PEDRO BARBOSA
(Author, Researcher and Professor)

 

 

Born in Porto, Portugal, in 1950. Received his Bachelor’s degree in Letters from the University of Coimbra, and finished his Ph.D. in Communication Sciences (Major: Semiotics) at the Universidade Nova, Lisbon.

Has taught and done research in several national and international universities: Faculty of Letters of the University of Porto, University of Paris X (Nanterre), University of Siena (Italy), University Louis Pasteur (Strasbourg). At the University of Strasbourg developed with Abraham Moles a research project in the area of computer generated art.  He is the founder, at Fernando Pessoa University, of CETIC-Centro de Estudos de Texto Informático e Ciberliteratura (Centre of Cyberliterature Studies).

Former full Professor at the Escola Superior de Música e Artes do Espectáculo (Faculty of Music and Performance Arts-ESMAE/IPP), invited professor at Universidade Fernando Pessoa (Porto), and invited member and consultant of the following Research Centers: Centro de Comunicação e Linguagens (Centre of Communication and Languages Studies, Universidade Nova, Lisbon -CECL); Centro Transdisciplinar de Estudos da Consciência (Centre of Transdisciplinary Conscienceness Studies -CTEC) and Centro de Texto Informático e Ciberliteratura (Centre of Cyberliterature and Informatic Text Studies -CETIC), both at Fernando Pessoa University (Portugal); Núcleo de Pesquisa em Hipermídia (Hypermedia Studies Unit -NUPH) at PUC-Sao Paulo (Brazil); and Centre de Recherches sur les Textes Électroniques Littéraires (Centre of Electronic Literary Texts Studies -CERTEL), at the University of Artois (France).

 

Main books

Essay

·   «Theory of the Modern Theatre: axioms and theorems» (Essay prize of Portuguese Association Writers – 1980)

·   «Metamorphosis of the Real – art, imaginary and aesthetic cognition» (1995)

·   «Cyberliterature – Literary Creation and the Computer» (1996)

·   «Art, Communication and Semiotics» (2002) 

·   «Theory of the Modern Theatre – the zero hour» (2nd edition, augmented - 2003)

 

Theatre

·    «Eróstrato» (theatrical rite - 1984); «Theatrical sacrilege» (rearranged re-edition, 2004)

·    «Anticleia or the Dream Umbrellas» (spoken play) – 1992; «Is there anyone out there?» (re-arranged re-edition, 2004)

·    «SlowMetropolitanOporto» (dramaturgy - 1993)

·    «SlowImaginaryOporto» (2001)

·    «Alletsator-XPTO.Kosmos.2001» (electronic opera - 2001)

 

Fiction

·    «The Loo’s  Caretaker» (1976; 2nd edition, 1978; 3rd edition 1984; 4th edition 2007)

·    «Preface for an Only Character» (1993)

·    «Stories of the Minhó-Minhó Girl» (for children - 1988; 2nd ed. 2009)

  

Cyberliterature

·    «The Cybernetic Literature 1: computer generated autopoems» (1977)

·     «The Cybernetic Literature 2: a fiction  synthesizer» (1980)

·    «Thinking Machines: computer generated aphorisms» (1986)

·    «Theory of the Sitting Man» (virtual book - 1996)

·    «The Textual Machine» (infinite electronic book - 2001)

 

 

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