Pedro Alves da Veiga

Pedro Alves da Veiga is an artist and researcher with a PhD in digital media art from Universidade Aberta and the University of the Algarve. He teaches at Universidade Aberta, where he is Sub-director of the PhD in Digital Media Art. He is the author of a/r/cography, a meta-methodology that approaches creation, research and communication as parts of a single process.

Most of his current works are generative systems he develops himself, addressing present-day issues, from war to inequality, from the notion of homeland to digital hypersurveillance.

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In the background OMMANDALA · 2016–2019 →

What this site presents

This site brings together all of Pedro Alves da Veiga's artistic work, from the electronic pop of Ópera Nova in 1983 to the generative art he develops today, along with the related presentations and publications. Each work has a technical sheet, its presentations, the publications that study it and its relations to other works (versions, variants and derivative works).

Presentations gathers every way the work is communicated, both artistic (exhibitions, festivals, performances) and academic (conferences, talks, seminars and more).

How it is organised

Generative works are organised according to who acts on the system.

No one Generative video art The system runs on its own, in a never-repeating stream. 8 works The audience Interactive works The work responds to whoever stands before it. 8 works A performer Meta-instruments The system is played as an instrument, and audiences experience the result as video art. 1 work

The remaining works are grouped by medium, as visual art, video and music.

For each generative work, the use of generative artificial intelligence is stated, together with where it was used (in the creative process or in the development of the work itself). Among the generative works presented, only SAR used generated images of non-existent people and animals, in its prototype phase (thispersondoesnotexist.com).