Science and Technology of the Arts Collection

Coleção de livros de acesso livre, editada pela UCP Press, tem como objetivo publicar manuscritos que constituem os resultados da investigação académica, artística e prática do Centro. Nestes volumes, exploramos as linhas estratégicas de investigação das nossas duas áreas-foco: Cinema & Artes Visuais e Sound and New Media Art. Assim, a coleção centrar-se-á na criação artística contemporânea numa multiplicidade de meios, tentando dar sentido ao que os artistas e as obras de arte estão a propor no nosso mundo. Volumes já publicados: "Revolution & Cinema" e "[e]motion". 

 

The new sentient and spectrums
Editores: José Alberto Gomes | José Vasco Carvalho | Lorena Ferreira Alves
Autores: Bernardo Bento | Esteban Agosin Otero | Jéssica Pereira Gaspar | José Alberto Gomes | José Vasco Carvalho | Juan Carlos Duarte Regino | Leonor Reis | Lorena Ferreira Alves | Mariana Machado | Ryszard W. Kluszczyński | Zhiqiang Li

Publicado em maio 2026 · 193 páginas · Link para pdf

The book New Sentient and Spectrums emerges from a line of inquiry that weaves together artistic practice and theoretical reflection to examine the shifting nature of the sentient in contemporary conditions. Bringing together perspectives from art, technology, ecology, and posthuman thought, the book reflects on the transformation of the sentient in the posthuman era; an era marked by the increasing convergence of the human, the technological, and the natural. Within this landscape, art is framed as a speculative space that anticipates and experiments with new realities. While positioning art as a site of resistance and a generator of new imaginaries and modes of being, the book also addresses the impact of digital culture and artificial intelligence on contemporary perception and experience, raising critical questions about the commodification of the sentient within technological capitalism. The volume is structured around two main axes. The first, Speculative Practices, offers research and projects that examine experimental artistic practices related to ecology, emerging technologies, and the Anthropocene. Contributions engage with themes such as the interactivity between natural and artificial systems, expanded listening through soundscapes, electromagnetic signals, and vibrations, as well as the development of installations and performances that investigate expanded forms of consciousness and possible futures. Particular emphasis is placed on the articulation between organic matter, environmental processes, and digital media, proposing new forms of multispecies cohabitation. The second axis, Immersive Studies in Sound, Media and Cinema, focuses on theoretical and curatorial analyses that explore image and sound within immersive contexts. Documentary, animation, cinema, and sound art comprise the subjects, with a particular emphasis on audience sensory experience, the construction of acoustic identities, and the relationship between aesthetics and sociopolitical issues.
ISBN: 9789725411995
DOI: https://doi.org/10.34632/9789725411995

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Response(ability)
Editores: Andrada-Cristina Neacșu | Catarina Lopes Cordeiro | Dila Yumurtaci | Marta Gueidão
Autores: Andrada-Cristina Neacșu | Catarina Lopes Cordeiro | Dila Yumurtaci | Filippo Deorsola | Grécia Paola Matos | Isidora Correa Allamand | Işil Eğrikavuk | Laila Algaves Nuñez | Marta Gueidão | Nuno da Luz | Rita Xavier | Shahriar Khonsari

Publicado em abril 2026 · 181 páginas · Link para pdf

Response[ability] brings together contributions from graduate researchers, artists, and thinkers critically examining destruction, not merely as an end, but as a generative space for resistance, co-creation, and reimagining. Expanding on discussions from the 1st Graduate Conference on Science and Technology of the Arts, that took place at School of Arts, at Universidade Católica Portuguesa, the book explores how the concept of "response-ability" serves as an ethical and political form of resistance rooted in sensitivity, collectivity, and relational care. It addresses the impact of accelerating ecological collapse and violent political regimes on collective life, engaging the interconnection between human and nonhuman worlds, and fostering collaborative and participatory processes in arts, science, and heritage. The volume also considers the implications of speculative methodologies, embodied practices, and posthuman imaginaries, questioning how art and research might offer new ways of living, resisting, and imagining futures in the face of material loss. The book opens with an essay by Işıl Eğrikavuk, The Other Garden: Artistic Research, Ecology, and Belonging in the Academy, which explores how artistic research and storytelling can generate affective solidarities and new forms of agency. Enriching the discussion, this volume also contains contributions from Laila Algaves Nuñez, Filippo Deorsola, Nuno Da Luz, Isidora Correa Allamand, Pedro Andrade, Shahriar Khonsari, Rita Xavier, and Grécia Paola Matos.
ISBN: 9789725411988
DOI: https://doi.org/10.34632/9789725411988

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[e]motion
Editores: Ana Gago | João Pedro Amorim | Nádia Moura
Autores: Ana Barroso | Ana Gago | Anna Rebecca Unterholzner | Beatriz Albuquerque | Beny Wagner | Carolina Baptista | Chiara Pussetti | Constança Babo | Daniel Tavares | Doug Bailey | Federica Manfredi | Filipa Sofia C. Carvalho e Cruz | Filippo Deorsola | Frederico Henriques | João Pedro Amorim | Mário Bruno Pastor | Milan Kroulík | Nádia Moura | Rosinda Casais | Sasha Litvintseva

Publicado em novembro 2024 · 184 páginas · Link para PDF.

[e]-motion brings together contributions from diverse fields of the arts exploring the interplay of motion, emotion, and digitalisation in the arts. Expanding on discussions from the 1st Graduate Conference on Science and Technology of the Arts, the book examines how the digital era transforms our relationship with the body, materiality, and perception. It addresses the impact of digitalisation on artistic production and reception, including the evolving role of physicality and materiality, the redefinition of audience engagement in cultural institutions, and the socioeconomic inequalities arising from differential access to technology and cultural participation. The volume also considers the implications of digitalisation for social and artistic activism, questioning how activism can transition from physical to virtual spaces.

The book opens with two essays: Monsters and Measures: Two Approaches to the Essay Film by Sasha Litvintseva and Beny Wagner, which examines how their work challenges the standardising tendencies of science and technology, and Doug Bailey’s Art Archaeological Interactions, which explores creative ways to deconstruct artefacts and archives to uncover sociocultural narratives. Contributions from Constança Babo, Rosinda Casais & Filipa Cruz, Milan Kroulík, Federica Manfredi & Chiara Pussetti, Ana Barroso, Frederico Henriques & Mário Bruno Pastor, Beatriz Albuquerque, Daniel Tavares, Carolina Ferreira Baptista, Filippo Deorsola, and Anna Rebecca Unterholzner enrich the discussion.
ISBN: 9789725410677
DOI: http://https://doi.org/10.34632/9789725410677

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Revolution & Cinema
Editores: Daniel Ribas | Nuno Crespo
Autores: Aldones Silva | Eduardo Prado Cardoso | Isabel Capeloa Gil | João Oliveira Duarte | June Givanni | Matthew Mason | Riccardo Uras | Ros Gray

Publicado em outubro 2024 · 116 páginas · Link para PDF

In this volume we gathered the contributions of various researchers that aim to address the relationship between cinema and revolution. The book opens with a conversation between Ros Gray, specialist in militant filmmaking, particularly in relation to liberation struggles and revolutionary movements in Mozambique, Angola, Guinea-Bissau and Burkina Faso, and June Givanni, film curator, archivist, international consultant around Pan-African cinema and founding director of the June Givanni Pan-African Cinema Archive (JGPACA). This volume also gathers contributions by: Aldones Silva on the work of the Brazilian visual artist Marcela Cantuária; Eduardo Prado Cardoso and his reading of the film Malunguinho directed by Felipe Peres Calheiros; Isabel Capeloa Gil on colonial memories of Portuguese cinema; João Oliveira Duarte and the relationship between present, future and past in Fiona Tan’s work Facing Forward; Matthew Mason and the tension between Marxism and post-modernism via Jean-Luc Godard’s La Chinoise; and Riccardo Uras on the absence of debate on Italy’s colonial past and its myths, through the analysis of Adwa: An African Victory by Haile Gerima, and Blood Is Not Fresh Water by Theo Eshetu.
ISBN: 9789725410172
DOI: https://doi.org/10.34632/9789725410172