Vision over visibility: the universe of images in contemporaneity and the creation of the comic Américo

Abstract

Through the articulation of certain theories of image and the methodology of research in art, this work aims to create a comic story which problematizes the human condition in the contemporary world. The image theories discussed here start from the idea of Flusser's climbing of abstraction, which conceives the contemporaneity and near future as the field of technical images produced by devices which reverse the vectors of meaning between reality and image. Complementing the discussion we have the theory of the spectacle by Guy Debord and the Jean Baudrillard's theory of simulacrum. These theories intended to compose a paradigm of contemporaneity so as to establish appropriate reference to the production of the comic. From this theoretical framework, we approach the artistic language in order to establish the proper relation between theory and practice. Thus, investigating the language of comics in relation to theoretical approaches, as well as describes the process of establishing the comic, titled Américo, identifying and explaining the features of the comic's language, and establishing relations between the comic developed and the theoretical approach.