Reading of audiovisual productions of contemporary art in art education

This article focuses on the reading of audiovisual productions of contemporary art as a creative process. It seeks to analyse which sense effects produce the articulations between the visual and sound systems, and the meaning that children give to them. It describes a video art, identifying the languages that compose it and the relationships that link them. This reading activity had as corpus of analysis the Chair video art, by Masaru Ozaki, and used the theoretical and methodological support of the discourse semiotics, especially studies on assembly procedures that articulate visual and auditory languages. Also, it presents a focal study with the meanings that a group of children gave to the video art. The findings indicate the importance of including the reading of audiovisual productions of contemporary art at school through the problematization of sense effects produced by the interrelation between different languages. And they suggest some hints that allow teachers from different areas of knowledge to reflect about visuality in their pedagogical practice; the choice of the audiovisual materials taken to the classroom and other ways of seeing these texts edited.