research workshops
These workshops focus on a wide range of issues concerning contemporary culture and digital transformation, the need to rethink the relations between nature, culture, and technology, and the task of shaping a responsible cognitive and creative ecology in the age of cybernetics.
MAY – JUNE 2025
Workshop: Art and the Politics of Spectatorship: from digital divide to digital ecology
This workshop proposes to explore some of Claire Bishop’s central writings, covering key topics in her work, such as participatory and social art, intermediality and performativity in contemporary art. By calling upon one of the main lines of her research – the analysis of the cultural, political and technical conditions of perception and attention, we aim to understand the virtualities and disruptions of contemporary aesthetic experience, as well as the possibility of its reparation and, through it, the care of our relation to the world.
Claire Bishop teaches at the Graduate School of the City University of New York (CUNY), and she is one of the most relevant historians and theorists of contemporary art of our time. Her original thinking and body of work are widely acknowledged in academia and art criticism.
Scientific Coordination: Maria Teresa Cruz (ICNOVA – Institute of Communication)
Collaboration: Aida Castro (ICNOVA – Institute of Communication) Alice Sanches (CCNT – Doctoral Student, Contemporary Culture and Technology)
27 and 30 May // 2, 4 and 6 June – 17h30 – 19h30
Applications: digitaltransition@fcsh.unl.pt, by May 26
FEBRUARY – JUNE 2025
Unpacking the Black Boxes: Intelligence, Creativity and Technology
A Speculative Workshop associated with the project “IN & OUT of the Box: Emergent Technologies and Future Skills in the Creative Industries” (FCT 2023.15112.PEX).
14 – 18 JULY 2025
Digital and Inclusive Education Technologies
An Erasmus Blended Intensive Program (Advanced Training, doctoral students – 3 ECTs).
MAY 2024
Cosmotehcnics and Technodiversity.
On the Philosophy of Technology of Yuk Hui
