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Authors:

 Agra, Lucio; Borovik, Rogério; Cohen, Renato.

Title:

 Futuros do Pretérito: utopias e códigos projetivos

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Abstract:

 We start from a fundamental question: how we deal with the artistic utopias erected during the now ending century? Today, more than ever, Science and Imaginary have been gathered together. We have to ask for the alive memory of the experiences that pioneered this intersemiotic transition: Which were the codes of the past that looked forward to draw an utopian future? Inversely, which is the impact of this past "future" nowadays? Which were the projects of a future that is now past? Can we affirm such a thing? In a "post-utopian" (Haroldo de Campos) end-of-century, how we deal with the heritage of the ones that envisioned our time and the one is coming? Not all the artists of the beginning of the century avant-gardist utopia are sufficiently mapped. Also we now know that some of their proposals rested forgotten for the most part of this hundred years and only in the last decades were subject of a re-evaluation.
This sort of approach is never free of some arbitrairiness. We decided to report ourselves mainly to the work of the so-called "visonnaires" of the Russian Avant-Garde such as Velimir Khlébnikov, K. Malevitch, V. Chernikhov, Pavel Filonov, Piotr Miturich and Mikhail Matiushin. Such a choice has to do mainly with the preoccupation with the future which is a landmark of these artists works.
We propose a work that comes to be, on one side, an independent development of the Project "Memória Digital" ("Digital Memories") runned by Renato Cohen and Lucio Agra in the context of the Post-graduation Program on Communication and Semiotics at PUC-SP. On the other hand, it tries to give continuity to a research line started with the Performance/Installation Maquina Futurista (Futurist machine) (1997, Instituto Cultural Itaú) , which web-site is now hosted at PUC-SP's server (http://www.pucsp.br/~cos-puc/budetlie/index.html). The same kind of work was developed on stage by the theatrical scene Ka based on the text of Velimir Khébnikov and presented under the direction of Renato Cohen (http://iar.unicamp.br/~projka/).
The work proposed here is a web-site presented during the event as well as in a specific session, and also digital animations.The two vehicles will be put forward in order to give a nowadays vision, in digital media, of the mentioned artists multiple propositions, trying to show that their research find, today, an excellent medium extremely fitted to these. The colour experiences of Matiushin at Moscow's Vkhutemas, the intersemiotic translations from Khlebnikov's poetry to Miturich's works of art, Filonov's dinamic mosaic paintings, Chernikhov multimediatic architecture, Malevitch's space without referentials and Khlébnikov's numerological utopias will be treated, as we call it, "projective codes". They envision a horizon beyond their own epoch (consequently they are very hard to reduce to a mouvement or tendency of their time). Clearly our proposal takes advantage from the ambiguity between past and future and intends to revalidate an ancient contribution in the name of a perspective to the future.
The avant-gardes' time, the future time, is the present in where we live. Our work intends to be a speculation of the future we all want.
Agra, Lucio. agra@node1.com.br Nascido em Recife, em 3/5/1960. Doutor em Comunicação e Semiótica pela PUC-SP, Professor Adjunto de Teoria da Comunicação na Faculdade de Comunicação da FAAP e Faculdade Prudente de Moraes em Itu (SP), poeta e designer gráfico. Autor de Selva Bamba (poemas, 1994, Ed. Nova Leva). Participou, juntamente com Renato Cohen, Arnaldo Melo, Lali Krotozinsky e Teresa Labarrère, da instalação, performance e Web-Site Máquina Futurista, apresentada durante a exposição Arte e tecnologia, 1997, Instituto Cultural Itaú. Prestou suporte teórico à montagem da peça Ka de Velimir Khlébnikov, direção de Renato Cohen, Museu da Cidade de Campinas, 1998.

Borovik, Rogério. scalovik@hotmail.com Nascido em São Paulo, em 6/3/1971.Artista plástico, designer gráfico, trabalha com produção digital (animação, manipulação fotográfica, Internet). Bacharel em Educação Artística pela Unicamp com especializações em gravura, escultura, e computação gráfica. Exposições: Coletiva de alunos julho e dezembro de 1996, Galeria da Unicamp; Participação na coletânea em livro "12" (gravuras) produzido pelos alunos de graduação do IA/Unicamp, Depto. de Artes Plásticas. Segunda Neo-Tao - exposição coletiva e performances - Centro de Ciências e Artes, Campinas, 7 a 20 de outubro de 1998. CD-Rom Hipnorationes relativae Multimídia interativo para PC exposto durante o Primeiro encontro interno de pesquisa em artes e multimeios - IA/Unicamp, outubro de 1997 Produção gráfica e Cenários virtuais (Animações) Ka direção Renato Cohen. Museu da Cidade, Campinas, set/out 1998. Cenários virtuais do espetáculo Dedalus dir Renato Cohen/Sergio Penna - realização Hospital-dia A Casa

Cohen, Renato. rcohen@pucsp.br PUC São Paulo. Nascido em Porto Alegre, em 26/5/1956. Doutor em Artes pela ECA-USP, Professor no Programa de Estudos Pós-graduados em Comunicação e Semiótica, atuando na área de Performance. Diretor teatral, com os seguintes espetáculos apresentados: Magritte, espelho vivo, 1987 Tempestade e ímpeto 1991 Vitória sobre o sol 1995 Máquina futurista 1997 Uenz - Viagem a Babel 1997 Ka - 1998 Dedalus -1998. Autor de Performance como linguagem (Perspectiva, 1989) e Work in progress na cena contemporânea (Perspectiva, 1997).