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
Um Corvo Nunca Mais Presented at conference or festival, Published on the Web (individual site) 2009
Tópicos cartesianos atípicos Published on the Web (individual site) 2020
Tema procura-se Published on the Web (individual site) 2004
Streamflow conditions Exhibited at gallery or event, Published on the Web (individual site) 2009
Retextualização de "Oceanografias (a memória da água)", de Antero de Alda Published on the Web (individual site) 2016
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
Poemas no Meio do Caminho: Poesia Combinatória Animada por Computador Published on disc, CD, or DVD 2012
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 encontrados Published on the Web (individual site) 2006
Poemário - Editor de poesia combinatória Exhibited at gallery or event, Presented at conference or festival, Published on the Web (individual site) 2008
Poemário - Blog de poesia combinatória Exhibited at gallery or event, Presented at conference or festival, Published on the Web (individual site) 2008
PoemAds - Sob o signo da devoração Published on the Web (individual site) 2011
Mar de Sophia Exhibited at gallery or event, Presented at conference or festival, Published on the Web (individual site) 2004
Lost in Translation Published on the Web (individual site) 2019
Húmus Poema Contínuo Published on the Web (individual site) 2020
Húmus poema contínuo Presented at conference or festival, Published on disc, CD, or DVD, Published on the Web (individual site) 2008
Gerador de Homeóstatos Published on the Web (individual site), Published on the Web (online gallery), Published on the Web (online journal) 2015
Fantasia breve, a palavra-espuma Exhibited at gallery or event, Published on the Web (individual site) 2016
fakephone4a(n)droid Exhibited at gallery or event, Print publication, Published on the Web (individual site) 2019

Works contributed to:

Critical writing by this author:

Titlesort ascending Publication Type Publisher Year
“The Dead Must be Killed Once Again”: Plagiotropia as Critical Literary Practice Article in an online journal Electronic Book Review (ebr) 2012
Visuality and Material Expressiveness in the Portuguese Experimental Poetry Article in a print journal The Journal of Artists' Books 2012
Variability and Intermediality as Challenges to Preservation Issues: Reflections about the Design and Implementation of Digital Archives Conference paper or presentation 2011
Triálogo: Prelúdio dialogante a AlletSator Article in a print journal, Article in an online journal Edições UFP 2008
Textualidades em Mídias Digitais: Estéticas Intermídia e Ciberliteratura - Apresentação dos Organizadores Article in an online journal Texto Digital 2012
Telepoesis.net - Poesia em Rede Article or chapter in a book 2005
Telepoesis.net - Poesia em Rede Article or chapter in a book 2005
Teaching Poetry With New Media Article or chapter in a book Continuum 2010
Sustentabilidade e entropia na geração textual variacional: PoemAds - sob o signo da devoração Article in an online journal Texto Digital 2012
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
Portuguese E-Lit Archive Conference paper or presentation 2011
Poetic Transformations in(to) the Digital Article in an online journal, Conference paper or presentation 2007
Poesia luso-brasileira contemporânea: do verbo ao pixel Article in an online journal Via Letterae 2010
Poesia Experimental e Ciberliteratura: por uma literatura marginal izada? Invited lecture 2013
Poesia em meio digital: algumas observações Article or chapter in a book Edições UFP 2004
PO.EX '70-­80: The Electronic Multimodal Repository Conference paper or presentation 2011
Po-Ex archive and Exhibition Possibilities Conference paper or presentation 2012
p2p: Polish-Portuguese E-Lit Anthology of creative work or online gallery 2015
P(r)o(bl)emas @ telePoesis > Práticas e Processos na Programação de Poesia Keynote address 2017
O Experimentalismo como Invenção, Transgressão e Metamorfose: A PO.EX Revisitada Através de Po-ex.net Article in a print journal Colóquio/Letras 2016

Editorial work:

Titlesort ascending Year Publisher
«Electrònicolírica» de Herberto Helder e Combinatória PO.EX 2015
Witnessing Poetry: Mismidad y Alteridad de la Lectura en Poemas no Meio do Caminho de Rui Torres 2012 Edições UFP
The Interlocutor in Print and Digital Fiction: Dialogicity, Agency, (De-)Conventionalization 2018 MATLIT: Materialities of Literature
Tecnofobia en arácnido: Una genealogía robopoética. 2019 University Fernando Pessoa
Poesia Experimental Portuguesa: Contextos, Ensaios, Entrevistas, Metodologias 2014 University Fernando Pessoa
PO.EX: Essays from Portugal on Cyberliterature and Intermedia 2014 Center for Literary Computing, West Virginia University
O Poema no Caminho do Leitor e o Leitor no Caminho do Poema 2012 Edições UFP
Notas sobre AlletSator: O Retomar da Viagem – Sintetizador Poético, Ciberdrama e Hipermédia 2007 Edições UFP
No meio do caminho tinha uma pedra.... 2012 Edições UFP
Média Digitais: Novos Terrenos para a Expansão da Textualidade 2006 Edições UFP
Justificação Metodológica da Taxonomia do Arquivo Digital da Literatura Experimental Portuguesa
Fobias - Fonias - Fagias. Escritas Experimentais e Eletrónicas Ibero-Afro-Latinoamericanas 2019 Edições UFP
Flash Script Poex: A Recodificação Digital do Poema Experimental 2009 Edições UFP
ELO 2017: Book of Abstracts and Catalogs 2017 Edições UFP
Electronic Literature Collection, Volume Four 2022 Electronic Literature Organization
Cibertextualidades 5 2013 Edições UFP, Cibertextualidades
Cibertextualidades 3 2009 Edições UFP, Cibertextualidades
Cibertextualidades 2 2007 Edições UFP, Cibertextualidades
Cibertextualidades 1 2006 Edições UFP, Cibertextualidades
Barroquismos Digitais 2013 Edições UFP

Editor of Journal:

Events arranged:

Curator of:

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