Hacking

The team works together to hack João de Barros' 16th-c. book and game "Dialogo de preceitos moraes [...]". So far, Celeste Pedro has recreated the game, as is, as a printable (board game) prototype, and the team has played the game in order to understand it thoroughly. In the next iteration of the hack, we will take the game apart and remix/adapt it to create something entirely different.

Together with Celeste, Terhi is responsible for understanding Barros’ book and game through making, implementing/programming the digital hacks of Barros. Terhi Marttila is an artist-researcher with a PhD in digital media from the University of Porto, a researcher at the Interactive Technologies Institute and a postdoctoral fellow (IST-ID) in the eGames Lab project. Terhi creates playful interactive works that sit more or less within the realm of digital literature and poetry. Her works have been published on raum.pt, nokturno.fi, the New River Journal, in the Electronic Literature Collection 4 and shared at various conferences, including ELO, ACM SIGGRAPH SPARKS, Consciousness Reframed, Videojogos, Art of Research, among others.

Celeste is an expert on Barros' book and game. Celeste Pedro is a communication designer graduated from the Fine Arts Faculty in Porto, Portugal. Her main focuses have since been typography and editorial design. She holds a master’s in Design and Intermedia from the University of Barcelona. Her studies on dictionaries design have led her closer to the field of the History of Typography and to the engagement in various language courses, workshops, and summer schools related to the edition of texts and book production. In recent years, she specialised in early printed books and palaeography while conducting her PhD research on the History of Portuguese Print Culture in the Sixteenth Century, funded by FCT. Recently he was a post-doc researcher for the project "From Data to Wisdom - Philosophizing Data Visualizations in the Middle Ages and Early Modernity (13th-17th c.)" at the Institute of Philosophy of the University of Porto, where she now continues her work on medieval and early modern diagrams. 

cpedro@letras.up.pt 

Sandra is responsible for translating Barros' work into English. Sandra Simões is a Portuguese translator and language consultant with over 20 years of experience working both with businesses and academic institutions. She is certified by the Chartered Institute of Linguists and holds a Master’s Degree in Medieval Portuguese. 

João de Barros, (1540 princeps edition), Dialogo de preceitos moraes co[m] prática delles, em módo de iogo, Lisbon: Luis Rodrigues. can be accessed at https://purl.pt/12149. 

The book's second edition, Dialogo de Ioam de Barros com dous filhos seus sobre preceptos moraes em modo de jogo, printed in 1563 by João de Barreira (and the only existing copy containing the elements/illustrations of the game), can be accessed at http://purl.pt/15189.

Pedro, C. & Higuera, J. (2020). Workshop: The Game of Moral Precepts. 27-28 Feb. At Faculdade de Letras da Universidade do Porto. https://ifilosofia.up.pt/proj/fdtw/the_game_of_moral_precepts Report: https://ifilosofia.up.pt/proj/fdtw/notes_about_workshop_the_game_of

Pedro, C. (2021). A Sixteenth-Century Board Game by João de Barros. In Illustration and Ornamentation in the Iberian Book World, 1450-1800, (Ed.) Alexander Samuel Wilkinson, 284-314. BRILL. https://brill.com/display/book/edcoll/9789004447141/BP000024.xml

Marttila, T. (2016) Give me a reason. Digital artwork. https://collection.eliterature.org/4/give-me-a-reason

Marttila, T. (2019) We cannot take them all. Digital artwork. https://terhimarttila.com/we-cannot-take-them-all/

Marttila, T. (2020) Speak out. Digital artwork. https://raum.pt/en/terhi-marttila

Marttila, T. (2021) Transplanted. Digital artwork. https://nokturno.fi/en/poem/transplanted/