Process of creating spaces and their transition components

Abstract

The aim of this paper is to investigate, in light of Deleuze and Guattari’s theoretical framework, the creative process mediated by digital technologies, discussing concepts such as virtualization, actualization, and emergence. It examines how digital media affects, but does not determine, the creation processes in question. Digital technologies act as producers of differences at events in which new territories and subjectivities are created. The creation processes under investigation are divided into two groups: (a) urban interventions, emphasizing the creation of the installation AirCity:arte#ocupaSM; and (b) participation of digital media in social and political spheres, analyzing the Smart Mobs phenomenon. It is also the purpose of this article to identify elements capable of acting to create spaces of representation as well as detect lines of deterritorialization and reterritorialization or even potencies circulating in these creation territories and the forces that concur to actualize them.