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Miguel Carvalhais
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Design, music, art + computation. Professor at fba.up.pt; also running @cronicaelectronica.org, http://at-c.org and @xCoAx.org. Author of Art and Computation (V2_) and Artificial Aesthetics (U.Porto). carvalhais.org
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Tonight we perform at Space Festival in Caminha. Our new release, “30×N — LRJ1”, with a video and two remixes by Joana de Sá and Jos Smolders is available at www.youtube.com/watch?v=JXds... and www.cronicaelectronica.org/242/ @visiophone.bsky.social @ptudela.bsky.social @cronicaelectronica.org
November 14, 2025 at 10:37 AM
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Our piece VVV (Zero) is currently showing at Museu Zer0, in Tavira at-c.org/installation... @ptudela.bsky.social
View of the installation VVV (Zero). The piece is comprised of four loudspeakers, amplifiers, software, media player, sound and electrical cables, steel cables, steel structure, LED lamps, glasses, mirrors. All is presented in a white gallery.
October 23, 2025 at 9:27 PM
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Views of “Specular Field (Echo(Echo))”, one of the installations on show until August 31st in the exhibition “Three Fields” at Convento São Francisco, Coimbra. Created with @ptudela.bsky.social
Close up of a large format screen with a circle of light projected in it. View of the room of the installation “Specular Field (Echo(Echo))”. The room has white walls and a wood ceiling. We see a large-format screen hanging in the centre of the room with a circle of light projected in it. We can also see three loudspeakers, mounted in stands, distributed in the room.
July 25, 2025 at 9:37 AM
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View of “Relational Field (8/8)”, one of the installations on show until August 31st in the exhibition “Three Fields” at Convento São Francisco, Coimbra. Created with @ptudela.bsky.social
View of the installation. Several tables in a very long room with wooden ceiling. Each table has a mirror on its top that reflects the ceiling. Each table also has a loudspeaker pointing up and a LED tube light.
July 24, 2025 at 10:32 AM
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Another detail of the piece. @ptudela.bsky.social
Detail of the view of the installation, showing the larger hanging speaker and its shadow projected on the back wall.
July 23, 2025 at 9:45 PM
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View of “Immanent Field (VVV)”, one of the installations on show until August 31st in the exhibition “Three Fields” at Convento São Francisco, Coimbra. Created with @ptudela.bsky.social
View of the installation “Immanent Field (VVV)”. In the photo we can see a loudspeaker set on a plinth in the foreground, behind it a two-and-a-half-metre high piramidal metallic structure from where another loudspeaker hangs and, in the background, a three-metre tripod with a spotlight.
July 23, 2025 at 9:41 PM
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Our exhibition “Três Campos” opens tonight at Convento São Francisco in Coimbra, as part of the Dar a Ouvir program of 2025. We are presenting three sound installations and also performing after the opening. Starts at 21h30 and all are welcome! @ptudela.bsky.social @visiophone.bsky.social
View of one of the installations in the show, with tables, loudspeakers, and LED lamps
July 18, 2025 at 8:34 AM
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“My dinner date with Tetsuo Kogawa in Akihabara, Tokyo, May 17, 2025” Shu Lea Cheang keynote @xcoax.org 2025
Shu Lea Cheang starting her keynote New media art. Slide from Shu Lea Cheang’s keynote
July 11, 2025 at 4:12 PM
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Very inspiring keynote by Rebecca Fiebrink at @xcoax.org 2025, “Thinking Differently About ‘Data’ in Creative and Interactive Machine Learning” @rebeccafiebrink.bsky.social
Rebecca Fiebrink presenting her keynote at xCoAx 2025 Rebecca Fiebrink presenting her keynote at xCoAx 2025
July 10, 2025 at 4:30 PM
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Rosemary Lee @machineagency.bsky.social presenting at @xcoax.org 2025, “A Structural Plan for Imitation”
Rosemary Lee presenting, slide presents the title of her piece “A Structural Plan for Imitation” Rosemary Lee presents accompanied by herself in a video
July 10, 2025 at 1:10 PM
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Tyler Grimes presenting on Co-creation with the More-than-less-than-human at @xcoax.org 2025
Tyler Grimes presenting on Co-creation with the More-than-less-than-human
July 10, 2025 at 9:40 AM
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Matthew Blanco on Exploring Code Through Visualisation at @xcoax.org Dundee
Matthew Blanco starting his presentation at V&A Dundee. Screen reads “Providing Form to Function: Exploring Code Through Visualisation”
July 10, 2025 at 9:25 AM
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Datamorphism with Moritz Huson and Lena Gieseke at @xcoax.org
Moritz Huson presenting at xCoAx 2025 Datamorphism describes how data properties and our understanding of data shape the form and reception of a data artwork and the other-than-human phenomena represented in it. (Text on one of the presentation’s slides)
July 10, 2025 at 9:12 AM
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Two new installations + a new setup of a 2022 work, “VVV” at-c.org/installation... @ptudela.bsky.social
Relational Field (8/8) + work draft Specular Field (Echo(Echo)) + work draft Immanent Field (VVV) + work draft
June 24, 2025 at 12:06 PM
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Save the date: July 18, 21h. Opening of the exhibition “Três Campos” (Three Fields), by Pedro Tudela and Miguel Carvalhais at Convento São Francisco, Coimbra, in the Dar a Ouvir 2025 programme. Three installations and an opening performance with @visiophone.bsky.social
Save the date: 18 July 21h. Convento São Francisco Coimbra Pedro Tudela, Miguel Carvalhais: Três Campos Dar a Ouvir 2025, 18 July to 31 August 2025
June 24, 2025 at 12:01 PM
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Happy to announce “Arte, Digital, Academia, Museu Zer0. Vol 2”, edited by Luísa Ribas and myself, and published by Museu Zer0 and i2ADS. Limited print copies are available and there's an open access version at i2ads.up.pt/publicacoes/...
Photo of the book standing on a wooden desk, showing its cover with title and list of participants
June 20, 2025 at 8:40 AM
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If you're in Porto on the 26th, come join us at the first symposium of the Computation, Hybrid Practices & Culture program at i2ADS. Our guest keynote will be Alessandro Ludovico @neural-mag.bsky.social Everyone is welcome!
Ad for the Computation, Hybrid Practices & Culture symposium. Keynote by Alessandro Ludovico — Tactical Publishing: Using Senses, Software, and Archives in the Twenty-First Century. Thursday June 26, 13h45 to 18h at Auditório Carlos Ramos, FBAUP, Porto.
June 12, 2025 at 1:57 PM
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This Friday we’ll be in Bergen, speaking in the “Ears to the Ground” seminar at KMD and performing at BEK. Excited to meet all the participants in this wonderful line-up organised by Budhaditya Chattopadhyay! kmd.uib.no/en/Calendar/... bek.no/en/ears-to-t... @ptudela.bsky.social
Poster of the Ears to the Ground seminar and performances
June 2, 2025 at 10:56 AM
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This Sunday at 15h we will be performing at the Serralves Museum. Free entrance and a wonderful programme all weekend long! www.serralvesemfesta.com/evento/25_m3... @ptudela.bsky.social @visiophone.bsky.social
Photo from the programme, announcing the Sunday performance Cover of the printed programme to Serralves em Festa
May 30, 2025 at 9:43 PM
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This special issue will be guest edited by me, @miguelsicart.bsky.social and @ordeposodrac.bsky.social
Another announcement image for the extension of the call
May 20, 2025 at 8:33 AM
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The call for an issue of JDMI on “Friction in Games and Computational Media” was extended until the end of June. If you're working on play and games studies, interaction, computational media, ludic design, etc. we'd love to receive your paper! proa.ua.pt/index.php/jd...
Announcement image for the extension of the submission deadline
May 20, 2025 at 8:33 AM
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Next week I’ll be talking in a seminar at Paris 8 on Creative Digitality with talks by Giuseppe Torre, Florent Di Bartolo, Arthur Kuhn, @nolauren.bsky.social, @taylor-arnold.bsky.social, and Warren Sack. paragraphe.univ-paris8.fr/+Seminaire-1... @ereyes.bsky.social
Poster announcing the event Creative Digitality: Practices and Approaches in Arts, Design, and Humanities at Paris 8
May 8, 2025 at 9:12 AM
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“They have escaped the weight of darkness.” with Rosemary Lee, at Calcular na Areia 3.
May 3, 2025 at 4:58 PM
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“They have escaped the weight of darkness.” with @machineagency.bsky.social, opens today @ Calcular na Areia 3.
Photo of the installation
May 3, 2025 at 3:03 PM
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“They have escaped the weight of darkness” with @machineagency.bsky.social Opens tomorrow at Calcular na Areia 3 in Santarém.
Grid of thumbnails of various photos of the installation “They have escaped the weight of darkness”, some of them featuring Rosemary Lee
May 2, 2025 at 5:26 PM