Pedro Andrade

Professor, Researcher, Transmedia artist

Faculty of Fine Arts at Lisbon; Centro de Estudos de Comunicação e Linguagens, Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas da Universidade Nova de Lisboa

Sociología

CiberCultura

Pedro Andrade's areas of scientific activity are Sociology of Urban Culture/Arts and Comunication/Information Technologies.

He has a Doctorat de 3ème cycle at École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris, supervised by Marc Ferro, and a Phd in Sociology of Culture at Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas (FCSH"UNL) Lisbon, with the maximum grade ('Muito Bom com Distinção e Louvor por unanimidade').

Pedro teaches at Faculty of Fine Arts at Lisbon.

From 2000 to 2005, he was co-ordinator of project 'Scientific Technological Literacy and Public Opinion: the case of Science Museums', with financial support from Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia-FCT, and classification 'Excellent' by an international referee.

Andrade is now Co-ordinator of project 'Public Communication of Art: the case of global/local art museums', funded as well by FCT, at CECL,FCSH"UNL.

He prepares 2 more projets at Centro de Administração e Políticas Públicas - Instituto de Ciências Sociais e Políticas (UNL), with constituted webs of researchers from several countries in Europe and North-South America.

Pedro published several books, review papers and other publications (112);

Has participated in conferences, interviews and posters (28);

Organization of scientific congresses and cultural events (16);

Works and events in the internet and in transmedia(26):

* e.g. the first web site in Portugal with an explicit cultural project ('Atalaia', at PUUG, UNL,1995);

* 'Hybrilog', 2005-6: this is an hybrid blog, constituted by the following 6 different genres of blogs: a classical text blog; a less classical video blog or, in short, a vlog; and these somewhat alternative blogs: video poetry blog or pvilog; hypermedia blog or hypblog; digital arts blog ot artblog; and a game blog or gamelog.

* Transmedia (digital art paintings and performances, etc. since 1985),

* Audio-visual arts, cinema:
Film Saboté Spatial nº 1', 1975,
'Body Cinema',1976, etc.) both shown at Centre Pompidou-Paris, Instutute of Contemporary Arts-London, etc.

The total of these cultural interventions sums 182.