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Identification

Personal identification

Full name
Alexander Matthias Gerner

Citation names

  • Gerner, Alexander Matthias
  • Gerner, Alexander
  • Gerner, A.
  • Gerner, A.M.

Author identifiers

Ciência ID
E31F-D78B-6D17
ORCID iD
0000-0003-0914-5591

Email addresses

  • alexander.gerner@ulusofona.pt (Professional)

Websites

Knowledge fields

  • Humanities - Philosophy, Ethics and Religion - Philosophy
  • Social Sciences - Media and Communications

Languages

Language Speaking Reading Writing Listening Peer-review
German (Mother tongue)
English Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2)
Greek Beginner (A1) Upper intermediate (B2) Beginner (A1) Beginner (A1) Beginner (A1)
Portuguese Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2)
Spanish; Castilian Intermediate (B1) Upper intermediate (B2) Intermediate (B1) Upper intermediate (B2) Intermediate (B1)
Education
Degree Classification
2013/02/01 - 2019/06/30
Concluded
Philosophy of Cognitive Enhancement (Pós-doutoramento)
Universidade de Lisboa Centro de Filosofia das Ciências, Portugal
Approved
2012/05/29
Concluded
History and Philosophy of Science (Doutoramento)
Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal
"Philosophical Investigations of Attention" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
Excellent (Aprovado com Distinção e Louvor)
2003/05/05 - 2003/08/30
Concluded
Documentary Film Course (Outros)
Videotéca da Municipal de Lisboa, Portugal

Federação Portuguesa de Cinema e Audiovisuais, Portugal
certification
1997
Concluded
Germanistik/Ev. Theologie LA Gymnasium (Licenciatura)
Bayerisches Staatsministerium für Bildung und Kultus Wissenschaft und Kunst, Germany
"Semiotics of Laughter on Stage. A school of perception of drama in performances of Heinrich v. Kleist" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
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Affiliation

Science

Category
Host institution
Employer
2019/07/01 - 2023/11/30 Auxiliary Researcher (Research) Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal
Universidade de Lisboa Centro de Filosofia das Ciências, Portugal
2022/07/01 - 2023/06/30 Auxiliary Researcher (Research) Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal
Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal
(...)

Others

Category
Host institution
Employer
2012/03/01 - 2012/07/31 Coordinator of the study room ATL Galicia, (supported by Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation) support the content of 80 students (2 and 3 cycle) organization of volunteers and tutors, content monitoring Santa Casa de Misericórdia Cascais, Portugal
ATL da Galiza, Portugal
Projects

Grant

Designation Funders
2007/05 - 2011/03 A Imagem na Ciência e na Arte
64201PRJ
Research Fellow
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
2006/01 - 2009/12 INVESTIGAÇÃO FILOSÓFICA DA ATENÇÃO
18205DFA
PhD Student Fellow
Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded
Outputs

Publications

Book
  1. Gerner, Alexander. STRATA. Norderstedt, Germany: BoD. 2016.
    Published
Book chapter
  1. Gerner, Alexander Matthias. "Smile to pay with your face. Hacking into programmed faciality in the age of Big Data and AI". In Big Data: Implicações Epistemológicas e Éticas, edited by Alves de Sousa, E.; Broens, M.C.; Gonzalez, M.E., 177-209. São Paulo, Brazil: Filoczar, 2020.
    Published
  2. Gerner, Alexander Matthias. "Self-Melioration, Autonomy and Music-Enriched Self-Control: On Enhancing Children’s Attention". In Shaping Children. Ethical and Social Questions that Arise when Enhancing the Young (=Advances in Neuroethics, 2), edited by Nagel, S.K., 155-182. Cham, Switzerland: Springer International Publishing, 2019.
    Published • 10.1007/978-3-030-10677-5_11
  3. Gerner, Alexander Matthias. "“The Origin of the New World”. On Elena Dorfman’s Deus (S)ex-Machina". In Feminist Philosophy of Technology (=Techno:Phil ¿ Aktuelle Herausforderungen der Technikphilosophie), edited by Marc Coeckelbergh; Janina Loh, 145-166. Berlin, Germany: J.B. Metzler, 2019.
    Published • 10.1007/978-3-476-04967-4_8
  4. Breyer, Thiemo; Gerner, Alexander. "Resonanz und Interaktion: Eine philosophische Annäherung anhand zweier Proben". In Resonanz - Rhythmus - Synchronisierung, edited by Breyer, T; Buchholz, MB; Hamburger, A; Pfänder, S; Schuhman, E, 33-46. Bielefeld, Germany: transcript Verlag, 2017.
    Published • 10.14361/9783839435441-002
  5. Gerner, A.. "Conceptual personae of the "attentional self"". 2015.
  6. Gerner, Alexander; Michelle Guerra. "On the Cinematic Self- Cinematic experience as “Out-of- Body” experience?". In Altered Self and Altered Self Experience, edited by Alexander Gerner; Jorge Gonçalves, 85-106. Norderstedt, Germany: BoD, 2014.
    Published
  7. "Introduction". Germany, 2014.
Conference abstract
  1. Gerner, Alexander Matthias. "Hacking, messing around, enhancing, flattening or resisting the embodied alien?". 2017.
    10.13140/RG.2.2.21605.55525
Conference paper
  1. Gerner, Alexander. "Gesture-based cognitive enhancements by random walks and human digital body doubles". Paper presented in 16th International Meeting of Art and Technology: #16.ART: Artis intelligentia: IMAGINING THE REAL, Porto, 2017.
    Published
Edited book
  1. Gerner, A.; Goncalves, J.. Altered Self and Altered Self-Experience. Norderstedt, Germany: BoD. 2014.
    Published • Editor
  2. Pombo, O; Gerner, A.. Studies in Diagrammatology and Diagram Praxis. College Publications. London, United Kingdom: College Publication. 2010.
    Published • Editor
  3. Pombo, O; Gerner, A.. Abduction and the Process of Scientific Discovery. Lisbon, Portugal: CFCUL. 2007.
    Published • Editor
Exhibition catalog
  1. Gerner, Alexander Matthias. Dry Moments: Notes on Samuel Matzig´s Photography Series Stilles Wesen// Silent Being. IBIRAPI Contemporânea, 2018.
    10.13140/RG.2.2.31640.55048
Journal article
  1. Gerner, Alexander. "Critical Generative AI Aesthetics". Semeiosis - transdisciplinary journal of semiotics 11 1 (2023): 69-99. http://dx.doi.org/10.53987/2178-5368-2023-12-05.
    Open access • Published • 10.53987/2178-5368-2023-12-05
  2. Gerner, A.M.. Corresponding author: Gerner, A.M.. "Towards AI Aesthetics". Semeiosis - transdisciplinary journal of semiotics 11 1 (2023): 1-30. http://dx.doi.org/10.53987/2178-5368-2023-12-01.
    Open access • Published • 10.53987/2178-5368-2023-12-01
  3. Alexander Matthias Gerner. "Rehearsals on Faciality Diagrams of AI Avatars". Estudos Kantianos [EK] 10 2 (2023): 137-137. http://dx.doi.org/10.36311/2318-0501.2022.v10n2.p137.
    10.36311/2318-0501.2022.v10n2.p137
  4. Gerner, Alexander Matthias. "Towards the techno-social Uncanny". Revista Portuguesa de Filosofia 75 4 (2020): 2171-2206. http://dx.doi.org/10.17990/rpf/2019_75_4_2171.
    Published • 10.17990/rpf/2019_75_4_2171
  5. Gerner, Alexander Matthias. "Antlitzverluste. Zum kritischen Posthumanismus des Gesichts". Internationales Jahrbuch für Medienphilosophie 5 1 (2019): 183-200. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/jbmp-2019-050113.
    Published • 10.1515/jbmp-2019-050113
  6. Gerner, Alexander. "Oikos der Alterität.Drei Ouvertüren zu einer Ökonomie, Ökologie und Echologie der Aufmerksamkeit". Internationales Jahrbuch für Medienphilosophie 4 2018/1 (2018): 169-184. https://doi.org/10.1515/jbmp-2018-0010.
    Published • https://doi.org/10.1515/jbmp-2018-0010
  7. Gerner, Alexander. "Probing Cognitive Enhancements of Social “Resonance” – Towards a Aesthetic Community of Sensing and Making Music Together". Kairos. Journal of Philosophy & Science 2017 19 (2017): 93-133. https://content.sciendo.com/view/journals/kjps/19/1/article-p93.xml.
    Open access • Published
  8. Gerner, Alexander Matthias. "TOWARDS A PHILOSOPHY OF HUMAN TECHNOLOGY: OUTLOOK ON COGNITIVE ENHANCEMENTS IN AVATAR/ VIRTUAL REALITY SCHIZOPHRENIA THERAPY". compleXitas Rev. Fil. Tem. 1 1 (2016): 118-138. https://periodicos.ufpa.br/index.php/complexitas/article/view/3418.
    Open access • Published • http://dx.doi.org/10.18542/complexitas.v1i1.3418
Thesis / Dissertation
  1. Gerner, Alexander. "Philosophical Investigations of Attention". PhD, 2012. http://repositorio.ul.pt/handle/10451/6496?mode=full.
  2. Gerner, Alexander Matthias. "Semiotik des Lachens auf dem Theater. Teil einer didaktischen Wahrnehmungsschule des Dramas, dargestellt an produktiven Rezeptionen von Texten von Heinrich v. Kleist". Degree, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München Institut für Deutsche Philologie, 1996. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/336103288_Semiotik_des_Lachens_auf_dem_Theater_AMGerner_1997_TESE_LMU_Munchen.
    10.13140/RG.2.2.28252.33920

Artistic / Performance

Artistic performance
  1. Gerner, Alexander; display; Havard Peterson; Marie Nerland. 2004. What keeps you awake?. BIT Teatergarasjen, Bergen, Norway.
  2. Gerner, Alexander; display; Marie Nerland; Havard Peterson. 2003. Fiel Amigo. A friend that can be trusted. Bergen Galerie 3.14, Bergen, Norway.
  3. Gerner, Alexander; Andresa Soares. 2003. tragédia 0:1 "Tragedy 0:1" (The football match is a test of ethics in society). CCB (BlackBox), Lisbon, Portugal.
Theatre play
  1. Gerner, Alexander; Gonçalo Ruivo; João Saboga; Miguel Telmo; Tiago Fernandes. 2010. Os Cães (The Dogs) (Co-Author, director, visual concept), Teatro Turim Lisbon.
  2. Gerner, Alexander; Nerland, Marie; Iver Findlay; Young Jean Lee. 2007. The International Show: A Panikk Transatlantique.

Other

Other output
  1. ESCOLA DAS TRANSIÇÕES|CONVERSATIONS OPEN STUDIO | ANNEMARIE MAES | JONATHAN MINCHIN | ALEXANDER GERNER. Em diálogo com o projeto Escola das Transições, reside na Fundação da Casa de Mateus ao longo do ano de 2023 e aqui instalou o seu Laboratório da Forma e da Matéria, no qual experimenta formas novas com materiais locais, bactérias e têxteis vivos. No final de Agosto, serão as vindimas a dar o tom para novas criações.. 2024. Gerner, A.M.. https://www.casademateus.pt/en/evento-e-programa/evento-open-studio/.
  2. Campinas 2: Hacking into programmed sociality of F2F encounters: ethical, political and societal challenges in the age of >Big Data< and AI. Humanity is facing to be increasingly immersed in the digital world, becoming hackable in relation to self-, personhood and our sociality. Companies and even states are engaged in digital governance of our behavior and our extended digital doubles and interconnected bodily selves by profiling, tracking, surveillance, automating decisions. We have to reflect algorithmic rationalities critically.. 2019. Gerner, Alexander Matthias. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/336070060_campinas_2.
    10.13140/RG.2.2.23776.23042
Activities

Oral presentation

Presentation title Event name
Host (Event location)
2023/12/15 Fake/Face: AI Avatarization as social generative media of algorithmic faciality Approcci semiotici e cognitivi al volto tra àlterità e alterazione
Università di Messina (Noto, Italy)
2023/07/18 AI Heritage Avatar Doubles: Exploring the Use of Large Presence, Digital Heritage and Testimony in Digital Twins Digital Twins & Doubles. Data of Cooperation(=Annual Conference of the CRC Media of Cooperation)
Universität Siegen, SFB 1187 Medien der Kooperation (Siegen, Germany)
2023/07/12 Hacking into Avatars as Proxies: Towards a Philosophy of technology of digital substitution
Centro de Filosofia das Ciências da Universidade de Lisboa (Lisbon, Portugal)
2022/12/02 Hacking into the Avatar dream, AI- aesthetics and platforms of algorithmic facialities Diagram and AI Aesthetics
CFCUL, FCUL, Universidade de Lisboa (Lisbon, Portugal)
2020/01/17 "Hacking Humans: Zu politischen, ethischen und ästhetischen Aspekten von (algorithmischen) Gesichtsprogrammierungen"/ "Hacking Humans: On political, ethical and aesthetic aspects of (algorithmically) programmed faciality" Hacking the Computable
Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Künste Stuttgart; ZhdK; Deutsche Gesellschaft für Ästhetik; Staatliche Akademie der Bildenden Künste Stuttgart Invitation Prof. Dieter Mersch ZHdK, Zürich (Stuttgart, Germany)
2019/10/25 Towards a Metaphorology of Temporality and the techno-social Uncanny Temporality and Technology
Universität Wien, Austria, Invitation by Prof. Marc Coeckelbergh (Vienna, Austria)
2019/10/22 Antlitzverluste – Zum Kritischen Posthumanismus des Gesichts "Losing Face - On the Critical Posthumanism of the Face" https://medientheorie.uni-ak.ac.at/de/gastvortrag-alexander-gerner-universitaet-lissabon/ Have we already paid enough attention to the face and the different technical-mathematized ideas of the face as a "condensed image of man"? In the era of AI, Big Data and programmability of algorithmic-metric rationalizations of the social, this medium of the human has to be critically and posthumanly differentiated anew via artistic practices. Medientheorie Media Theory
Universität für Angewandte Kunst Wien (Invitation by Prof. Ingeborg Reichle) (Vienna, Austria)
2019/09/20 Hacking into programmed sociality of F2F encounters (Keynote Adress) – Post-truth and programmed sociality in the age of Big Data Chair: Rachel Meneguello (UNICAMP) EBICC-XII INTERNATIONAL BRAZILIAN MEETING ON COGNITIVE SCIENCE Big Data: Ethical, epistemological and semiotical implications to the self-organized cognition/action
Brazilian Cognitive Science Society (SBCC, http://www.sbcc.org.br/), UNICAMP: https://ebicc2019.wordpress.com/ (Campinas)
2019/07/05 From F2F encounters to Gesture-enhanced AI- sociality Embodied AI - Exbodied Mind: Gesture - Perception - Robotics
German Research School for Simulation Sciences; RWTH Aachen; Chair of Theory of Science and Technology / Computational Science Studies Lab LFG Linguistics and Cognitive Semiotics / Natural Media Lab (Aachen, Germany)
2019/06/24 Self-Melioration, Autonomy and Music-enriched Self-Control: On Enhancing Children´s Attention Journadas de História e Filosofia das Ciências
Universidade de Lisboa, Faculdade das Ciências, Departamento de História e Filosofia das Ciências (Lisboa, Portugal)
2018/12/03 "Strata- Geophilosophische Notizen zu Sergio Costa" CRC 806 Lecture Series, Universität zu Köln, HS XVIIb Main Building UoC, Albertus-Magnus-Platz, Cologne CRC 806 Lecture Series Wintersemester 2018/2019 University of Cologne
Collaborative Research Centre 806 Our Way to Europe (Cologne, Germany)
2018/09/17 "Avatar und Marionette: Proben und Nachfragen zur Alteritätserfahrung des Menschen in der Zeit seiner maschinell-technischen „Perfektionierbarkeit“ - "Avatar and Marionette: Rehearsals and inquiries about the experience of otherness by humans in the time of their machinic-technical " perfectability ". Master Start-up Week "Human-Machine (Mensch-Maschine)"master-cluster) do DDK {departament of Performing Arts and Cinema Department/Department Darstellende Künste und Film} Zürcher Hochschule der Künste
Züricher Hochschule der Künste (Zurich, Switzerland)
2018/06/18 Towards a body-rhetoric and music semiotics following C.S Peirce: from hearing voices without bodies to music and gesture-based enhancements Room 8 (3rd floor) Panel 28 17h00-17h45 presented at the University of Helsinki at the third European Pragmatism Conference University of Helsinki, Finland, in 13-15 June 2018, Fabianinkatu 33 The conference is organized by the Nordic Pragmatism Network in collaboration with Associazione Pragma (Italy), Pragmata (France), the Central European Pragmatist Forum and the European Pragmatism Association. Third European Pragmatism Conference University of Helsinki, Finland
UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI (Helskini, Finland)
2018/05/29 Anmerkungen zu Lost &Found im Theater-Spiel, Regeln-des-Spiels und (Such-) maschinen von Alterität 11-12 Uhr Oblichtsaal 7E02; ZhdK Zürich, Switzerland Ludifikation in Theater. Neue Utopien des Theatralen (org. Institut für Theorie (ZhdK) DKV und DDK/ Master Theater) Ludifikation in Theater. Neue Utopien des Theatralen "Ludification in Theater. New Utopia of the Teatrical"
Züricher Hochschule der Künste (Zurich, Switzerland)
2017/12/05 Philosophy of cognitive enhancement as a philosophy of human technology: deliberations on attention enhancements in children for policy and political advice Invited keynote speaker https://eventos.fct.unl.pt/winterschool-ta/announcements/8th-winter-school-technology-assessment 8th Winter School on Technology Assessment 8ª Escola de Inverno em Avaliação de Tecnologia
Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal (Lisbon)
2017/11/24 Gesture-based cognitive enhancements by random walks and human digital body doubles 13.11.2017 Universidade do Porto, Faculdade das Belas Artes, Congresso Art16# 15h30-16h30 panel Art & Technology http://16art.medialab.ufg.br/ Program: http://16art.medialab.ufg.br/#themes-section Paper presentation: Alexander Matthias Gerner 24.11.2017 14h-14h30 Congresso Art16#
Faculdade de Belas Artes, Universidade de Porto (Porto, Portugal)
2017/11/24 Hacking, messing around, enhancing, flattening or resisting the embodied alien? Probing Dramaturgies and Technologies of xenoresonance. KEYWORDS embodied alien phenomenology, hacking, technical Interfaces of Cognitive enhancement, xenoresonance Cologne/Lisbon Philosophy of Technology LAB 2017 #01_ Technologies of Alterity Anfiteatro da FCiências.ID, Building C1, 3rd floor Faculdade das Ciências Universidade de Lisboa, Campo Grande Organized by: Dr. Alexander Gerner, Philosophy of Human Technology, CFCUL Prof. Thiemo Breyer, a.r.t Cologne/Lisbon Philosophy of Technology LAB 2017 #01_ Technologies of Alterity
CFCUL, Centro de Filosofia das Ciências da Universidade de Lisboa (Lisbon, Portugal)
2017/10/04 Human Technologies and Dramaturgies of altered experiences: Avatar (schizophrenia) therapies and the virtual uncanny 4.10. Fábrica Braço de Prata, Lisboa Face-Mask-Avatar-Embodiment Think Tank Meeting 3.-5.10.2017 ith Zurich (zdhk)/ PhilhumTech (CFCUL) 14h45-15h30 Alexander Gerner: Face-Mask-Avatar-Embodiment Think Tank Meeting
CFCUL, Centro de Filosofia das Ciências da Universidade de Lisboa (Lisbon, Portugal)
2017/09/14 Proben zu einer semiotischen Körperrhetorik mit Avataren ausgehend von C.S Peirce International Congress of Semiotic : Grenzen// Borders http://www.semiotik.eu/kongressprogramm Panel 6: Objektgebrauch als Zeichenprozess (Sektionen Körper und Sprachwissenschaft)
Universität Passau, Passau, Germany (Passau, Germany)
2017/06/01 Interdisciplinary Rehearsals on `Resonance´ - towards a >>social ´acoustics’<<? Panel: AI, Brain, Cognitive Science IASC 2017 International Conference June 1st & 2nd, 2017 FACULDADE DE CIÊNCIAS DA UNIVERSIDADE DE LISBOA https://iasc.me/2017-conference/ 16h30-17h, Anfiteatro da Fundação ID-Ciencias, Faculty of Science University of Lisbon, 1st of June 2017 IASC 2017 International Conference
CFCUL, Centro de Filosofia das Ciências da Unersidade de Lisboa (Lisbon, Portugal)
2017/03/11 "Techno-fenomenology of "out of Body" experiences. Notes on autoscopy. "Techno-fenomenologia de experiências “fora de si”. Notas sobre a autoscopia" Margens inquietas - entre o normal e o patológico 7º simpósio Serviço de Psiquiatria do Hospital Prof. Doutor Fernando Fonseca Hotel Villa Rica, Lisboa, 11/3/2017 17h-18h30 painel Do eu ao outro 11.3.2017 Invited Conference Alexander Gerner Margens inquietas - entre o normal e o patológico 7º simpósio Serviço de Psiquiatria do Hospital Prof. Doutor Fernando Fonseca
Hospital Fernando Fonseca, Lisbon, Portugal (Lisbon, Portugal)
2016/10/29 Probing Cognitive Enhancements in Social „resonance“: the case of aesthetic community of sensing and playing music together Common Sense and Science & Technology
FCUL_ISCTE org. by the network "RICOS"(London School of Economics; Coordination Martin Bauer) (Lisbon, Portugal)
2016/08/06 Beyond “Crimes against minds“: Mapping cognitive “enhancement” technologies (ethical, policy, (criminal) law, and human rights aspects)(=Moral Enhancement and Penal Law System I) 8th of June 2016 17h30-­18h30 Lisbon University Law School | Faculty of Law University of Lisbon | Anfiteatro 8, Piso 0 Conference; Anfiteatro 8, Piso 0 “Direito e Medicina”: Novos e Velhos Problemas
Universidade de Lisboa, Faculdade de Direito (Lisbon, Portugal)
2016/03/08 How can we enhance perspectives on pediatric (neuro)enhancement of attention? Program: https://cognitiveenhancement.weebly.com/ Announcement: https://portal.ikw.uni-osnabrueck.de/~neuroenhancement/ Klausurwoche/Research Week on Pediatric Neuro-­Enhancement Ethical, social, and legal questions in comparison between North America and Germany
Organisation: Dr. Saskia Nagel (University of Twente, Netherlands) (Osnabrück, Germany)
2016/02/25 Mapa breve em direcção a uma filosofia do melhoramento cognitivo Invited Presentation in the "Debate on Ethics of Lifesciences: Cognitive enhancement" da Ciência Viva, Series of Debates organised at Ciência Viva of Ethics in Life Sciences co-­- organized by Ciência Viva and the National Council of Ethics for the Life Sciences (CNECV), 25 de Fevereiro, 19h30 no Pavilhão do Conhecimento – Ciência Viva. Lisboa [artigo no jornal "Observador"]
Ciência Viva http://www.cienciaviva.pt/diac/25fev.asp (Lisboa, Portugal)
2016/02/11 Strata.Geophilosophical Notes on Sérgio Costa Journées d'études: Le morphologique au carrefour de l'empirique, du formel et du logique. Sous la responsabilité de
CFCUL (Lisbon, Portugal)
2016/01/07 Philosophy of gesture-­based cognitive enhancements-­ Notes on gesture, diagram, embodiment. 15-16h30 | Faculty of Arquitecture University of Lisbon, Auditorium 4.023 Dialogues on Spatial Theory and Practice with Alexander Gerner (CFCUL) lecture on Philosophy of gesture-based cognitive enhancements- Notes on gesture, diagram, embodiment. Dialogues on Spatial Theory and Practice with Alexander Gerner, Faculty of Architecture University of Lisbon, Auditorium 4.023
Liljana Cavic, Faculty of Architecture University of Lisbon (Lisbon, Portugal)

Supervision

Thesis Title
Role
Degree Subject (Type)
Institution / Organization
2016/10/01 - 2022/04/08 Desenhando a Música: análise da composição e da escuta segundo o conceito peirceano de diagrama (Designing Music: analysis of composition and listening according to the peircean concept of the diagram) FCT PhD grant: PD/BD/128480/2017
Supervisor of Vinícius Jonas de Aguiar
Filosofia da Ciência, Tecnologia, Arte e Sociedade (associação) (PhD)
Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal
2016/05/01 - 2018/02/23 Neuroscientific, Psychological and Clinical-Philosophical Approaches to Voice-Hearing: A Critical Systematic Review
Co-supervisor of Franziska Anne Stanke
Ciência Cognitiva (Master)
Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Letras, Portugal

Event organisation

Event name
Type of event (Role)
Institution / Organization
2023/11/06 - 2023/11/06 Thinking with Prof. Gabriele Gramelsberger’s philosophy of the digital https://cfcul.ciencias.ulisboa.pt/reunioes/thinking-with-prof-gabriele-gramelsbergers-philosophy-of-the-digital/ Reflections of Prof. Gabriele Gramelsberger (RWTH Aachen) on her book „Philosophie des Digitalen“ (2023) will kickstart our debate in this research seminar on “Philosophies of the Digital” considering various attributes of the digital, as exposed by Gramelsberger including her accounts of deconventionalization, desemantisation, epistemological discrete operationality, (2023/11/06 - 2023/11/06)
Seminar (President of the Organising Committee)
Universidade de Lisboa Centro de Filosofia das Ciências, Portugal
2023/06/01 - 2023/09/23 1º Simpósio Internacional de Filosofia Contemporânea: Inteligência Artificial e Mídias Sociais 22 /09/ 2023 | sexta-feira | das 13h às 17h 23 /09/2023 | sábado | das 9h às13h LOCAL: Universidade de São Bento, Faculdade de São Bento, Largo de São Bento, s/n, São Paulo, Brasil (2023/09/22 - 2023/09/23)
Conference (Co-organisor)
Faculdade de São Bento de São Paulo, Brazil
2023/07/12 - 2023/07/12 Panel organized @ LICPOS 2023 Towards a Philosophy of Technology of Proxies https://cfcul.ciencias.ulisboa.pt/reunioes/simposio-towards-a-philosophy-of-technology-of-proxies-no-ambito-da-licpos-2023/ How do we deal with the uncertainties and errors arising from using proxies in Philosophy of the digital in complexity science in recommender systems? Jorge Louçã (ISCTE-IUL) – From Science as explanation to Science for action: how data proxies can endanger diversity Alexander M. Gerner (CFCUL/GI3) – Hacking into Avatars as Proxies (2023/07/12 - 2023/07/12)
Symposium (President of the Organising Committee)
Universidade de Lisboa Centro de Filosofia das Ciências, Portugal
2023/04/06 - 2023/04/06 AI aesthetics II : Performing with AI Aesthetics: Promptology, Style, Acting, Norms, Noise & Modality Fusion Research Workshop Series AI AESTHETICS AND PHILOSOPHY OF TECHNOLOGY org. by Alexander Gerner & via zoom Call: https://cfcul.ciencias.ulisboa.pt/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/AI-Aesthetics-II-6-4-2023-Call.pdf Program: https://cfcul.ciencias.ulisboa.pt/wp-content (2023/04/06 - 2023/04/06)
Workshop (President of the Organising Committee)
Universidade de Lisboa Centro de Filosofia das Ciências, Portugal
2022/12/02 - 2022/12/03 Lisbon Workshop Series- AI Aesthetics and Philosophy of Technologyorg. Alexander Gerner (FCUL; CFCUL) Meeting I: "Diagram and AI-Aesthetics" Part One: 2.12.2022 Part Two: 3.12.2022 (virtual/online, Zoom) (2022/12/02 - 2022/12/03)
Workshop (President of the Organising Committee)
Universidade de Lisboa Centro de Filosofia das Ciências, Portugal
2019/12/13 - 2019/12/13 Hacking into sonic algorithmic aesthetics. On noise, silence, sound, voices and music in the age of AI Think Tank II with Prof. Dieter Mersch(ZHdK, Switzerland); Dr. Hanns Holger Rutz (University of Music and Performing Arts (KUG)Institute of Electronic Music and Acoustics (IEM), Dr. Miguel Marques Cardoso, Alexander Gerner (CFCUL), Org. by Philosophy of Human technology// Hacking Humans. Dramaturgies and Technologies of Becoming Other (2019/12/13 - 2019/12/13)
Other (President of the Organising Committee)
Universidade de Lisboa Centro de Filosofia das Ciências, Portugal
2019/11/26 - 2019/11/26 BIG DATA Think Tank: BIG DATA/AI_ Politics & Society- Workshop/Thinktank Series organized by Alexander Gerner (PhilHumTech; CFCUL) (2019/11/26 - 2019/11/26)
Other (President of the Organising Committee)
Universidade de Lisboa Centro de Filosofia das Ciências, Portugal
2019/03/26 - 2019/03/28 "From Automata to Robotics" This interdisciplinary meeting aims to build historical knowledge and philosophical reflection on automata, robots, androids, including avatars, cyborgs, and the reflection of the human technological condition based on the contribution of various experts from Arts and the Humanities to Science and Technology. Furthermore, it aims to establish bridges between the past, the present and the future. https://automata2robotics.ciuhct.org/ (2019/03/26 - 2019/03/28)
Conference (Co-organisor)
Centro Interuniversitário de História das Ciências e da Tecnologia, Portugal

Universidade de Lisboa Centro de Filosofia das Ciências, Portugal
2019/03/26 - 2019/03/26 Music Diagram, Motive, social resonance, and music-enriched cognitive enhancement (=Workshop series Philosophy, Science and Human Technology of Music, Sound, Noise, Resonance, I) (2019/03/26 - 2019/03/26)
Workshop (President of the Organising Committee)
Universidade de Lisboa Centro de Filosofia das Ciências, Portugal
2018/12/06 - 2018/12/06 Philosophy of Technology and societal aspects of Quantum Internet 06.12.2018 11h às 13h, no CFCUL, sala 4.3.28, with the President elect of the Society of Philosophy and Technology, Prof. Dr. Pieter Vermaas, Delft University of Technology (NL) and new colaborator of the CFCUL. (Philosophy of Technology on societal aspects of Quantum Internet). https://www.tudelft.nl/en/tpm/about-the-faculty/departments/values-technology-and-innovation/people/associate-professors/dr-pe-pieter-vermaas/ (2018/12/06 - 2018/12/06)
Meeting (President of the Organising Committee)
Universidade de Lisboa Centro de Filosofia das Ciências, Portugal
2018/11/29 - 2018/12/01 "Gestures and Artefacts: Diachronic Perspectives on Embodiment and Technology" Conference: The conference intends to take a diachronic perspective on the relationship between gestures and technical objects. https://artes.phil-fak.uni-koeln.de/sites/artesGS/Veranstaltungen/E9-Conference-Gestures_and_Artefacts.pdf (2018/11/29 - 2018/12/01)
Conference (Co-organisor)
Fritz Thyssen Stiftung, Germany

Universität zu Köln, Germany

Universidade de Lisboa Centro de Filosofia das Ciências, Portugal
2018/11/09 - 2018/11/09 Avatar-Encounters: Face-to-Avatar-Face, body-to-Avatar-Body (and VR),Organisation of workshop/Think Tank with Prof. Thomas Craig, Kings College London on organized by Dr. Alexander Gerner (CFCUL) Dr. João Ribeiro (CFCUL) 9.11.2018, Faculty of Science, Room: 4.2.07, Prof. Dr. Thomas Craig, director of the AVATAR Project (2018/11/09 - 2018/11/09)
Other (President of the Organising Committee)
Universidade de Lisboa Centro de Filosofia das Ciências, Portugal
2017/12/13 - 2017/12/14 Human Enhancement and Evolution. Scientific, Technological, Policy & ELS Considerations Conference http://human-enhancement-and-evolution.campus.ciencias.ulisboa.pt/ Day 1: Evolution and the Sciences and Technologies of Human Enhancement Day 2:Policy & ELSA of Genome Editing and Human Enhancement (2017/12/13 - 2017/12/14)
Conference (President of the Organising Committee)
Universidade de Lisboa Centro de Filosofia das Ciências, Portugal
2017/11/24 - 2017/11/24 #01_ Technologies of Alterity Cologne/Lisbon Philosophy of Technology LABCologne/Lisbon Philosophy of Technology LAB 2017 (24.11.2017) 9h30-18h Anfiteatro da FCiências.ID, Building C1, 3rd floor Faculdade das Ciências Universidade de Lisboa, Campo Grande Organized by: Dr. Alexander Gerner, Philosophy of Human Technology, CFCUL Prof. Thiemo Breyer, a.r.t.e.s, University of Cologne Dr. Johannes Schick, a.r.t.e.s, University of Cologne 23.11.2017 Lisboa (2017/07/01 - 2017/11/26)
Meeting (President of the Organising Committee)
Universidade de Lisboa Centro de Filosofia das Ciências, Portugal

a.r.t.e.s. Universität zu Köln, Germany
2017/10/03 - 2017/10/05 "Face-Mask-Avatar-Embodiment" Think Tank Meeting "Would the encounter with your Avatar be about the similarities with you, or the differences, would it seem like an encounter with a ghost, or only an encounter with a mere thing, an uncanny technical object?" 3.-5.10.2017 organized by CFCUL; ith Zurich (zdhk); PhilhumTech (CFCUL); EPI Clinic Legg, Switzerland Fábrica Braço de Prata, Lisbon, Portugal (2017/10/03 - 2017/10/05)
Conference (President of the Organising Committee)
Universidade de Lisboa Centro de Filosofia das Ciências, Portugal

Zürcher Hochschule der Künste, Switzerland
2017/01/30 - 2017/01/31 Philosophy of technology LAB #01 2017 Dieter Mersch Lab 1 Thinking with Dieter Mersch´s >>Ordo ab chao- Order from Noise<< 30/01/2017 FCUL/Ed.1/Anfiteatro da Fundação da Faculdade das Ciências 14h30-17h30h LAB 2 Participatory Networks- and the Decline of the Social (2017/01/30 - 2017/01/31)
Workshop (President of the Organising Committee)
Universidade de Lisboa Centro de Filosofia das Ciências, Portugal
2016/12/14 - 2016/12/16 http://lisbonicpos.campus.ciencias.ulisboa.pt 14-16 December, 2016 | Lisbon, Portugal The Centre for Philosophy of Science of the University of Lisbon (CFCUL) organized the Third Lisbon International Conference on Philosophy of Science: Contemporary Issues. The Conference took place in Lisbon between the 14th and the 16th of December 2016. (2016/01/01 - 2017/03/20)
Conference (Member of the Organising Committee)
Universidade de Lisboa Centro de Filosofia das Ciências, Portugal

Event participation

Activity description
Type of event
Event name
Institution / Organization
2019/09/16 - 2019/09/18 Ethical, Political and Societal challenges of Big Data Teacher at School of Complex Systems and Big Data: Ethical Implications for Self-Organized Cognition CLE – UNICAMP September 16 – 18, 2019
Other
School of Complex Systems and Big Data: Ethical Implications for Self-Organized Cognition
Universidade Estadual de Campinas Centro de Lógica Epistemologia e História da Ciência, Brazil
2018/12/13 - 2018/12/16 In the Uncanny Valley Part 2: Encounters in Arts, Media, Continental Philosophy. An International Workshop in Two Parts Moderation of the Final Debate 15.12.2018 Conference 15:00-16:30 Toni-Areal, Aktionsraum, Ebene 5, Pfingstweidstrasse 96, Zürich
Conference
In the Uncanny Valley Part 2: Encounters in Arts, Media, Continental Philosophy. An International Workshop in Two Parts
Zürcher Hochschule der Künste, Switzerland
2018/06/12 - 2018/06/12 Wellbeing science, post-normal science and resonance with others Meeting Complex Systems Digital Campus Meeting on Mutual Wellbeing Science, ISCTE-IUL, Auditório 0NE01 - Paquete de Oliveira, Floor 0, Edifício Sedas Nunes https://www.iscte-iul.pt/event/1691/complex-systems-digital-campus-meeting-on-mutual-wellbeing-science Mutual Wellbeing Science concerns the design of ecosystems for mutual benefit of communities, both at the individual and collective levels. Harry Antony, Helder Coelho, Jeff Johnson, Jorge Correia Jesuíno, Jorge Louçã among others
Meeting
complex-systems-digital-campus-meeting-on-mutual-wellbeing-science
ISCTE-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa Escola de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Portugal

UNESCO Social and Human Sciences Sector, France
2018/05/30 - 2018/05/30 Ludification in Theatre. New Utopias of the Theatrical Open Discussion moderated by Alexander Gerner 30.05.2018 16-16h45 ZhdK Zürich, Switzerland Kino Toni Areal 3.GO2
Conference
Ludification in Theatre. New Utopias of the Theatrical
Zürcher Hochschule der Künste, Switzerland
2017/12/12 - 2017/12/13 Introduction of the Conference “Human Enhancement and Evolution” Anfiteatro da FCiências.ID, Building C1, 3rd floor Faculdade das Ciências Universidade de Lisboa, Campo Grande Organized by: Dr. Alexander Gerner, Philosophy of Human Technology, Mara Almeida(CFCUL), João Pinheiro(CFCUL)
Conference
Human Enhancement and Evolution
Universidade de Lisboa Centro de Filosofia das Ciências, Portugal
2017/09/17 - 2017/09/22 Network participation UBIQUITOUS COMPUTING, DATA STORAGE, AND HUMAN AUTONOMOUS ACTION: ETHICAL IMPLICATIONS INVESTIGATED FROM THE COMPLEX SYSTEMS PERSPECTIVE// CONFERENCE ON COMPLEX SYSTEMS 2017 Cancún Mexico - September 17 – 22 SATELLITE: Mariana Claudia Broens , Laura Hernandez, João Kogler, Renata Silva, Edna Alves de Souza, Alexander Gerner, José Artur Quilici Gonzalez, Ítala Loffredo D’Ottaviano, Marcos Antonio Alves, Vinicius Romanini. http://ccs17.unam.mx/satellites
Meeting
CONFERENCE ON COMPLEX SYSTEMS 2017 Cancún Mexico - September 17 – 22 SATELLITE
Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico

Jury of academic degree

Topic
Role
Candidate name (Type of degree)
Institution / Organization
2022/04/08 Desenhando a música: análise da composição e da escuta a partir do conceito peirceano de diagrama
Supervisor
Vinicius Jonas de Aguiar (PhD)
Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal
2019/12/05 "Como figurar a incomunicabilidade da família contemporânea com uma criança pré-adolescente? /"How can the incommunicability of the contemporary family with a pre-adolescent child be represented?" https://repositorio.ipl.pt/handle/10400.21/9443 This thesis aims to be a reflection on cinema, analyzing the figuration that it produces about the incommunicability in the modern and contemporary society proposed as well to present a cinematographic project in the scope of this reflection.
(Thesis) Main arguer
Afonso Cabrita de Castro Gonçalves (Master)
Instituto Politécnico de Lisboa Escola Superior de Teatro e Cinema, Portugal
2019/05/16 "Hacking e práticas de liberdade: conspirando com hackers outros mundos." 2019. 177F. Tese (Doutorado em Psicologia Social e Institucional) – Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, 2019. "Hacking and practices of freedom: conspiring with hackers in other worlds. 2019. 177F. Thesis (Doctorate in Social and Institutional Psychology)
(Thesis) Arguer
WALTER, Bruno Eduardo Procopiuk (PhD)
Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
2019/02/05 "Elephant e o Avatar: O espectador Encarnando o Adolescente/ Elephant and the Avatar: The Spectator Incarnating the Teenager" Avatar as cinematic hero in distinction between video game and cinematic object and in relation to the contemplative aspect of cinema and a type of video game, it elaborates on the importance of the hero in classical cinematic culture and the change of this cultural role of the hero today, and especially on the flow of the experience in which characters are played as avatar https://repositorio.ipl.pt/handle/10400.21/9443
(Thesis) Main arguer
Gonçalo Miguel Peres Castelo Mansinho Soares (Master)
Instituto Politécnico de Lisboa Escola Superior de Teatro e Cinema, Portugal
2018/10/12 Corpo, Identidade e Técnica: etnografando o jeito e o gesto em um gina´sio de Lisboa " Body, Identity and Technique: ethnography of manner and gesture in a Lisbon gymnasium" https://run.unl.pt/handle/10362/51777
(Thesis) Main arguer
Caio Rotta Bradbury Novaes, (PhD)
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Portugal

Conference scientific committee

Conference name Conference host
2019/01/01 - 2019/09/21 EBICC-XII INTERNATIONAL BRAZILIAN MEETING ON COGNITIVE SCIENCE Big Data: Ethical, epistemological and semiotical implications to the self-organized cognition/action Brazilian Cognitive Science Society (SBCC, http://www.sbcc.org.br/), UNICAMP: https://ebicc2019.wordpress.com/

Consulting

Activity description Institution / Organization
2020/01/09 - 2020/02/08 Curator of the exposition of Sérgio Costa Sulcos: Manual de sobrevivência l Sociedade Nacional de Belas Artes (Exposição individual l Solo show) Sociedade Nacional de Belas Artes, Lisboa 09.01 - 08.02.2020 online: 10.13140/RG.2.2.11204.17280/1 https://www.researchgate.net/publication/340778670_Hacking_into_Strata_Texto_da_Exposicao_Sulcos_-Manual_de_Sobrevivencia_de_Sergio_Costa#fullTextFileContent Universidade de Lisboa Centro de Filosofia das Ciências, Portugal
2012/07/25 - 2012/10/26 Fundación La Caixa, Barcelona for the exhibition "Cartografías contemporáneas. Dibujar el pensamiento" invite of Helena Tatay (curator) 1/2 of May 2012 (consultant talk projected as part of the exhibition from 25.7-26.10.2012 CaixaForum Barcelona, Spain

Course / Discipline taught

Academic session Degree Subject (Type) Institution / Organization
2022/03/10 - 2022/03/24 História e Filosofia da Tecnologia (85138) S2 (2022) Curso Livre em Competências Transversais Curso Livre em MINOR - Alunos Externos Licenciatura Bolonha em Física Licenciatura Bolonha em Matemática Licenciatura Bolonha em Matemática Aplicada Licenciatura Bolonha em Biologia Historia e Filosofia d Tecnologia (Licenciatura) Fundação da Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal

Evaluation committee

Activity description
Role
Institution / Organization Funding entity
2017/07/10 - 2017/07/15 Postdoctoral Fellowship, member of the Selection Commitee for the Foundation of the Faculty of Sciences of the University of Lisbon, under the Centre for Philosophy of Sciences of the University of Lisbon (CFCUL)", "UID/FIL/00678/2013", with the financial support of FCT/MEC through national funds and when applicable co-financed by FEDER, under the PT2020 Partnership Agreement, under the following conditions: 1. scientific area: Philosophy of Science and Technology, Technology of the Human Fundação da Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal Fundação da Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade de Lisboa
2016/01/02 - 2016/02/02 Selection Panel Participation of a research scholarship: Instituto de Tecnologia Química e Biológica; Research Grant under the project "The Genetics Clinic of the Future (GCOF)" funded by the European Commission under the Horizon 2020 Mobilisation and mutual learning action plan. Call for applications for a Research Fellowship under the project "The Genetics Clinic of the Future (GCOF)" funded by the European Commission under Horizon 2020 advertisement reference 002/BI/2016 Universidade Nova de Lisboa Instituto de Tecnologia Química e Biológica, Portugal Horizon 2020

Universidade Nova de Lisboa Instituto de Tecnologia Química e Biológica

Journal scientific committee

Journal title (ISSN) Publisher
2023/05/01 - 2024/01/11 semeiosis transdisciplinary journal of semiotics (2178-5368) USP, Department of Communication and Arts (CCA) of the School of Communications and Arts (Escola de Comunicações e Artes – ECA)
Distinctions

Award

1998 City of Munich Dance and Theater Award for "zap through my life"
Landeshauptstadt München Kulturreferat, Germany
1997 Prémio "Dias de Autores" do Teatro Nacional de Hanover (Alemanha) para a peça de teatro "Trance"

Other distinction

2023 1st position in international Call for Tenure track Professorship/Researcher at FilmEU
Universidade Lusófona de Humanidades e Tecnologias, Portugal
2011 Grant for the 2011 Mellon Summerschool “Cognitive- (Neuro-) Sciences and the Humanities”, Stanford University, USA, CASBS (Center of Advanced Studies in Behavioural Sciences)