Research Lines and Area of Concentration
AREA OF CONCENTRATION
THEORIES AND INTERDISCIPLINARY POETICAL PROCESSES
This area welcomes research rooted in methodological, practical, and theoretical frameworks related to art and culture, brought together under the concept of interdisciplinarity.
It embraces subfields of knowledge in the arts where artistic languages and culture are understood as transversal axes that conceptually ground the area.
It brings together faculty researchers who approach research, artistic production, and critical reflection through the mobilization and dialogue of repertoires and resources from various domains of the humanities, social sciences, and their intersections with technology.
Interdisciplinarity here is tied to a way of conceiving art in today’s world, considering its intense entanglement and convergence with culture at large. In this perspective, culture is viewed as an element of hybridization, a transformative principle of contemporary artistic processes.
Research Lines
ART, FASHION: HISTORY AND CULTURE
This research line explores visual arts and fashion in their movements of reflection and production, based on theoretical and methodological approaches grounded in historical and cultural processes and interpretations, in convergence with the field of the humanities.
It encompasses projects focused on artistic processes and critical, historical, and sociological analyses of art and/or fashion within regional, national, and international contexts.
CINEMA AND AUDIOVISUAL
This research line focuses on practical productions and theoretical reflections on cinema and audiovisual media, with a theoretical framework addressing narrative, aesthetics, and the history of cinema and audiovisual.
It examines issues related to authorship, gender, film analysis, and narrative constructions and their sociocultural implications, in interdisciplinary dialogue with other art forms and fields of knowledge.
MUSIC AND SOUND ARTS
This research line centers on sound—its uses and implications (creative, aesthetic, technical, technological, cultural, and social)—based primarily on three core areas: composition, performance, and musicology/ethnomusicology.
It particularly welcomes postgraduate projects that emphasize the historically and intrinsically interdisciplinary character of music, not only from its earliest written records in the West (among the Pre-Socratics, Pythagoras, and Plato), but also from Indigenous, Afrocentric, non-Western, hybrid, contemporary, or oral traditions—encouraging the development of both theoretical and theoretical-practical (artistic research) initiatives within academia.