2024
Cyborgs, Individuation and the Intrinsic Value of Artificial Entities
Presentation at POM Aachen 2024 that proposes an extension of Harraway's cyborg concept and Simondon's individuation concept to artificial entities, to question their potential intrinsic value through a non-anthropocentric approach, with the aim of recognizing the current interdependence of all entities.
#individuation#cyborg#Haraway#Simondon#artificial entities
researchpresentationwriting
2023
SLG-V4
SLG-V4, short for Symbiotic Landscape Generator version 4, explores the intersection between art, technology and ecology through a web-based performance - an ephemeral real-time experience accessible through a web browser, where each refresh returns a new and unique result. Developed during the ANIMAIS artistic residency, organized by CADA and T-Factor, this performance generates symbiotic landscape sequences from artificial speculations that challenge the traditional Western division between nature and culture, reimagining their intrinsic interconnections. With a formal reference to experimental cinema, this web-based performance also explores the interaction between human and artificial creativity, by combining creative coding practices with generative artificial intelligence models.
#artificial criativite#artificial entities#generative AI#nature-culture
researchartworkweb-performancenet artcoding
2023
Animais
Participation in the residency ANIMAIS based on the premise that thinking in terms of ‘nature-culture’ hybrids and multi-species entanglements creates a space for redrawing the boundaries of a shared world that, for the sake of the planet, urgently requires new modes of perception and action. Organized by CADA and T-Factor.
#nature-culture#multi-species
researchresidency
2021
Kasia Gumowska
Web-design and coding for Kasia Gumowska.
webweb-designcoding
2021
Ifilnova
Web-design and coding for Ifilnova.
webweb-designcoding
2021
AiR 351
Web-design and coding for AiR 351.
webweb-designcoding
2020
Galerias Municipais
Web-design and coding for Galerias Municipais.
webweb-designcoding
2020
Rialto6
Web-design and coding for Rialto6.
webweb-designcoding
2020
Partilha em Isolamento
A collection of projects or initiatives that help us in time of isolation.
researchproject
2019
Luisa Salvador
Web-design and coding for Luisa Salvador, art direction by Silvio Prodêncio
webweb-designcoding
2019
The new forms of the archive in digital culture (is it still an archive?)
The digital archive is no longer a hierarchy of knowledge, but a dynamic collection always open to a new hierarchy. Also, the digital archive is no longer a place, but a hyperspace capable of containing all space. In this context, the question arises whether these digital objects are still archives, or if this terminology is not obsolete, becoming urgent to think of a new terminology that defines and conceptualizes this new form of storing and generating.Ongoing research present at The Web that Was: the third biennial RESAW (Research Infrastructure for the Study of Archived Web Materials) conference. Organized by the University of Amsterdam.
#digital archive
researchpresentationwriting
2018
Galeria Zé dos Bois
Web-design and coding for Galeria Zé dos Bois.
webweb-designcoding
2018
Whole Web Catalog
Taking the ambivalences of both the Whole Earth Catalog and the Internet, Whole Web Catalog is an ongoing web search engine that explores the space between a sharing global community and a whole system control. Connected to various information services and datasets through open APIs, Whole Web Catalog is a mash up tool to already existing tools, that returns an assemblage of information in order to get non-unilateral responses. While being an alternative tool to corporated search engines, it also questions the relevance of the information available in open datasets.Web application exhibited at Museo del Traje during xCoAx Madrid 2018 and article published at xCoAx 2018, Proceedings of the Fourth Conference on Computation, Communication, Aesthetics and X, edited by Mario Verdicchio, Alison Clifford, André Rangel & Miguel Carvalhais, Madrid.
#api#control#internet#tools#open datasets
researchartworkwritingarticlepresentationexhibition
2017
Strangers

"Technique is evolving faster than culture," states Bernard Stiegler, and the human capacity to assimilate can no longer keep up with the updating process. Consequently, thousands of gadgets are launched to the market each year, which due to the current consumption demand, quickly fall into disuse, fueling the increasingly extensive landscapes of electronic waste.

Deposited, obsolete and without context, these gadgets become the remains of a life still present, but that we do not recognize anymore. Or traces that trigger us memories of a recent time, but that had passed. Consequently, we live with a mass of objects which we no longer understand by ignoring their function, a legion of strangers, inert, abandoned and heaped objects.

In this context and from an archeology of the present that involves processes of research, excavation and analysis, we propose a landscape under the ground where the mass of obsolete gadgets breaks apart through the individualization of certain objects, back fed and placed in a new state of transformation so that we can know them, not as they were, but through a defamiliarization or a new look at what has already been overcome.

Installation with João Abreu Valente, exhibited at Biennial of Contemporary Art of Maia 2017.

#strangers#media archeology#defamiliarization
researchartworkinstallationexhibition
2017
Sophia Sophia

Taking SOPHIA as a central object, this new edition of Impressões Expressas unfolds between the reference to Sophia de Mello Breyner and the homonymous concept coming from the Greek term "sofós" which means "who holds wisdom."

Therefor, SOPHIA SOPHIA is a mobile application/ essay which translates as an invitation to meet Sophia's work. However, not into a chronological, bibliographical or biographical knowledge of the author, but into a knowledge that is constructed from linguistic relations.

Having poems of Sophia de Mello Breyner inscribed in the ramp of the Book Fair of Porto, SOPHIA SOPHIA materializes in a mobile application that, from its function of recognition of text, allows the user to enter in a digital space where her poetic work becomes a collection of texts without order, principle or end. A digital space where, through text mining tools, the poems are categorized and regrouped, aiming to find linguistic relationships which allow us to explore new and ever different paths through the poems of Sophia de Mello Breyner.

Installation and mobile application for Impressões Expressas, curated by Andreia Garcia, design Ana Schefer and Teo Furtado at the Book Fair of Porto.

#Sophia Mello Breyner#digital literature
researchartworkinstallationexhibitionapp
2016
Captcha-t

CAPTCHA–T is an interactive installation that reflects on the growing number and complexity of bots that inhabit social media, namely Twitter. It proposes to re-interpret Alan Turing’s Imitation Game, the first basic model of AI and HCI tests, using two humans and a bot. Having two terminals, one placed in Lisbon and the other in Almada, it allows the participants to “create and share ideas and information instantly” about the PLUNC festival. Interfering in the discourse there’s a bot capturing tweets about the festival and placing them in the system. Given that this bot is identified as being the user from the opposite terminal, it becomes ambiguous who is in fact communicating from the other side: a human or a bot?

Interactive installation, with Anaa colective, for Plunc – New Media and Digital Art Fest, at Museu das Comunicações (Lisboa) and Casa da Cerca (Almada).

#bots
researchartworkinstallation
2015
Do Arquivo ao Novo
While taking paths from the archive to the new, this dissertation reflects on the resulting impacts of the introduction, massification and dissemination of digital technology, in the way we store and deal with information, inside the complex that we understand as culture. To this end, a theoretical investigation is performed in order to build a conceptual body from which concepts are drawn in order to effectuate a practical research.
#archive#new#control#culture#web-performance
researchdissertationwriting
2013
Fraguementos 2.0
Fragments that consist in an experience of putting together a series of ideas, without narrative order, in a referenced roll
researchproject
2009
6 Diálogos e 1 Discurso: Poética e Arquitectura
Dissertation presented as part of the architecture course at the Faculty of Architecture of the University of Porto (FAUP), exploring the relationship between humans and space – a connection that transcends mere dialog, evolving into a poetic interaction where space becomes a place of passion.
researchwritingarchitecturedissertation
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