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 ascending Publication Type Publisher Year
Kinetic Poetry Bloomsbury 2020
Finding No Object: A Traversal through Processes in Digital Poetry Conference paper or presentation 2014
ELMCIP Electronic Literature Knowledge Base in Review Conference panel or roundtable 2018
Electronic Literature and Online Literary Databases: The PO.EX and ELMCIP Cases Article in a print journal riss 2014
E-CyberDigital Poetry: To Grasp or to Build a Genre Identity through a Term’s Choice? Notes and Drafts 2014
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
Documenting Events and Works in the ELMCIP Electronic Literature Knowledge Base Conference paper or presentation 2015
Digital Poetry and Meta-Discourse: A Network of Self-References? Conference paper or presentation 2015
Digital Poetry and Critical Discourse: A Network of Self-References? Article in an online journal MATLIT: Materialities of Literature 2016
CELL Project Meeting Conference panel or roundtable 2018
Arte Digital: Pixel, Algoritmo, Código, Programação e Dados Article in an online journal idearte 2011
Anti-Spam: Reinventing Data Article in an online journal Parsons Journal for Information Mapping 2012
Action session day 1 Conference panel or roundtable 2016
A Literatura Factorial [l!] Article in an online journal Edições UFP 2013
A Hiperperiferia do Ponto: Para uma Defesa da Raposa Article in a print journal, Article in an online journal Punkto 2010
A Beam of Light: Reading the Portuguese Electronic Literature Collection Conference paper or presentation 2014
'Roda Lume' by E. M. de Melo e Castro Review 2015
'Máquinas Pensantes' by Pedro Barbosa Review 2015
'Electrònicolírica' by Herberto Helder and PO.EX Combinatorics Article (other medium) 2015
'Computer Poetry' by Silvestre Pestana Review 2015

Curator of:

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