Espaços de imagens: visualidade e medialidade em ambientes comunicativos

Abstract

The research has as main interest to understand as sense structures are elaborated based in the relationships between space and image. In face of the multiplication of images by the technologies of information and communication, predominantly of digital nature, this understanding qualifies us to examine the nature of the visual experience that is offered nowadays by the numerous spaces of images. The fundamental hypothesis sustains that the image cannot operate out of a space; therefore, space and image participate together of this visual experience. So, the space, as process transformed in medium, imposes its material and historical reality to the formation of the image. As the image depends on a medial apparatus, transformations in the mediative nature of the space will be unavoidably reflected in the sphere of the images, and, in consequence, in culture. For that perspective, besides checking and evaluating the technical conditions of production of the image given by the technical medium, that configures its materiality, it concerns to include the spaces that shelter them, in other words, the spaces multiplied to and by the image, the activities that exist in them and among them, and the derived sociocultural consequences of that dynamism, whose investigation becomes the main objective of the research. By the process of espatialization of the image, four categories were discriminated, allowing to understand their construction, circulation and exhibition ways, that constitute the operative chain of that emerging imagetic spatiality. This categories are: constructability/mediality and visuality/presentability that make possible to explore the conditions of appearance of networks of relationships installed among all the participants, operated by the intermediality and responsible for the hibridization and multiplicity of the media images, in the extent of an ecology of the image. It is verified the formation of a system that operates by the dynamics of relation of their elements, formed by the means of media and the medium, and its interaction with another wider space, the environment (milieu), that counts with the spectator s presence. The course of the research is located among the producers, in their way of doing and showing, and the spectators, in their way of seeing and contemplating cultural and historical changes of communicative environments, that allow the installation of a critical perspective of the theory of the visuality, of multi‐disciplinary character, close to the space‐image relationship, imposing as theoretical‐methodological articulation contributions of concepts and examples extracted from authors of different theoretical fields, to underline the indications supplied by the work in its presentation