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CIAC researchers publish article: ‘Video art – gender identity and territory in the practice of Digital Citizenship’

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CIAC researchers Sílvia Venturinha Jermias, Ana Isabel Soares and Isabel Cristina Carvalho have published the scientific article ‘Video art — gender identity and territory in the practice of Digital Citizenship’.

A summary of the article written by the authors: ‘This article explores the potential of Digital Media Art in favour of the values of Citizenship and praises eco-feminism in the construction of a more complete, balanced and just society. The visual and digital world, moving images and cinema are a reference and influence for the current construction of society.’ and ’Gender identity and territory are presented conceptually as a sociocultural framework for the artistic approach to the video art of the author’s creation, “Somos Todos Mar”. The analysis of this video artwork reflects the relationship between women and childhood, poetry and the calm of the sea. This clash of identities portrays the relationship with the world — the (industrialised) sea. As a case study, it reflects on how video art explores the boundaries of territories with the intervention of women. The relationship established with the sea transcends it as a border, a producer of oxygen; in other words, as an element that culturally and historically sustains and builds communities.’

‘Video Art – Gender Identity and Territory in the Practice of Digital Citizenship’ is part of the international journal of art and anthropology of images and integrates: “Cinema (NO) Feminine – No. 9 of 2024” in the Cinema & Territory Magazine (C&T), produced by the University of Madeira (UMa), under the direction of Christine Escallier.

More information (here).

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