Heitor Alvelos

Media creative, designer, media culture researcher. Just don´t call me an artist.

Education
Ph.D Media Studies. Royal College of Art, London 2003
MA Visual Communication. School of the Art Institute of Chicago, 1992
BA Communication Design. Universidade do Porto, 1990

Current Posts

Curator, Future Places Digital Media Festival (Porto, Portugal)

Chair, Department of Design, Universidade do Porto (since 2005)
Head of International Relations, School of Fine Arts, Universidade do Porto (since 2003)
Associate Director, ID+: Design, Media and Culture Research Institute -
Universidade do Porto, Universidade de Aveiro (since 2007)
Visiting Tutor, Drawing Studio, Royal College of Art (since 2001)
Course Director, Universidade do Porto:
MA Image Design
MA Multimedia Arts
BA Communication Design

Board Memberships
Coordination Board on behalf of Universidade do Porto: UTAustin – Portugal Digital Media Program
General Board: Fundação Gomes Teixeira (Portugal)
Editorial Board: Crime Media Culture (Sage Publications, United Kingdom)
Editorial Board: Radical Designist (IADE, Lisbon)

Editions, Publications (selection)
2004 – present Autodigest. Edition of media documents detailing the collapse of popular culture. Ash International, Crónica Electrónica
2006 The Glamour of Grime. Article in Crime Media Culture, Sage Pub
2005 The Desert of Imagination in the City of Signs.

Chapter in Cultural Criminology Unleashed reader, Sage
2005 PMVP_scene.jpg (Reality, Perception, Digital). Article in inSi[s]tu
2004 untitled. Track on Gesang der Jünglinge CD, Sirr-ecords
2004 Thoughts on P2P. Article in Margens e Confluências
2003 – 2004 Tracks for Atlantic Waves CDs. Gulbenkian Foundation, London
2002 The Kingdoms of Elgaland-Vargaland. Ash International, 2CD

Recent Lectures and Conferences

2008 The Role of Participatory Media in the Development of Local Communities and Identities. Ciência 2008 Research Labs symposium, Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisbon.

2008 Virtual Scandal and Sacrilege: Who´s GrieFing Now? Panel Chair, South By Southwest Interactive. Austin TX, U.S.A.

2007 Future Listening. Sabanci University, Istanbul.

2007 The Rise of “Fair Vandalism”. Detours, Transforma, Torres Vedras
2007 Cool Consumerism. American Studies conference, Universidade de Lisboa
2007 World Graphics Day. Universidade do Porto / Universidade de Aveiro
2006 Plus Minus: a case study of unofficial public communication.
Public Art conference, Universidade do Porto
2006 The Reversible Murder of Reality. Second Cultural Criminology Conference, University of Kent
2005 Personal Views (International Design Lecture Series). ESAD, Matosinhos

2005 Unofficial Urban Communication in Portugal. School of Fine Arts, Univ. de Pais Vasco, Bilbao
2004 A Draft Encyclopedia of Fabricated Transgression. University of Bacer Sehir, Istanbul.