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CIAC-UAb - Centro de Investigação em Artes e Comunicação, Polo da Universidade Aberta

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Este grupo de investigação visa a realização de pesquisa tanto ao nível da computação e dos computadores como das tecnologias dos media juntamente com a conceção de experiências estéticas altamente apelativas e envolventes que fundamentem o desenvolvimento de artefactos computacionais criativos e inovadores fortemente interligados com cenários de fruição e uso de cariz artístico, intercultural e socialmente intervencionistas, permitindo compreender e alargar as fronteiras da arte e da tecnologia, da cultura, do entretenimento e da educação e as suas implicações no quotidiano.

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  • BioFlux: collective memory as generative video art through deconstructed biographical narratives
    Publication . Veiga, Pedro Alves da
    BioFlux is a video artwork that employs generative techniques to explore and deconstruct documental bio-graphical narratives. The piece is derived from personal interviews, which are woven into a seamless and dyna-mic stream of human experiences, thereby transporting them into parallel worlds where different outcomes and plot lines may (or may not) come to fruition, based on three pillars: place, person, and memory. By harnessing a generative art approach, BioFlux disassembles individual stories, reconfiguring and intertwining them into a fluid, ever-evolving narrative tapestry. The resulting compo-sition is a living, breathing video flux that transcends traditional storytelling, offering viewers a contemplative and surreal – yet profoundly human – journey through identity’s multifaceted and interconnected nature. Bio-Flux invites the audience to reflect on the complexity of personal histories and the shared threads that bind us all, revealing the profound interdependencies within our collective narrative.
    2025-06Artigo científico Acesso aberto Ver mais
  • Blended reality: an analysis through the recent evolution of digital media art ecosystems
    Publication . Veiga, Pedro Alves da
    This chapter proposes an analysis of the impacts that three economic concepts that gained traction in the last decades of neoliberalism – experience, attention and ubiquity – cause in digital arts and artists, driving the establishment of blended-reality as the current inhabited space, and altering the relationships between artists, audience, curating, public spaces, academia, industry and markets. Using the Internet as a technological backbone, the global digital art ecosystem has become a network of relationships and relational mechanisms, where creativity and innovation are being commoditised, organised and consumed like products. By analysing pairs of concepts and the paradoxes involved, it also offers insights on how the blending concept is also being applied to what could have once been considered as extreme opposites. It concludes by showing how artivism and hacktivism rise as the new innovation forces in a networked environment that is written and reads itself, blending materiality and virtuality.
    2018-01Documento de conferência Acesso aberto Ver mais
  • Ciberperformance: da transposição à inovação
    Publication . Veiga, Pedro Alves da
    Este artigo visa explorar e identificar formas de ciberperformance nativas do meio digital e/ou telemático, com especial ênfase nas surgidas durante o período pandémico. As tecnologias digitais contribuem para a alteração ou disrupção de práticas estabelecidas, criando oportunidades de inovação em toda a economia criativa. Este fenómeno foi potenciado pela pandemia do COVID-19, que ao dificultar a fruição dos espaços públicos, contribuiu para um aumento significativo de experiências ao vivo nas principais redes sociais. Para tal, a resposta imediata de artistas e instituições das artes foi a transposição literal dos seus eventos e criações para sistemas de videoconferência ou videodifusão, como Zoom, Microsoft Teams ou Google Meet. No entanto, os nativos digitais encontraram caminhos e motivações para ir além da simples transposição da exibição ou performance tradicional para as redes sociais e media digitais, dando origem ao que se pode designar por ciberperformance nativa, constituindo novos formatos artísticos e produtos culturais, cuja criação é moldada pelas próprias tecnologias e redes de informação. Importa, pois, explorar a natureza da literacia digital artística, criativa e performativa. E importa entender como a experiência estética, participativa e de interação social das audiências é moldada pela fruição artística destas ciberperformances nativas.
    2022-10-14Documento de conferência Acesso aberto Ver mais
  • Critical spatial thinking in women's resilience for an inclusive city
    Publication . Carvalho, Isabel Cristina
    Gender continues to affect how urban spaces are perceived and experienced. Girls and women continue to experience sexual harassment, feel unsafe and conditioned as they live and move in urban environments. Reinforcing the concept "Right to the City" of Henri Lefebvre (1991) and David Harvey (2008), this paper aims to explore the need to promote critical spatial thinking to demystify gender stereotypes, leading to the exercise of active citizenship, able to participate and contribute to the (re)design of an inclusive city. People are social products whose values and beliefs are shaped by society, often perpetuating social practices and norms that promote gender inequalities. It is crucial to enable and encourage critical spatial thinking about women's environment to understand and recognise existing limitations and constraints. The desire for change begins with awareness of the situation in which we live. Several authors refer to critical thinking as fundamental to the empowerment process, pointing out that by exercising critical reflection on the situation, women challenge gender inequality. The exercise of critical spatial thinking also highlights the need for new communication processes that recognise and enhance the importance of showing and share individual perspectives in the use of urban spaces. It will enrich a more active collective voice, increase civic participation necessary to build safer and gender-equal spaces in urban life.
    2021-12-20Artigo científico Acesso aberto Ver mais
  • Digital media and feminist activism: reclaiming inclusive urban spaces in the post-digital era
    Publication . Carvalho, Isabel Cristina; Carvalho, Isabel Cristina; Viegas, Sílvia Leiria; Nascimento, Adriana; Egler, Tamara Tania Cohen
    This article examines the role of digital media in urban feminist activism, highlighting how activists utilize digital platforms to challenge patriarchal norms and practices, promote gender equality, and foster inclusive spaces for marginalised voices in urban contexts. At the intersection of feminism, technology, and urban development, this study aims to understand how digital media can contribute to identifying exclusionary practices and disparities while advocating the promotion of inclusive urban spaces that reflect the diverse needs and experiences of citizens, with a particular focus on women. This study adopts an interdisciplinary approach to explore the use of digital media for various types of mobilisation and support networks. It is based on a theoretical framework that addresses themes of digital citizenship, feminism, and urban studies, contextualised in various projects and digital initiatives of feminist activists. Examples of digital activism, such as the #NiUnaMenos, #MeToo, and “Woman, Life, Freedom” movements, are presented to demonstrate the reach of digital platforms in raising awareness, mobilising collective action, and pushing for social and legislative change. “Free to Be” and “Her City Toolbox” are presented as examples of how digital tools for collaborative digital mapping can collect data, empower participants and inform decision-making processes to create inclusive urban spaces. The final notes underscore the significance of digital empowerment in expanding opportunities to identify and address systemic barriers, exploring various forms of communication, and promoting active participation in urban processes, ultimately envisioning the co-creation of cities that value diversity, equity, and accessibility.
    2025-07-22Artigo científico Acesso aberto Ver mais
  • Digital narratives & urban artivist networks: a theoretical-methodological approach
    Publication . Carvalho, Isabel Cristina; Viegas, Sílvia Leiria
    This article explores the disciplinary and thematic convergences of digital media art, urban life and social activism (in the digital plan), merging into a cohesive exploration of digital narratives and their role in supporting and boosting urban artivist networks. In fact, digital tools provide unique opportunities to broaden the scope and impact of socially-engaged art, primarily through artivist practices, while highlighting and emphasising inspiring existences and positions concerning urban rights and building citizenship. As such, in this exploratory essay, we seek to stress the importance of building counter-narratives from the grassroots based on ways of life, habits, customs and everyday experiences historically overlooked by dominant systems while at the same time building theoretical-methodological framework to deconstruct urban strategies and practices and support different forms of self-representation. We will use two complementary dimensions to build our approach: (1) collecting, interpreting and processing data and (2) giving visibility to the referred alternative narratives. Regarding urban processes and physical spaces, these dimensions follow Lefebvre’s structural thinking on the production of social space and the right to the city, pointing out activist methodologies, e.g. those following principles of social justice, human rights, inclusion and equity, among others giving voice and space to the vulnerable individuals and communities.
    2023-04-03Documento de conferência Acesso aberto Ver mais
  • Dos jogos sérios à arte digital: artefactos, espaços e estratégias
    Publication . Veiga, Pedro Alves da; Carvalhais, Miguel; Ribas, Luísa
    2024-05-29Capítulo de livro Acesso aberto Ver mais
  • Emerging perspectives on teaching architecture and yrbanism
    Publication . Viana, David Leite; Brandão, Emílio da Cruz; Morais, Franklim Morais; Carvalho, Isabel Cristina; Duarte, José P.; Brandão, Nicolau; Nicolau
    The teaching of architecture and urbanism is in crisis, unable to respond to current problems like the human right to housing. This book of essays by international experts presents historical analyses, manifestos, and new objectives to address the challenge.
    2024-11-13Livro Acesso restrito Ver mais
  • Entre o digital e o urbano: leituras do espaço em transformação
    Publication . Carvalho, Isabel Cristina; Viegas, Sílvia Leiria; Nascimento, Adriana; Egler, Tamara Tania Cohen; Carvalho, Isabel Cristina; Viegas, Sílvia Leiria; Nascimento, Adriana; Egler, Tamara Tania Cohen
    Este dossier sublinha o papel da investigação crítica e colaborativa na compreensão dos novos paradigmas urbanos e digitais. O número propõe uma leitura crítica e multidisciplinar sobre os cruzamentos entre o urbano e o digital, e como estes moldam, desafiam e transformam o espaço social e político contemporâneo. Com enfoque em geografias do Sul Global, o dossier reúne artigos, ensaios, entrevistas e policy briefs que exploram temas como o ativismo digital, a interseccionalidade, a tecnopolítica, os direitos urbanos e a produção colaborativa de tecnologias cívicas. A publicação inclui investigações de autores de diferentes instituições e contextos, com temas como: A tecnopolítica em plataformas digitais; Representações algorítmicas da cidade; Feminismo digital e participação urbana; Produção colaborativa de tecnologias cívicas; Narrativas digitais em territórios urbano-minerados; Entrevistas e testemunhos sobre práticas artísticas participativas e políticas de imagem.
    2025-07Artigo científico Acesso aberto Ver mais
  • Feminist reflections on digital media art and urban studies for inclusive cities
    Publication . Carvalho, Isabel Cristina
    This article critically examines the intersection of digital media art and urban studies through a feminist lens to co-create more inclusive cities. It focuses on the potential of digital art practices to stimulate women's active engagement in the critical analysis of urban space, thereby supporting participatory urban design. It highlights the opportunities offered by digital media art practices and how they can address the challenges women face on a daily basis, empowering them to express, create and collaborate freely. The study underscores how digital media art practices can counteract daily challenges faced by women, enabling them to express themselves, create, and collaborate freely. It stresses the significance of artistic practices that inspire critical spatial thinking, inciting women to recognise, challenge, and query restrictive social norms in public spaces. As the digital gender gap is one of the main obstacles to women's participation in the digital plan, we point out examples that simultaneously develop urban interventions for women's empowerment and promote digital literacy. Collaborative and participatory artistic interventions are highlighted, which develop mappings of urban experiences, often invisibilised, showing the importance of data visualisation by gender. The main theories and practices that emphasise the inclusion of gender perspectives in the configuration of cities and a reflection on digital media art interventions within and in urban space are presented. Digital media art, when integrated into feminist urban studies, shows potentiality for the identification of weaknesses and co-creation of solutions and innovations for contemporary urban challenges.
    2023Documento de conferência Acesso aberto Ver mais