GIFS: educação estética, afeto e ativismo através da imagem animada

Abstract

Contradictory paradigms, still present in postmodernity, allow us to observe how far we are connected to the more rational modernity. We live collective but individualists times, we are free and imprisoned at the same time, we are informed but passives. Many times, we don’t recognize each other. This make us less socially committed and we don´t show, in our daily lives, the community lived in the internet. Social networks keep us strongly connected through sensitive ties, full of emotions and affections. This relations collaborate in building a sense of aesthetic education in which the learnings become possible thanks to the experience with the world and especially with one another. In this context, some visual elements such as certain images, often displaying on social networks, take activists roles. However, this socially mobilizing character does not extend, for now, all contemporary visual elements; for example, Graphic Interchange Format (GIF) - motion picture increasingly used as a way to represent our tastes, passions and desires - It is not seen as a social commitment insrument. The dissertation "GIFs: Aesthetic education, affection and activism through the motion picture", developed in the Graduate Program in Visual Arts of UFPEL, aims to analyze, through a literature review, and propose, through the socially engaged animated images design, the GIF as a possible virtual activism tool in postmodernity.