Archiving and curating activist design on Instagram: the 2018 Brazilian presidential election visual narratives

This paper addresses the new visual archives that emerged in the context of the dissident design created during the 2018 presidential election in Brazil. Considered the most fratricide dispute of our political history between two opposing candidates representing completely different points of view, these two groups fought a real battle on social networks. The material collected in this research focused on dissident visual narratives, on message-images (posters of the networks era) produced by ordinary citizens and by activist groups. Many collectives of artists, designers and independent groups have also organized their message-images using algorithm criteria, with #s, on Instagram (#designativista, #desenhosopelademocracia, #designdissidente, #coleraalegria, #elenao). This curatorial work aims at discussing the new vocabulary of dissident design on Instagram. These narratives represent the database aesthetics and offer a rich material to discuss the new status of the image in the mass communication of social networks. They have a potential to represent the digital graphic memory of Brazilian political, social and artistic history, and constitute a fundamental element in the archeology of aesthetics of dissident visual narratives. Through visual examples edited from the main #s mentioned above, this paper intends to discuss how to classify and archive big amounts of data that are already being lost in the constant stream of social networks. The article also suggests new parameters for cataloging images by using Artificial Intelligence and supervised learning machines to develop image classifiers specially created for this research.

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Didiana Prata

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Publication date: August 2019

Publication date (Print): August 2019

Pages: 152-160

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[0001]PhD. Candidate in Design at FAU-USP - University of São Paulo

R. Aliados, 793 05088-01 São Paulo Brazil

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DOI: 10.14236/ewic/RESOUND19.24

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Conference name: RE:SOUND 2019 – 8th International Conference on Media Art, Science, and Technology

Conference acronym: RE:SOUND 2019

Conference number: 8

Conference location: Aalborg, Denmark

Conference date: August 20-23, 2019

Conference sponsor: Electronic Workshops in Computing (eWiC)

Conference theme: Media Art, Science, and Technology

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[1] Giselle. Beiguelman 2019 Memoria Da Amnésia: Políticas Do Esquecimento Sao Paulo Ediçôes SESC

[2] Benjamim. Bratton 2015 The Stack: On Software and Sovereigntly MIT Press 2015

[3] Marcos CostaPriscila. Farias 2018 dez ensaios sobre memória gráfica Sao paulo Blucher

[4] Georges. Didi-Huberman 2017 O que vemos, o que nos olha Sao Paulo Editora 34 1998

[5] Georges. Didi-Huberman (Org.) Levantes Ediçôes Sesc Sao Paulo

[6] Mary. Flanagan 2007 Play, Participation and Art.Blurring the Edges M. LOVEJOY (org) Context Providers: Conditions of Meaning in Media Arts Bristol, UK/Chicago, EUA Intellect

[7] Vilém. Flusser 2007 O mundo codificado Sao Paulo Cosac Naify

[8] Milton GlaserMirko ilicsteven. heller 2017 The Design of Dissent, Gothan books, New York

[9] Frèdèric. GROS 2018 Desobedecer Sao Paulo Ubu Editora

[10] Lev. Manovich 2001 The Language of New Media Massachusetts MIT Press

[11] Lev. Manovich AI Aesthetics 2018 E-book Kindle

[12] Didiana. Prata 2016 Imageria e poéticas de representagäo da paisagem urbana nas redes 2016 220 Dissertaçao - Faculdade de Arquitetura e Urbanismo da Universidade de Sao Paulo Sao Paulo

[13] Jacques. Rancière 2005 A partilha do sensível: estética e política Sao Paulo Editora 34

[14] Jacques. Rancière O destino das imagens 2013 Rio de Janeiro Contraponto

[15] Christiane. Paul Contextual Networks: Data Identity and Collective Production M. LOVEJOY (org) Context Providers: Conditions of Meaning in Media Arts Bristol, UK/Chicago, EUA Intellect 2011

[16] Hito. Steyerl In defense of the poor image eflux Journal 10 nov 2009

[17] Technopolitics 2018 Tracing Information Society

[18] eduardo. Navas 2017 Regenerative Culture. In: Norient Academic Online Journal Disponível em https://norient.com/tag/regenerative-culture june 2017

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