Authors:

 Medeiros, Bia; Rocha, Carla.

Title:

 Web Site presentation http://www.pil.net/~becker/corpos Academic Work (lecture of 20 minutes).

Keywords:

 Folds, Permeability, Space Bend, Volution, Wormhole

Abstract:

 The work to be presented has as main lead the idea of non-linearity of events and the impossibility to conceptualize evolution, both in scientific, philosophical and artistic fields. From this point of view it is impossible to think in post-modern, post-biologic terms. We propose the idea of the term "Folds Era", to designate the present time. The work's aesthetics illustrate this idea.

We understand the time continuity as "volution", neither evolution nor involution but "volution" as in the radical "voluta" (1545; it. Voluta, Latin word from volutus, p. p. de volvere, "to roll")(1), time continuity, "volvimento" of the scientific, philosophic and artistic knowing. This process is achieved by the folding of layers (previously static fields of human knowledge, or fragments of such). These layers can be organized or disorganized by simulations such as stratigraphic charts but without defined parameters. These layers are permeable allowing the merging between the primitive static fields of knowledge. By that way scientific permeates the philosophic, artistic interferes on the scientific and mathematics is mixed with ecology. Secretions of linguistic, music and computing contaminate sociology.

We borrow some concepts by Gilles Deleuze, expanding its boundaries and limits. "Each one being folded, but also folding others or allowing itself to be folded by others engendering retroactions, connections, proliferation in the fractalization of such infinity, infinitely folded."(2)

Folds that, conceptually, are still an allusion to communication networks construct the web site. The Web site content consists of images (photographs of performances, installations, video art and numeric imagery) and essays from the Research Group CORPOS INFORMÁTICOS.
(1) ROBERT, Paul. Petit Robert, ed. Le Robert, Paris, p. 2116, translated by Corpos Informaticos.
(2) DELEUZE, Gilles, "Qu'est-ce que la philosophie", Les éd. de Minuit, Paris, 1991, p. 42, Translated by Corpos Informaticos.
Medeiros, Bia; Rocha, Carla. - Corpos Informáticos Research Group mbm@guarany.unb.br The CORPOS INFORMÁTICOS Research Group (GPC), since 1991, has conducted research in contemporary art and the orientation of its reflections has been that of raw human beings `reapportioned' by omnipresent technologies (the human body in real time / electronic images (color-light emitted in movement making mankind a mere support feature). The process reveals sparks of the symbolic convulsiveeconomy of the contemporary individual. They are performances, photographs, videos, digital images and texts which the Research Group produces, and are presented not merely for the visual passive contemplation of the spectator, but rather to involve him and to make him part of a continuously evolving work of art. These presentations are held both within the scope of institutional art and also in so-called public spaces (Abraham Moles). Exhibitions are not the main interest the of group: what is preferred are the processes of interactive production and co-authorship. The perceive is no more than the translation of reality by means of technology - the body being the paradox in this process - and it thereby becomes imperative to ponder the ephemeral interfaces between body and technique. The CORPOS INFORMÁTICOS Research Group wants body, flesh, pores, secretions, contaminations and technology. The video is, at the current time, the most sought after artistic language as it constitutes the most topographic and chronologically effective interface: real images and their opposite - virtual images - colour-light creations of effigies of perceptible subjectivity. Founded in 1992, CORPOS INFORMÁTICOS has evolved through photographs and videos, installations, video-performances
and spectacles and ongoing processes.