Pedro Andrade
Tourism 3.0 / City 3.0 – A Sociological Exhibition of Mobile Art, from Artists to Tourists and Citizens
2017
Sociological Comics, made with the montage of photographs (1,5x1m)
@ Lisboa Cidade Aberta Exhibition
This work of art both introduces and it is a part of the sociological exhibition Tourism 3.0 / City 3.0. In particular, it clarifies the meaning of mobile art, within the context of contemporary social and semantic networks that are visited by citizens and tourists.
Such a proposal of art constitutes a paratext, in the words of Gerard Genette. A paratext is a set of contents that works as a business card or an appetizer, in order to present other contents, such as those included in the Virtual Sociological Gallery.
BIO
Pedro Andrade (Portugal) is a Researcher and professor at University of Minho. He has participated in several projects related to hypermedia, art and sociology, highlighting: Interactive and electronic performances: Film Saboté Spatial nº 1, 1975, Body Cinema, 1976, exhibited at the Center Pompidou-Paris, Institute of Contemporary Arts-London, etc; Digital paintings: since 1985; Participation in the first cultural multimedia CD in Portugal, Ed. Aula do Risco, 1995; First Internet site in Portugal proposing an explicit cultural project (site of the first Luso-French magazine Atalaia-Intermundos), on PUUG server, UNL, 1995, which included the first Portuguese sociological ‘cyberquestionary’ in 1996; Hybrimedia: experimental hybrid blog Hybrilog in 2005-6; virtual literature GeoNeoNovella, 2009; Artistic Sociology: Multi-touch questionnaire and Trichotomies Game, 2010. Semantic-logical site inserted in social and semantic networks of Web 2.0 / 3.0, in 2011.
