Pedro Vidal Diaz
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I’m academic researcher and audiovisual producer working in social projects with art and technology in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. In my academic and professional trajectory, I have always been interested in working with social development projects together with the research and preparation of multimedia materials for education philosophy, documentation and dissemination. My studies have developed since the Faculty of International Relations where my monograph was on "Environmental Public Policies" until the recent researches in the masters in Information Science on projects of social technology and communication in the information age and in the doctorate program on the same area in the school of communication and art (ECA) in USP. During my stay in Paraguay in 2007, I was involved in the government project of Truth and Justice Commission, helping to collect reports of victims of the dictatorship. Working at the NGO Viva Rio, I helped draft and transcribe international articles on democra
EDUCATION
PhD from USP at the School of Communication and Art in the Information Science department
ECA/PPGCI, guidance by Giulia Crippa. (Qualified in 2020, graduated in May 2022)
- Visiting researcher scholarship at the University of Bologna, Italy, in the Department of Cultural Goods with guidance from Professor Vicenzo Matera, April-September 2021.
Master's in Social Communication, sub-area: Information Science – IBICT-RJ (2015-2017) Line of research: Sociocultural, Political and Economic Configurations of Information.
EAV – Parque Lage Audiovisual School (2013 -2014) – Foundation Course in Contemporary Art.
Postgraduate in Planning and management: socio-environmental policies, programs and projects - PUC-RJ (2012).
Graduated from the Pontifical Catholic University – PUC- RJ (2007 - 2011).
Qualification: International Relations - emphasis on public policies and transnational cultures.
RESEARCH, TEACHING, or OTHER INTERESTS
Arts and Humanities, Multidisciplinary, General Arts and Humanities, History
FUTURE PROJECTS
Project Title: Mangrove Spectres: a Manguebeat perspective on Lusophone Anthropocene Researcher: Pedro Vidal Diaz Professor Advisor: Robert Stock Modality: Postdoctoral Researchers International Mobi
This research aims to conduct a documentary analysis centered on the production within post-colonial regions adjacent to tropical mangroves in Lusophone territories. It explores the Manguebeat movement as a critical contribution to understanding the Anthropocene. Employing audiovisual archives, reminiscent of Derrida's specters, this study encompasses fieldwork conducted in Portugal. It involves interviews and works by immigrant artists and researchers from Mozambique and Brazil, seeking to explore how Manguebeat practices can enrich contemporary critiques within local and global assemblage dynamics. Amidst the backdrop of a historical trend of modern extractivism, this study engages with Anthropocene studies that critique the monocultural legacy of a 'plantatiocene'. It contrasts these perspectives with the potential offered by narratives and fictions in the creation of world-making processes, akin to concepts explored by Donna Haraway and Anna Tsing (2017). Specifically, it refers to
Applications Invited
Post-doctorate
Publications
“Sound Cosmogonies” - Article in the book "Technoshamanism" by the Goethe Institute, 2015.
“Geopolitics of Surveillance” – Article published by the IHAC/UFBA Metamorfoses Híbridas magazine, December 2018.
"Becoming-Hacker: empiricism, ethics and ontology in the Informational Age" - Master's Thesis by IBICT/UFRJ, 2017.
“The Organization of Knowledge in the Anthropo-Capitolocene: The case of the Rio de Janeiro National Museum”, article submitted for publication by UFPR, June 2019.
“Decolonial Trauma in Archive Criticism: Biography, Performance and Neodocumentalism”. In.: Transatlantic crises of democracies: cultural approaches / Editors: Laura P. Z. Izarra, Thiago M. Moyano. -- São Paulo, FFLCH/USP, 2022. DOI: 10.11606/9788575064092
“Information Chaosmosis: Institution, individuation and complexity”. Chapter in book, p. 61. In.: Information and Memory: perspectives in movement / Ricardo Medeiros Pimenta; Leyde Klebia Rodrigues da Silva; Thayron Rodrigues Rangel (org.).
– Rio de Janeiro: IBICT, 2021. – (PPGCI Collection 50 years), 298 p. Link: ormaco_e%20memo%CC%81ria_%20
“Decolonial Trauma in Archive Criticism: Biography, Performance and Neodocumentalism”. IRIE Magazine. Vol. 30 No. 1 (2021): The ecology of literacy diversity in the new regimes of information. Link: