PEDRO BARBOSA
(Author,
Researcher and Professor)
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B.A. - Philology and Literature
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M.A - Informational Aesthetics
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Ph.D. - Communication Sciences (Semiotics)
Born in Oporto,
Portugal. 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).
· «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)
· «Cyberliterature, Artificial Intelligence and Quantic
Theory» (ebook, 2012)
· «UFO fables and other essays: within the orbit of extraterrestrial issue» (ebook, 2014; 2.nd ed. 2016)
· «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)
· «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)
· «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)
· «In the Name of the
Cosmos 1 - under the sign of Adeni Saba» (chronicle of an alien contact)
· «In the Name of the Cosmos 2 - under the sign
of Thuntsha Ptshba» (chronicle of an alien contact)
· «In the name of the Cosmos 3 - Mirage: star
Antares» (chronicle of an extraterrestrial contact)
· «In the Name of
the Cosmos 4 - within the orbit of waiting issue» (chronicle of an alien
contact)
· «In the name of the Cosmos 5 - Mission:
Portugal» (chronicle of an alien contact)
( Full CV )