Abstract
“Eu estou dentro do mapa”. Assim abre-se o curta-metragem Nunca é Noite no Mapa (2016), de Ernesto de Carvalho. A percepção de que seu próprio corpo, imaterializado, está perpetuado em alguma coordenada virtual, incita reflexões sobre as cartografias de controle engendradas pelos Nine Eyes do Google Street View. O presente texto, a partir da constatação de um crescente interesse artístico pelas imagens deste dispositivo fotográfico – nomeadamente o filme supracitado e The Google Trilogy (2012), do italiano Emilio Vavarella –, buscará tecer uma investigação a respeito de como habitar e como agir em um mundo mediado pelas tecnologias da transparência e pela onipresença de uma imagem operacional, aperspectivística e supostamente objetiva.
“I am inside the map”. These are the words that open the short film Nunca é Noite no Mapa (It’s Never Nighttime in the Map) (2016), by Ernesto de Carvalho. The perception that his own immaterialized body is perpetuated in some virtual coordinate prompts reflections on the control cartographies engendered by Google Street View’s Nine Eyes. This text, from the observation of a growing artistic interest in the images of this photographic device — namely the aforementioned film and The Google Trilogy (2012), by Italian artist Emilio Vavarella —, will seek to weave an investigation into how to inhabit and how to act in a world mediated by the technologies of transparency and by the omnipresence of an operational, aperspectivistic and supposedly objective image.
“I am inside the map”. These are the words that open the short film Nunca é Noite no Mapa (It’s Never Nighttime in the Map) (2016), by Ernesto de Carvalho. The perception that his own immaterialized body is perpetuated in some virtual coordinate prompts reflections on the control cartographies engendered by Google Street View’s Nine Eyes. This text, from the observation of a growing artistic interest in the images of this photographic device — namely the aforementioned film and The Google Trilogy (2012), by Italian artist Emilio Vavarella —, will seek to weave an investigation into how to inhabit and how to act in a world mediated by the technologies of transparency and by the omnipresence of an operational, aperspectivistic and supposedly objective image.
Translated title of the contribution | Body and city captured inside the map: devices and counter-devices from Google Street View operational images |
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Original language | Portuguese |
Pages (from-to) | 62-76 |
Number of pages | 15 |
Journal | Revista de Comunicação e Linguagens |
Issue number | 56 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - Mar 2022 |
Keywords
- Counter-devices
- Emilio Vavarella
- Ernesto de Carvalho
- Google Street View
- Operational image
- Imagem operacional
- Contradispositivos