CADA is an art group that makes software for exhibitions and the public realm. Formed in Lisbon in 2007 by Sofia Oliveira and Jared Hawkey, the group’s work is intentionally playful, designed to activate experiences that are both personal and question our relationship with technology in everyday life. It also organises events and workshops to extend participation in digital cultural practice. CADA has exhibited across Europe and in Brazil.
CADA has received public funding from the Creative Europe Programme of the European Union, the Directorate-General for the Arts (DGArtes) of the Portuguese Ministry of Culture, the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT) and Lisbon City Council.
Português
O CADA é um grupo artístico que desenvolve software para exposições e para o domínio público. Formado em Lisboa em 2007 por Sofia Oliveira e Jared Hawkey, os seus trabalhos são intencionalmente playful, desenhados para ativar experiências pessoais e que questionam a nossa relação com a tecnologia na vida quotidiana. O grupo também organiza eventos e workshops que promovem o desenvolvimento da prática cultural digital, e já expôs o seu trabalho na Europa e no Brasil.
O CADA já recebeu financiamento público da Direção Geral das Artes, Ministério da Cultura, Programa Europa Criativa da União Europeia, Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia e Câmara Municipal de Lisboa.
CADA are/são:
Sofia Oliveira
Jared Hawkey
With/Com:
Olivier Perriquet
Heitor Ferreira
José Mata Fernandes
Miguel Cardoso
WORK
Over and over, v.0, 2023
Over and over v.0 is an installation comprising sound and video, which started when we mistook the repetitive noise of a slow rotating crane for a mobile phone alarm. What we liked about this event was how the sound itself fed our imagination and echoed more abstract discussions we’d been having on boundaries and voids.
https://www.cada1.net/works/over-and-over-v0
ground-ground, 2022
ground-ground is an installation with sound, light and interaction.
ground-ground started when, out of the blue, we both independently imagined two similar funnel-like forms. The power of this coincidence led us to think about simultaneous realities, experience as a continuum and more elusive quasi-mystical ideas of wholeness.
https://www.cada1.net/works/ground-ground
CLOSER, 2019
CLOSER translates a feeling of both anxiety and hope into the form of an interactive installation. The work consists of a circle on the floor, a sound and a hack on the room’s air-conditioning. Through this system, sound and air temperature react to the arrangement and density of the audience, and while interconnected they are without linear connections or sequential order.
Commissioned by Filipe Pais and Patrícia Gouveia for the exhibition Playmode, MAAT, Museum of Art, Architecture and Technology, Lisbon.
https://www.cada1.net/works/closer
TYRO, 2019
TYRO is an artificial intelligence chatbot whose highly polarized mindset belies its underlying multidimensional structure. Perplexing and clearly non-human, it converses in written English. The work is designed to activate a space for experience within the man-machine matrix.
https://tyro.cada1.net
A MOEDA (The Coin) 2013 – ongoing
A MOEDA (The Coin) is a digital artefact that wants to travel around the world.
A semi-autonomous object passed between human hosts, on a journey defined by a desire to eventually return home.
http://www.cada1.net/works/a-moeda-the-coin
TimeMachine 2009-14
TimeMachine is an Android application which aims to capture the elasticity of time experienced in everyday life, and translate it into a meaningful image.
TimeMachine is a CADA project developed in collaboration with CITI (Centro de Informática e Tecnologias de Informação) at the Nova University of Lisbon.
http://www.cada1.net/works/timemachine
Emotional Object 2008-09
Collaboration with Adriana Sá and John Klima
Emotional Object is a multi-user game that invites participants to act upon a mechano-sculpture and a musical composition through a digital interface. The player proceeds while speculating about which emotion will result from a determined action, and about the effect of the individual over the collective.
http://www.cada1.net/works/emotional-object
TODAY 2007-08
TODAY is a mobile phone application that visualises personal communication.
It sits on the periphery of the machine, monitoring our connectivity through the number and type of calls we receive, subtly displaying them back to us, in the form of a generative graphic. What lies at TODAY’s core was the idea of using personal data as the basis for an aesthetic system, while providing individuals with a visual diary of their communication patterns.
http://www.cada1.net/works/today-mobile-application
TODAY, 2013 version
Android version with new visual system and features.
http://www.cada1.net/works/today-visualize-your-calls-version-2-for-android
EXHIBITIONS
Over and over v.0, Oficinas do Convento, Montemor-o-Novo, Março 2023
ground-ground, Salto gallery, Lisboa. Curated by Nicolai Sarbib, September 2022
Playmode, MAAT, Museum of Art, Architecture and Technology, Lisbon, Portugal. Curated by Filipe Pais and Patrícia Gouveia. CLOSER, September 2019-February 2020
Vivarium Festival, 2nd edition, Maus Hábitos, Porto, Portugal, TYRO, March 2019
The New Art Fest 2016, Museum of Natural History and Science, Lisbon, Portugal. Curated by António Cerveira Pinto. A MOEDA, November 2016
New School – Imagem – Arquivo 237, Lisbon, Portugal, TimeMachine, October 2014
xCoAx 2014: Computation, Communication, Aesthetics and X, Porto, Portugal. TimeMachine, June 2014
UM International Festival of Experimental Media, Lisbon, Portugal, TimeMachine, November 2009
Experimenta Design 09, Parallel Events, Lisbon, Portugal. TimeMachine, September 2009
Emotional Object, Galeria Zé dos Bois (ZDB), Lisbon, Portugal. Emotional Object, April-May 2009
Pronto! On Telephony, [plug.in], Basel, Switzerland. Curated by Andreas Blättler and Raffael Dörig. TODAY, September 2009
Version Beta, Centre Pour L’Image Contemporaine, Geneva, Switzerland. Emotional Object, October-December 2008
SHIFT, Lisbon, Portugal. TODAY, October 2008
Chain Reaction, Museum of the City of Skopje, Skopje, Republic of Macedonia. TODAY, September 2008
BANG Festival, Edifício Transboavista, Lisbon, Portugal. TODAY, March-April 2008
MobileFest03, MIS (The São Paulo Museum of Image and Sound), São Paulo, Brazil. TODAY, November 2008
TALKS AND PRESENTATIONS
Artist talk, Art + Code, 42 Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal, December 2021
Artist talk, EVA, Video and Digital Arts Festival, Caldas da Rainha, Portugal, May 2019
TYRO project launch:
ZDB Gallery, Lisbon, Portugal, January 2019
Oficinas do Convento, Montemor-o-Novo, Portugal, January 2019
CineClube de Tavira, Tavira, Portugal, February 2019
Silos – Contentor Criativo, Caldas da Rainha, Portugal, February 2019
A MOEDA project launch, ZDB Gallery, Lisbon, Portugal, October 2016
A MOEDA project launch, Foundation for Art and Creative Technology FACT, Liverpool, UK, October 2016
A MOEDA project launch, Broken Dimanche Press, Berlin, Germany, September 2016
Ciclo de Conversas Design e Multimédia, University of Coimbra, Portugal. ‘Arte e Design Computacional’, April 2014
3rd NeDiMAH workshop on Networks Over Space and Time: Modelling and visualizing complex data in the digital humanities, FCSH, Nova University of Lisbon, Portugal. TimeMachine, November 2013
MA Communication Design and New Media, Faculty of Fine Arts, University of Lisbon (FBAUL), Portugal. TimeMachine, June 2013
AmI–11, International Joint Conference on Ambient Intelligence, Amsterdam, the Netherlands. TimeMachine, poster and demo, Nuno Correia, Jared Hawkey, Sofia Oliveira, Olivier Perriquet, Cristiano Lopes. November 2011
WHO galeria, Lisbon, Portugal. ‘Arte em Código’, round-table discussion. May 2011
Future Places Festival, Porto, Portugal. TimeMachine, Jared Hawkey/Nuno Correia. October 2009
Ciclo de Conversas Design e Multimédia, University of Coimbra, Portugal. ‘Ambiguous Computing’. June 2009
Escola Superior de Educação de Coimbra, Portugal. TODAY, May 2009
Pixelache Festival, Helsinki, Finland. TODAY, April 2009
MobileFest03, MIS (The São Paulo Museum of Image and Sound), São Paulo, Brazil. TODAY, November 2008
SHIFT, Lisbon, Portugal. TODAY, October 2008
Abertura2, Lisbon, Portugal. TODAY, July 2008
Upgrade! Lisbon, Galeria Miguel Nabinho, Lisbon, Portugal. TODAY, May 2008
OFFF Festival, Lisbon, Portugal. TODAY, May 2008
Pecha Kucha Lisbon 03, Lux, Lisbon, Portugal. TODAY, December 2007
PUBLICATIONS
A MOEDA The publication, Ebook edited by Broken Dimanche Press, September 2016, pdf
‘Human Entities – An artistic approach to the IoT’, Jared Hawkey, Sofia Oliveira INTER-FACE 2014: Proceedings of the second International Conference on Live Interfaces, Lisbon, Portugal. November 2014, pdf
‘TimeMachine’, Jared Hawkey, Sofia Oliveira, Nuno Correia, Olivier Perriquet. xCoAx 2014: Proceedings of the Second Conference on Computation, Communication, Aesthetics and X, Porto, Portugal. June 2014, pdf
‘Personal Routine Visualization using Mobile Devices’, Nuno Correia, Jared Hawkey, Sofia Oliveira, Olivier Perriquet, Cristiano Lopes. Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Multimedia (MUM ’12), Ulm, Germany, ACM Press, 2012
‘A Mobile System to Visualize Patterns of Everyday Life’, Nuno Correia, Armanda Rodrigues, Tiago Amorim, Jared Hawkey, Sofia Oliveira, Proceedings of the International Symposium on Ambient Intelligence (ISAmI 2011), Salamanca, Spain, Springer-Verlag, 2011
‘TODAY, Generative Art for Mobile Phones’, Jared Hawkey/Sofia Oliveira, Generative Art Conference, Politécnico di Milano University, Milan, Italy. December 2008
BIBLIOGRAPHY
‘Cloud Computing and (new) mobile storytelling in the Internet of Things‘, Helena Barbas, EUROMEDIA’2015, I.S.T., Lisboa, Portugal. April 2015
‘Museus sem lugar: ensaios, manifestos e diálogos em rede‘, ebook editado por Helena Barranha, Susana S. Martins e António Pinto Ribeiro, projecto Unplace. June 2015
‘Dá-me um Momento da sua Atenção? O Ecrã como Dispositivo de Mobilização’, Jorge Martins Rosa, Keynote paper at Post-Screen, CIEBA, FBAUL, Lisbon University. November 2014
‘Dis Connecting Media: Technik, Praxis und Ästhetik des Telefons: Vom Festnetz zum Handy’ [Taschenbuch], Andreas Blaettler.
Digimag, Issue 41, February 2009 ‘Cada: Did You Say You Wanted An Evolution?’ Marco Mancuso.
TEACHING
Workshops led by CADA
figure-figure ground-ground: Three-day workshop
e|m|a|fructidor – école média art, Chalon-sur-Saône, France, 30-31 March, 1 April 2022
Unnatural speech: Three-day workshop
Fine Arts Faculty, University of Lisbon, March 2020
Unnatural speech: Two-day workshop
Escola Superior de Artes e Design (ESAD), Caldas da Rainha, March 2020
Unnatural speech: Two-day workshop
Oficinas do Convento, Montemor-o-Novo, 25 and 26 January 2020
Unnatural, Technology that talks: Two-day workshop
Fine Arts Faculty, University of Lisbon, February-March 2019
A MOEDA workshop: Storytelling with an itinerant data object
Broken Dimanche Press, Berlin, 9-13 November 2015
A MOEDA workshop: Storytelling with an itinerant data object
Foundation for Art and Creative Technology, FACT, Liverpool, UK, 25-29 November 2015
Infographics for Young People: Three three-day courses in public schools, January-May 2016 info
Human Entities… An artistic approach to the IoT workshop
INTER-FACE 2014, Lisbon, Portugal, 20 November 2014
Human Entities… An artistic approach to the IoT workshop
Folkestone Fringe, Folkestone, UK, 3 September 2014
A MOEDA (The Coin) Workshop: A speculative exercise on the Internet of Things (IoT)
BSc and MSc in Design and Multimedia, Departments of Architecture (DARQ) and Informatics Engineering (DEI), University of Coimbra, Portugal, 6-7 May 2014
Human Entities… An artistic approach to the IoT workshop (led by Jared Hawkey)
e|m|a|fructidor – école média art, Chalon-sur-Saône, France, 14-18 April 2014
A MOEDA (The Coin) Workshop – A speculative exercise on the Internet of Things (IoT), New Media and Communication Design MA, Fine Arts Faculty, Lisbon University, Portugal, 7, 8, 10 April 2014
A MOEDA (The Coin) Workshop – A speculative exercise on the Internet of Things (IoT), Artistic Contemporary Creation MA, Aveiro University, 13-14 March 2014
A MOEDA (The Coin) Workshop, Close, Closer, 2013 Lisbon Architecture Triennale, Associated Project, Lisbon, Portugal, 10-11 December 2013
Blindness and the Creative Use of Technology (led by Sofia Oliveira)
A speculative workshop for artists, designers and people with visual disabilities. CATCH/Re-Enter, CPAI/CIANT, Lisbon, Portugal, July 2013
How Would a Mobile Phone Perceive Its User?
Fine Arts Faculty, Lisbon University, Portugal, March-May 2010
Artistic residencies, workshops and talks organised by CADA
2023
ANIMAIS, new media artistic residency organised by CADA in partnership with T-Factor (NOVA University of Lisbon), September-October 23
Human Entities 2023: culture in the age of artificial intelligence
Seventh edition, public talks organised by CADA in partnership with the Lisbon Architecture Triennale and the Fine Arts Faculty, Lisbon University
Lisbon, Portugal, April – May 2023
2022
Artistic Residency ZDB & CADA, October 22
Human Entities 2022: culture in the age of artificial intelligence
Sixth edition, public talks organised by CADA in partnership with the Lisbon Architecture Triennale and the Fine Arts Faculty, Lisbon University
Lisbon, Portugal, May-October 2022
2021
Human Entities 2021: culture in the age of artificial intelligence
Fifth edition, public talks organised by CADA in partnership with the Lisbon Architecture Triennale
Lisbon, Portugal, September-October 2021
2020
Human Entities 2020: culture in the age of artificial intelligence
Fourth edition, public talks organised by CADA in partnership with the Lisbon Architecture Triennale
Lisbon, Portugal, November 2020
2019
Human Entities 2019: culture in the age of artificial intelligence
Third edition, public talks organised by CADA in partnership with the Lisbon Architecture Triennale
Lisbon, Portugal, March-May 2019
2017
Human Entities 2017: culture in the age of artificial intelligence
Second edition, public talks organised by CADA in partnership with the Lisbon Architecture Triennale
Lisbon, Portugal, October-November 2017
2016
Human Entities 2016: culture in the age of semi-autonomous machines
Public talks organised by CADA in partnership with the Lisbon Architecture Triennale
Lisbon, Portugal, April-May 2016
2014
Data Journalism workshop
Mark Hansen, Columbia Journalism School (US)
Lisbon, Portugal
27-28 November 2014
Storytelling Through Infographics
Data visualisation for journalists, designers and marketeers
Christian Tate / Rob Orchard (UK)
Lisbon, Portugal
Three separate one-day workshops: 28 March, 18 June, 19 June 2014
2011
Get it! Feel It! Know it! Viz it!
DataViz workshop
Miguel Cardoso / Pedro Almeida (PT), Lisbon. October 2011
Let’s void setup(){;} void draw(){;}
Processing workshop
André Sier (PT), Lisbon, 29 September-8 October 2011
2010
iPhone Insider 2
iPhone development workshop
James Eberhardt (CA), Lisbon, 6, 8-10 March 2010
2009
Build Your Own Arduino
Arduino workshop
André Gonçalves (PT) Lisbon, 27–30 October 2009
DataViz & Processing workshop,
Karsten Schmidt (toxi, UK), Lisbon, 20-22 April 2009
iPhone Insider
iPhone development workshop,
James Eberhardt (CA), Lisbon, 6, 8, 9, 10 March 2009
2008
Let’s get REALLY physical
Arduino workshop
André Gonçalves (PT), Medium/Advanced Arduino Workshop, Lisbon
2 editions: 18-24 February and 25 February-3 March 2008
2007
Let’s get physical
Arduino workshop
Massimo Banzi (IT), Lisbon, 3-6 May 2007
