LECTURE
Massimo Canevacci visits UAlg invited by CIAC
The anthropologist Massimo Cavennaci of Università degli Studi di Roma La Sapienza (Italy), currently visiting professor at Universidade de São Paulo (Brazil), will be giving a lecture entitled “Etnografia Digital (ou Sincretika Digitalia)” (Digital Ethnography (or Sincretika Digitalia)), on the next 19th of May, at 5.30 pm in Universidade do Algarve, in Sala de Atos of Faculdade de Economia. The session will be focused on the presentation of the contents of his work “SincrétiKa — Explorações Etnográficas sobre Artes Contemporâneas” (Sincretika – Ethnographic Explorations on Contemporary Arts).
The event, organized by CIAC in partnership with CIEO (Centro de Investigação sobre Espaço e Organizações) (Space and Organizations Research Centre) follows the participation of this Italian anthropologist in the 6th Annual Meeting of AIM – Associação de Investigadores da Imagem em Movimento (Image in Movement Researchers Association), which is to take place this year in Universidade da Beira Interior.
About the lecture:
This lecture intends to explore the reflexive relation between the ethnographic method and digital culture. The transformations between communicational metropolis, subjective ubiquity, and digital technology present potentialities conflictingly decentred and mimetically ambiguous, based on the self-representation. The concepts-in-assembly of exact imagination, ‘multividual’ connectivity, visual fetishes and methodological stupor are filtered through digital culture in a post-dualistic perspective and in a experimentally polyphonic composition.
The ethnographic method is, thus, less connected to a discipline (cultural anthropology) and more expanded according to “undisciplined” and “ubiquitous” features. The metropolis changes and the triptych communication-culture-consumption is always more determinant in the everyday experience in the trans-urban interstices and in the social networks. It is precisely in this context that decentred narratives, urban performances, digital flows, art mixing, publicity, design, architecture, cinema, music, fashion and sports manifest themselves. Thus emerge a dislocating transitive citizenship and a horizontal political criticism about the communicational division of work, based on “who-represents-who”. The concept of “digital auratic reproducibility” presents itself as the communication flow that syncretizes aura and reproduction.
The critical vision of the theory is made adequate to this fluid model of doing research. The theory is guided through research and, in its procedural immanence; it needs to incorporate logical, aesthetic and expressive references in order to highlight progressive tendencies from contemporary cultures and communication. Therefore, the influence and transformation model is an experimental critical theory because it manages to hit the three levels of the project: theoretic abstraction, empiric immanence and compositional elaboration.
About the lecturer:
MASSIMO CANEVACCI is professor of Cultural Anthropology and Arte e Cultura Digitais in Faculdade de Ciências da Comunicação, Universidade de Roma “La Sapienza”. He teaches since 1984 and makes his research also in Brazil. Due to his researches about São Paulo, he received, in 1995, from the Brazilian Federal Govern the commend “Ordem Nacional do Cruzeiro do Sul”. As a visiting professor he has been in several European and American universities, in Tokyo (Japan), Nankin (CUCN), Florianópolis (UFSC), Rio de Janeiro (UERJ) and São Paulo (ECA-USP). He is currently visiting professor in Universidade de São Paulo (IEA-USP).
Some Publications:
– Sincrétika. Explorações etnográficas sobre artes contemporâneas, Studio Nobel, 2014
– A linha de pó, Annablume, 2012 (The Line of Dust. The Bororo Culture between Tradition, Mutation and Self-representation Wantage, Sean Kingston Publ., Canon Pyon, 2013)
– A cidade polifônica (Studio Nobel, 2011³)
– Fetichismos visuais (Ed. Atelier, 2008)
– Culturas eXtremas (DpA, 2005),
(forthcoming) Lusophone Hip Hop. “Who we are” and “Where we are”: identity, urban culture and belonging (ed. M. Canevacci – R. Martins), Canon Pyon, Sean Kingston Publ.
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The anthropologist Massimo Cavennaci of Università degli Studi di Roma La Sapienza (Italy), currently visiting professor at Universidade de São Paulo (Brazil), will be giving a lecture entitled “Etnografia Digital (ou Sincretika Digitalia)” (Digital Ethnography (or Sincretika Digitalia)), on the next 19th of May, at 5.30 pm in Universidade do Algarve, in Sala de Atos of Faculdade de Economia. The session will be focused on the presentation of the contents of his work “SincrétiKa — Explorações Etnográficas sobre Artes Contemporâneas” (Sincretika – Ethnographic Explorations on Contemporary Arts).
The event, organized by CIAC in partnership with CIEO (Centro de Investigação sobre Espaço e Organizações) (Space and Organizations Research Centre) follows the participation of this Italian anthropologist in the 6th Annual Meeting of AIM – Associação de Investigadores da Imagem em Movimento (Image in Movement Researchers Association), which is to take place this year in Universidade da Beira Interior.
About the lecture:
This lecture intends to explore the reflexive relation between the ethnographic method and digital culture. The transformations between communicational metropolis, subjective ubiquity, and digital technology present potentialities conflictingly decentred and mimetically ambiguous, based on the self-representation. The concepts-in-assembly of exact imagination, ‘multividual’ connectivity, visual fetishes and methodological stupor are filtered through digital culture in a post-dualistic perspective and in a experimentally polyphonic composition.
The ethnographic method is, thus, less connected to a discipline (cultural anthropology) and more expanded according to “undisciplined” and “ubiquitous” features. The metropolis changes and the triptych communication-culture-consumption is always more determinant in the everyday experience in the trans-urban interstices and in the social networks. It is precisely in this context that decentred narratives, urban performances, digital flows, art mixing, publicity, design, architecture, cinema, music, fashion and sports manifest themselves. Thus emerge a dislocating transitive citizenship and a horizontal political criticism about the communicational division of work, based on “who-represents-who”. The concept of “digital auratic [JB1] reproducibility” presents itself as the communication flow that syncretizes aura and reproduction.
The critical vision of the theory is made adequate to this fluid model of doing research. The theory is guided through research and, in its procedural immanence; it needs to incorporate logical, aesthetic and expressive references in order to highlight progressive tendencies from contemporary cultures and communication. Therefore, the influence and transformation model is an experimental critical theory because it manages to hit the three levels of the project: theoretic abstraction, empiric immanence and compositional elaboration.
About the lecturer:
MASSIMO CANEVACCI is professor of Cultural Anthropology and Arte e Cultura Digitais in Faculdade de Ciências da Comunicação, Universidade de Roma “La Sapienza”. He teaches since 1984 and makes his research also in Brazil. Due to his researches about São Paulo, he received, in 1995, from the Brazilian Federal Govern the commend “Ordem Nacional do Cruzeiro do Sul”. As a visiting professor he has been in several European and American universities, in Tokyo (Japan), Nankin (CUCN), Florianópolis (UFSC), Rio de Janeiro (UERJ) and São Paulo (ECA-USP). He is currently visiting professor in Universidade de São Paulo (IEA-USP).
Some Publications:
– Sincrétika. Explorações etnográficas sobre artes contemporâneas, Studio Nobel, 2014
– A linha de pó, Annablume, 2012 (The Line of Dust. The Bororo Culture between Tradition, Mutation and Self-representation Wantage, Sean Kingston Publ., Canon Pyon, 2013)
– A cidade polifônica (Studio Nobel, 2011³)
– Fetichismos visuais (Ed. Atelier, 2008)
– Culturas eXtremas (DpA, 2005),
(forthcoming) Lusophone Hip Hop. “Who we are” and “Where we are”: identity, urban culture and belonging (ed. M. Canevacci – R. Martins), Canon Pyon, Sean Kingston Publ.
[JB1]The word does not exist, and I suppose it is a mix of aural and X-atic, like hieratic? In spite of quotes, no reference is made.
