The Glasgow School of Art

Moving Image Art Projection in The Digital Age

Primary Supervisor: Prof. Sarah Smith (Primary supervisor)
Co-Supervisor: Dr Francis McKee (Second supervisor)

I aim to understand how the characteristics of digital language have modified gallery-based video art projection in works since the 2000s, through both the historical relations with film projection in post war expanded cinema and the new modalities that have arisen with the computer.
• Can digital projection be considered a specific experiential element of gallery-based video art in the digital context of 2000s when compared with past film projection experiences?
• What are the differences between digital video projection and film projection beyond the question of materiality in its relationships with galleries’ and museums’ architecture?
• How has contemporary curatorial practice influenced the ways in which moving image art is projected in galleries and museums?
I have identified a significant lack of literature discussing the issue of digital video projection, since the great majority of the existing literature (such as books by Tamara Trodd and Chrissie Iles) focus predominantly on the 1970s and 1980s, in other words, focusing predominantly on film. Other books such as those by Balsom, Conolly and Uroskie, despite discussing the moving image in galleries, do not focus on the specific problematic of the projection in the digital era.
My historical time span from the 2000s onwards will offer an innovative and necessary response to this theoretical gap that still exists in the literature. I consider that digital projection is nowadays an essential component to understand the differences between film and video as an artistic language beyond the adopted materiality. My hypothesis is that the difference between these two modes of projection is the interactivity aspect with the audience and the gallery space. This situation can be exemplified through the use of digital sensors or biosensors automatically linked with the digital video data in installations, for example, as stated by Lev Manovich, which is not possible with film projection.

PUBLICATIONS AND EXHIBITIONS

BOOKS

MANESCHY, Orlando; BARAÚNA, Danilo (ed.). PARA + VIDEO + ARTE: Notas introdutórias a uma historiografia da videoarte no Pará (PARA + VIDEO + ART: introductory notes to a history of Video Art in Pará, Brazil. Belém, Brazil: Art’s Postgraduate Program (UFPA). (Forthcoming – June 2018)


CHAPTERS OF BOOK


BARAÚNA, Danilo. Políticas de incentivo às artes visuais em Belém do Pará (Public Policy for Visual Arts in Belém do Pará). In: GAUM, Ricardo; STOCO, Sávio; MANESCHY, Orlando (ed.). Escalas Amazônicas: Artes Visuais e Políticas Públicas, 1 ed. Maneus: Valer Editora, 2017.

BARAÚNA, Danilo; MANESCHY, Orlando. Video and space: experiences of expansion. In: MANESCHY, Orlando; BARAÚNA, Danilo. PARA + VIDEO + ARTE: Notas introdutórias a uma historiografia da videoarte no Pará (PARA + VIDEO + ART: introductory notes to a history of Video Art in Pará, Brazil. Belém, Brazil: Art’s Postgraduate Program (UFPA). (Forthcoming – June 2018).

BARBOSA, Daniele; BARAÚNA, Danilo; MANESCHY, Orlando. Notas introdutórias à uma historiografia da Videoarte no Pará (Introductory notes to a history of Video Art in Pará). In: In: MANESCHY, Orlando; BARAÚNA, Danilo. PARA + VIDEO + ARTE: Notas introdutórias a uma historiografia da videoarte no Pará (PARA + VIDEO + ART: introductory notes to a history of Video Art in Pará, Brazil. Belém, Brazil: Art’s Postgraduate Program (UFPA). (Forthcoming – June 2018).

LEOTE, Rosangela; CELESTE, Oliveira; BARAÚNA, Danilo. Abordagens da Neurociência sobre a percepção da obra de arte (Approaches of Neuropsychology about works of art’s perception). In: LEOTE, Rosangela (Ed.). ArteCiênciaArte (ArtScienceArt). São Paulo: UNESP editions, 2016.

LEOTE, Rosangela; CELESTE, Oliveira; BARAÚNA, Danilo. Apropriações da Arte pela ciência: casos da neuropsicologia (Appropriations of art to the science: cases in neuropsychology). In: LEOTE, Rosangela (Ed.). ArteCiênciaArte (ArtScienceArt). São Paulo: UNESP editions, 2016.

BARAÚNA, Danilo; FURTADO, Bruno; MANESCY, Orlando. Percursos da imagem na arte contemporânea paraense (Pathways of image in contemporary art of Para. In: BESSA-OLIVEIRA, Marcos Antônio; NOLASCO, Edgar Cézar (ed). Artes Visuais: questões do crítico-contemporâneo nacional/local. 01 ed. São Carlos: Pedro e João Editora, 2013.


ACADEMIC JOURNALS

ALMAS, Almir; BARAÚNA, Danilo. TV e Cinema expandidos: enunciação e dispositivos – técnica, estética e poética (TV and Expanded Cinema: enunciation and devices - technics, aesthetic and poetic). TECCOGS: Revista Digital de Tecnologias Cognitivas. Volume 15. 2017.

BARAÚNA, Danilo; CHAGAS, Anne. A vídeoarte paraense transversalizada no Ensino Médio (The Video Art from Para in Secondary School). Pátio Ensino Médio, Profissional e Tecnológico. Volume 8. 2016.

BARAÚNA, Danilo; MANESCHY, Orlando. Caixa de Pandora: imagem, espaço e tradução em redes de colaboração (Pandora’s Box: image, space and translation in collaboration’s networks). Visualidades (UFG). Volume 13. 2015.

BARAÚNA, Danilo. ALMAS, Almir. Corpo 4K: processos de espacialização e hibridação da poética live (4K Body: spatialization and hybridization processes in live poetic). Revista GEMInIS. Volume 6. Number 1. 2015.

BARAÚNA, Danilo; MANESCHY, Orlando. Limites e contaminações da imagem no espaço: mapeamento da produção contemporânea paraense (Limits and contaminations of image on space: mapping the contemporary production from Para). Anais do Encontro Nacional da Associação de Pesquisadores em Artes Plásticas. Volume 20. 2011.


CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS

BARAÚNA, Danilo; MANESCHY, Orlando. The cinema-situation in contemporary installation in the artistic scenario of Para. AVANCA | CINEMA – International Conference of Cinema – Art, Technology and Communication. Avanca, Portugal: Cine-club editions of Avanca, 2010.

BARAÚNA, Danilo; MANESCHY, Orlando. Registers of body-image. V World Congress of Communication and Arts. Guimarães – Portugal: COPEC – Science and Education Research Council, 2012.

BARAÚNA, Danilo. MANESCHY, Orlando. Performative experiences in contemporary installations in the State of Para. SOFT BORDERS – International Conference of Art and New Media. São Paulo: Soft Borders Conference & Festival Proceedings, 2011.


COLLECTIVE EXHIBITIONS

Zonas de Compensação 3.0. Gallery of Arts Institute – UNESP (São Paulo, Brazil). Work’s title: 1) P.A.N (Installation). 2016

Amazonian Video Art (Screening). Centre for Contemporary Arts - CCA (Glasgow, Scotland). Work’s title: Suspension Portrait (Video art). 2014

L.O.T.E – Lugar, ocupação, tempo, espaço. Arts Institute – UNESP (São Paulo, Brazil). Work’s title: Suspension (Video art). 2014.

Zonas de Compensação 2.0. Gallery of Arts Institute – UNESP (São Paulo, Brazil). Work’s title: 1) On the table (Video Art); 2) Close your eyes to watch the film (Installation). 2014

MIVA - Mostra Internacional de Videodança na Amazônia. Gallery of Cultural Institute Brazil – United States – ICBEU (Manaus, Brazil). 2011. Work’s title: 1) Suspend (Video art); 2) Reveal (Video art); Remain (Video Art). 2011.

III SESC Academic Exhibition of Contemporary Art. Gallery of SESC Boulevard (Belem, Brazil). Work’s title: 1) Reveal (Video art). 2011

Visual Arts Exhibition of VI Bienal de Cultura da UNE. Gallery of UFBA’s School of Fine Art (Salvador, Brazil). Work’s title: Chain (Photography). 2009.

II SESC Academic Exhibition of Contemporary Art. Institute of Arts of Para (Belem, Brazil). Work’s title: Ao meio (Installation). 2009.

XVIII Art Exhibition “Primeiros Passos”. Gallery of Cultural Centre Brazil – United States of America – CCBEU (Belem, Brazil). Work’s title: Nature Morte (Photography). 2009.

I SESC Academic Exhibition of Contemporary Arts. SESC Ananindeua (Belém, Brazil). Work’s title: Chain (Photography). 2008.

XVII Art Exhibition “Primeiros Passos”. Gallery of Cultural Centre Brazil – United States of America – CCBEU (Belem, Brazil). Work’s title: Nature Morte (Painting). 2009.


CURATING

Zona Leste no Corre! (East end on the run!). Video Clip Screening. SESC Itaquera – São Paulo – Brazil. 2018.

Labirinto (Labyrinth) – Screening at the SESC Itaquera – São Paulo – Brazil. 2018.

Conversas de Herói (Hero’s conversations). Screening. SESC Itaquera – São Paulo. 2017.

Buruburu: rastros, curas e afetos (Buruburu: traces, cures and affections) – D.N.A Africa Project. Screening. Sesc Itaquera – São Paulo – Brazil. 2017.

Amazonian Video Art. Screening. Centre for Contemporary Arts – CCA – Glasgow – Scotland. 2016.

Corpo-Natureza (Body-Nature). Screening. The Arts Institute (UNESP) – São Paulo – Brazil. 2014.

Precedentes (Precedents). Visual Arts Exhibition. Art’s Gallery of Cultural Association FOTOATIVA – Belem – Brazil. 2011.

29ª Art Para Exhibition. Visual Arts Exhibition. State of Para Museum and Federal University of Para Museum – Belém – Brazil. 2010.