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Pedro Costa is a transdisciplinary creator based in Lisbon, Portugal. Sometimes graphic design, sound design or dj mixing, they’re currently enrolled in a PhD in Fine-Arts. They hold a Master in Communication Design and New Media (2019) and a degree in Audiovisual and Multimedia (2016). Also a member of the Artistic Studies Research Center (CIEBA), their research focuses on the relationship between gender and artificial intelligence and, particularly, why current digital assistants tend to reinforce traditional gender roles and stereotypes, questioning their tendency towards feminization and speculating on the possibilities of reframing them outside a cis-normative binary spectrum.
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Identification

Personal identification

Full name
Pedro Carvalho Ferreira da Costa

Citation names

  • Costa, Pedro

Author identifiers

Ciência ID
2617-652D-13C0
ORCID iD
0000-0002-8382-2370

Email addresses

  • pedro.carv.c@gmail.com (Professional)

Websites

Languages

Language Speaking Reading Writing Listening Peer-review
English Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1)
Spanish; Castilian Intermediate (B1) Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1)
Portuguese (Mother tongue)
Education
Degree Classification
2019/09/12 - 2024
Ongoing
 Belas Artes - Design de Comunicação (Doutoramento)
Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Belas-Artes, Portugal
2019/01/15
Concluded
 Design de Comunicação e Novos Média (Mestrado integrado)
Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Belas-Artes, Portugal
"Conversations with ELIZA: sobre género e inteligência artificial" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
 18
2016/06/27
Concluded
 Audiovisual e Multimédia (Licenciatura)
Instituto Politécnico de Lisboa Escola Superior de Comunicação Social, Portugal
 16
Affiliation

Others

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2020/10/01 - Current Doutorando (Bolsa de Investigação) Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, Portugal
2019 - Current Investigador Universidade de Lisboa Centro de Investigação e de Estudos em Belas-Artes, Portugal
2020/01/18 - 2022/05/01 Projeto de Curadoria e Programação Cultural Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, Portugal
2019/11/05 - 2020/10/01 Estágio de Mediação Artística e Cultural MAAT - Museu de Arte, Arquitetura e Tecnologia, Portugal
2018/02/20 - 2020/05/04 Designer Gráfico Associação Portuguesa de Professores de Inglês, Portugal
Outputs

Publications

Conference abstract
  1. Pedro Costa; Luísa Ribas. "A.I. becomes her: on gender and artificial intelligence". Paper presented in 21st International Conference Consciousness Reframed 2019, Porto, 2019.
    Published
Conference paper
  1. Costa, Pedro; Luísa Ribas; Carvalhais, Miguel. ""I'm a virtual assistant so I don't have pronouns the way people do, thanks for asking": gender neutrality, diversification and fluidity in AI". Paper presented in ISEA 28th Symposium on Electronic Art, Paris, 2023.
  2. Costa, Pedro; Luísa Ribas; Carvalhais, Miguel. ""We're the brains, you're talking about bodies": discussing gender stereotypes in digital assistants". Paper presented in xCoAx 2022: 10th conference on Computation, Communication, Aesthetics, and X, Coimbra, 2022.
  3. Costa, Pedro. ""I try to stay neutral": digital assistants and their stance towards gender". Paper presented in ISEA 26th Symposium on Electronic Art, 2020.
    Accepted
  4. Costa, Pedro; Luísa Ribas. ""Beyond your human concept of gender": discussing gender and AI". Paper presented in Senses & Sensibility 2019 ¿ Lost in (G)localization, Lisboa, 2019.
  5. Costa, Pedro. Corresponding author: Costa, Pedro. "Conversations with ELIZA: sobre género e inteligência artificial". Paper presented in Encontros de Investigação - Arte e Design, Lisboa, 2019.
  6. Pedro Costa; Luísa Ribas. ""Some things you can ask me": about gender and digital assistants". Paper presented in xCoAx 2019: 7th Conference on Computation, Communication, Aesthetics & X, Milan, 2019.
    Published
  7. Pedro Costa; Luísa Ribas. "Conversations with ELIZA: on Gender and Artificial Intelligence". Paper presented in xCoAx 2018: 6th conference on Computation, Communication, Aesthetics, and X, Madrid, 2018.
    Published
Journal article
  1. Costa, Pedro; Ribas, Luísa. "AI becomes her: Discussing gender and artificial intelligence". Technoetic Arts 17 1 (2019): 171-193. http://dx.doi.org/10.1386/tear_00014_1.
    10.1386/tear_00014_1
  2. Ferreira da Costa, Pedro Carvalho. "Conversing with Personal Digital Assistants: on Gender and Artificial Intelligence". Journal of Science and Technology of the Arts 10 3 (2018): 2. http://dx.doi.org/10.7559/citarj.v10i3.563.
    Published • 10.7559/citarj.v10i3.563
Thesis / Dissertation
  1. Costa, Pedro. "Conversations with ELIZA: sobre género e inteligência artificial". Master, Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Belas-Artes, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/10451/37542.

Artistic / Performance

Artistic exhibition
  1. Conversations with ELIZA. 2019.
  2. Conversations with ELIZA. 2018.

Other

Other output
  1. "Some Things You Can Ask Me": about gender and artificial intelligence. Doctoral Symposium at xCoAx 2020: 8th Conference on Computation, Communication, Aesthetics and X. 2020. Costa, Pedro.
Activities

Oral presentation

Presentation title Event name
Host (Event location)
2023/05/17 "I'm a virtual assistant so I don't have pronouns the way people do, thanks for asking": gender neutrality, diversification and fluidity in AI ISEA 28th Symposium on Electronic Art
2022/09/15 Conversations with ELIZA: sobre género e inteligência artificial Seminário - Incubadora DAO
2022/07/07 "We're the brains, you're talking about bodies": discussing gender stereotypes in digital assistants xCoAx 2022: 10th conference on Computation, Communication, Aesthetics, and X
2020/10/13 "I try to stay neutral": digital assistants and their stance towards gender ISEA 26th Symposium on Electronic Art
2020/07/08 "Some Things You Can Ask Me": about gender and artificial intelligence Doctoral Symposium at xCoAx 2020: 8th Conference on Computation, Communication, Aesthetics and X
2019/11/29 "Beyond your human concept of gender": discussing gender and AI Senses & Sensibility 2019 — Lost in (G)localization
UNIDCOM/IADE (Lisboa, Portugal)
2019/10/01 Conversations with ELIZA: sobre género e inteligência artificial Encontro de Investigação — Arte e Design
Faculdade de Belas-Artes da Universidade de Lisboa (Lisboa, Portugal)
2019/07/04 "Some things you can ask me": about gender and digital assistants xCoAx 2019: 7th Conference on Computation, Communication, Aesthetics & X
(Milan, Italy)
2019/06/07 A.I. becomes her: on gender and artificial intelligence 21st International Conference Consciousness Reframed 2019
(Porto, Portugal)
2018/07/12 Conversations with ELIZA: on Gender and Artificial Intelligence xCoAx 2018: 6th Conference on Computation, Communication, Aesthetics & X.
(Madrid, Spain)