Rodolfo Anes Silveira

I investigate how images, sound, touch and computational systems 
shape perception, storytelling and learning.

PROJECTS

ABOUT

Rodolfo Anes Silveira is an artistic researcher and audiovisual practitioner working across computational media, artistic research, and audiovisual production. His practice has evolved from film, sound, and post-production into artistic research, information systems, and computational media, examining how technological systems transform the creation, organization, and experience of contemporary media.

Since 1999, his practice has developed through film, television, sound design, re-recording mixing and post-production, progressively expanding into artistic research, spatial media and computational systems. Since relocating to Germany in 2013, he has maintained an independent artistic practice alongside academic and research activities.

His work explores how emerging technologies transform the creation, mediation and experience of contemporary audiovisual media. Sound design, spatial audio, Virtual Production, Unreal Engine and AI-assisted filmmaking operate not simply as technical tools, but as interconnected methods within a broader artistic and research practice.

At the centre of this work is an interest in perception, creativity, authorship and technological mediation, and in the increasingly complex relationship between human creative practice and computational systems

PRACTICE & RESEARCH

Over the last decade, research has progressively become a central medium of Silveira’s practice.

His work moves between artistic experimentation and theoretical investigation: Artistic Practice – Artistic Research – Computational Media Research

Rather than separating theory and practice, his projects use each to generate questions for the other. Artistic experiments become research objects; theoretical investigation informs technological and creative practice.

His current research investigates AI Media Systems, Synthetic Media and Virtual Production through the combined perspectives of media studies, artistic research and systems thinking.

This research builds on earlier work in audiovisual production and perception, as well as subsequent research in Information Systems and Enterprise Architecture.

TRAJECTORY

1999–2016 — Audiovisual & Artistic Practice
Film · Television · Sound Design · Mixing · Photography · Moving Image

Professional and independent work in audiovisual production, with a particular focus on sound, post-production and moving-image practices.

2016–2022 — Artistic Research
Media Arts · Haptics · Perception · Multisensoriality · Intermediality

A progressive transition from audiovisual production toward practice-based and theoretical research, particularly through the development of Hapticotopia.

2022–2025 — Information & Media Systems
Enterprise Architecture · Digital Transformation · Information Systems · Systems Thinking

During his Master’s in Information and Enterprise Systems, Silveira expanded his research toward organisational and technological systems. His work on Enterprise Architecture examined how digital infrastructures and systems thinking can support resilience, sustainability and new organisational models.

2025–present — Computational Media Research
AI Media Systems · Synthetic Media · Virtual Production · Unreal Engine · Media Education

Research and artistic experimentation addressing the transformation of audiovisual production through computational and generative technologies.

HAPTICOTOPIA

Hapticotopia is the artistic-research project developed within Silveira’s PhD in Media Arts.

The project investigates whether images can exist independently of vision, examining touch, sound, spatial experience and multisensory perception. Developed through theoretical research, technological experimentation and a sequence of artistic prototypes, it culminated in an immersive installation exploring alternative ways of experiencing the image.

Hapticotopia represents a central transition in Silveira’s practice: from audiovisual production toward research itself as an artistic and intellectual medium.

Explore Hapticotopia →
https://hapticotopia.rodolfo-silveira.com

CURRENT FOCUS

AI Media Systems
Human–AI creative processes, synthetic media and computational audiovisual systems.

Virtual Production
Real-time filmmaking, ICVFX, Unreal Engine and emerging production workflows.

Media Arts & Perception
Sound, haptics, embodiment, multisensoriality and intermediality.

Media Education
The impact of emerging technologies on audiovisual curricula, creative practice and professional knowledge.

ON HAPTICOTOPIA

“In the present essay, Rodolfo Silveira meticulously analyzes the theoretical, speculative, but also symbolic drift around the luminous phenomena.”

“The relationship between multisensoriality and intermediality is essential to the understanding of the diverse contemporary artistic practices, capable of stimulating practice-based research.”

— Francisco Paiva