Post-Digital Sonic Media Art Podcast | Hugo Paquete – CEEC-FCT Research | Artistic Manifesto

Hugo Paquete - CEEC-FCT Research | Post-Digital Sonic Media Art Podcast

AI as Catalyst Research Project (2024-2027)

CEEC-FCT research project at INET-md, University of Aveiro led by Hugo Paquete exploring AI's transformative role in digital performance and electronic music through the concept of the AI-Chimera, cybernetic ecologies, and post-techno aesthetics. This research investigates how artificial intelligence functions as a catalyst for reconfiguring practices, processes, and ontologies in contemporary artistic creation.

Research Concepts

AI-Chimera: hybrid creative entity merging human and machine creativity
Cybernetic ecologies: immersive sound worlds from human-data-algorithm intra-action
Technological unconscious: exposing hidden architectures of control
Data-sound: sonic manifestation of digital data structures
Post-techno aesthetics: rhythm as systemic critique

Academic Podcast Series

This podcast operates as a speculative platform for theory-in-the-making, documenting the AI as Catalyst research project through explorations of post-digital sonic media art, biopolitical sonification, media archaeology, vibrational ecologies, and immersive sonic architectures. Each episode investigates sound as both artistic medium and research methodology in contemporary practice.

Methodological Approaches

Biopolitical sonification as analytical framework
Media archaeology of sound technologies
Vibrational ontology and ecological sound relationships
Immersive sonic architectures and spatial audio research
Critical sound studies and auditory culture analysis
Experimental composition as research methodology
Artistic research in post-digital sound practice

Keywords

Hugo Paquete, CEEC-FCT, INET-md, AI as Catalyst, AI-Chimera, cybernetic ecologies, technological unconscious, post-digital sonic media art, academic sound research, biopolitical sonification, media archaeology, immersive installations, critical sound studies, sonic theory, artistic research, vibrational ecologies, experimental composition, sound art Portugal, acousmatic music, glitch aesthetics, ZKM, Absonus Lab, FCT research, Portuguese artist, post-techno, algorithmic systems, non-human agency, Karen Barad, Donna Haraway, immersive installations, sound art Portugal

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Post-Digital Sonic Media Art: Composing Systems of Resistance through Sound

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Post-Digital Sonic Media Art Podcast | Hugo Paquete – Artistic Manifesto & Sonic Research

A Podcast for Sonic Thought: Theory, Practice, and the Technological Unconscious

This podcast operates as a speculative platform for theory-in-the-making, charting the interzones where sound art, media philosophy, and technological infrastructures converge. Each episode performs an act of aural forensics, uncovering the hidden systems, codes, and dynamics that shape how we perceive and inhabit the contemporary world.

Moving beyond the language of genres, the series investigates the conceptual forces driving current sonic practices: post-digital aesthetics, biopolitical sonification, and the meta-politics of subcultural movements. These explorations unfold as a living extension of my artistic and academic research, where sound becomes an epistemic system to probe the technological unconscious, adopt glitch as methodology, and speculate on the potential of post-human collaboration.

Each episode invites listeners to re-think listening itself: as theory, as practice, and as a tool for navigating the entangled ecologies of art, technology, and culture.

About the AI as Catalyst Research Project

This blog documents the CEEC-FCT research project "AI as Catalyst" (2024-2027) at INET-md, University of Aveiro. Here you'll find updates on research concepts, methodologies, artistic works, conference presentations, and publications exploring AI's transformative role in digital performance and electronic music through the AI-Chimera and cybernetic ecologies.