Biography

PATRÍCIA GOUVEIA is an artist, designer, scholar, and curator with over twenty years of research experience in arts, design, gaming, and interaction. Her research focuses on games, playful media, interactive fiction, digital arts, and speculative feminism as places of convergence. She is an Associate Professor at the University of Lisbon Fine Arts Faculty (Faculdade de Belas-Artes da Universidade de Lisboa, FBAUL) and an integrated researcher at ITI, Interactive Technologies Institute at LARSyS, Laboratory of Robotics and Engineering Systems (ITI/LARSyS) at Instituto Superior Técnico (IST) in Lisbon. Co-creator of the project Game Arts and Gender Equity and co-curator of the Playmode exhibitions in four major cities in Brazil (CCBB 2019-2023: Belo Horizonte, Rio de Janeiro, São Paulo, and Brasília) and in Lisbon, Portugal (MAAT 2016-2019).