November 8th to 11th, 2004

Adriana Gomes de Oliveira
adrgomes@aol.com
PUC-SP - Brazil

ART, CRAFTS, COGNITION: EVOLUTION AND COMMUNICATIVES PROCESSES

The strict relationship between art, crafts and evolution is discussed in this work through approaches that, showing a flow of continuous information between individuals and environments, constitute themselves communicative processes.
Creation and manipulation of technologies are directly linked to perceptive and cognitive changes that exist not only in the organisms that exploit them but also in those that experience the environment modified by such processes, which are co-evolutionary.
Art, i.e. a field of reorganization and reconstruction of possibilities for action and perception within reality, when associated to technological tools that carry self-organizational and adaptable potentials, presents differentiated possibilities before it materializes.
Stimuli that, through repetition, contribute to the permanence of the organism in a certain environment will tend to remain in time, showing an inner link between the perceptive-neuromotor apparatuses that structure the organisms' cycles of perception/action in their environments, through different evolutionary times.
In the body/environment transit of information, art is a fertile terrain to generate sensitive and germinating information.

KEYWORDS: Art, Dynamic Systems, Situated and Embodied Cognition, Co-evolution, Evolution

Center for Pragmatism Studies
Philosophy Graduate Program
Departament of Philosophy
Pontifical Catholic University of São Paulo - Brazil