Arte e mídia: reconfigurações estéticas nos videopoemas de Cao Guimarães

Abstract

In this study I discuss how poetic creation takes place in the media universe, approaching video art and, in particular, Cao Guimarães's video production. The intention is to reflect on aspects of a poetic production, in which the poem does not exist in physical space (book), but in virtual space and time. The crisis of traditional media will be one of the motivating factors for the literature to start manifesting itself incorporating other media and languages, thus promoting the friction of video with poetry. The video poem is hybrid in it’s nature, combining technology and art. Thus, this work establishes a debate about some aesthetic concepts claimed by the work of art in the digital age, in an attempt to observe how literary language behaves in the face of this new technological reality, with electronic media, and what place creation takes. poetics in the universe of video art and media, also addressing concepts of image and time. To this end, I analyze two videos by Cao Guimarães, Sopro (2000) and Concerto para Chlorophyll (2004), based on theoretical and methodological studies of theory and criticism of video art, videopoetry, and image.