Relational navigation and archiving of multimedia information for contemporary dance

Dissertação para obtenção do Grau de Mestre em Engenharia Informática

Application of ionic liquids and enzymes for the removal of proteinaceous layers from polychrome of works of art and evaluation of the cleaning effectiveness

Dissertação Apresentada na Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia da Universidade Nova de Lisboa para obtenção do grau de Mestre em Ciências da Conservação, especialização em Pintura

A quem aproveita o seguro de responsabilidade civil de administradores celebrado para os efeitos do art. 396.º CSC?

Neste artigo procuro delimitar o universo de potenciais lesados, titulares de um direito de acção directa contra o segurador num seguro de responsabilidade civil celebrado pe los administradores de sociedades anónimas em cumprimento do dever de prestar caução consagrado no art. 396.º CSC. Defendo a identidade entre esse universo e o dos benefi ciários de qualquer outro meio de satisfação deste dever de prestar caução. Delimito esse universo por referência às categorias de sujeitos tutelados no CSC. Por fi m, faço uso dos resultados da análise para sustentar que integra esse universo o próprio Estado, na sua qualidade de credor de indemnizações fundadas em responsabilidade tributária, mas já não os credores de indemnizações que baseiem as suas pretensões no novo regime de responsabilidade ambiental

Digestão anaeróbia de resíduos agroalimentares: reutilização das frações líquidas e sólidas (state-of-art)

Dissertação para obtenção do Grau de Mestre em Energia e Bioenergia

Arte em Construção: Análise Documental Sobre o Projecto “DNA – District of New Art”, Lisboa

Trabalho de Projecto realizado para cumprimento dos requisitos necessários à obtenção do grau de Mestre em Ciências da Comunicação – Cinema e Televisão

O conceito contemporâneo e as reflexões sobre arte e estética de Rui Chafes

A recusa da estratificação do tempo, que surge na segunda metade do século XX, resulta da perda de fé numa grande narrativa e modifica a percepção do tempo cronológico: os acontecimentos já não se sucedem ordeiramente, manifestam-se em simultâneo no presente ou são criteriosamente convocados a partir do presente. Esta reformulação do tempo implica a reformulação do conceito de contemporâneo, permitindo questionarmo-nos, tal como Giorgio Agamben: “De quem e do que somos contemporâneos? E, antes de tudo, o que significa ser contemporâneo?” Com esta dissertação pretende-se analisar algumas formulações do conceito de contemporâneo, especialmente a partir de Giorgio Agamben, Walter Benjamin, Hannah Arendt e Georges Didi-Huberman, com a intenção de compreender as implicações da temporalidade na experiência estética e as possibilidades que as conceptualizações elaboradas oferecem à constituição de uma comunidade humana. Na segunda parte do trabalho, relaciona-se a problemática da contemporaneidade com as reflexões sobre arte e estética do escultor Rui Chafes através do seu texto “A História da Minha Vida”, um relato das principais influências da formação artística do narrador. Este relato ultrapassa os limites cronológicos, onde o artista olha para trás definindo o seu próprio tempo presente e o seu passado. O presente surge como a inteireza que resume a atenção do artista e nos descreve a sua caminhada através do tempo artístico. O narrador revive na primeira pessoa o percurso dos artistas que desde a Idade Média ao Barroco – trabalharam anonimamente a pedra e a madeira em nome dos mestres e ao fazê-lo assume-se como o escultor-aprendiz que recusa a promoção a mestre, e revela em si, através dos valores supremos do trabalho, da sabedoria e da experiência, toda a arte que o precedeu.

The Visual and Virtual in Contemporary European Learning Contexts

Special issue of Anthropology in Action originated from the Working Images Conference, a joint meeting of TAN and VAN EASA networks

The brushstroke and materials of Amadeo de Souza-Cardoso combined in an authentication tool

Nowadays, authentication studies for paintings require a multidisciplinary approach, based on the contribution of visual features analysis but also on characterizations of materials and techniques. Moreover, it is important that the assessment of the authorship of a painting is supported by technical studies of a selected number of original artworks that cover the entire career of an artist. This dissertation is concerned about the work of modernist painter Amadeo de Souza-Cardoso. It is divided in three parts. In the first part, we propose a tool based on image processing that combines information obtained by brushstroke and materials analysis. The resulting tool provides qualitative and quantitative evaluation of the authorship of the paintings; the quantitative element is particularly relevant, as it could be crucial in solving authorship controversies, such as judicial disputes. The brushstroke analysis was performed by combining two algorithms for feature detection, namely Gabor filter and Scale Invariant Feature Transform. Thanks to this combination (and to the use of the Bag-of-Features model), the proposed method shows an accuracy higher than 90% in distinguishing between images of Amadeo’s paintings and images of artworks by other contemporary artists. For the molecular analysis, we implemented a semi-automatic system that uses hyperspectral imaging and elemental analysis. The system provides as output an image that depicts the mapping of the pigments present, together with the areas made using materials not coherent with Amadeo’s palette, if any. This visual output is a simple and effective way of assessing the results of the system. The tool proposed based on the combination of brushstroke and molecular information was tested in twelve paintings obtaining promising results. The second part of the thesis presents a systematic study of four selected paintings made by Amadeo in 1917. Although untitled, three of these paintings are commonly known as BRUT, Entrada and Coty; they are considered as his most successful and genuine works. The materials and techniques of these artworks have never been studied before. The paintings were studied with a multi-analytical approach using micro-Energy Dispersive X-ray Fluorescence spectroscopy, micro-Infrared and Raman Spectroscopy, micro-Spectrofluorimetry and Scanning Electron Microscopy. The characterization of Amadeo’s materials and techniques used on his last paintings, as well as the investigation of some of the conservation problems that affect these paintings, is essential to enrich the knowledge on this artist. Moreover, the study of the materials in the four paintings reveals commonalities between the paintings BRUT and Entrada. This observation is supported also by the analysis of the elements present in a photograph of a collage (conserved at the Art Library of the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation), the only remaining evidence of a supposed maquete of these paintings. The final part of the thesis describes the application of the image processing tools developed in the first part of the thesis on a set of case studies; this experience demonstrates the potential of the tool to support painting analysis and authentication studies. The brushstroke analysis was used as additional analysis on the evaluation process of four paintings attributed to Amadeo, and the system based on hyperspectral analysis was applied on the painting dated 1917. The case studies therefore serve as a bridge between the first two parts of the dissertation.

Lisbon Street Art & Urban Creativity. 2014 International Conference

Disponível para consulta - índice e introdução.

Recensão: Peter Goldie e Elisabeth Schellekens, Who’s Afraid of Conceptual Art?

Recensão de: Peter Goldie e Elisabeth Schellekens, Who’s Afraid of Conceptual Art?, Londres e Nova Iorque: Routledge, 2010

Incoherences of the Art World

Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (FCT), Fundação Millennium bcp

Portuguese plain architecture: history opening a closed sequence

The paper will address George Kubler’s Portuguese Plain Architecture [PPA] (1972) and its effect in Portuguese architectural practice. Kubler’s philosophy of art history implied that closed sequences of objects could be opened by several reasons. Thus, it will be argued that there is an effect upon Portuguese architecture post 1974, that is apparent by the reemergence of some of the form classes treated by Kubler. This was mostly achieved through the popularity of Kubler’s book within architectural practice, scholarship and moreover by the establishment of the term “Plain Architecture” in portuguese architectural vocabulary. Plain Architecture of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries shared some qualities with the architecture to be built in post‑revolutionary Portugal, most importantly the effect that could be achieved with low budget buildings that were responding to a situation of crisis, and simultaneously exhaled aristocratic sparsity. The connection of PPA with the ideological attributes of early modernism and the political context of the time catalysed the reemergence of a new order of Portuguese Plain that resonates still in contemporary architecture.

The names of things: terminology and the practice of art history

This paper aims to explore the ways in which standard art history terminology shapes the practice of art history by conditioning the interpretation of specific works of art and, in certain cases, the definition of a research subject (especially where questions of genre and periodization are concerned). Taking as a case study a painting by Georges de La Tour, the Peasant Couple Eating, I will argue that terms such as realism, realistic, naturalistic etc. used for its description and/or interpretation, far from constituting objective stylistic characterizations, shape our perception of the work in question. Bringing the question of social class to the center of the discourse on realism, I propose to show how the social divide between the painter and his subject matter (in this case, the peasants) is internalized in the painting’s style and meaning, and how it is fundamental for the understanding of its intentionality and function.

History of Art and Art Criticism: A System in Crisis

This article aims to reconstruct the critical debate regarding the examination of the crisis in the disciplines of art history and criticism with a particular focus on the proposal formulated by U.S. theorists who contributed to October journal. The discrediting of many modernist critical methods, particularly that of Clement Greenberg – the formalist diktat – marked the birth of the journal and gave rise to proposals set forth by critics committed to a new approach. Their divergent positions, nonetheless, have contributed to undermining the traditional concepts of the autonomy of art and criticism. The proposals discussed over the course of publication were the result of a reappraisal of the disciplinary instruments of art history and criticism pursuant to the crucial cultural changes which took place in the 1980s.

Livros de artista: gestão da coleção da Biblioteca de Arte da Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian

Os Livros de Artista são obras de arte contemporâneas cujo nascimento se situa no século XX. As coleções deste tipo de documentos encontram‐se em museus e em bibliotecas. Nas bibliotecas os riscos do manuseamento estão mais presentes porque os Livros de Artista são tocados para serem lidos. As particularidades deste tipo de coleções, onde os livros têm tamanhos diversos, formas variadas e materiais díspares, levou‐nos à reflexão sobre o impacto do seu manuseamento nas bibliotecas. A reflexão baseou‐se no estudo das práticas em uso na Biblioteca de Arte da Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian. A observação da gestão do risco do manuseamento em Livros de Artista na instituição e a revisão da literatura permitiram a elaboração de um conjunto de regras. As regras devem ser seguidas pelas instituições que têm à sua guarda coleções de Livros de Artista. Acreditamos que a sua adoção, progressiva e continuada, contribui para a minimização dos efeitos do manuseamento e constitui um auxílio na disponibilização e acessibilidade ao longo do tempo dos Livros de Artista. Não anula, de forma total e absoluta, os efeitos do uso de uma coleção de Livros de Artista. Os Livros de Artista para serem lidos são tocados e, por isso, existirá sempre um dano – o desgaste.