GAS currently has two lines of research: Emergent audiovisuals, directed by Adil Lepri, and Figures in(of) the history of audiovisual experiences, directed by Marcelo Ribeiro. Until the first semester of 2024, the active lines of research were those in place since the group’s creation, in 2018: Image and Body, directed by Marcelo Costa, and Image and History, directed by Marcelo Ribeiro. These lines of research were discontinued and replaced by the current ones in August, 2024.
Emergent audiovisuals
Objective: To study audiovisual phenomena in non-traditional supports and media, emphasizing the tension between the analysis of unique objects and the massive nature of contemporary production on the internet, using a mixed methodological approach based on the fields of film and audiovisual media studies, as well as digital humanities.
Keywords: platforms; digital methods; film analysis; film and audiovisual media studies; digital humanities.
Figures in(of) the history of audiovisual experiences
Objective: To study the relationships between image, history, and cinema and other audiovisual media, considering the multiple sensitive configurations of aesthetic experience and the archives of history, and reflexively experimenting with speculative, counter-intuitive and anarchaeological approaches in and of history (counterfactual history, critical fabulation, potential history, etc.), based on figural analysis and spectrology.
Keywords: histories of film and audiovisual experiences; archives; distributions of the sensible; figural analysis; speculative methods.