23th, 2023 January, From technical processes to meaningful narratives

We would like to propose with this issue that the question between meaning and technical qualification is not a matter of dispute. I believe that the articles that make up the thematic part of this edition contribute to demonstrating the importance of both issues. Regardless of the fact that all the articles in the issue are proposed by people qualifiedly dedicated to research, the articles express, on the one hand, processes in which high technical qualification is fundamental and also, others in which the meaning pertinent to the agents involved in the process takes precedence over any other technical issue.

In this way, the articles of the thematic block are distributed in the tension between these two extremes: meaning and technique. Narratives such as “Cuevas memory:, “Women expropriated from their symbolic universe” or “Metaphors of life”, in which a story that they tell us prevails, but in which the procedure makes possible a connection with the recipients. Or the magnificent reports on procedures such as “Drawing used for embodied simulation” or “Evolution of technical processes in the sculptural creation of hyperrealistic eyes”, whose objectives in the procedure or in technical perfection is in order to o er the best story.

At the same time, the articles in the miscellaneous block contribute to giving a philosophical and anthropological framework to the question of sense and technique as the two sides of the same coin that is the creative activity of the human being. Thus, “Holly Fools, Sacred Obscenity, Joseph Beuys and Viennesse Actionism”, or “Social Networks and Artistic Creation”, give us arguments for theoretical positions from which to face the process/procedure dichotomy, in contemporary creation. For its part, “The Devil in the Plastic Arts” is a historical tour of the ways in which the concept embodied by “the devil” has been configured over time in art and how this has nuanced the history of every moment. For its part, “Sociolinguistic analysis of a number of the magazine Maisons Côté sud ” also breaks down the role played by the origin of words in the linguistic procedure for a better understanding of what they narrate. Both studies, without directly addressing the technical or creative issue, offer two examples of how results are enhanced when both aspects are combined.