Pedro Ferreira

University of Lisbon | UL · Centro de Investigação e de Estudos em Belas-Artes (CIEBA)

Datox explores the imperceptible electromagnetic radiation generated by elec- tronics and digital technologies as sonic material. The work is a music album and a live performance that creates an audiovisual environment that explores sonic possibilities through the amplification of imperceptible sounds. This aims to highlight a material layer that c...

Things I do when I’m bored (2017-22) addresses vloggers’ relationship with feeling bored. The work is composed of a browser-based video compilation and a video installation that assembles found footage from YouTube vlogs with less than 100 or even zero views. It emphasises the vloggers’ self-awareness in their performa- tive statements of boredom a...

This article examines artistic practices that engage with digital technologies through a critical making methodology. Critical making is described as a hands- on practice that aims to merge critical thinking with making. This is a practice that focuses on the process of making and combines material experimentation with critical thinking about the e...

This paper describes the artwork Debris (2021) and examines the impact of consumer electronics and digital media as electronic waste (e-waste) in environmental pollution. E-waste is in part motivated by planned obsolescence, a model for designing consumer electronics and digital media technologies to shorten their functional time period. The materi...

This paper examines recent artistic engagements with analogue media in audiovisual art practices, commonly known as neo-analogue media practices. These practices and cultures of creative production often revive and repurpose older media technologies as well as devise analogue-digital media hybrids. These hybrid forms are commonly affiliated with a...

This paper examines the current tendency to theorize our contemporary times pervaded by digital technologies and media as 'post-digital'. It discusses the different understandings of this term and its relationship to other concepts that not only seek to define a contemporary aesthetics but also the current condition from which it emerges. In order...

On A Scroll Through The Cloud is an audiovisual interactive artwork suitable for virtual reality or computer game installation inspired by the user experience of infinite scroll and its addicting effect within digital media interaction.

This article presents an analysis of the work "Zoe: Actant" (2017) by Hugo Paquete. I contextualize his work as post-digital practice. With the use of hybrid technology, the work com-bines phenomena intangible to human percep-tion, rendering them perceptible through an autonomous system and technological mediations. The work explores acousmatic son...