Umbigo

The session proposes a dialogue on digital art and the multiple extensions of net art, featuring artists Beatriz Albuquerque, Miguel Carvalhais, Luísa Ribas, and poet Rui Torres, along with Carolina Pita Negrão, Director of the MEO Foundation, moderated by Sofia Ponte. The aim is to celebrate how the Internet has shaped the creative process, artistic production, and art consumption in the contemporary world, while simultaneously reflecting on the challenges posed by digital art in the fields of curating, exhibiting, collecting, and conservation.

The book was developed in connection with the exhibition 

Net Arte no Triângulo das Bermudas: Contributo para uma reflexão sobre a arte e Internet em Portugal

presented between September 7th and November 2nd, 2025 at 

 Interested in mapping and systematizing artistic movements related to the Internet in Portugal since the stabilization of the internet in the country in 1995, the exhibition brings together fourteen artistic projects from the areas of cyberpoetry, digital radio, visual arts, programming, generative art, web design, performance, digital games, and electronic music.

This publication includes the artistic projects of Beatriz Albuquerque, Daniel Pinheiro and Annie Abrahams, Pizzbuin, Rui Torres, Susana Mendes Silva, wr3ad1ng d1g1t5, Luísa Ribas and João Cruz, Mário Cameira, Rudolfo Quintas, Alice dos Reis, Miguel Carvalhais, Pedro Tudela and Rodrigo Carvalho, Joana Chicau and Luís Fernandes. The book also includes the essays 

Proposta para uma Cronologia - Panorama da Net Arte em Portugal 

(Proposal for a Chronology - Panorama of Net Art in Portugal)

Networks of Care), by Annet Dekker, translated into Portuguese for the first time by José Roseira.

The session will have free entrance and can also be followed via live stream at the following 

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Presentation of the book "Net Arte no Triângulo das Bermudas", November 10th at the National Library of Portugal

A sessão propõe um diálogo sobre arte digital e as múltiplas extensões da net art com os artistas Beatriz Albuquerque, Miguel Carvalhais, Luísa Ribas e o poeta Rui Torres, a diretora da Fundação MEO Carolina Pita Negrão, sob moderação de Sofia Ponte. Pretende-se celebrar a forma como a Internet tem moldado o processo criativo, a produção artística e o consumo de arte no mundo contemporâneo e, simultaneamente, refletir sobre os desafios colocados pela arte digital nos campos da curadoria, da exposição, da coleção e da conservação. 

O livro foi desenvolvido a propósito da exposição 

, apresentada entre 7 de setembro e 2 de novembro de 2025 no 

CAAA - Centro para os Assuntos da Arte e da Arquitetura

. Interessada no mapeamento e na sistematização dos movimentos artísticos relativos à Internet em Portugal, desde a estabilização da internet no país, em 1995, a exposição reúne catorze projetos artísticos das áreas da áreas da ciberpoesia, rádio digital, artes plásticas, programação, arte generativa, 

, performance, jogos digitais e da música eletrónica. 

Integram esta publicação os projetos artísticos de Beatriz Albuquerque, Daniel Pinheiro e Annie Abrahams, Pizzbuin, Rui Torres, Susana Mendes Silva, wr3ad1ng d1g1t5, Luísa Ribas e João Cruz, Mário Cameira, Rudolfo Quintas, Alice dos Reis, Miguel Carvalhais, Pedro Tudela e Rodrigo Carvalho, Joana Chicau e Luís Fernandes. O livro conta também com os ensaios 

Proposta para uma Cronologia - Panorama da Net Arte em Portugal,

de Annet Dekker, traduzido pela primeira vez para português por José Roseira.

A sessão terá entrada livre e poderá também ser acompanhada em streaming através do seguinte 

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Apresentação do Livro "Net Arte no Triângulo das Bermudas", dia 10 de novembro na Biblioteca Nacional de Portugal

João Pedro Soares

<div class="slate-p m-0 px-0 py-1" style="position:relative"><span data-slate-node="text" data-slate-leaf="true"><div class="slate-editor group/editor relative w-full cursor-text select-text overflow-x-hidden whitespace-pre-wrap break-words rounded-5px ring-offset-background focus-visible:outline-none placeholder:text-muted-foreground/80 [&_[data-slate-placeholder]]:top-[auto_!important] [&_[data-slate-placeholder]]:text-muted-foreground/80 [&_[data-slate-placeholder]]:!opacity-100 [&_strong]:font-bold" data-slate-editor="true" data-slate-node="value"><div data-slate-node="element" class="slate-p m-0 px-0 py-1" data-slate-type="p" style="position:relative"><div data-slate-node="element" class="slate-p m-0 px-0 py-1" data-slate-type="p" style="position:relative"><div data-slate-node="element" class="slate-p m-0 px-0 py-1" data-slate-type="p" style="position:relative"><div data-slate-node="element" class="slate-p slate-align-justify m-0 px-0 py-1" style="position:relative;text-align:justify" data-slate-type="p" data-slate-text-indent="1" data-slate-align="justify" data-slate-id="WQZNynI8vz" data-block-id="WQZNynI8vz"><span data-slate-node="text"><span data-slate-leaf="true" class=""><span data-slate-string="true">Catarina Osório de Castro presents her sixth solo exhibition, this time at Dialogue Gallery in Marvila. The Lisbon-based photographer condenses a poetic and mysterious visuality into a set of twenty photographs, centred around an axial idea, expressed by the artist herself in a poem that opens the exhibition catalogue: </span></span></span><span data-slate-node="text"><span data-slate-leaf="true" class="" data-slate-italic="true"><em data-slate-leaf="true" class="slate-italic" data-slate-italic="true"><span data-slate-string="true">Somos pele, somos carne/ Somos mar/ Somos pó estelar </span></em></span></span><span data-slate-node="text"><span data-slate-leaf="true" class=""><span data-slate-string="true">(We are skin, we are flesh/ We are sea/ We are stardust).</span></span></span></div></div></div></div></div></span></div>

Pó de Estrelas by Catarina Osório de Castro, at Dialogue Gallery

<div class="slate-p m-0 px-0 py-1" style="position:relative"><span data-slate-node="text" data-slate-leaf="true"><div class="slate-editor group/editor relative w-full cursor-text select-text overflow-x-hidden whitespace-pre-wrap break-words rounded-5px ring-offset-background focus-visible:outline-none placeholder:text-muted-foreground/80 [&_[data-slate-placeholder]]:top-[auto_!important] [&_[data-slate-placeholder]]:text-muted-foreground/80 [&_[data-slate-placeholder]]:!opacity-100 [&_strong]:font-bold" data-slate-editor="true" data-slate-node="value"><div data-slate-node="element" class="slate-p m-0 px-0 py-1" data-slate-type="p" style="position:relative"><div data-slate-node="element" class="slate-p m-0 px-0 py-1" data-slate-type="p" style="position:relative"><div data-slate-node="element" class="slate-p m-0 px-0 py-1" data-slate-type="p" style="position:relative"><div data-slate-node="element" class="slate-p slate-align-justify m-0 px-0 py-1" style="position:relative;text-align:justify" data-slate-type="p" data-slate-text-indent="1" data-slate-align="justify" data-slate-id="irhT6VBMvI" data-block-id="irhT6VBMvI"><span data-slate-node="text"><span data-slate-leaf="true" class=""><span data-slate-string="true">Catarina Osório de Castro apresenta a sua sexta exibição a solo, desta vez na Dialogue Gallery, em Marvila. A fotógrafa lisboeta condensa num conjunto de vinte fotografias uma visualidade poética e misteriosa, em torno de uma ideia axial, proferida pela própria num poema que abre a folha de sala da exposição: </span></span></span><span data-slate-node="text"><span data-slate-leaf="true" class="" data-slate-italic="true"><em data-slate-leaf="true" class="slate-italic" data-slate-italic="true"><span data-slate-string="true">Somos pele, somos carne/ Somos mar/ Somos pó estelar.</span></em></span></span></div></div></div></div></div></span></div>

Pó de Estrelas de Catarina Osório de Castro, na Dialogue Gallery

Ayşenur Tanrıverdi

<div class="slate-p m-0 px-0 py-1" style="position:relative"><span data-slate-node="text" data-slate-leaf="true"><div class="slate-p m-0 px-0 py-1" style="position:relative"><span data-slate-node="text" data-slate-leaf="true"><div class="slate-p m-0 px-0 py-1" style="position:relative"><span data-slate-node="text" data-slate-leaf="true"><div class="slate-p m-0 px-0 py-1" style="position:relative"><span data-slate-node="text" data-slate-leaf="true"><div class="slate-editor group/editor relative w-full cursor-text select-text overflow-x-hidden whitespace-pre-wrap break-words rounded-5px ring-offset-background focus-visible:outline-none placeholder:text-muted-foreground/80 [&_[data-slate-placeholder]]:top-[auto_!important] [&_[data-slate-placeholder]]:text-muted-foreground/80 [&_[data-slate-placeholder]]:!opacity-100 [&_strong]:font-bold" data-slate-editor="true" data-slate-node="value"><div data-slate-node="element" class="slate-p m-0 px-0 py-1" data-slate-type="p" style="position:relative"><div data-slate-node="element" class="slate-p slate-align-justify m-0 px-0 py-1" style="position:relative;text-align:justify" data-slate-type="p" data-slate-align="justify" data-slate-id="F-yVe0Opc3" data-block-id="F-yVe0Opc3"><span data-slate-node="text"><span data-slate-leaf="true" class=""><span data-slate-string="true">It’s been a long time since I’ve come across an exhibition so perfectly aligned with its title. </span></span></span><span data-slate-node="text"><span data-slate-leaf="true" class="" data-slate-italic="true"><em data-slate-leaf="true" class="slate-italic" data-slate-italic="true"><span data-slate-string="true">Uma Densa Nuvem de Amor</span></em></span></span><span data-slate-node="text"><span data-slate-leaf="true" class=""><span data-slate-string="true"> is, in every sense of the word, intense and utterly seductive.</span></span></span></div></div></div></span></div></span></div></span></div></span></div>

Notes on "Uma Densa Nuvem de Amor"

<div class="slate-editor group/editor relative w-full cursor-text select-text overflow-x-hidden whitespace-pre-wrap break-words rounded-5px ring-offset-background focus-visible:outline-none placeholder:text-muted-foreground/80 [&_[data-slate-placeholder]]:top-[auto_!important] [&_[data-slate-placeholder]]:text-muted-foreground/80 [&_[data-slate-placeholder]]:!opacity-100 [&_strong]:font-bold" data-slate-editor="true" data-slate-node="value"><div data-slate-node="element" class="slate-p m-0 px-0 py-1" data-slate-type="p" style="position:relative"><div data-slate-node="element" class="slate-p m-0 px-0 py-1" data-slate-type="p" style="position:relative"><div data-slate-node="element" class="slate-p m-0 px-0 py-1" data-slate-type="p" style="position:relative"><div data-slate-node="element" class="slate-p m-0 px-0 py-1" data-slate-type="p" style="position:relative"><div data-slate-node="element" class="slate-p m-0 px-0 py-1" data-slate-type="p" style="position:relative"><div data-slate-node="element" class="slate-p m-0 px-0 py-1" data-slate-type="p" style="position:relative"><div data-slate-node="element" class="slate-p m-0 px-0 py-1" data-slate-type="p" style="position:relative"><div data-slate-node="element" class="slate-p m-0 px-0 py-1" data-slate-type="p" style="position:relative"><div data-slate-node="element" class="slate-p m-0 px-0 py-1" data-slate-type="p" style="position:relative"><div data-slate-node="element" class="slate-p slate-align-justify m-0 px-0 py-1" style="position:relative;text-align:justify" data-slate-type="p" data-slate-align="justify" data-slate-id="GDepPra0kv" data-block-id="GDepPra0kv"><span data-slate-node="text"><span data-slate-leaf="true" class=""><span data-slate-string="true">Há muito tempo que não via uma exposição tão perfeitamente alinhada com o seu título. </span></span></span><span data-slate-node="text"><span data-slate-leaf="true" class="" data-slate-italic="true"><em data-slate-leaf="true" class="slate-italic" data-slate-italic="true"><span data-slate-string="true">Uma Densa Nuvem de Amor</span></em></span></span><span data-slate-node="text"><span data-slate-leaf="true" class=""><span data-slate-string="true"> é, em todos os sentidos da palavra, intensa e absolutamente sedutora.</span></span></span></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>