Surveillance With, Beyond, and Against the Biometric Body

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Ece Canlı, Centro de Estudos de Comunicação e Sociedade, Instituto de Ciências Sociais, Universidade do Minho, Braga, Portugal

Ece Canlı is an artist and researcher whose work explores the intersections of body politics, material regimes, and the socio-spatial construction of gender, sexuality, and identity. She holds a PhD in Design from the University of Porto and is currently a researcher at the Communication and Society Research Centre (CECS) at University of Minho, where she investigates the spatial, material, and technological conditions of the criminal justice system, queer materialities, penal design, and abolition feminism. She is a board member of ATGENDER (Netherlands), a member of the Carceral Geography Working Group (United Kingdom), SOPCOM – Associação Portuguesa de Ciências da Comunicação and A Passeio platform, as well as a collaborating researcher in several European Cooperation in Science and Technology Action projects. She lectured nationally and internationally on themes including design criticism, gender, decoloniality, visual literacy, and semiotics, and published in various edited volumes and peer-reviewed journals. As an artist, she works with extended vocal techniques, multimedia, electronics and the performing body, possessing a solid body of work and extensive experience in composition, artistic direction, and sound production for staged performances, exhibitions and films, both in collaborations and as a soloist.

Pedro J. S. Vieira de Oliveira, Sound Studies and Sonic Arts Department, Universität der Künste Berlin, Postfach 12 05 44, D-10595 Berlin, Germany

Pedro J. S. Vieira de Oliveira is a sound artist, researcher and educator whose work is committed to studying listening and its material intersections with the violences of the European border. In his performances and installations, analog synthesis, echo, distortion, and feedback serve as explorations of the limits and failures of human and machine listening, as well as their encounters with the body as a site of struggle for matters of identity, migration, and belonging. He has exhibited and performed work at the Akademie der Künste Berlin, “European Media Art Festival”, “Send/Receive Festival Winnipeg”, “CTM Festival”, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Fondazione Merz Torino, Museo del Mare Palermo, “Festival Novas Frequências”, Akademie Schloss Solitude, and the Max-Planck Institute, among others. In his academic practice, he has held fellowships at the Leuphana Institute for Advanced Studies and the Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies, and taught at the Humboldt University Berlin and the Heinrich-Heine University Düsseldorf. Currently, he is part of the guest faculty in Sound Studies and Sonic Arts at the Universität der Künste Berlin. He holds a PhD from the Universität der Künste Berlin.

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Published

2025-06-30

How to Cite

Canlı, E., & Vieira de Oliveira, P. J. S. . (2025). Surveillance With, Beyond, and Against the Biometric Body. Lusophone Journal of Cultural Studies, 12(1), e025009. https://doi.org/10.21814/rlec.6654