Dissemination

Pedro Alves da Veiga is an invited guest in the exhibition “Women in Sport: Pioneering, Challenges, Inspiration, Equality”

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CIAC researcher Pedro Alves da Veiga is an invited guest in the exhibition “Women in Sport: Pioneering, Challenges, Inspiration, Equality” at the Sports Museum, set to be inaugurated in July at Jamor, Lisbon.

Pedro Veiga has developed a piece of generative video art titled “Juxtaposition” for the exhibition. This work by the artist addresses gender inequality in sports. The overlaying of images of men and women photographed in the late 19th century, and the naturalness of their movements and bodies, is reinterpreted through juxtaposed text, highlighting previously hidden—or potentially surreal—characteristics or meanings.

Generative art, the genre to which this work belongs, involves the aesthetic exploration of an autonomous system, programmed and parameterized by its creator, but whose results or combinations are potentially infinite and distinct, generating new images with each execution. In this type of system, chaos and order are combined: the selection, positioning, and colouring of the images are determined by the system with some random parameters, while the text flow is predefined and follows its original construction.

The title of the work plays on the word “juxtaposition”, as the piece relies on the overlapping of complementary semantic layers, thus building a concept of fair positioning on gender (in)equality in sports.

More information (here).

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