Editorial
In 2021, after finding support at the Universidad Nacional de Colombia' periodicals website, Actio has arrived at Volume 5, Number 2. This new space has diversified its design, its digital interactive usability
in particular. It's expanded and interdisciplinary weavings and forms promote updated and disturbing meanings and senses, as a result of this encounter/dis-encounter, in the era of video cultures, between what it
means to use and understand, in a convergent and transmedial way, information technologies and communications, visual and film arts, graphic and industrial design, popular culture and academic disciplines. Our era
is finally a global era, and it is undoubtedly interconnected.
COVID-19 has reasserted this through a world pandemic, both aggressive and incontrollable, where all scientists in the world are networking, and countries are linked through audiovisual networks that expand and self-reproduce
in hundreds of digital applications, sites, web pages.
In its wake, the ways of experiencing, knowing, and expressing reality have changed or have become malleable. The narratives and language forms used to techno-perceive and understand society through a culture of hyper-images
—of a world shaped by scientific, media, and aesthetic technologies— allow for a different understanding of how these scenarios affect individuals, and how various subjectivities are articulated. Narratives are
different anthropological sources whose grounding overflows linear, logic-cognitive language, through overlapping, discontinuity, grammatical ruptures, imaginative expression, oral performance, and plastic vision.
These forms of narrative language are as ancient as those traditionally used by argumentative, schematic, and classificatory thought. It is not and inclusion
per se, but a dialogical, reflexive, recursive and creative inclusion, that helps us to better understand the complex world that appears today in our screens.
From its first editorial, Actio promotes strategies to further academic dialogue, the spread of knowledge, the meeting of disciplines and collaboration among researchers. These spaces are preserved and, together
with the design and publication of the two numbers in Volume 5, discussion panels were held with the journal's scientific and editorial committees. Several circumstances activated this cycle. On the one hand, the
strategic decision of reaching remote places through social media and to amplify the presence of actors through digital platforms; on the other hand, recognizing the true and efficient role that the journal's scientific
committee has played in guiding and supporting the editorial committee. The nomination of various scientific, academic, and artistic personalities is, for
Actio, a real work-philosophy. Supplementing this management and entrepreneurship we now have the knowledge and experience international professors, researchers, and intellectual have shared in these open-access
panels, for they are certainly invaluable human beings. Their interventions have been recorded, edited, and uploaded in Actio's You Tube channel for the benefit of the academic community and the public
in general.
The cycle started with Jesús González Requena, professor, and researcher of the Department of Audiovisual Communication at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid's Faculty of Information Sciences. Professor Requena was
the original promoter and developer of the audiovisual textual theory and analysis (Actio Journal, March 5
th, 2021). His presentation was followed by that of Professor Silvio Fischbein, artist, architect, and urban planner at the Universidad de Buenos Aires (Actio Journal, August 18th,
2021). Then came Carlos A. Scolari, well-known academician of media and communication, professor of Theory and Analysis of Interactive Digital Communication at the Universidad Pompeu Fabra (Actio Journal,
October 29th, 2021). This cycle ended with the intervention of Uruguayan Professor María Dora Genis Mouráo, who teaches at the School of Communications and Arts, University of Sao Paulo, Brazil (Actio
Journal, November 24
th, 2021). This format allowed us to open spaces for interaction with students, professors, scholars, and professionals, generating dialogues among the Universidad Nacional de Colombia and other national
and international universities.
Articles in this number
Five articles were chosen for this special edition, including various aspects of what narratives may be in design, film arts and visual communication. The first article, «Audiovisual writings: biography as a narrative
gender (Part II)» by Marcela Negro, explores the characteristics and methodological approach to the gender of biography, a continuation of the text previously published (Negro, 2020). In the present edition, some
relevant aspects of the process of organizing the story are further developed, that make decisions on how to tell a story and turning it into an attractive narrative easier.
This document is followed by Julio César Goyes Narváez' «The eclectic revelation of that which exists». This is the result of an interview with Nariño's artist Orlando Morillo Santacruz on the exhibit The aesthetics of
carnival, that took place at the intercultural building Rogelio Salmona, in November 2019, within the framework of the III Latin American Congress «Carnival Voices, Eroticism, Music and Dance», organized
by the Universidad Nacional de Colombia's Institute for Studies in Communication and Culture (IECO). The author presents a narrative exercise on Latin-America's aesthetic thought, in an attempt to understand art's
multi-disciplinary and multi-expressive expansion, valuing our "own" and/or "our" regional poetics in dialogue with the history of culture, while including the international avant-garde's agendas, the poetics of
the carnival, conceptual art.
The third article, «Informal educational processes in the artisanal workshops for the float masters in the Frontier's Multicolor Carnival (Ipiales)», by Ángela del Mar Verdugo Cabrera, presents the results of a research
developed for a Master's in Education degree from a narrative and communicative epistemological perspective within the scenarios of popular culture. This qualitative study with an ethnographic approach, traces the
informal educational processes, the relationships among the artisans and their families, the float master’s creative activity and their learning experience in the light of the theory of chaos, at one the most important
carnivals in Colombia.
The fourth article, «Enhancing wellbeing: designing to enable desired narratives», by Patrick W. Jordan, Muskan Gupta, Andy Bardill, Kate Herd and Silvia Grimaldi, presents the first part of a research designed in four
stages, where the authors explore how the narratives on objects and services promote the design of a new product or service. The research is based on a case study that may be framed within self-ethnography and shows
the possibilities of narratives as a source of inspiration and creation.
The following text in this special edition is «Orphanage, fragmentation and destruction in an earthly inferno: the triumph of evil in Andrés Baiz' film
Satanás», by Daniela Alexandra Tunjano Bautista. The author, a student at the Master’s Program in Communication and Media at IECO, applies the theory of text and textual analysis, from the perspective of
the Spanish philosopher Jesús González Requena, and develops a methodological path explaining the audience's experience regarding Andrés Baiz' film (2007), produced after Mario Mendoza's novel (2002) with the same
name. The result, beyond accounting for the audiovisual text's registers (signs, images, and reality), describes basic aspects of a post-Classical narrative where we find echos of psycosis and the horror of a shocking
case that took place in Bogotá in 1986, known as «The Pozzeto's massacre ».
Next in this edition is the video-essay El viaje continúa, (The trip
continues), an experimental proposal by Lorenzo Torres Hortelano, Javier Olarte Triana and Julio César Goyes Narváez, edited by Javier Castro Cortés.
Since its creation, Actio intended to bring together, recognize and value those researchers, writers, producers, artists and professors who would produce different, non-conventional
documents, deriving alphabetic writing as the sole material to support reflection, awareness and information.
Actio's third issue, which included 15 video-essays, was the first approach to a different kind of content and support, where professors, researchers and artists think the relationships among visual communication,
technology and peace (ver: https://bit.ly/3s3gsDU). In the era of video-cultures, technology and digital networks, diverse and interdisciplinary knowledge is produced; ways of enunciation, authorship, different
technological supports are experimented with, at a scale that multiplies and hybridizes fiction and non-fiction, documentary and narrative. The alliance ¾increasingly blurred— between emotionality, cognition, body,
brain, and technology, is protagonist and mystifies. Products and works travel, are enriched, disappear, in multiple physical-digital platforms.
Therefore, El viaje continua echoes audiovisual innovation, knowledge amplification and the reactivation of sensitivity. El viaje continúa is the result of a subjective, experimental experience, both
mimetic and diegetic, so close to the image that it quotes as poetic, where fragments and audiovisual traces of the films
Hija (2012, María Paz González); Historias mínimas (2002, Carlos Sorín) and Tierra en la
lengua (2014, Rubén Mendoza) converge.
This edition concludes with the review «Investigaciones dialógicas para un buen vivir» by Alejandro Araque Mendoza and introduces Memorias del Primer
Coloquio de Tesis de la Maestría en Comunicación y Medios del IECO, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, that took place on line on February 25th and 26th 2021, published in
ComVERgencia No. 2, 2021 (https://bit.ly/3I6bHPE).
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