Videographic Performativity and Generative AI: For a Study of Generative Art in the Work of Alexandre Rangel and Pedro Alves da Veiga

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https://doi.org/10.36025/arj.v13i1.39142

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videographic performativity, generative art, generative AI, Alexandre Rangel, Pedro Alves da Veiga

Abstract

The article aims to relate videographic performativity and the use of generative AI tools to contribute to the debate on the creative process in Artemídia and Videoart. The methodology brought together the concepts of videographic performativity and generative art and undertaken a brief study of two video arts, G.O.D.L.E.S.S. Gaza Ominous Dataset Lawless Evil Systematic Slaughter (2024) by Pedro Alves da Veiga, a generative video art that results from generative processes and the use of generative algorithms developed by the artist, and Sopa Primordial (2023) by Alexandre Rangel, produced with GenerativeAI and displayed as audiovisual triptych. The results indicate that videographic performativity can be driven by generative AI tools, but production that aims to generate creative material and works of art that are conscious and integrated with time and technology, essentially needs the artist’s imaginative mind and his critical and conceptual capacity to weave ethical and poetic relationships.

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Author Biographies

Regilene Aparecida Sarzi-Ribeiro, Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP)

PhD in Communication and Semiotics (PUC/SP). Post doctorate in Cultural Performances by UFG and in Arts by IA UNESP. Permanent professor at PPGMIT Doctorate. Coordinator of the Graduate Program in Media and Technology – MP, and professor of the Visual Arts course at FAAC/UNESP/Bauru. Leader of the research group LabIMAGEM – Laboratory of Image Studies (CNPq) and of the labVIDEO Project – Laboratory of Poetics in Video.

Pedro Alves da Veiga, Universidade Aberta, Lisboa (UAb)

Portuguese transdisciplinary artist and researcher. He holds a degree in Computer Science (Nova University of Lisbon), a Post-graduation in Advanced Studies of Digital Media Art (Aberta University) and a PhD in Digital Media Art (a joint programme between Aberta University and the University of Algarve). He has a two-decade business career in web-design and information systems, including the launch and sale of two IT companies and several multimedia and web-design awards. He is currently a Professor at the Aberta University, in Lisbon, where he is also the subdirector of the Digital Media Arts PhD programme. He is a member of CIAC's Scientific Council (Research Center for Arts and Communication), a collaborator of ID+ research centre, and regularly publishes and shares results of his arts-based and theoretical research.

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Published

03-06-2026

How to Cite

SARZI-RIBEIRO, Regilene Aparecida; VEIGA, Pedro Alves da. Videographic Performativity and Generative AI: For a Study of Generative Art in the Work of Alexandre Rangel and Pedro Alves da Veiga. Art Research Journal: Revista de Pesquisa em Artes, Natal, v. 13, n. 1, 2026. DOI: 10.36025/arj.v13i1.39142. Disponível em: https://periodicos.ufrn.br/artresearchjournal/article/view/39142. Acesso em: 23 jun. 2026.