Ways to connect in unstable networks

Abstract

The purpose of this paper is to reflect on the ways of connecting art, through online and offline activist exhibitions and network relationships between the digital art system and contemporary art, problematizing the shallow instruction about arts in Brazil, in times of binary oppositions and radicalism. The qualitative methodology, with bibliographic review and data analysis, follows Latour's TAR (Actor-Network-Theory) (2012), here applied to map activist actions that evidence relationships between humans and non-humans and network points. The construction of a Warburg’s Atlas Mnemosyne (2015) contributes to the reduction of the borders between the public and systems of art, building an interdisciplinary dialogue that proposes more empathic alternatives. The theoretical referential is based on the author's recent master's and doctoral studies, as well in authors such as the economist Rifkin (2016), the sociologist and anthropologist Latour (2004, 2012), the historian Warburg (2015), the philosophers Flusser (1998;2007), Agamben (2009), Zizek (2011), Simondon (2007) and Dewey (2010) and the biologist Bachinski (2017). The text does not point to closed conclusions, but it does provide some connection points that allow the reader to draw his/her own conclusions about the subject.