Audiovisual Disruption: Post-Digital Aesthetics in Contemporary Audiovisual Arts

Post-digital art suggests a form of embodiment of digital technologies that unfolds in physical space through hands-on material approaches, and even the repurposing of older analogue media. Pedro Ferreira examines these aesthetics in contemporary audiovisual arts as reactions to our post-digital condition. He traces four post-digital territories by looking on the digital infrastructure, within the effects of the post-digital condition, in-between digital and non-digital media as media hybrids, and off digital media in a turn to analogue media. Concluding with a series of artworks, this study exposes the material, sociocultural and environmental consequences of digital technologies in our post-digital age.

Pedro Ferreira, born in 1988, is an artist and researcher based in Berlin. He holds a doctorate degree in fine arts with the specialisation of multimedia art from the University of Lisbon. He researches post-digital aesthetics that address the effects of digital technologies on daily life, society and the environment. In his artistic practice he experiments with media materiality. His works range from experimental music and sound art to generative art, audiovisual performance, experimental film, video art, game art and net art.