Álvaro Seiça

Álvaro Seiça. Image credits: Eva Østensen (modified by Álvaro Seiça)
Short biography: 

Álvaro Seiça is a Portuguese writer and researcher based in Bergen, Norway. He is a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellow at UiB, UCLA and UC, where he investigates the poetics and politics of erasure within the EU-funded project “The Art of Deleting.” Seiça holds a PhD in Digital Culture from the University of Bergen, with the thesis “setInterval(): Time-Based Readings of Kinetic Poetry” (2017). His publications include the poetry books Supressão (2019), upoesia (2019), Previsão para 365 poemas (2018), Ensinando o espaço (2017), Ö (2014), and Permafrost (2012), and the scholarly book Transdução (2017).

Critical writing by this author:

Titlesort descending Publication Type Publisher Year
'Algorritmos: Infopoemas' by E. M. de Melo e Castro Review 2015
'Computer Poetry' by Silvestre Pestana Review 2015
'Electrònicolírica' by Herberto Helder and PO.EX Combinatorics Article (other medium) 2015
'Máquinas Pensantes' by Pedro Barbosa Review 2015
'Roda Lume' by E. M. de Melo e Castro Review 2015
A Beam of Light: Reading the Portuguese Electronic Literature Collection Conference paper or presentation 2014
A Hiperperiferia do Ponto: Para uma Defesa da Raposa Article in a print journal, Article in an online journal Punkto 2010
A Literatura Factorial [l!] Article in an online journal Edições UFP 2013
Action session day 1 Conference panel or roundtable 2016
Anti-Spam: Reinventing Data Article in an online journal Parsons Journal for Information Mapping 2012
Arte Digital: Pixel, Algoritmo, Código, Programação e Dados Article in an online journal idearte 2011
CELL Project Meeting Conference panel or roundtable 2018
Digital Poetry and Critical Discourse: A Network of Self-References? Article in an online journal MATLIT: Materialities of Literature 2016
Digital Poetry and Meta-Discourse: A Network of Self-References? Conference paper or presentation 2015
Documenting Events and Works in the ELMCIP Electronic Literature Knowledge Base Conference paper or presentation 2015
E-Borges: Stuart Moulthrop’s Victory Garden Article in a print journal, Article in an online journal Op. Cit.: Revista de Estudos Anglo-Americanos/A Journal of Anglo-American Studies 2012
E-CyberDigital Poetry: To Grasp or to Build a Genre Identity through a Term’s Choice? Notes and Drafts 2014
Electronic Literature and Online Literary Databases: The PO.EX and ELMCIP Cases Article in a print journal riss 2014
ELMCIP Electronic Literature Knowledge Base in Review Conference panel or roundtable 2018
Finding No Object: A Traversal through Processes in Digital Poetry Conference paper or presentation 2014

Editorial work:

Curator of:

Titlesort descending City Country Date
Affiliations - Remix and Intervene: Computing Sound and Visual Poetry Porto Portugal July 19, 2017 to July 22, 2017
Decentering: Global Electronic Literature Bergen Norway August 6, 2015 to August 23, 2015
p2p: Polish-Portuguese E-Lit Bergen Norway August 6, 2015 to August 23, 2015
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Álvaro Seiça
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