G. (Gabriel) Oliveira Pereira PhD
Faculty of Humanities
Departement Mediastudies
Area of expertise: critical algorithm studies, critical data studies, infrastructure studies, computer vision, algorithmic surveillance, platform studies
Visiting address
- Turfdraagsterpad 15
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Postbus 94550
1090 GN Amsterdam
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Bio
Gabriel Pereira is Assistant Professor in AI & Digital Culture at the University of Amsterdam (UvA), based at the Media Studies department and the Institute for Logic, Language and Computation (ILLC). His research focuses on critical studies of data, algorithms, and digital infrastructures, particularly those of computer vision. His research methods are interdisciplinary and collaborative, including both forms of qualitative research and practice-based inquiry (e.g. artistic interventions and critical making). Projects with Gabriel have been exhibited in venues such as the 33rd Sao Paulo Art Biennial, the Van Abbemuseum, IDFA DocLab, and Itaú Cultural.
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Publications
2025
- Pereira, G., Israel, C., Firmino, R., Kramer, H., & Abad, J. (2025). Building a Digital Wall: the political economy of smart surveillance in Curitiba, Brazil. Globalizations. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1080/14747731.2024.2447672
2023
Pereira, G., & Moreschi, B. (2023). Living with images from large-scale data sets: A critical pedagogy for scaling down. Photographies, 16(2), 235-261. https://doi.org/10.1080/17540763.2023.2189285 [details]
2022
- Benfield, D. M., Bratton, C., Eastmond, E., Eifler, M., & Pereira, G. (2022). Impossible Spaces and Other Embodiments: Co-constructing Virtual Realities. In X. burrough, & J. Walgren (Eds.), Art as Social Practice: Technologies for Change (pp. 209-218). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003169109-20
- Grohmann, R., Pereira, G., Guerra, A., Abílio, L. C., Moreschi, B., & Jurno, A. (2022). Platform scams: Brazilian workers’ experiences of dishonest and uncertain algorithmic management. New Media & Society. https://doi.org/10.1177/14614448221099225
- Heemsbergen, L., Treré, E., & Pereira, G. (2022). Introduction to algorithmic antagonisms: Resistance, reconfiguration, and renaissance for computational life. Media International Australia, 183(1), 3-15. https://doi.org/10.1177/1329878X221086042
- Pereira, G., & Raetzsch, C. (2022). From Banal Surveillance to Function Creep: Automated License Plate Recognition (ALPR) in Denmark. Surveillance & Society. https://doi.org/10.24908/ss.v20i3.15000
- Pereira, G., Bueno Bojczuk Camargo, I., & Parks, L. (2022). WhatsApp disruptions in Brazil: A content analysis of user and news media responses, 2015–2018. Global Media and Communication, 18(1), 113-148. https://doi.org/10.1177/17427665211038530
- Pereira, G., Moreschi, B., Mintz, A., & Beiguelman, G. (2022). We’ve always been antagonistic: Algorithmic resistances and dissidences beyond the Global North. Media International Australia. https://doi.org/10.1177/1329878X221074792
- Pötzsch, H., & Pereira, G. (2022). Reimagining Algorithmic Governance: Cultural expressions and the negotiation of social imaginaries. In Participative Computing for Sustainable Futures - Proceedings of the 12th Nordic Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, NordiCHI 2022 Association for Computing Machinery. https://doi.org/10.1145/3546155.3547298
2021
- Moreschi, B., & Pereira, G. (2021). Future Movement Future – REJECTED. Surveillance and Society, 19(4), 507-510. https://doi.org/10.24908/ss.v19i4.15126
- Moreschi, B., Bratton, C., Benfield, D. M., Pereira, G., & Falcão, G. (2021). _rt movements. ArtMargins, 10(2), 93-104. https://doi.org/10.1162/ARTM_A_00294
2020
- Pereira, G., & Moreschi, B. (2020). Artificial Intelligence and Institutional Critique 2.0: Unexpected Ways of Seeing with Computer Vision. AI & Society. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00146-020-01059-y
2019
- Markham, A. N., & Pereira, G. (2019). Analyzing public interventions through the lens of experimentalism: the case of the Museum of Random Memory. Digital Creativity, 30(4), 235-256. https://doi.org/10.1080/14626268.2019.1688838
- Markham, A. N., & Pereira, G. (2019). Experimenting With Algorithms and Memory-Making: Lived Experience and Future-Oriented Ethics in Critical Data Science. Frontiers in Big Data, 2, Article 35. https://doi.org/10.3389/fdata.2019.00035
- Raetzsch, C., Pereira, G., Vestergaard, L. S., & Brynskov, M. (2019). Weaving seams with data: Conceptualizing City APIs as elements of infrastructures. Big Data & Society. https://doi.org/10.1177/2053951719827619
2017
- Tiidenberg, K., Markham, A., Pereira, G., Rehder, M., Dremljuga, R., Sommer, J. K., & Dougherty, M. (2017). "i'm an Addict" and other sensemaking devices: A discourse analysis of self-reflections on lived experience of social media. In 8th International Conference on Social Media and Society: Social Media for Good or Evil, #SMSociety 2017 Article 3097307 (ACM International Conference Proceeding Series; Vol. Part F129683). Association for Computing Machinery. https://doi.org/10.1145/3097286.3097307
2023
- Pereira, G., & Couldry, N. (2023). Data colonialism now: harms and consequences. In Tierra Común Network (Ed.), Resisting Data Colonialism: A Practical Intervention (pp. 38-44, 106). (Theory on demand; Vol. 50). Institute of Network Cultures. https://networkcultures.org/blog/publication/tod-50-resisting-data-colonialism-a-practical-intervention/ [details]
Others
- Ausloos, J. (participant), Pereira, G. (organiser) & Joshi, d. (organiser) (2024). Critical Tech + Power Seminars. Hybrid international/interdisciplinary seminars (14/2, 29/2, 13/3) discussing works in progress (organising a conference, workshop, ...).
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Pereira, G., & Moreschi, B. (2023). Living with images from large-scale data sets: A critical pedagogy for scaling down. Photographies, 16(2), 235-261.