Dr Marilia Lyra Bergamo

Dr Marilia Lyra Bergamo

Lecturer - Design (Game Art/Interactive Design)

School of Humanities, Creative Ind and Social Sci

Career Summary

Biography

Marilia Bergamo has been a computer artist and lecturer of Design and Digital Art for the last fifteen years. She graduated in Design and Computer Science and worked with interface design during the beginning of her career. Her work as an educator also began in ​​Interface Design and traditional printed graphics. As an artist, she sought to produce and research art related to interaction, digital images and the concept of evolution and interaction with digital systems. Now her research and production emphasize Art, Poetics and Computer Technology, Complex Systems,  and Design for interactive media. She is working mainly on the following topics: art and digital systems, computer art, artificial life, interaction design, and the creation of multimodal interfaces.

Qualifications

  • Doctor of Arts, Universidade de Brasilia

Keywords

  • Computer Art
  • Generative Art
  • Interface Design
  • Robotic Art

Languages

  • Portuguese (Mother)
  • English (Fluent)

Fields of Research

Code Description Percentage
330306 Design practice and methods 30
330310 Interaction and experience design 30
360503 Digital and electronic media art 40

Professional Experience

UON Appointment

Title Organisation / Department
Lecturer - Design (Game ArtInteractive Design) University of Newcastle
School of Humanities, Creative Ind and Social Sci
Australia

Academic appointment

Dates Title Organisation / Department
1/6/2009 - 15/11/2022 Professor

Professor in School of Fine Arts - Teaching graduation in Digital Arts, Animation and Design.

Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais
Fine Arts
Brazil
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Publications

For publications that are currently unpublished or in-press, details are shown in italics.


Chapter (3 outputs)

Year Citation Altmetrics Link
2024 Lyra Bergamo M, 'O Assemblage de Plantas Robóticas: Abordagem de Design', 339-352 (2024)
2024 Lyra Bergamo M, 'Athos Bulcão's Tile Distribution Logic Using Common Digital Art', 48-79 (2024) [B1]
DOI 10.4018/979-8-3693-2927-6.ch003
2014 Bergamo ML, 'User experience technique in computer digital arts production: Paper prototyping used as material to define intentionality', 8517 LNCS, 613-621 (2014)

This papers aims to describe the historical introduction of paper prototyping techniques into interface development, what they basically consist of, and how such techni... [more]

This papers aims to describe the historical introduction of paper prototyping techniques into interface development, what they basically consist of, and how such techniques can be applied on the development of Computer Digital Arts. With some examples applied on Digital Arts graduation courses at the Federal University of Minas Gerais in Brazil, this technique has proven to help the development of the artist's intentionality, rather than blocking creativity. It helped students to focus on important concepts that needed to be transmitted by interaction, while usability made the piece friendly where it needed to be friendly. Thus, young art students have been acting in a traditional way when experimenting with materials, not only physically and visually, but also with the interactive environment that should be considered as material in Computer Digital Arts. © 2014 Springer International Publishing Switzerland.

DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-07668-3_59

Conference (7 outputs)

Year Citation Altmetrics Link
2024 Lyra Bergamo M, Penn G, 'Deceptive Practices Robotic Art', ISEA Symposium Archives (2024) [E1]
2023 Lyra Bergamo M, Sandro B, 'Hardware speculation for robotic plants through cellular automata principle', ALIFE 2023: Ghost in the Machine: Proceedings of the 2023 Artificial Life Conference, 11-13 (2023)
DOI 10.1162/isal_a_00565
2023 Bergamo ML, Benigno S, 'Hardware speculation for robotic plants through cellular automata principle', Artificial Life Conference Proceedings, 1-3 (2023)
2021 Silva TBPE, Bergamo ML, 'Species in Morphogenesis: Introducing Symbiogenesis as an Additional Method for the Evolutionary Process of an Artwork', The 2021 Conference on Artificial Life (2021) [E1]
DOI 10.1162/isal_a_00361
2020 McCormack J, Lyra Bergamo M, 'Poetics of complexity: intersections between scientific conceptions of Complexity Systems and Cybernetic Art', Proceedings of the International Conference on Digital Creation in Arts and Communication, ARTeFACTo2020, 65-71 (2020)
2017 Oliveira L, Pereira AF, Bergamo ML, 'Strategies to promote sustainable behaviour in relation to water use: ideas and classifications', Blucher Design Proceedings, 6-13
DOI 10.5151/sbds-issd-2017-002
2015 Costa de Souza ML, Ferreira LS, Prates RO, Bergamo ML, 'StoreAnt: A System to Support Finding Collaborative Systems Evaluation Methods', HUMAN-COMPUTER INTERACTION - INTERACT 2015, PT IV, 9299, 482-485 (2015)
DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-22723-8_43
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Creative Work (1 outputs)

Year Citation Altmetrics Link
2023 Lyra Bergamo M, 'Assemblage Robotic plants', 178-179 (2023) [N1]

Journal article (9 outputs)

Year Citation Altmetrics Link
2025 Falci CH, Lyra Bergamo M, 'Delay techniques and delay technologies: Amazonian waters transindividuation records', Artnodes, 2025 (2025) [C1]
DOI 10.7238/artnodes.v0i35.428885
2024 Bergamo ML, 'Assemblage Robotic Plants: Individualizations of Many Orders of Magnitude', LEONARDO, 57 (2024) [C1]

This paper focuses on the author's artistic practice and presents robotic plant creations as assemblages using robotic autonomy unities in a Small-World Network co... [more]

This paper focuses on the author's artistic practice and presents robotic plant creations as assemblages using robotic autonomy unities in a Small-World Network configuration. This artistic production is significantly founded on Gilbert Simondon's philosophical concepts about Technological Beings. Understanding these communities of robotic structures as individualizations is critical to apprehending them as individuals. The paper also discusses the implications of hardware design, coding, and the concept of artificial life related to the development of such technological organisms.

DOI 10.1162/leon_a_02560
2024 Bergamo ML, Silva AL, Valentim VHS, 'Graphic Design with Creative Coding', DAT Journal, 9, 108-124 [C1]
DOI 10.29147/datjournal.v9i3.852
2023 Bergamo ML, 'The Assemblage Robotic Plant: A Design Approach', DAT Journal, 8, 31-45 [C1]
DOI 10.29147/datjournal.v8i3.765
2022 Bergamo ML, 'A-Memory Garden', International Journal of Creative Interfaces and Computer Graphics, 12, 17-34 (2022) [C1]
DOI 10.4018/ijcicg.291089
2022 Bergamo ML, 'O assemblage planta / The Assemblage Plant', DAT Journal, 7, 19-32 (2022) [C1]
DOI 10.29147/datjournal.v7i1.561
2022 Silva AL, Bergamo ML, 'Spatial speculation through John Conway’s Game of Life: fostering creativity with autonomous algorithms', DAT Journal, 7, 4-16 [C1]
DOI 10.29147/datjournal.v7i4.646
2020 Maciel JM, Bergamo ML, Bradbury JD, 'Mr. Market's Emotions', LEONARDO, 53, 174-178 (2020) [C1]
DOI 10.1162/leon_a_01634
2020 Bergamo ML, Silva AL, 'Doilies Digitais: Um Estudo da Aplicação de Criatividade Computacional ao Crochê', DAT Journal, 5, 138-152 (2020) [C1]
DOI 10.29147/dat.v5i1.175
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Grants and Funding

Summary

Number of grants 3
Total funding $15,773

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20243 grants / $15,773

Exploring Social Connectedness among Care Home Communities$8,364

Funding body: The Academy of Medical Sciences

Funding body The Academy of Medical Sciences
Project Team Associate Professor Helen English, Associate Professor Helen English, Doctor Marilia Lyra Bergamo, Dr Khalid Ali, Doctor Kristefan Minski, Dr Emilia Halton-Hernandez, Emeritus Professor Robert Abrams, Professor Paul Egglestone
Scheme Networking Grants
Role Investigator
Funding Start 2024
Funding Finish 2024
GNo G2301337
Type Of Funding C3500 – International Not-for profit
Category 3500
UON Y

CHSF 2024 New Start Scheme$5,000

Funding body: College of Human and Social Futures | University of Newcastle

Funding body College of Human and Social Futures | University of Newcastle
Project Team

Dr Marilia Lyra Bergamo

Scheme CHSF - New Start Scheme
Role Lead
Funding Start 2024
Funding Finish 2024
GNo
Type Of Funding Internal
Category INTE
UON N

CHSF 2024 Conference Travel Scheme$2,409

Funding body: College of Human and Social Futures | University of Newcastle

Funding body College of Human and Social Futures | University of Newcastle
Project Team

Dr Marilia Lyra Bergamo

Scheme CHSF - New Start Scheme
Role Lead
Funding Start 2024
Funding Finish 2024
GNo
Type Of Funding Internal
Category INTE
UON N
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Research Supervision

Number of supervisions

Completed1
Current2

Current Supervision

Commenced Level of Study Research Title Program Supervisor Type
2025 PhD Cultural Awareness by Stealth: Gamifying Cultural Education PhD (Aboriginal Studies), The Wollotuka Institute, The University of Newcastle Principal Supervisor
2020 PhD Reconstructing the Extinct Avifauna of the Cenozoic Era: Developing a Comprehensive Framework using Australian Examples PhD (Natural History Illustr), College of Human and Social Futures, The University of Newcastle Co-Supervisor

Past Supervision

Year Level of Study Research Title Program Supervisor Type
2024 PhD Atoms, Molecules and Enzymes: 3D and Animation Practices as a Mechanism to Visualise Quantum Theory PhD (Natural History Illustr), College of Human and Social Futures, The University of Newcastle Co-Supervisor
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Dr Marilia Lyra Bergamo

Position

Lecturer - Design (Game Art/Interactive Design)
School of Humanities, Creative Ind and Social Sci
College of Human and Social Futures

Contact Details

Email marilia.lyrabergamo@newcastle.edu.au
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