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Miguel Carvalhais @carvalhais.org · 01/08/2026

New essay out, "As peças que não se encontram" (the pieces that can't be found), commissioned by Óscar Silva and André Barata for the book “As Peças Que — Ensaios Sobre”, part of a project inspired on Henri Lefebvre's book. The book is published by www.terceirapessoa.pt

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Miguel Carvalhais @carvalhais.org · 23/07/2026

We have a new piece out, commissioned by Fernando José Pereira and published by Umbigo, “AZL2 (Several Species of)”. This is part of an ongoing series of performances and (audio and video) compositions created with @visiophone.bsky.social . umbigo.space/post-digital... @ptudela.bsky.social

Screenshot from https://umbigo.space//post-digital/soundscape__c-ebj9rt-6a60b32703b4190eba8bd8f1 with the header SOUNDSCAPE | @C, Essay by @c and a photo of Pedro Tudela and Miguel Carvalhais sitting on a stage with backlight

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Miguel Carvalhais @carvalhais.org · 21/06/2026

Last Friday I was invited to talk at the Breaking the Code conference in Porto. My talk, “Searching the Unpredictable, Coding the Break: Art, Computation, the Rift” was illustrated with some works from recent years such as these videos with @visiophone.bsky.social (whom I also thank for the photos).

Miguel Carvalhais talking on a conference in front of an LCD screen displaying a video of a live performance with Pedro Tudela and Rodrigo Carvalho

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Miguel Carvalhais @carvalhais.org · 13/04/2026

This Friday I'll speak in Santiago de Compostela at the arteciencIA symposium. The event will be streamed, and will feature a number of really interesting speakers. Check out the programme at arteciencia.org

Promo card for the arteciencIA symposium, the text reads: arteciencia.org, Do 16 ao 21 de abril Santiago de Compostela

Promo card for the streaming of the symposium with a QR code for the streaming

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Miguel Carvalhais @carvalhais.org · 13/04/2026

We had a great time performing at Sónar Istambul this weekend. Great crowd and a gigantic screen, fantastic experience! @ptudela.bsky.social @visiophone.bsky.social

Miguel Carvalhais, Pedro Tudela and Rodrigo Carvalho performing

View of the performance with a giant screen behind the table with the three performers

Miguel Carvalhais and Pedro Tudela on stage

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Miguel Carvalhais @carvalhais.org · 15/02/2026

The special issue of the Journal of Digital Media & Interaction, dedicated to friction in games and computational media, that I guest edited with @ordeposodrac.bsky.social is now published and available in open access at proa.ua.pt/index.php/jd...

Cover for issue 20 of the Journal of Digital Media & Interaction, with an abstract composition of modular geometric elements

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Miguel Carvalhais @carvalhais.org · 14/11/2025

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

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Miguel Carvalhais @carvalhais.org · 23/10/2025

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.

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Miguel Carvalhais @carvalhais.org · 25/07/2025

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.

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Miguel Carvalhais @carvalhais.org · 24/07/2025

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.

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Miguel Carvalhais @carvalhais.org · 23/07/2025

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.

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Miguel Carvalhais @carvalhais.org · 18/07/2025

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

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Miguel Carvalhais @carvalhais.org · 11/07/2025

“My dinner date with Tetsuo Kogawa in Akihabara, Tokyo, May 17, 2025” Shu Lea Cheang keynote @xcoax.org 2025

New media art. Slide from Shu Lea Cheang’s keynote

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Miguel Carvalhais @carvalhais.org · 10/07/2025

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

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Miguel Carvalhais @carvalhais.org · 10/07/2025

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

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Miguel Carvalhais @carvalhais.org · 10/07/2025

Tyler Grimes presenting on Co-creation with the More-than-less-than-human at @xcoax.org 2025

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Miguel Carvalhais @carvalhais.org · 10/07/2025

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”

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Miguel Carvalhais @carvalhais.org · 10/07/2025

Datamorphism with Moritz Huson and Lena Gieseke at @xcoax.org

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)

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Miguel Carvalhais @carvalhais.org · 24/06/2025

Two new installations + a new setup of a 2022 work, “VVV” at-c.org/installation... @ptudela.bsky.social

Specular Field (Echo(Echo)) + work draft

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Miguel Carvalhais @carvalhais.org · 24/06/2025

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

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Miguel Carvalhais @carvalhais.org · 20/06/2025

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

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Miguel Carvalhais @carvalhais.org · 12/06/2025

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.

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Miguel Carvalhais @carvalhais.org · 02/06/2025

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

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Miguel Carvalhais @carvalhais.org · 30/05/2025

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

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Miguel Carvalhais @carvalhais.org · 20/05/2025

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

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Miguel Carvalhais @carvalhais.org · 08/05/2025

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

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Miguel Carvalhais @carvalhais.org · 03/05/2025

“They have escaped the weight of darkness.” with @machineagency.bsky.social, opens today @ Calcular na Areia 3.

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Miguel Carvalhais @carvalhais.org · 02/05/2025

“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

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Miguel Carvalhais @carvalhais.org · 11/04/2025

Coming soon, the first release in a series originating from our collaboration with @visiophone.bsky.social, the 30×N performance. One track + one video + one remix, to be released on May 6. Stay tuned! www.cronicaelectronica.org/235/ @ptudela.bsky.social @cronicaelectronica.org

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Miguel Carvalhais @carvalhais.org · 02/04/2025

Tomorrow evening we will perform 30×N, at Salão Central Eborense, in the Multimodus Conference. Me and @ptudela.bsky.social on computers and sound, @visiophone.bsky.social on computer, lights, and visuals. multimodus.ipportalegre.pt

Photo of the 30×N performance at gnration, photo by Hugo Sousa

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Miguel Carvalhais @carvalhais.org · 31/03/2025

This week I'll have the honour of presenting a keynote address at Multimodus conference in Évora. “From Analogue to Metaphor: Art in the computational turn” will look into how computational technologies are reshaping our relationships with ourselves, our media, and art. multimodus.ipportalegre.pt

Title slide from the presentation, reading "From Analogue to Metaphor"

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Miguel Carvalhais @carvalhais.org · 25/03/2025

This Saturday I’ll speak at Brotéria, in Lisbon, in the wonderful company of Erik Bordeleau, João Sarmento, Salomé Lopes Coelho, and Sonia D'Alto, in an event organised by Sara Castelo Branco. Come around to talk magic and technology. @derivativ.bsky.social @salomecoelho.bsky.social

Announcement of the conference at Brotéria, Lisbon, this Saturday, starting at 16h30.

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Miguel Carvalhais @carvalhais.org · 13/03/2025

Reminder: updating MacOS turns Apple Intelligence on, even when it was previously off. Thanks, but no thanks.

Screenshot of the settings in MacOS showing the button for Apple Intelligence in the off state

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Miguel Carvalhais @carvalhais.org · 08/03/2025

This evening, we'll be in a fantastic set of performances at Sonoscopia: Corey Fogel, Made of Bones, and a trio with Philippe Petit, @ptudela.bsky.social, and myself. Starts at 18h30 and there's dinner too!

Announcement for the performances tonight at Sonoscopia.

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Miguel Carvalhais @carvalhais.org · 06/03/2025

New call for articles out: special issue of the Journal of Digital Media & Interaction on Friction in Games and Computational Media, guest edited by @ordeposodrac.bsky.social, @miguelsicart.bsky.social, and myself. Submissions are open until May 31st at proa.ua.pt/index.php/jd...

Announcement for the special call, using a screenshot from the game Stanley Parable

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Miguel Carvalhais @carvalhais.org · 05/03/2025

We get enmeshed in the networks of perception and subjectification and become part of an ongoing agency-ing, an act of becoming — exhibition; subject; questioner; strange loop; art. @machineagency.bsky.social

Photo of Pierre Huyghe’s piece “Liminal”, presented at Pinault Collection, Palazzo Grassi, Punta della Dogana, Venice.

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Miguel Carvalhais @carvalhais.org · 05/03/2025

When we walk through Liminal, when we inevitably interact with creatures, we play a role in its construction. We witness Liminal seeing itself, and seeing us as part of it. @machineagency.bsky.social

Photo of Pierre Huyghe's work “Offspring” (2018) at Pinault Collection, Palazzo Grassi, Punta della Dogana, Venice.

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Miguel Carvalhais @carvalhais.org · 05/03/2025

JSTA published our review of Pierre Huyghe’s exhibition Liminal in Venice, “Art (for) After the End of (Our) World”. A text in five parts: Other-than-human; Subjectivity; Vigilance; Ongoing-ness; World. doi.org/10.34632/jst... @machineagency.bsky.social

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Miguel Carvalhais @carvalhais.org · 05/03/2025

If tomorrow you're near Lisboa or Parede, we will be performing with Philippe Petit and Carlos Santos at SMUP in a shared bill with Alëna Koleso. Starting at 21h! @ptudela.bsky.social @narizentupido.bsky.social

Poster announcing the performance at SMUP by @c, Carlos Santos, and Philippe Petit, on March 6th at 21h

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Miguel Carvalhais @carvalhais.org · 08/02/2025

Happy to have a track with @ptudela.bsky.social in the new issue of this wonderful series curated by Philippe Petit. “Acoustronique VII” is now available to stream or download from modular-station.com/modulisme/se...

Cover image for Acoustronique VII, featuring an abstract composition

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Miguel Carvalhais @carvalhais.org · 03/01/2025

Saturday 11th we'll be performing 30xN at gnration in Braga. If you're nearby, this is a chance to catch this performance in a great room with a fantastic sound system. More information at www.gnration.pt/event/2025/c... @ptudela.bsky.social @visiophone.bsky.social

Screenshot of gnration's website announcing our performance

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Miguel Carvalhais @carvalhais.org · 11/11/2024

This Thursday we'll present our new stage performance, “30xn” in Aveiro, alongside Kate Carr. It starts at 21h30, and the entrance is free, so if you're around, please come by! www.teatroaveirense.pt/pt/evento/fr... @ptudela.bsky.social @visiophone.bsky.social

Me, Pedro, and Rodrigo on stage, with lights and visuals, performing “30xn”

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Miguel Carvalhais @carvalhais.org · 29/05/2024

Just arrived from the printer: a book I edited with Luísa Ribas for a project with Museu Zer0, featuring a bunch of great texts on digital art, academia, and museums (in Portuguese)… printed copies will be available from i2ADS and Museu Zer0, open access at doi.org/10.34626/202...

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Miguel Carvalhais @carvalhais.org · 23/02/2024

New paper out today (in Portuguese) on Interact, “…, magia, ritual, techné, subjetividade.”, about the magic layer of computation in our world. revistainteract.pt/39-40/magia-...

Screenshot of the article in the interact website

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Miguel Carvalhais @carvalhais.org · 17/01/2024

Flattered that Neural reviews Art and Computation as “essential reading” in its latest issue :) neural.it/issues/neura...

Detail from page 36 of Neural 73, with the review of Art and Computation

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