Pedro Alves da Veiga
Pedro Alves da Veiga is an artist and transdisciplinary researcher, with a degree in Computer Engineering from the Faculty of Science and Technology of Universidade Nova de Lisboa, a postgraduate degree in Advanced Studies in Digital Media Art from Universidade Aberta and a PhD in Digital Media Art from Universidade do Algarve and Universidade Aberta. He teaches in the Department of Science and Technology at the Universidade Aberta and at the Cascais School of Arts & Design, has been involved in business for over two decades and has won several awards for web design and multimedia. He is a researcher at CIAC and regularly shares the results of his research at conferences and specialized scientific publications on the social role and influences of the economies of attention and experience in the digital media-art ecosystem. He also develops artistic activity in assemblage, generative creative programming and digital audiovisuals. His work has been exhibited individually and collectively in Portugal, China and the United States.
Research Interests
Generative art, art and society, sustainability, artivism, hactivism, digital art curation. He has participated in various research projects involving art, science and technology.
Latest Publications
[2024] Pinheiro, B., Veiga, P., & Branco, P. D. (2024). Aperfeiçoamento da formação de bombeiros através da realidade virtual: Perspetivas sobre benefícios, desafios e integração tecnológica. Vista, (14). e-ISSN 2184-1284.
[2024] Veiga, P.A. (2024). Resonant Aesthetics: Attention and Synaesthesia in Digital Media Art. In Correia Castilho, L., Sampaio Dias, R., Rocha, L., de Sousa Dias, A. (eds) Perspectives on Music, Sound and Musicology II. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-67503-4_18
[2024] Veiga, P.A. (2024). Ciberperformance: da transposição à inovação. Dedalus – Revista Portuguesa de Literatura Comparada, 26.
[2024] Ribeiro, R.S. & Veiga, P.A. (2024). Videoarte e arte generativa: performatividade videográfica, tecnodiversidade e IA generativa – aproximações e repercussões: performatividade videográfica, tecno diversidade e IA generativa – aproximações e repercussões. Atas do XI Simpósio Internacional de Inovação em Mídias Interativas, UNIFESSPA, Marabá, Brasil.
[2024] Barreto, S., Alvelos, H., Lima, C., Carneiro, J., da Veiga, P. A., Penedos-Santiago, E., Fernandes, M., Martins, N. & Dolbeth, J. (2024). Visualizing Science: Crafting Memes in Design Pedagogy. In Proceedings of DESIGN COMMIT 2024, Braga.
[2024] Mestre, R., d’Orey, R., & Veiga, P.A. (2024). MY MONO NO AWARE – Um passeio sonoro interativo para a promoção de autorreconhecimento. Rotura – Revista De Comunicação, Cultura e Artes, 4(1), 196-211. https://doi.org/10.34623/dbm8-m461
[2024] Alvelos, H., Barreto, S. Penedos-Santiago, E., Pereira, J., Chatterjee, A., Veiga, P.A. & Lima, R. (2024). When in Memeland, Speak in Memes: Contributions of Design Towards the Betterment of Online Behavior Regarding Public Health. InMartins, N., Brandão, D. (eds) Advances in Design and Digital Communication IV. DIGICOM 2023. Springer Series in Design and Innovation, 35. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-47281-7_39
[2024] Veiga, P. A. (2024). Dos jogos sérios à arte digital: Artefactos, espaços e estratégias. In M. Carvalhais, & L. Ribas (Orgs.), Arte, Digital, Academia, Museu Zer0 (pp. 83-102). Museu Zer0; I2ADS. https://doi.org/10.34626/2024/978-989-9049-70-3
[2023] Alves da Veiga, A. (2023). Intersecções estéticas e poéticas no artivismo contemporâneo: arte computacional, audiovisual e generativa. Novos Olhares 11(2): 205276. 10.11606/issn.2238-7714.no.2022.205276.
[2023] Alvelos, H.; Barreto, S.; Lima, C.; Penedos-Santiago, E.; Pereira, J. & Veiga, P.A. (2023). Just Between Meme and You: Online Memes as Health Communication Tools in Design and Media Arts Higher Education Curricula. In Proceedings of IAFOR 2023: The Paris Conference on Education, Paris, France. 10.22492/issn.2758-0962.2023.57
[2023] Alvelos, H.; Pereira, J.; Chatterjee, A.; Barreto, S.; Veiga, P.A.; Lima, C. & Penedos-Santiago, E. (2023). When in Memeland, Speak in Memes: Contributions of Design Towards the Betterment of Online Behavior Regarding Public Health. In Advances in Design and Digital Communication IV. Springer. 10.1007/978-3-031-47281-7_39
[2023] Alvelos, H.; Barreto, S.; Pereira, J.; Chatterjee, A.; Veiga, P.A.; Lima, C. & Santiago, E. (2023). When in Memeland, Speak in Memes: contributions of design towards the betterment of online behavior regarding public health. In Proceedings of DIGICOM 2023, 7th International Conference on Design and Digital Communication, Barcelos, Portugal.
[2023] Bidarra, J.; Veiga, P.A.; Sapucaia, R.; Wexel, J.; Tavares, M. & Costa, S. (2023). Desenvolvimento de um modelo pedagógico virtual paras as Artes performativas digitais. RE@D – Revista de Educação a Distância e Elearning 6(1), 1-16. 10.34627/redvol6iss1e202301
[2023] Bidarra, J.; Mapar, M.; Caeiro, S.; Bacelar-Nicolau & P.; Veiga, P.A. (2023). Integrating Sustainability into Art and Design Education: Curriculum Development. In Proceedings of 29th International Conference of the International Sustainable Development Research Society – 2023, Malaysia.
[2023] Bidarra; João Paz; José Cravino & Ana Loureiro (Eds.), 49-63. LE@D, Universidade Aberta.
[2023] Carvalho, I.; Veiga, P.A.; Bidarra, J. (2023). ARTPRENEUR: uma proposta diferenciadora para a introdução ao empreendedorismo no ensino das artes. Aprendendo e Ensinando com Nativos Digitais, 87-95. CNE/Editora Telesapiens.
[2023] Mestre, R.; Veiga, P.A. & Orey, R. (2023). Um passeio sonoro interativo para a promoção de autorreconhecimento. In Proceedings of UbiMus2023 International Symposium on Ubiquitous Music, Derry, Ireland.
[2023] Olivero, L.; Veiga, P.A.; Araújo, A.; Silva, B. & Dourado, P. (Eds.) (2023). Proceedings of ARTECH 2023, the 11th International Conference on Digital and Interactive Arts: Digital Creation Processes. ACM – Digital Library.
[2023] Trigo, C; Veiga, P.A. & Santana, I. (2023). Poetics of Instability: Subversion of Gravity through Digital Performative Art. In Proceedings of ARTECH 2023 – Digital Creation Processes, 11th International Conference on Digital and Interactive Arts, Faro, Portugal.
[2023] Veiga, P.A.; Araújo, A. & Bidarra, J. (Eds.) (2023). Média-Arte Digital. Rotura- Revista de Comunicação, Cultura e Artes, 3(1). Edições CIAC. Faro, Portugal. https://publicacoes.ciac.pt/index.php/rotura/issue/view/31
[2023] Veiga, P.A.; Araújo, A. & Bidarra, J. (2023). Média-Arte Digital: Ampliando Conceitos. Prefácio in Rotura, Revista de Comunicação, Cultura e Artes, 3(1), 8-11. CIAC, Faro, Portugal.
[2023] Veiga, P.A. (2023). Post-fake artivism: how activism and art can break reflexivity. Science, Technology and Society for a Post-Truth Age, Emine Onculer Yayalar & Melike Sahinol (Eds.), 213-240. Vernon Press.
[2023] Veiga, P.A. (2023). Generative Video Art. Creating Digitally – Shifting Boundaries: Arts and Technologies – Contemporary Applications and Concepts, Anthony Brooks (Ed.), 241-266. Springer International Publishing. 10.1007/978-3-031-31360-8_9
[2023] Veiga, P.A. (2023). Comunicação, Arte e Tecnologia em Elearning: A Experiência do Doutoramento em Média-Arte Digital. Passado, Presente e Futuro(s) do eLearning emPortugal: 10 anos do eLIES, Lina Morgado; José
[2023] Veiga, P.A. (2023). Generative Ominous Dataset: Testing the Current Public Perception of Generative Art. In Proceedings of KUI ’23: 20th International Conference on Culture and Computer Science: Code and Materiality, Lisbon, Portugal. 10.1145/3623462.3623475
[2023] Veiga, P.A. (2023). Contemporary Net Art in ‘The Everywhere Museum of Everything’. Proceedings of POR.POL.NET Colloquium, Lisbon, Portugal.
[2023] Veiga, P.A. (2023). The Name of G.O.D.: Generative Ominous Datset. In Proceedings of III Encontro Internacional Lusófono Todas As Artes | Todos Os Nomes, Porto, Portugal.
[2022] Veiga, P.A. (2022). The Everywhere Museum of Everything: The Curatorship Challenge, from Digital Urban Art to NFTs. Art, Museums and Digital Cultures – Rethinking Change, Helena Barranha & Joana Simões Henriques (Eds.), 142-156. Institute of Art History, School of Social Sciences and Humanities, Universidade NOVA de Lisboa, in association with maat – Museum of Art, Architecture and Technology.
[2022] Veiga, P.A. (2022). Patient Zer0: Creating Online Generative Art During the COVID-19 Pandemic. International Journal of Art, Culture, Design, and Technology 11(3), 1-19. 10.4018/IJACDT.314953.
[2022] Alvelos, H.; Barreto, S.; Veiga, P.A. & Pereira, J. (2022). Mediations between scientific knowledge and cognitive bias: employing semantic assets and semiotic tools of communication design in media content circulation. In Proceedings of IV Conferência Internacional Comunicar Ciência, Covilhã, Portugal.
[2022] Travasso, R.; Veiga, P.A. & Gomes, J. (2022). Major Events that Changed the Instrumentalists’ Performance. International Journal of Music Science, Technology and Art 4(1), 50-62. 10.48293/IJMSTA-86.
[2022] Travasso, R.; Veiga, P.A. & Gomes, J. (2022). A Influência da Média-Arte Digital no Instrumentista e na sua Performance – Novos Caminhos Performativos. In Proceedings of ARTeFACTo 2022, 3rd International Conference on Digital Creation in Arts, Media and Technology, Macau, China.
[2022] Veiga, P.A. (2022). Ciberperformance: da transposição à inovação. In Proceedings of VIII Congresso da Associação Portuguesa de Literatura Comparada – Olhares cruzados: representações das epidemias nas artes. Da catástrofe à resiliência, Évora, Portugal.
[2022] Veiga, P.A. (2022). The Cinematic Selfie: Questioning the Self through Generative Art. In Proceedings of Avanca Cinema – International Conference 2022, Avanca, Portugal. https://publication.avanca.org/index.php/avancacinema/article/view/439
[2022] Travasso, R.; Veiga, P.A. & Gomes, J. (2022). New aspects regarding the instrumentalists’ performance. In Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on New Music Concepts, Treviso, Italy.
[2021] Veiga, Pedro Alves da. (2021). Média Arte locativa em realidade aumentada enquanto catalizador de laços comunitários Peri-Urbanos e Inter-Geracionais”. Revista Húmus. V11, nº25: Brasil e Portugal leituras, experimentações, práticas comunitárias e coesão social e territorial. 11 25 (2021):http://www.periodicoseletronicos.ufma.br/index.php/revistahumus/article/view/16535
[2021] Veiga, P.A. (2021). Método e registo: uma proposta de utilização da a/r/cografia e dos diários digitais de bordo para a investigação centrada em criação e prática artística em média-arte digital. Rotura – Revista de Comunicação, Cultura e Artes, 2, pp. 16-24. https://doi.org/10.34623/y2yd-0x57
[2021] Veiga, P.A. (2021). Realidade Pós-Fake: Uma Visão Através da Arte Digital. In Cristian Yáñez Aguilar, Élmano Ricarte e Lawrenberg Advincula (eds.), Cenários Comunicacionais: Novos Diálogos. Porto: Media XXI.
[2021] Veiga, P.A. (2021). The Everywhere Museum of Everything: The Curatorship Challenge, from Digital Urban Art to NFTs. In Helena Barranha and Joana Simões Henriques (eds.), Art, Museums and Digital Cultures → Rethinking Change. Lisboa: IHA, NOVA, FCSH & MAAT. ISBN: 978-989-54405-4-2, https://doi.org/10.34619/hwfg-s9yy
[2021] Veiga, P.A. & Sá, V. (eds.) (2021). International Journal of Creative Interfaces and Computer Graphics 12(1). IGI-Global.
[2021] Veiga, P.A. & Sá, V. (2021). Advances on Digital and Interactive Arts. International Journal of Creative Interfaces and Computer Graphics 12(1), IGI-Global, pp. i-iv.
[2021] Bidarra, J., Alves da Veiga, P., & Carvalho, I. C. (2021). 4AP – Empreendedorismo na indústria cultural e criativa. New DATA magazine, 05-09-2021. ISSN 2184-9463
[2020] Veiga, P. A. (2020). “A/R/COGRAFIA: A CRIATIVIDADE INVESTIGADA NA INVESTIGAÇÃO CRIATIVA”. Investigação-Experimentação-Criação: em Arte-Ciência-Tecnologia, Publicações Universidade Fernando Pessoa. https://bdigital.ufp.pt/handle/10284/8875
[2020] Veiga, P. A. (2020). Curating the Everywhere Museum of Everything. Digital Creativity, 31(3), 171-180. https://doi.org/10.1080/14626268.2020.1782438
[2020] Veiga, P. A. (2020). O Museu de Tudo em Qualquer Parte. Arte e Cultura Digital: inter-ferir e curar. Coleção Humanitas, CIAC.
[2020] Veiga, P. A. (2020). “A/r/cografia – A Criatividade Investigada na Investigação Criativa”. In Investigação-Experimentação-Criação: em Arte-Ciência-Tecnologi, Marques, D.; Gago, A. (Eds.) 51-74. Porto: Publicações Universidade Fernando Pessoa.
[2020] Veiga, P. A. (2020). “Hello, An Interactive Cinematic Generative Artwork”. Paper presented in Eleventh International Conference on Computational Creativity, Coimbra.
[2020] Veiga, P. A. (2020). “Speciesism | Ageism | Racism”. Paper presented in Avanca International Cinema Conference 2020, Avanca.
[2020] Veiga, P. A.; Tavares, M. (2020). “The End of Imperviousness”. Preface to International Journal of Creative Interfaces and Computer Graphics, Special Issue on Advances in Digital Media-Art, edited by Veiga, Pedro Alves; Tavares, Mirian, v-viii. Hershey, PA, United States: IGI-Global. https://www.igi-global.com/journal/international-journal-creative-interfaces-computer/1161.
[2020] Veiga, P. A.; Travasso, R. (2020). “Auschwitz do Pós-Moderno: Ação ou Abstenção?”. Paper presented in ARTeFACTo 2020, International Conference on Digital Creation in Arts and Communication, Faro.
[2019] Arantes, P., Sá, V., Veiga, P.A., Marcos, A.F. (Eds.) (2019). Proceedings of Artech 2019, 9th International Conference on Digital and Interactive Arts, Braga, Portugal. ACM: Nova Iorque, Estados Unidos da América. ISBN: 978-1-4503-7250-3
[2019] Veiga, P.A. (2019). A/r/cography – Art, Research and Communication. In Proceedings of Artech 2019, 9th International Conference on Digital and Interactive Arts, Braga, Portugal. DOI: 10.1145/3359852.3359859
[2019] Marques, A.C & Veiga, P.A. (2019). Digital Artivism and Collaborative Artistic Practices – Introduction in the School Environment as a Citizenship Development Tool. In Proceedings of Artech 2019, 9th International Conference on Digital and Interactive Arts, Braga, Portugal. DOI: 10.1145/3359852.3359863
[2019] Veiga, P.A. (2019). Digital Art in the Age of Blackboxing and Blurring. Arts In Society 2019, Fourteenth International Conference on The Arts in Society, Lisboa, Portugal.
[2019] Veiga, P.A. (2019). Arte Quântica. In INTERACT, Revista Online de Arte, Ciência e Cultura, Centro de Estudos de Comunicação e Linguagens e CIC.Digital, Pólo FCSH, Lisboa, Portugal. Disponível em: http://interact.com.pt/30-31/arte-quantica/
[2019] Veiga, P.A. (2019). Principium: investigação criativa versus criatividade investigada. 1º Seminário Universidade Fernando Pessoa em Investigação Criativa, no cruzamento de Arte(s), Ciência(s) e Tecnologia(s), Porto, Portugal.
[2019] Dias, José Rodrigues; Penha, Rui; Morgado, Leonel; Alves da Veiga, Pedro; Carvalho, Elizabeth Simão; Fernandes-Marcos, Adérito (2019). Tele-Media-Art: Feasibility Tests of Web-Based Dance Education for the Blind Using Kinect and Sound Synthesis of Motion. International Journal of Technology and Human Interaction (IJTHI), 15(2). IGI-GLOBAL, pp. 11-28.
[2018] Veiga, Pedro (2018). You&Me. Artech-Int. Editions: Lisbon. ISBN: 978-989-99370-8-6
[2018] Veiga, Pedro (2018). You&Me (the infinite constellation of our senses). Proceedings of ARTeFACTo 2018, 1st International Conference of Transdisciplinary Studies in Arts, Technology and Society. Universidade Aberta, Lisboa.
[2018] Veiga, Pedro; Araújo, António; Marcos, Adérito (Eds.) (2018). Proceedings of ARTeFACTo 2018, 1st International Conference of Transdisciplinary Studies in Arts, Technology and Society. Artech-Int. Editions: Lisbon. ISBN: 978-989-99370-7-9
[2017] Veiga, Pedro (2017). Blended Reality: An analysis through the recent evolution of digital media art ecosystems. In Con la Red / En la Red: creación, investigación y comunicación cultural y artística en la era Internet, Lidia Bocanegra Barbecho (Medialab UGR), Ana García López (Eds.). Universidade de Granada, Downhill Publishing: New York, pp. 420-442.
[2017] Veiga, Pedro; Tavares, Mirian & Alvelos, Heitor (2017). Ecossistemas na blended-society: a experiência da média-arte digital. In CIBERCULTURA Circum-navegações em redes transculturais de conhecimento, arquivos e pensamento, Helena Pires, Manuel Curado, Fábio Ribeiro, Pedro Andrade (Coords.). Edições Húmus: V. N. Famalicão, pp: 115-132.
[2017] Veiga, Pedro (2017). Alchimia: A Non-Touch Interactive Artwork. International Journal of Creative Interfaces and Computer Graphics (IJCICG), 8(2). IGI-GLOBAL, pp. 13-22.
[2017] Veiga, Pedro (2017). Alchimia: an inexplicable or mysterious transmutation, a seemingly magical process of transformation, creation or combination. Proceedings of ARTECH International Conference 2017. Universidade de São José, Macau, pp. 175-178.
[2017] Veiga, Pedro (2017). From Generative to Performing. Proceedings of xCoAx 2017 International Conference. FBAUL, Lisboa. pp. 193-203.
[2017] Veiga, Pedro; Tavares, Mirian & Alvelos, Heitor (2017). How experience, attention and ubiquity economies affect the role of digital media art and artists. Journal of Spatial and Organizational Dynamics V(3), pp. 222-238.
[2017] Veiga, Pedro (2017). Generative Theatre of Totality. Journal of Science and Technology of the Arts, [S.l.], 9(3), p. 33-43.
[2016] Veiga, Pedro (2016). Bridging the divide: e-society or ecosystem? An analysis through digital-media art. Proceedings of IADIS e-Society Conference 2016, Vilamoura.
[2016] Veiga, Pedro (2016). Principium. ISBN: 978-136-67693-3-6.
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