Urrutia, HernandoHernandoUrrutiaPerez, PilarPilarPerezFernandes-Marcos, AdéritoAdéritoFernandes-Marcos2024-04-022024-04-022021978-1-4503-8420-9https://dspace.usj.edu.mo/handle/123456789/528910.1145/3483529.3483684In this article, we reflect on the role of contemporary art when used as a topic for the generation of new knowledge, intervention, and creation of thought, based on video, as a means of diffusion and artistic instantiation. Video, in its different forms of projection and diffusion, has been a resource for expression and artistic intervention around digital media art, fully inserted in the field of contemporary aesthetics. An aesthetic that has evolved to embrace digital technologies as an integral part of its forms of expression, establishing new languages and paradigms of knowledge and enjoyment, as wide and varied, as cultural globalization, today a synonymous of our contemporary timesEnglishContemporary art as a factor for knowledge generation from videoA arte contemporânea como fator de geração de conhecimento a partir do vídeotext::conference output::conference proceedings::conference paper