Lia Carreira is a Brazilian-born researcher, media artist and curator based in Lisbon, Portugal. She is currently a postgraduate researcher (PhD in Art) at the Winchester School of Art, University of Southampton (UK), where she is finishing her investigation on the motto of the ‘Exhibition Space as a Laboratory’ (2019-2023). Lia has a first Master in Media Studies (Media Technologies and Aesthetics) from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (ECO/UFRJ) where she developed a thesis on digital art and image appropriation. She has a second Master in Media Arts Cultures from the Danube University (Austria), the Aalborg University (Denmark) and the City University of Hong Kong, in which she developed the thesis ‘Experimental Curating in Times of the Perpetual Beta’ in partnership with the Zentrum für Kunst und Medien (ZKM) in Germany. She has worked at the ZKM as a researcher on the topic of online exhibitions and on Artificial Intelligence in the Arts, and is currently a curator at the recently developed digital museum Palácio das Belas Artes Lisboa (in partnership with the Palais des Beaux Arts Wien in Austria). She is also one of the founding researchers of the independent project AI, Architecture and Exhibitions (AAE), together with designer and architect Jānis Aufmanis.
Research
2019-2023. The exhibition space as a Laboratory, Winchester School of Art, University of Southampton, United Kingdom.
2017-2018. Artificial Intelligence in the Arts, Commissioned research / Zentrum für Kunst und Medien (ZKM), Karlsruhe, Germany.
2017. Experimental Curating in times of the Perpetual Beta: strategies and platforms for online-based art, Zentrum für Kunst und Medien (ZKM), Karlsruhe, Germany / Danube University, Austria.
2016. Online exhibition platforms—Art On Your Screen project (Project Evaluation and Documentation), Zentrum für Kunst und Medien (ZKM), Karlsruhe, Germany.
2013-2015. Project Visagem, Image and Cyberculture Studies Lab (Labic), Center for the arts, Federal University of Espirito Santo (Ufes), Brazil.
2014. Digital Humanities Studies (Various projects / Visiting Researcher), Canadian Institute for Research in Computing and the Arts (CIRCA), of the University of Alberta, Canada.
2011-2013. Image Appropriation in Digital Art, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
2011-2013. Mediateca (Digital Archives Geraldo de Barros and José Oiticica Filho) and Narratives of the Everyday, Laboratório de Fotografia, Imagem e Pensamento, Center for Multimedia Production, School of Communication, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Teaching Positions
2021. Online exhibition practices, Helsinki School of Art, Helsinki, Finland.
2018. Curating Digital Art, Creative Processes and Mediation for Art and Technology, School of Visual Arts Parque Lage, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
2015. Experimental Digital Processes, School of Photography, University of Vila Velha, Brazil.
2013-2014. Appropriation in Contemporary Art, Centre for the Arts, Federal University of Espírito Santo (Ufes), Vitória, Brazil.
2012-2013. Appropriation in Contemporary Art, School of Communication, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil.
Talks/Lectures
2023. O Espaço Expositivo como um Laboratório, ‘Seminário de Cultura Material da Ciência #26’ (online seminar), Museu Nacional de História Natural e da Ciência (MUHNAC), Lisbon / online, Portugal.
2022. A palace, a street router and a digital art museum: on the Palais des Beaux Arts Wien, Museum without Walls conference, Queen’s University / online, Ontario, Canada.
2020. The Exhibition Space as a Laboratory, Prognostic Lectures, Saastamoinen Foundation / Helsinki School of Art, Helsinki / online, Finland.
2020. Image Politics and Machine Learning, Labic, Federal University of Espirito Santo, Vitoria / online, Brazil.
2019. The Exhibition Space as a Laboratory, Archipelago, Center for Arts, Design, and Social Research, Helsinki, Finland.
2019. Artificial Intelligence in the Arts: current approaches, Het Nieuwe Instituut / Goethe Institute, Rotterdam, The Netherlands.
2018. Politics of Survival: the body, Plaka Collectives / Câmara Municipal do Porto (Porto Municipal Government), Porto, Portugal.
2018. Image Politics and Machine Learning, Aauhus University, Denmark.
2018. Artificial Intelligence in the Arts: current approaches, INNOVATION in Culture Conference, ZKM, Germany.
2018. Experimental Curating, Medialounge at Six, ZKM, Germany.
2018. Curating net.art, Leadership by Arts class of the Darmstadt University of Applied Sciences, Germany.
Publications
Carreira, L. (2023). Exhibiting. In: Wershler, D, Emerson, L & Parikka, J (Eds.). A Glossary of Lab Techniques. Minnesota: University of Minnesota Press.
Carreira, L. (unpublished). The appropriateness of images: exhibiting image appropriations after deepfakes. In: Rastenberger, A., Sikking, I. (Ed.). Curating Images: Perspectives on Photo-based Curation.
Carreira, L.. (2019). Experimental Curating in Times of the Perpetual Beta: strategies and platforms for online-based art (Abstract). Leonardo. Vol. 52, No. 5, October 2019.
Carreira, L. (2018). The exhibition space as a laboratory: experimental and collaborative approaches in Art and Technology. Continent.. Issue 2018.
Carreira, L. (2018). Experimental Curating in times of perpetual betas. Online Art. Schloss-post. 2018. Available at: https://schloss-post.com/experimental-curating-times-perpetual-betas/
Carreira, L. (2017). Experimental Curating in Times of the Perpetual Beta: strategies and platforms for online-based art. (Master thesis). Danube University Krems, Krems, Austria. Available at: http://permalink.obvsg.at/duk/YC00344310
Carreira, L. (2013). A apropriação como gesto na fotografia de Michael Wolf e Jon Rafman. (Master Thesis), Rio de Janeiro.