human physical and spiritual life on the planet. This panel discussion explores individual experiences of the residency as well as framing shared contributions to the residency outcomes.
Biography
Dr Tracey M Benson (AU) works extensively with Indigenous peoples and is an interdisciplinary designer, curator, and researcher with international and national academic affiliations, based in Australia.
Mx Pasha Clothier
Auckland University of Technology
Panelist
Biography
Pasha Clothier (NZ) is of Tahitian and New Zealand descent - an artist-writer, educator, curator, and project manager whose work is exhibited internationally and is deeply rooted in their Polynesian heritage.
Associate Professor Sarah Jane Pell
Associate Professor
Monash University
Panelist
Biography
Dr Sarah Jane Pell (AU) is an artist-researcher, explorer in sea, space, and immersive domains. In 2002, they founded the ARTi Aquabatics Research Team initiative to expand human performance underwater.
Ms Kristine Diekman
California State University
Panelist
Biography
Dr Kristine Diekman (USA) is a media artist and educator working in documentary and experimental film, new media, sound, drawing, and community-based media. Her recent documentary projects focus on water and environmental justice.
Dr Giselle Beiguelman
University of São Paulo
P: Brasília Surveillance Camera Images: Dissenting Narratives of Art, Architecture, and Digital Culture
4:15 PM - 5:00 PMAbstract
The Digital Collections and Research project, funded by Fapesp, aims to develop AI-based methodologies and a theoretical framework for museum collections and digital docu-ments. Our initial focus is analyzing images captured by 33 security cameras, documenting the events of January 8, 2023, during a coup d'état orchestrated by the Brazilian far-right. These images serve as crucial artifacts in our exploration of digital archives. Beyond their role in ongoing judicial pro-ceedings, this extensive collection highlights the impact of social documentation in the contemporary memory culture. These images, typically crafted for short-term deletion and restricted access, offer insights into alternative narratives surrounding political events. Furthermore, they spark creative explorations across art, architecture, and design domains, challenging traditional boundaries of expression and institutional sites. Delving into this collection prompts reflection on the aesthetics of memory and media art, urging a reevaluation of how distributed digital archives shape our understanding of historical events. Specific methodologies employing AI to manage vast amounts of video data have been developed, a promising utility for future researchers and artists. Our analy-sis spans various facets of the images, exploring their social documentation profile, the transition from recording to archive, their views of architectural and design heritage sites, and their status as native-digital archives. Through these cam-eras, we delve into the unique views of Brasília, a UN World Heritage Site, exploring the surveillance images' role in docu-menting modernist art, architecture, and design. Our study extends to the aesthetics of surveillance, exploring the media archaeology revealed by the array of surveillance cameras used. Previously disposable images, as security cameras usually are, now offer new political and aesthetic dimensions. Reflecting on disposable images as potential residual archives presents challenges and opportunities, reshaping our under-standing of native digital documentation. Leveraging AI and speculative design methodologies opens new avenues for interpretation and analysis, contributing to constructing more complex and meaningful narratives. Our project underscores the importance of these non-human images captured by surveillance cameras in reconstructing dissenting narratives of art, architecture, and digital culture in historical events, presenting fertile ground for interdisciplinary innovation and future research.
Biography
Giselle Beiguelman is an artist and professor at the Faculty of Architecture, Urbanism, and Design at the University of São Paulo. In her recent projects, Giselle Beiguelman investigates the construction of colonialist imagery in the arts and sciences using Artificial Intelligence resources. She is the author of Politics of the Image (UBU Editora, 2nd ed. 2023), among others. Her projects are part of collections in major museums, such as ZKM, Pinacoteca de São Paulo, and the Jewish Museum Berlin. Ana Gonçalves Magalhães is a professor and Director of the Museum of Contemporary Art at the University of São Paulo (2020-2024). Her research topics involve the history of institutions and collections, 20th-century art history, and documentation and cataloging of artistic collections. She was also a visiting researcher at the Getty Research Institute (2016) in Los Angeles and at the Biblioteca Hertziana – Max Planck Institute in Rome (2019). Eduardo Augusto Costa is a professor at the Faculty of Architecture, Urbanism, and Design at the University of São Paulo. He is the author of "Visual Culture and History" (Alameda, 2016), and "Archives, Memories of the City, Historiographies of Architecture and Urbanism" (FAUUSP, 2021), among others. He is an expert in visual culture, the history of architecture, the history of design, heritage, and archives. The three researchers are principal investigators of the São Paulo Research Foundation (Fapesp) Thematic Project "Digital Collections and Research." More information: https://acervosdigitais.fau.usp.br/
Dr Eduardo Costa
Adjunct Professor
University of São Paulo
Panelist
Biography
Eduardo Costa is a professor at the Faculty of Architecture, Urbanism, and Design of the University of São Paulo. He holds a degree in Architecture and Urbanism and a Ph.D. in History from the State University of Campinas, where he also conducted postdoctoral research. In addition to numerous articles, he has authored books such as Visual Culture and History (Alameda, 2016), Archive, Power, Memory: Herman Hugo Graeser and the Photographic Archive of IPHAN (Alameda, 2018), and Archives, Memories of the City, Historiographies of Architecture and Urbanism (FAUUSP, 2021). Eduardo specializes in visual culture, architectural history, design history, heritage, and archives
Professor Ana Gonçalves Magalhães
Museum of Contemporary Art of The University of São Paulo
Panelist
Biography
Ana Gonçalves Magalhães, an art historian and curator, currently directs the Museum of Contemporary Art at the University of São Paulo (MAC USP). As a full professor at the University of Sao Paulo, her research interests include institutional history, 20thcentury art, and the cataloging of art collections. Ana has published extensively, notably co-authoring Possible Futures: Art, Museums, and Digital Archives (2014) and Boccioni in Brazil: Reassessing
the Material History of 'Unique Forms of Continuity in Space' (2022). She has been an advisor for organizations such as FAPESP and a visiting professor at several international universities. Ana's contributions span academia and museum practice, reflecting her art history and curation expertise.
Session chair
Alison Rajah
Director
Surrey Art Gallery