Statement 2003
During the Festival we will discuss issues such as displacement and nomad processes as images and emblematic actions of the contemporary cultural and political situation. How do you reflect this in the electronic art panel? Is it a theme of interest in your work?
We are moving toward a global culture, much faster that it was anticipated prior to the internet. I think we still be dealing with these issues, but in a new context, that is less cultural or political oriented. Money will become a more determining factor.
The relation between art and politics is at the same time rich and conflictive. How do you perceive this relation in the specific case of your work?
Art may reflect politic as it reflects other aspects of life, but if it is used as a mean to communicate political messages, it is no longer art, it is propaganda.
Image and information technologies participate in control and surveillance strategies, subtle (or not) and generalized. In the face of this reality, in your view what would be the role of art in media contexts?
Art cannot stop the evolution of technology, its use or misuse; artists will try to make sense of it as they become a fact of life.
In the contemporary sociopolitical and cultural context, local identities gain new configurations under stress with the global flows. Inserted into this process, electronic art participates as an open field to the experimentation and expression of new forms of subjectivity. How are these matters manifested in your work?
Local identities are an obstacle in human communications; I try to express myself in a global language. lt is a challenge, because one has to dig further in the human soul to get there.
Today local cultures face the challenge to reinvent personal and collective memories, without letting them become empty before the global communication flows. In your view, how does this challenge translates into art media experiences?
Global culture will enhance our local identity and we shouldn't get threatened by it.
In the context of the approach of electronic-digital means, are you interested in body issues? How does the body appear in your work?
I am interested in human issues and body is part of it. In some of my works I experiment with the idea of beauty, perfection, and how it is being expressed and perceived in the mass media.
Associação Cultural Videobrasil