Rui Torres

Person
Residency: 
Oporto
Portugal
PT
Nationality: 
Portugal
PT
Portugal
PT
Born: 
1973
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Short biography: 

Rui Torres holds a Ph.D. in Luso-Brazilian Literature (UNC -Chapel Hill, USA, 2002), was a Postdoctoral Fellow of the Foundation for Science and Technology (COS - PUC-SP, Brazil, 2005-07), and has Habilitation in Information Sciences - Multimedia Studies (UFP, Porto, 2013).

Professor of Communication Sciences at University Fernando Pessoa (UFP), teaching seminars for undergraduate and postgraduate studies in semiotics, literature and hypermedia. Visiting Professor in M.A. programmes of the NOVA University of Lisbon (Portugal), University of Santiago de Compostela and Granada (Spain), UNAM (Mexico) and University of Tallinn (Estonia). Lecturer in the Erasmus Intensive Program in European Digital Literatures at the University Complutense of Madrid (Spain).

Director of the book series Cibertextualidades (UFP Press) and co-editor of the Electronic Literature Series (Bloomsbury Publishing). Member of several editorial boards and scientific committees of academic Journals and Conferences.

Secretary and Member of the Board of Directors of the ELO-Electronic Literature Organization.

Integrated Member of ICNOVA - NOVA Institute of Communication. Principal Investigator of PO.EX'70-80: Digital Archive of Portuguese Experimental Literature (2010-13); and PO.EX CD-ROM: Portuguese Experimental Poetry, Books and Catalogs (2005-08).

Works by this author:

Work title Publication Type Year
Húmus poema contínuo Presented at conference or festival, Published on disc, CD, or DVD, Published on the Web (individual site) 2008
Húmus Poema Contínuo Published on the Web (individual site) 2020
Lost in Translation Published on the Web (individual site) 2019
Mar de Sophia Exhibited at gallery or event, Presented at conference or festival, Published on the Web (individual site) 2004
PoemAds - Sob o signo da devoração Published on the Web (individual site) 2011
Poemário - Blog de poesia combinatória Exhibited at gallery or event, Presented at conference or festival, Published on the Web (individual site) 2008
Poemário - Editor de poesia combinatória Exhibited at gallery or event, Presented at conference or festival, Published on the Web (individual site) 2008
Poemas encontrados Published on the Web (individual site) 2006
Poemas no meio do caminho Published on the Web (individual site) 2020
Poemas no meio do caminho Published on disc, CD, or DVD, Published on the Web (individual site), Published on the Web (online journal) 2008
Poemas no Meio do Caminho: Poesia Combinatória Animada por Computador Published on disc, CD, or DVD 2012
Releituras de obras de Abílio-José Santos: 'era uma vez uma gata' e 'interrogações' Exhibited at gallery or event, Installation, Published on the Web (individual site) 2019
Retextualização de "Oceanografias (a memória da água)", de Antero de Alda Published on the Web (individual site) 2016
Streamflow conditions Exhibited at gallery or event, Published on the Web (individual site) 2009
Tema procura-se Published on the Web (individual site) 2004
Tópicos cartesianos atípicos Published on the Web (individual site) 2020
Um Corvo Nunca Mais Presented at conference or festival, Published on the Web (individual site) 2009

Critical writing by this author:

Titlesort descending Publication Type Publisher Year
Foreword: Literature and Media Article in a print journal Romance Notes 2011
Humor & Constraint in Electronic Literature Conference paper or presentation 2018
Introduction of a Post-Digital: Dialogues and Debates from electronic book review. Volume 2 Book (collection) Bloomsbury Academic 2019
Justificação Metodológica da Taxonomia do Arquivo Digital da Literatura Experimental Portuguesa Article or chapter in a book
Ler Clarice Lispector, re-escrevendo Amor Article or chapter in a book Edições UFP 2004
Literatura experimental, educació i eines interactives multimèdia Article or chapter in a book Universitat de Barcelona 2010
O Experimentalismo como Invenção, Transgressão e Metamorfose: A PO.EX Revisitada Através de Po-ex.net Article in a print journal Colóquio/Letras 2016
P(r)o(bl)emas @ telePoesis > Práticas e Processos na Programação de Poesia Keynote address 2017
p2p: Polish-Portuguese E-Lit Anthology of creative work or online gallery 2015
Po-Ex archive and Exhibition Possibilities Conference paper or presentation 2012
PO.EX '70-­80: The Electronic Multimodal Repository Conference paper or presentation 2011
Poesia em meio digital: algumas observações Article or chapter in a book Edições UFP 2004
Poesia Experimental e Ciberliteratura: por uma literatura marginal izada? Invited lecture 2013
Poesia luso-brasileira contemporânea: do verbo ao pixel Article in an online journal Via Letterae 2010
Poetic Transformations in(to) the Digital Article in an online journal, Conference paper or presentation 2007
Portuguese E-Lit Archive Conference paper or presentation 2011
Preservación y diseminación de la literatura electrónica: por un archivo digital de literatura experimental Article in a print journal Arizona Journal of Hispanic Cultural Studies 2010
Sustentabilidade e entropia na geração textual variacional: PoemAds - sob o signo da devoração Article in an online journal Texto Digital 2012
Teaching Poetry With New Media Article or chapter in a book Continuum 2010
Telepoesis.net - Poesia em Rede Article or chapter in a book 2005

Curator of:

Titlesort descending City Country Date
Erasmus Intensive Program "European Digital Literatures" Madrid Spain June 25, 2012 to July 13, 2012
re:A-JS (deve ler-se reage-se) Oporto Portugal July 4, 2019 to September 8, 2019
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