This study aims to briefly analyze the semantic and aesthetic role of the written word and typography between the end of the 19th century and the present, paying particular attention to its perception and use in audiovisual and digital systems. Analyzing a wide range of periods, works, and artists, we aim to understand the potential of typography in the contemporary artistic discourse and explore the visual, dynamic, and interactive components in modern and contemporary typography. This study also aims to find new possibilities for using typography as an artistic component in a computational and videographic system. We will show one of our first experimental works in this field, a short stop-motion film we developed to assess original ways of converging text, image, and movement in an audio-visual and digital environment.

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This article intends to carry out a brief analytical and critical synthesis and reflection on the methods and investigation strategies native to the field of research based on artistic practice. Methods that will be later applied during the conception of the project to organize and disseminate the documentary heritage of the film essayist Fernando Gonçalves Lavrador, transferred to Cine-Clube de Avanca in 2021. Besides the production of a digital archive built with the purpose of presenting the works and memories of Fernando Lavrador to the public, this initiative will also entail the creation of a set of digital and (audio)visual artworks, using the methodologies, concepts, and languages inherent to the fields of Video Art, Cinema and Experimental Poetry.