Biographical Notes [PT]
Monday, January 20
Patrícia J. Reis is a media artist and researcher with focus on feminism, sensorially, and haptics in technology. Currently she holds a Post-doc position at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna where she also lectures interactive art.
http://www.patriciajreis.com/
https://feministhackerspaces.cargo.site/
Gaspar Cohen seeks to interrogate the capital-colonial complex as a shaper of contemporary technologies. Through artisanal electronics or intensive computing, Gaspar experiments with thresholds of amplification and the political constructions of noise and error.
www.130-ivxx.com
Tuesday, January 21
Diana Mota is a dance and drama therapist, researcher and activist. She works on the power of the body and its potential to generate and drive processes of individual and collective manifestation and transformation. In her proposals, she encourages coresearch, experiential and liberatory processes.
Susana Caló is a researcher in philosophy, institutional analysis and psychopolitics. At the crossroads between academia and activism, she is concerned with reconstructing neglected political histories of psy practices in their intersections with wider social struggles, and the collective life of concepts in post-war French thought, through oral history and archive building.
Isabel Carvalho is a visual artist whose practice has developed from visual arts to book writing and editing, including sculpture and the use of three-dimensional space. Through her research in Philosophy and Literature, she explores the materiality of language and non-verbal forms of expression.
Wednesday, January 22
Daniel Silvestre has been working as an editorial illustrator since 2006. He was the resident illustrator at the Museu do Porto between 2021 and 2023. He recently released A Armação (a graphic novel). He is a guest lecturer in Drawing at the School of Design at IPCA (Barcelos) and at the Faculty of Fine Arts at the University of Porto.
Mariana Caló and Francisco Queimadela graduated in Painting from the Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of Porto and have collaborated as a duo since 2010. Their practice is developed through a privileged use of moving images, both through the creation of films and at the intersection with installation and site-specific environments, combined with drawing, painting, photography, or sculpture. The interest in the dialogue between the biological, the vernacular, and the cultural is a recurring element in their artistic work.
Thursday, January 22
Vera Santos has an academic background in Visual Arts, Dance, Theater, Art History, and Art Criticism. Contemporary dance has been her field of work since the early 1990s. She is interested in the potential for movement and the expression of thought inherent in each body.
Rosemary Lee is an artist whose work considers how current developments in image production fit within larger narratives about art, knowledge, and relations between humans and machines. She teaches at the University of Porto (FEUP).
Friday, January 23
Kura Alma is a movement that creates initiatives to connect marginalized communities to resources that are often neglected or deprioritized by society at large.
www.kura-alma @kuraalmasanctuary
Juliana Julieta is a visual artist working between Painting and Experimental Cinema; she explores materials and processes, inquiring into a tactile, sensory, cumulative, and phenomenological relationship in the creation of images.
Joana Rafael is an architect-researcher with work in the fields of ecology, media studies, and technology. She investigates the limits of physical infrastructures in relation to Earth's systems and the reciprocal relationships between humans and nature. www.joanarafael.info