Alto Araguaia, Brazil, 1990.
Lives and works in Porto, Portugal.
Lorena Ferreira Alves is a visual artist and musician. She holds a bachelor’s degree and a master’s degree in Music from the Federal University of Goiás. The artist began her work in sound art during her PhD studies in Visual Arts at the University of Brasília and History and Arts at the University of Granada (Spain). She develops sound installations, sound sculptures, and sound objects that explore the interaction between individuals and surveillance technologies. Currently, she works as an integrated researcher at CITAR (Research Center for Science and Technology of the Arts) at the School of Arts of the Portuguese Catholic University.
“@xaieneofficial”, 2019. Duration: 2’35”
“Fake News ”, 2018. Duration: 0’19”
“Força de Lorentz”, 2018. Duration: 1’42”
“Ponto de Acesso”, 2018. Duration: 3’14”
“Grampo”, 2018. Duration: 1’20”
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“Áudios Vazados”, 2018. Duration: 3’08”
Lorena Ferreira Alves (1990 – ?) is a brazilian artist born in Alto Araguaia MT (Brazil). She moved to the city of Goiânia in 2008 where she completed her degree in Music from Escola de Música e Artes Cênicas da Universidade Federal de Goiás in 2013, and her Master in Music from the same institution in 2016. During this period, she attended several courses related to the area of sound, such as the course Som e Trilha Sonora taught by the sound art collective O Grivo, and the Composição course taught by Estércio Marquez Cunha. Between 2016 and 2017 she taught electric guitar, acoustic guitar and music theory at the Centro de Educação Profissional em Artes Basileu França in the city of Goiânia. She performed in musical shows with the band Belas Infiéis, in festivals such as Rock in Roça Festival 2016, in the city of Goiânia, Grito Rock 3rd edition in the city of Formosa, and in the London Pub in the city of Uberlândia. In 2017, he entered the PhD in Visual Arts at the University of Brasília, where he developed the research called Artsoundveillance: hibridização entre arte sonora e arte e vigilância, whose method of artistic production resulted in the creation of sound installations, sound sculptures and sound objects. In 2020, she started her PhD in History and Arts course at the University of Granada under joint supervision, acquiring a double degree in 2021. She is a member of MediaLab/UnB (Research Laboratory in Computational Art of the University of Brasília) and of the collective Nômade Lab, which performs sound-visual performances through the improvisation of sounds and images created through live coding platforms. She has organized and integrated her work in several international art and technology events and exhibitions, such as #17ART (International Meeting of Arts and Technology) and Brasília Mapping Festival 2019. In 2021, she was nominated for the PIPA Prize, an annual Brazilian contemporary art award organized by the PIPA Institute. Currently, she works as an integrated researcher at CITAR (Research Center for Science and Technology of the Arts) at the School of Arts of the Portuguese Catholic University.
“Exposição faz reflexão sobre destino das artes no Brasil”, 2019. Duration: 2’19”
“ARTE E VIGILÂNCIA DIGITAL”, 2020. Duration: 65’44”
