Pedro Alves da Veiga
Universidade Aberta, Universidade do Algarve
Pedro Alves da Veiga is a Portuguese transdisciplinary artist and researcher. He holds a degree in Computer Science (Nova University of Lisbon), a Post-graduation in Advanced Studies of Digital Media Art (Aberta University) and a PhD in Digital Media Art (Aberta University and University of Algarve). He is also an invited Professor at the Aberta University, in Lisbon, and at the Cascais School of Arts & Design, following a two decade business career in web-design and information systems, including the launch and sale of two IT companies and several multimedia and web-design awards. He is a member of CIAC's Scientific Council (Research Center for Arts and Communication), a collaborator of ID+ research centre, and regularly publishes and shares results of his arts-based research on creative programming, mixed media assemblage, multimedia generative systems, and theoretical work on artivism, the impacts of the experience, attention and ubiquity economies in art ecosystems. His artworks have been exhibited in Portugal, Spain, the Netherlands, Romania, Russia, China, Thailand and the USA.
Pedro's lectures
Pedro Alves da Veiga · ICCC'20
Hello, An Interactive Cinematic Generative Artwork
“Hello” is an interactive cinematic generative artwork that gained traction within the Cultural Adventures research project, an international endeavor between Portugal and Thailand. The encompassing rationale assumed the need of a link connecting both countries, and thus “Hello” was born from the similarities that can be found in commuters that flock to and from both capital cities by train, often more engaged with their mobile phones than with their immediate surroundings – people, train or traversed landscapes –, which constitute more of a shapeless blurred audiovisual background than a sharp attention-grabbing focus. The artwork is also used as a demonstrator of the potential of generative art in producing complex cinematic narrative figurative artworks, yet permeated with interference, chaos and randomness, and how the audience perceives and makes sense of them through the ability to identify and create patterns, to conceptualize, to deal with information overload, and to imagine and build a narrative through abductive reasoning from incomplete yet suggestive information.
Multiple speakers · ICCC'20