SummerSchool
Biographical Notes [PT]
Monday, August 5
Guy Fleisher is a sound artist with a BA in Jazz Performance and an MA in Sonic Arts. He's pursuing a PhD in Science and Technology of the Arts at CITAR, focusing on electroacoustic composition and human-computer interaction. He is part of the creative team at DENTRO, an artist-led atelier and gallery space and the De Liceiras 18 artist residency program team, both in Porto.
Ana Carvalho is a professor, researcher, and curator. Her curatorial work includes the group exhibition Omniscience: Strategies of Fracture and Escape (2021) on surveillance, and Mark Amerika’s Abducted Realities (2023). She has been organizing the Encontro de Expressões entre Som e Imagem [Meeting of Expressions between Sound and Image] since 2016.
Tuesday, August 6
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.
Daniel Silvestre has been working as an editorial illustrator since 2006, having illustrated texts by Alice Vieira, Ana Saldanha, João Pedro Mésseder, José Luís Peixoto, Machado de Assis, Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen, and Raúl Brandão, among others. He was the resident illustrator at the Porto Museum from 2021 to 2023. He is a guest lecturer in Drawing at the IPCA School of Design (Barcelos) and at the Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of Porto.
Wednesday, August 7
Jo Castro is a non-binary transdisciplinary artist who develops projects involving dance, performance, installation, voice, and sound, having presented their works in Portugal, France, Belgium, Germany, and Brazil. Beyond themes like death, destruction, and spectrality, Queer identity permeates their universe in a research of a body that de(re)constructs its image and operates in states BETWEEN – on the threshold of human borders, genderless.
Joana Rafael is an architect and researcher focused on human geography, material ecology, and the limits of energy and urban infrastructures. Her work seeks to understand how these factors interact with the functioning of the earth system.
Thursday, August 8
Juliana Julieta works in the fields of Painting and Experimental Cinema. In her work, whether on film or oil painting (artisanal mediums), she explores the sensitive/organic physicality of materials and processes, pondering a tactile, sensory, cumulative, and phenomenological relationship in image creation.
Daniel Oliveira holds a master's degree in cinema from the Universidade da Beira Interior, where he is currently pursuing a PhD in Media Arts with a scholarship from the Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT). He has been active as a film critic since 2004 and is a member of Fipresci.
Bug Snapper is the musical project of Rui Santos. Under this name, he has released two albums, two EPs, and a single, exploring rhythmic and danceable soundscapes and ambient atmospheres. He personally developed the majority of the design, artwork, and music videos for these releases.
Thursday, August 9
Rebeca Letras creates using rituals of repetition and meditation, enhancing the energetic encounter as a means to provoke political questioning and altered states of consciousness.