A estética do cotidiano nos jogos digitais contemporâneos: as banalidades presentes em grand theft auto V

Abstract

Year after year, digital games are becoming increasingly present in the daily lives of users around the world, establishing themselves as one of the most far reaching artistic expressions today. They are found on cell phones, in workplaces, and inside homes, offering endless possibilities for entertainment and art. Technological, narrative, and aesthetic evolution has elevated this type of product to a high level of audiovisual simulation of reality. They represent the world, both its fantastic and adventurous aspects, as well as its everyday, mundane side. Media products reflect the world we live in, presenting narratives through identifications and archetypes for those who consume them, who interpret and produce meaning. Everyday themes potentially sharpen this identification process, since they present the same universe references as the consumer. This work presents a reflection on how representations of everyday life occur and how an action game, which normally works with an aristotelian narrative logic, as is the case with GTA V, reproduces a temporality of the ordinary, contrasting with the traditional diegesis. For this research, the interest lies in the commonplace in video games. The idea is to propose an investigation of artistic representations of everyday life, using digital games as a research object.