Podcast
The “Digital Transition” podcast explores key topics in emerging digital culture and ecology, aiming to contribute to the understanding of ongoing technological transformations and their impact on human experience.
Official website: https://ah-digitaltransition.fcsh.unl.pt/podcast/
Episodes in association with the IN&OUT of the BOX project.
Conversation with Benjamin Weil
(Director of CAM – Centro de Arte Moderna, Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation) | 24th February 2025
A curator and art critic, Benjamin Weil has had a remarkable career in the field of digital art and new media. Among the various positions he has held in this field, notable roles include directing the New Media Arts Department at the Institute of Contemporary Art in London, curating Media Arts at SFMOMA – San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, and serving as Artistic Director at Centro Botín in Santander, among others. Since 2021, he has been the Director of the Modern Art Center at the Gulbenkian Foundation. In this interview, Weil reflects on the role of institutions and artistic practices in a world transformed by new media.
Interviewers:
Maria Teresa Cruz (Associate Professor at NOVA University Lisbon)
Luísa Ribas (Assistant Professor at FBAUL)
Nathalia Rech (Doctoral Student at NOVA University Lisbon)
Conversation with Daniel Alves
(Vice Dean for Technological Infrastructure and Digital Transition, NOVA FCSH) | 8th May 2025
In this episode, we spoke with Daniel Alves, Vice Dean for Technological Infrastructure and Digital Transition and Associate Professor at the History Department of NOVA University of Lisbon. Our conversation centered on Digital Humanities — a field in which he has done extensive scholarly and institutional work. Specifically, we discussed how technological circumstances can enhance or hinder the production of knowledge.
Interviewers:
Maria Teresa Cruz (Associate Professor at NOVA University Lisbon), Jorge Martins Rosa and Kelly Souza da Silva
Conversation with
Robert Clowes
(Professor and researcher at NOVA University of Lisbon)
| July 25 2025
In this episode: To discuss the philosophical problem of cognition and its practical implications in the new digital ecology, we welcome Robert Clowes, professor and researcher at NOVA University of Lisbon. With significant contributions to the understanding of the interpenetration between mind and technology, his work has focused, in particular, on how digital media redefine our possibilities for knowledge and agency.
Interviewers:
Maria Teresa Cruz (Associate Professor at NOVA University Lisbon), Diogo Ferreira and Philipp Teuchmann
