Marcus Vinicius Fainer Bastos
Marcus Vinicius Fainer Bastos has a Ph.D. in Communication and Semiotics from PUC-SP, where he is a professor at the Art’s Department, since 2003. Since 2012, he is also a professor for the postgraduate program in Technologies of Intelligence and Digital Design. Recently, he did a research internship at the Humboldt University of Berlin and was a substitute professor in the Visual Arts undergrad at ECA-USP. Publications: Live Audiovisual: trends and concepts (with Patricia Moran 2020); Networks’ Thresholds (2014); Experimental Audiovisual. Archaeologies, dialogues, unfoldings (with Natalia Aly 2018), Cinema Despite the Image (with Gabriel Menotti and Patricia Moran 2016); Mediations, Technology, Public Space: critical overview of art in mobile media (with Lucas Bambozzi and Rodrigo Minelli2010).
Articles of Marcus Vinicius Fainer Bastos
Flusser e Kafka: diálogos em torno de aparelhos, funcionários e programas / Flusser and Kafka: Dialogues on Apparatuses, Functionaries and Programs
The article explores the dialogue between Flusser and Kafka, around the concepts of apparatus, functionary, and program. Starting from the understanding of Prague as a city that builds bridges, the text understands Flusser's thought as a bridge between past and future, referring to its genealogical beginnings in Prague’s literature. In a cross-reading of texts by the two authors, the concepts of apparatus, functionary and program emerge in their different aspects. The dialog with Kafka reveals an important source of Flusser’s thinking.