Human Entities Podcast
Human Entities is a series of public talks focused on technological change and its impacts – the ways in which culture and technology shape and influence each other.
Organised by CADA, the programme takes place annually in Lisbon.
Listen to recordings from 2025 to 2016.
In partnership with the Lisbon Architecture Triennale and the Fine Arts Faculty, ULisbon
Funded by: The Dir.-Gen. for the Arts of the Portuguese Ministry of Culture
- Update frequency
- every 91 days
- Average duration
- 94 minutes
- Episodes
- 25
- Years Active
- 2016 - 2025
Human Entities 2020: Andrea Pavoni
Andrea Pavoni
Research fellow at DINÂMIA’CET, Instituto Universitário de Lisboa
Lisbon, 4 November 2020
The talk dives into the impalpable atmosphere of…
Human Entities 2019: James Bridle
James Bridle
Artist and writer
Lisbon, 27 March 2019
We have spent the last hundred years attempting to master the world with calculation, with mathematics, physics, and digital …
Human Entities 2019: Stephanie Hare
Stephanie Hare
Researcher and broadcaster
Lisbon, 17 April 2019
Our face, voice, DNA, fingerprints and other data about our bodies (also known as our biometrics) are increasi…
Human Entities 2016: Alice Benessia, Sara M. Watson
Alice Benessia
Do we really want and need to be smart? Can we?
The imaginaries of the Internet of Things and their inherent contradictions
Emergent information and communication technologies (ICT), s…
Human Entities 2016: !Mediengruppe Bitnik
Artists’ group !Mediengruppe Bitnik will present recent works exploring internet subculture, surveillance and bots. They will talk about their recently completed work Random Darknet Shopper which dir…