The image-interface that emerges from Google Earth's Eu sou Amazônia project

Authors

  • Madylene Costa Barata Universidade do Vale do Rio dos Sinos
  • Gustavo Daudt Fischer Universidade do Vale do Rio dos Sinos

Abstract

This article proposes to reflect how audiovisualities such as Google Earth's project “Eu sou Amazônia” present dynamics typical of a given technoculture, which are able to reveal an Amazônia memory that lasts and is constantly updated. For this, we highlight the presence of the software, as an environment in which the idea of image-interface (ARANTES, 2015; MONTAÑO, 2015) manifests itself and provides different experiences for the user willing to discover a virtual Amazônia. The image-interface used here brings up the debate about the subject's participation in the software environment. That is, in Eu sou Amazônia, in various scopes, the user is invited to produce his narrative flow about the Amazônia, ceasing to be just in front of different times of technical images and positions himself/herlself in the among these media as a subject of imagery experiences (ARANTES, 2015). As the methodological approach, we decided to perform media archeology movements, based on the idea of excavating different temporalities in the layers of the analyzed product. In this way, we develop considerations about the meanings of the Amazônia produced in this environment, acting with experiences promoted by the audiovisualities way of being.

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Author Biographies

Madylene Costa Barata, Universidade do Vale do Rio dos Sinos

Mestre em Ciências da Comunicação, na linha de Mídias e Processos Audiovisuais na Unisinos-RS e integrante do grupo de pesquisa Audiovisualidades e Tecnocultura: Comunicação, memória e design. Como realizadora audiovisual, produziu documentários com foco em arte, educação e cultura Amazônica.

Gustavo Daudt Fischer, Universidade do Vale do Rio dos Sinos

Doutor em Ciências da Comunicação, pela Universidade do Vale do Rio dos Sinos (UNISINOS), professor do Programa de Pós-Graduação em Ciências da Comunicação da UNISINOS e vice-coordenador do Grupo de Pesquisa Audiovisualidades e Tecnocultura: Comunicação, Memória e Design.

Published

2021-05-21