Text-Image-Movement-Interaction: Written Words and Their Artistic Paradigms in Video and Virtual Systems

This study analyzes the written word and typography in a modern and postmodern context, regarding its view and usage in audiovisual and digital systems. Analyzing different periods, works and artists, we aim to understand the potential of typography in the contemporary artistic discourse, mainly exploring the visual, dynamic and interactive components of typography. The theoretical study explored here serves as the basis for a project that foresees the production of a video installation, constructed from the documental and textual collection of Fernando Gonçalves Lavrador. The objective is to disseminate this collection through one exhibition, where a selection of his texts will be appropriated and transformed into artifacts that will converge textual, imagetic and animated elements. Until this public presentation, which is expected to happen in 2024, a process of experimentation with different styles, techniques and materials is being prepared. The results obtained so far—four short films and an interactive program—will also be presented in this paper. The preparatory act that precedes the appropriation of Lavrador's heritage aims to improve the artistic processes around the themes explored in this paper and study new possibilities of using typography as an artistic component in a computational and videographic system.