Pedro Sá Couto

Researcher, Graphic Designer

Based in Porto, Portugal (PT)

Contact

pedromiguelsacouto [at] gmail [dot] com

00351 912165796 (PT)

About

I am a PhD Candidate, media researcher, and graphic designer from Porto, Portugal. I hold a Master's degree of Arts in Fine Art and Design - Experimental Publishing from the Piet Zwart Institute - Willem de Kooning Academy, Rotterdam (NL). Currently I am a student of the Doctoral Programme in Digital Media at the Faculty of Engineering of the University of Porto, supported by a scholarship for advance studies granted by Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (FCT).

I am an Integrated Researcher at i2ADS – Research Institute of Art, Design and Society based at Faculty of Fine Arts, University of Porto (FBAUP). My research focuses on surveillance in the realm of publishing while questioning authorship, protecting users' identity and revealing hidden processes required to subvert surveillance in physical and digital media. I have presented work at Ars Electronica 2020 (Linz), the Het Nieuwe Instituut (Rotterdam), Varia Centre for Everyday Technology (Rotterdam), oMuseu (Porto), WORM (Rotterdam) and UBIK (Rotterdam).

Featured Work

Walking Art Maps, (2022)
Neural Magazine, (2018)
Tactical Watermarks, (2020)
Collectiveioning, (2020)
MA Thesis, (2020)
The Library is Open, (2019)
Blurry Boundaries, (2019)
Text Laundrette, (2019)
DIY Book Scanner Workflow, (2019)
The Network We (de)Served, (2019)
Ten Thesis on Life Hacks, (2018)
Iris Version 0.5, (2018)
Blindspot, (2017)

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