Fourteenth International Conference on the Arts in Society

Abstract

This paper presents a part of the research project entitled “25 frames per Second: Audio-visual Arts Communication, Culture and Aesthetics” the result of a cooperation protocol established between the public broadcaster (RTP) and the School of Arts and Humanities, University of Lisbon. Our research group was created in 2015 and it seeks to develop four lines of action / reflection based on the audio-visual arts: the first line – entitled Ephemeral and Memory – aims at surveying what exists in the Portuguese audio-visual archives and problematizing its preservation criteria; the second line – History, Theory and Critic – seeks to contextualize forms and themes, to analyse and interpret contents, to relate aesthetic experience and technical possibilities; the third line – Poetic and Technic – aims at making a critical analysis of aesthetics and audio-visual grammar; finally the fourth line – Audio-visual Culture – focuses on understanding the importance of the audio-visual mediation in the construction and practice of the everyday life.Reflecting on a work of television always encompasses the articulation of the public and the private, the past and the future, the local and the global, according to their relations to image, sound and movement, inquiring about this kind of artistic creation. This project aims to show how a specific Portuguese perspective is reflected in audio-visual narratives, and how those narratives reflect foreigners perspectives. How could we create tools to analyse it, in order to contribute to the contemporary thought on the television landscape as an art.