Assistant Professor
Professor in the Department of Social Communication at Federal Fluminense University (UFF) and Assistant Professor in the Postgraduate Program in Media and Daily Life (PPGMC) from the same institution. PhD in Visual Arts, in the line of research in Image and Culture by Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (PPGAV/UFRJ), and Master in Communication and Culture in the line of Communication and Aesthetic Technologies PPGCOM/UFRJ. Coordinator of the extension project LIEX – Expanded Image Laboratory: photography, art, networks and technology (linktr.ee/liex.uff). Organizer of the 1st Latin American Photography Symposium in Rio de Janeiro, 2020, GCO/UFF and IART/UERJ. (linktr.ee/simposiolatinodefotografia). Participates in the Research Group Times: Temporality of Communication Media, Language and Daily Life, PPGMC/UFF. Interested in the issue of technique and technology in the production of meanings contemporary visual culture and in the practices and processes of Brazilian and Latin American post-photography and photojournalism in the construction of identity and social memory. Acted as academic coordinator of the Specialization Course in Photography and Image at the Lato Sensu IUPERJ Graduate Program, Candido Mendes University and as a substitute professor in the field of Languages in Photography and Cinema, at the School of Communication at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ). Worked as an advertising photographer for the HQ / Talent-Lojas Americanas agency and as a photographic reporter for the media: O Globo, O Estado de São Paulo, Jornal da Tarde and Vejinha-Rio.
Lattes: http://lattes.cnpq.br/7444725694597139
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9345-4463
email: michelepucarelli@id.uff.br
Research project
Post-photography in the rupture’s age: magic, technique, art and politics in computational capitalism
Description: This research aims to generate theoretical and empirical subsidies to contemporary debates about the reconfigurations of language and social uses of image and post-photography in digital media culture, as well as expanding research on the production of meanings, identity construction and social memory of post-photography contemporary digital media in Brazil and Latin America.At the present moment, in the midst of an age of technological and political disruptions marked by the predominance of automation commanded by the algorithms spread over the networks, new configurations of space-time outline a moment characterized by the questioning of the veracity of information, which transformed the communicational daily life. In this context, one of the predominant characteristics of mediation resides in the wide and significant use of digital photographic images, whose structures of construction, distribution and reception have been reconfigured. However, in general, they are still used and published in an illustrative and superficial way, without a more consistent and grounded analysis, which takes into account the relationships between techniques, languages and processes as possible means of asserting power. The project is organized in three main lines that are intertwined: 1) The issue of technique and technology as a determining factor in the production of post-photography meanings in digital media; 2) Language and temporality of photographic images in the construction of identity and social memory; 3) Practices and processes of contemporary Brazilian and Latin American photographic communication, with dialogues between communication, arts, literature, sociology and anthropology.
