Hugo Paquete

Bio

Hugo Paquete is a multidisciplinary sound artist, composer, and researcher whose work explores the intersections of sound, post-digital aesthetics, and embodied sensing across environmental and planetary scales. With a PhD in Digital Media Art (2022), his practice-based research investigates the algorithmic, spatial, and biological dimensions of sound through acousmatic composition, data sonification, and sensor-driven audiovisual performance. His approach treats sound as a speculative medium—capable of revealing the entanglements between body, machine, environment, and perception.

Paquete’s work engages critically with post-techno, cybercultural, and post-industrial frameworks, exploring how rhythm, glitch, and noise articulate affective states, ecological instability, and machinic agency. He integrates real-time data streams, environmental sensors, and computational systems to create dynamic compositions that respond to invisible forces such as electromagnetic radiation, physiological signals, or satellite trajectories—foregrounding sound as an interface for sensing and interpreting complex systems.

He is a professor at the University of Algarve, a researcher collaborator at CIAC – Research Centre for Arts and Communication (Digital Media-Art Group), and at iA*lab Sensoria (University of Beira Interior), contributing to research in sensory media, digital art, and technocultural studies.

As founder and director of Absonus Lab, Paquete leads a platform for experimental research in sound and digital media, affiliated with the European Media Art Platform (EMAP) and the Anna Lindh Foundation. His work has been presented at major international venues such as ZKM Karlsruhe, Ars Electronica, and supported by FCT, DGArtes, the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, and other cultural programs.

Through both solo and collaborative projects, he contributes to the development of critical and embodied sonic practices—reframing sound as a medium for biofeedback, ecological awareness, and post-human encounter in the context of the Anthropocene.