Poéticas do espaço aumentado: as possibilidades estéticas e políticas do uso da realidade aumentada

Abstract

Along with technological transformations of the XXI century, there are emerging devices that give a new dynamic to the man-machine-image relation, as well as to the perception of space and reality. Augmented Reality is one of those devices, which the relations of power, knowledge and subjectivity production are not yet fully comprehended in everyday life and in the field of media art. This research aims to comprehend the use of the device in artistic productions and its aesthetics and political possibilities from the case study of the international group Manifest.AR, besides other artists that have used augmented reality in their works. Assuming that these productions carry an investee against the logic of the device in relation to the field of art and lifetime. For this, Augmented Reality is approached as a dispositive, concept adapted from Michel Foucault, and associated with other art forms and media to discuss its specificity. The aesthetic and political discussion was proposed based on Lev Manovich’s concept of augmented space and Flusser’s concept of black box, as well as relational aesthetics of Nicolas Bourrioud and aesthetic communication of Mario Costa. The research showed that although Augmented Reality can be described as a medium with its own specificity and poetic possibilities, it is early to declare today that the artworks made with it constitutes a new form of art, instead, it augments previous forms of site interventions and installation, in which boundaries are broken and recreated between the public and the private, the digital space and physical space, real and virtual, body and media, art and politics in a cybrid and augmented space.