Artistic Researcher and Experimental Filmmaker
PostDoc in Artistic Research (completed in 2021)
Senior Researcher at Gerrit Rietveld Academie University of Applied Sciences
Tutor ART and RESEARCH Programme – University of Amsterdam / Gerrit Rietveld Academie University of Applied Sciences
Exhibitions
2024 (Confirmed) – Solo Show at Zone2Source, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
2023 (Confirmed) – Solo Show at Bradwolff Projects, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
2023 (Confirmed) Three-day presentation in collaboration with Artistic Differences Uniondocs, New York, as part of the Archive Programme at Looiersgracht 60, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
2021 – Omnisciências – Estratégias de Fratura e de Fuga, (Group), Fórum da Maia, Oporto, Portugal.
2020 Enter the Ghost – Haunted Media Ecologies (Solo), Nieuw Dakota Galley in collaboration with Bradwolff Projects, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
2020 – Ghosts and Apparitions (Group), Sheffield Doc|Fest, curator Joe Cutts, director Cíntia Garcia Gil, Sheffield, UK.
2019 Life Without Negativity Group Show with Isabel Cordeiro and Anton Halla, AT7, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
2018 Beyond the Violet End of the Spectrum – Visual Documents in the Age of CCTV and Drones (Solo), Bradwolff Projects Gallery, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
2016 The Webcam as an Emerging Cinematic Medium (Solo), Stedelijk Museum Bureau Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
2015 Precarious Aesthetics – From Webcams to the Moon (two-artists show) with Daniela de Paulis – Bradwolff Projects, Amsterdam.
2013 Media in Transition Conference (MIT8) – Public Media Private Media, showcase of participating artists, MIT Campus, Cambridge, Boston, US.
2013 Investigations III – Research and Visualization – WallScreen projection of Realtime Ellipsis, Artistic Research group show with i.e. Daniela de Paulis and Martin Brandsma, DeFKa Campis, Stedelijk Museum Assen, The Netherlands.
2012 Bucuti 2121212 and GMT minus 5 shown at the ASCA Workshop Extremely Close and Incredibly Slow, Amsterdam University Theatre, The Netherlands.
Film, Video and New Media Festivals/Programmes
2022 Wash. Rinse. Repeat. is shown in curator Greg de Cuir’s Deskt0p cinema Programme, SNF Parkway Theatre, Baltimore, US.
2021 Wash. Rinse. Repeat. is shown in Fractal Cinemas section during FestCurtas BH (International Short Film Festival), Brazil.
2021 Wash. Rinse. Repeat. is shown at FUSO Videoart Annual, MAAT museum, Lisboa, Portugal.
2021 Live Streaming US is shown at Blackstar Film Festival (invited by curator Greg de Cuir), followed by panel discussion with Kevin B. Lee at the Inaugural William and Louise Greaves Filmmaker Seminar, Philadelphia, US.
2021 Presentation of Wash. Rinse. Repeat. – Letter from a Sensor Operator, during How to Disappear, Special Film Programme on Surveillance, Cinema Kriterion, Amsterdam.
2021 Presentation of Live Streaming US, during How to Disappear, Special Film Programme on Surveillance, Cinema Kriterion, Amsterdam.
2019 Presentation of Live Streaming US and Violet End of the Spectrum followed by talk about found footage with media art curator Annet Dekker at IDFA x UvA event, during International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam.
2019 Eternal Foreigner shown during film programme Once Upon a Time in Goa: Identity and Memories in Cinema, Orient Museum, Lisbon, Portugal.
2016 Streaming US shown at Critics’ Choice, International Film Festival Rotterdam, The Netherlands, commissioned by film critics/journalists Dana Linssen and Jan-Pieter Ekker.
2015 Cyber Safari shown at Found Footage Event, Between You and Me, Urban Screen, Tilburg.
2014 Portraying A’dam – Chapter 3, Official Competition Selection, Alternative Film and Video Festival Belgrade, Serbia.
2014 Portraying A’dam – Chapter 3, FUSO Videoart Annual, Electricity Museum, Lisbon, Portugal.
2014 Presentation of my film Errata at Coloque Cinéma et Révolution, l’example Portugais, Sorbonne/Gulbenkian Foundation, Paris, France.
2012 Siesta is shown at Oslo Screen Festival, Norway.
Grants and subsidies
2022 Stimuleringsfonds Creatieve Industrie – Experiment Subsidy line for the project Exhaustion, Labour and Proto-Surveillance as experimental basis for footage appropriation during archival research at Eye Film Museum.
2022 Mondriaan Fund – Project Subsidy for the project Anarchiving Exhaustion – Decolonizing Film Heritages of Proto-Surveillance and Subjectification.
2021 Mondriaan Fund – Project Subsidy (Coronaregeling) for the project Exhaustion as Capital Asset (Corona regulation).
2020 Mondriaan Fund – Artist’s Honorary for the solo exhibition Enter the Ghost – Haunted Media Ecologies at Nieuw Dakota (October to November 2020).
2020 Stimuleringsfonds Creative Industries for the solo exhibition Enter the Ghost – Haunted Media Ecologies at Nieuw Dakota (October to November 2020).
2020 Amsterdam Art Fund for the solo exhibition Enter the Ghost – Haunted Media Ecologies at Nieuw Dakota (October to November 2020).
2018 Stimuleringsfonds Creative Industry for the Research Phase of artistic research project Beyond the Violet End of the Spectrum – Visual Documents in the Age of CCTV and Drones (April to August 2018).
2018 Mondriaan Fonds – Kunstenaarshonorarium for solo exhibition at Bradwolff Projects Gallery Beyond the Violet End of the Spectrum – Visual Documents in the Age of CCTV and Drones, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
2016 Juriaanse Stichting, Dissertation Printing Costs Support.
2012-2016 PhD Grant from the Portuguese Science and Technology Foundation.
Juries and Commissions
2022 to date – Adviser at Creative Industry Fund – Digital Culture – The Netherlands.
2020 to date – Member of Advisory Board of the Amsterdam Research Institute for the Arts and Sciences (ARIAS).
2020 to date – Member of the Kunstcommissie, comprised of the University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam Museum, Allard Pierson Museum, de Appel and other partners.
2019 – Present in PhD commissions evaluating doctoral degrees in the arts.
2015-2017 Artistic Adviser at Amsterdam Art Fund (AFK).
2014-2018 Jury for Art of Neuroscience, Nederlands Herseninstituut, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
2015 to date – Dutch Delegate of CAMIRA (Cinema and Moving Image Research Assembly).
Education
2018-2021 Postdoc in Artistic Research at Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis (ASCA), University of Amsterdam (Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Patricia Pisters).
2011-2016 PhD in Media Studies at Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis (ASCA), University of Amsterdam, the first in Artistic Research in collaboration with the Gerrit Rietveld Academy (Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Patricia Pisters. Co-Supervisor: Dr. Jeroen Boomgaard).
2008-2010 Master of Fine Arts Degree at the Sandberg Institute, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
2005 Film Directing Course, The London Film School at Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisbon, Portugal.
1999-2003 Visual Arts BFA at the Moving Image Department (VAV), Gerrit Rietveld Academy, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
1993-1998 BA in Journalism, University of Coimbra, Portugal.
Publications about my work (by curators, journalists, critics, and other researchers)
2021 Korporal, Astrid. “Surveillance, bias and healing through re-articulation: An interview with Paula Albuquerque on her recent solo exhibition in Amsterdam.” NECSUS online Peer-Reviewed European Journal of Media Studies, Solidarity, Spring (2021).
2020 Luers, Will. “The Webcam as an Emerging Cinematic Medium (Review). Leonardo. Boston: MIT Press, 2020.
2018 Reinsma, Richtje. “On Mechanical Eyes, Digital Ghosts and Dirty Hands – A Young Archive Beyond Scary and Funny”, Mister Motley, Amsterdam, 2018.
2018 de Goede, Nim. “Talking to Paula Albuquerque about Ghostly Images in New Media.” Metropolis M. Amsterdam, 2018.
2016 Zonneveld, Joost. “Webcam is het Belangrijkste Medium.” Science Section, Het Parool. Amsterdam, 2016.
2015 Kuc, Kamila and Joanna Zylinska. Photo Mediations. London: Goldsmiths-Europeana, 2015.
Tempelaar, Brenda. “Precarious Aesthetics – From Webcams to the Moon (Review).” Tubelight: Recensies over Hedendagse Kunst, #94. Amsterdam, 2015.
2013 Pisters, Patricia. “Art as Circuit Breaker: Surveillance Screens and Powers of Affect.” Carnal Aesthetics. New York: I.B. Tauris, 2013.
Publications
2023 (Confirmed) Article in They Work Hard for the Money, edited by Jennifer Vanderpool and Colin Gardner, Palgrave-Macmillan (publisher), London-New York.
2022-2023 (Upcoming) Albuquerque, Paula. “Making as Thought.” The Oxford Manual of Art-Based Education. Oxford University Press, 2023.
2022-2023 (Upcoming) Albuquerque, Paula. “Mining the Archive: How Gesture and Film Language Determine Gender and Race Stereotypes.” Transversal Interlacings. Artistic Research in Film and Philosophy. Edited by Christine Reeh-Peters, Stefan Winter and Juliane Schiffers. IKF – Institute for Artistic Research of the Film University Babelsberg, 2022/2023.
2022-2023 (Upcoming) Albuquerque, Paula. “Burnout as Capital Asset and Mode of Resistance in the Surveillance Society.” Disrupting Surveillance: Media Arts Practice for a Reimagined Future. In Media Practice and Education Journal. Special Issue, 2023.
2022 Albuquerque, Paula. “Becoming Somatic, Again.” Creator Doctus. Amsterdam: Lectoraat Art in Public Space, Gerrit Rietveld Academie, 2022.
2022 Albuquerque, Paula. “The Asset of Burnout: Transmedial as Agential Strategy,” Hinterlands, edited by Jeroen Boomgaard, Katie Clarke and Nienke Scholts, Amsterdam Research Institute for the Arts and Sciences, Amsterdam, 2022.
2020 Albuquerque, Paula. Enter the Ghost – Haunted Media Ecologies. Project Book of my solo exhibition in Nieuw Dakota with texts by Flavia Dzodan, Nim Goede, Matt Groh (MIT), Richtje Reinsma, Alice Smits and myself, Amsterdam.
2020 Albuquerque, Paula. “Gentle Wildfires,” Hearth and Home, catalogue of Simone Bennett’s solo exhibition. Hilversum Museum, 2020.
2020 Albuquerque, Paula. “Errata: A Short Personal Note on an Auto-Corrective Film,” in La Furia Umana, LFU/39, 2020.
2020 Albuquerque, Paula. “Enter the Ghost.” #RaiseUP. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2020.
2019 Albuquerque, Paula. “Haunting Surveillance: Foregrounding the Spectre of the Medium in CCTV and Military Drones” in NECSUS online Peer-Reviewed European Journal of Media Studies, Amsterdam University Press.
2018 Albuquerque, Paula. The Webcam as an Emerging Cinematic Medium, in Film Culture in Transition series (Thomas Elsaesser, ed.) Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2018.
2017 “Webcams: Agency and the Art of Surveillance.” Research Forum 2017, Alternative Film/Video Festival Belgrade. Serbia, 2017.
2015 Albuquerque, Paula. “Too Much World: A Hito Steyler Retrospective.” NECSUS online Peer-Reviewed European Journal of Media Studies, Animals, Spring (2015).
2014 Albuquerque, Paula. “Webcams as Emerging Cinematic Medium.” NECSUS online Peer-Reviewed European Journal of Media Studies, Traces, Spring (2014).
Public Presentations
2023 (Confirmed) Presentation of my work as Artistic Researcher in dialogue with Professor Christine Reeh-Peters, Babelsberg Film University Korad Wolf, Potsdam, Germany.
2022 Artistic Research and the Third Cycle in the Arts Conference, Academy of Fine Arts, Rome, Italy.
2021 Participation in debate with Bruno Gambino during FestCurtas BH (International Short Film Festival), Brazil.
2021 Moderation of CrD Conference about Third Cycle education, organized by the Lectoraat Art in Public Space, Gerrit Rietveld Academy, Amsterdam.
2021 Presentation at Zones of Interference Symposium, organised by Dr. Christine Reeh-Peters at Film University Babelsberg Konrad Wolf, Potsdam, Germany.
2020 Art Talk together with AI expert Flavia Dzodan and racial justice activist performer Tania Camara, during my solo exhibition Enter the Ghost – Haunted Media Ecologies, Nieuw Dakota in collaboration with Bradwolff Projects, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
2019 Participation in Internal Workshop about Prison Images, at Harun Farocki Institute with Antje Ehman, curators Tom Holert and Doreen Mende.
2019 Presented paper at Media in Transition Conference, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Boston, USA.
2019 Presented paper and artwork during Visible Evidence Conference/Festival, University of Southern California Santa Barbara, School of Cinematic Arts, Los Angeles, USA.
2019 Presented Paper and Violet End of the Spectrum during symposium Expanding Cinema: Creative Processes and Practices, Fine Arts Faculty, Oporto University.
2018 Presented paper at NECS Conference Media Tactics and Engagement, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
2018 Public launch of my book The Webcam as an Emerging Cinematic Medium, in Film Culture in Transition series (Thomas Elsaesser, ed.), Amsterdam University Press at Eye Film Museum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
2017 Exploring integral approaches in arts & culture research part 2 – a conversation with artists dr. Ruchama Noorda and dr. Paula Albuquerque and lectors dr. Jeroen Boomgaard and drs Nirav Christophe, Exploring Integrated Arts & Culture Research – Smart Culture Conference, organized by NWO, De Rode Hoed, Amsterdam.
2017 PhD Dissertation Presentation at Project Space The Bookstore, within the context of the project Breaking for Knowledge, Amsterdam.
2017 Theory of Practice/Practice of Theory, Thinking Through Making, Symposium, Coventry University, UK.
2016 Presentation during opening of the Faculty Year (FGW), De Rode Hoed, Amsterdam.
2016 Public Defense of my PhD Dissertation The Webcam as an Emerging Cinematic Medium, Agnietenkapel, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
2015 Paper delivered at NECS Conference Archives of/for the Future, Lodz, Poland.
2015 Presentation of my PhD at single artist salon during Precarious Aesthetics – From Webcams to the Moon exhibition at Bradwolff Projects with an introduction by Prof dr Patricia Pisters, Amsterdam.
2014 Paper delivered at Research Forum on Videoart, during Alternative Film and Video Festival, Belgrade, Serbia.
2014 Salon with Kristina Andersen at STEIM, organized by Artistic Research Group Making Things Public, Lectoraat Art in Public Space (LAPS), Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
2014 Master Class with Prof dr Patricia Pisters, at the invitation of Prof. dr. Jonathan Beller, Pratt Institute, New York, US.
2013 Paper delivered at Film-Philosophy Conference, Amsterdam University Theater, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
2013 Paper delivered at NECS Conference – Media Politics, Political Media, Charles University Prague, Czech Republic.
2013 Paper delivered at MIT8 – Public Media Private Media Conference, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Boston, US.
2012 Paper delivered at Passages Conference, organized with the Sorbonne, DocLisboa Film Festival, Lisbon, Portugal.
2012 Paper delivered at Investigations II – Nuts and Bolts of a PhD in the Arts, Symposium about Artistic Research, Gerrit Rietveld Academy, The Netherlands.
2012 Paper delivered at NECS Conference – Time Networks: Screen media and memory, New University, Lisbon, Portugal.
Lecturing and Collaborations
2019 to date – Senior Researcher at Lectoraat Art & Public Space and coordinator of Third Cycle in Artistic Research at the Rietveld Group (TARR), Gerrit Rietveld Academy, Amsterdam.
2019-2022 – Head of the Research Master of Art and Performance Research Studies (specialization in Artistic Research), Department of Arts and Culture, University of Amsterdam.
2018-to date – Rietveld Coordinator of the ART and RESEARCH Program, University of Amsterdam (Track) and Gerrit Rietveld Academy (Honours Programme).
2017-2022 – Coordinator of Artistic Research Research Group (ARRG), Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis, University of Amsterdam.
2017-2019 – Co-Coordinator of the Master of Artistic Research, Department of Arts and Culture, University of Amsterdam, together with Dr Jeroen Boomgaard).
2016-2022– Teacher in Artistic Research, Department of Arts and Culture, University of Amsterdam.
2016 – Lecturer of Visual Culture, Amsterdam University College, The Netherlands.
2016-2020 – Theory Teacher and Thesis Supervisor at VAV (Moving Image) Department, Gerrit Rietveld Academy, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
2014 Guest lecturer about PhD’s in Artistic Research with Prof dr Patricia Pisters at Master of Film, Dutch Film and Television Academy, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
2014 Guest lecturer at Master of Artistic Research of the University of Amsterdam, Sandberg Institute, Amsterdam.
2012-2016 Participant in Film-Philosophy Seminar, Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis, University of Amsterdam.
2012-2022 Tutor of the ART and RESEARCH Honours Programme – Gerrit Rietveld Academy / University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands.