Co-founder — b. 1991, Portugal
Pedro Velho
Bio
Pedro Queirós Pinto (he/him), known artistically as Pedro Velho, is a researcher, mediator, educator, and artist based in Bergen, Norway.
He collaborates with the Extending Digital Narrative (XDN) research group at the Center for Digital Narrative, University of Bergen, where his work focuses on digital and immersive storytelling.
Across research, teaching, and artistic practice, he is interested in how creative work can shape the conditions for meaningful encounters between people, stories, and communities. His practice spans performance, non-fiction, and mediation, drawing on intermedial and socially engaged approaches.
Works
Academic work and publications
Positions & affiliations
Extending Digital Narrative (XDN) research group — Center for Digital Narrative, Department of Linguistic, Literary and Aesthetic Studies, University of Bergen — UiB profile ↗ — NVA research profile ↗ — ORCID ↗
Research projects
2024–2028 — SURVIVING SOGICE, collaboration — PhD project by Sérgio Galvão Roxo, University of Bergen — survivingsogice.eu ↗
Conference presentations
21 October 2026 — “Beyond the Headset: Conceptualizing Storylistening, Storysensing, and Storyshaping in Immersive Narrative”, with Sérgio Galvão Roxo — After Virtual Reality: Extending Immersive Narrative Symposium, Center for Digital Narrative, University of Bergen, Bergen
23 September 2026 — “Beyond the Headset: Storylistening, Storysensing, and Storyshaping in Immersive Narrative”, with Sérgio Galvão Roxo — CDN Autumn Equinox: Open Research Day, Bergen
11–12 June 2026 — “Super-Vigilant(h)e(ro)s: (Self)Superheroization, GenAI and the Aestheticization of Persecution in Digital Out-group Vigilantism” — Aesthetics of Digital Vigilantism Symposium, John Cabot University, Rome — watch ↗
9–12 June 2026 — “Her Name Was Gisberta: VR Against Transphobia”, with Sérgio Galvão Roxo — 8th Interactive Film and Media Virtual Conference (#IFM2026), Research creation, online — watch ↗
13 November 2025 — “Coexistencialism, Technology and the Politics of Human and Other-than-Human Care: Speculative Design, Co-Narratives and Spiritual Activism against the Commodification of Grief” — SPIRITED: First Annual Conference on Spirituality, Religion, and Interactive Technology Design, University of St. Thomas, Minnesota