Understanding of the main concepts of image theory in relation to movement, with a view to transmedia practice and artistic creation, and mastery of technical tools appropriate for the realization of the artistic object

Teacher: Tatiana Macedo

Understanding of practical, conceptual and critical tools for the production of sound artistic pieces, taking into account the history of sound art, and mastery of field recording techniques, computer audio synthesis and modulation, and construction of electronic and / or electroacoustic mechanisms

Teacher: João Polido Gomes

Seizure of instruments of researching, creation and critical questioning within the scope of movement and philosophy. With a particular focus on the body and its expression, the methodology adopted consists of practice as research

Teacher: Ana Mira

Introduction to the main aesthetic issues of contemporaneity and understanding of the different ontological approaches of dominant and counter-dominant discourses and contemporary artistic objects , or those produced from them

Teachers: Luís Lima and Alexandra Martins

Understanding and applying the basic concepts and tools of the programming language in the context of artistic creation

Teacher: Bárbara Paixão

Design and development of an advanced individual project with support from teachers to be presented publicly at the end of the course

Teachers: João Alves and Marta Ângela (Von Calhau!)

Introduction to the main concepts of media theory in relation to artistic practices and understanding of issues andyou do that you average contemporaries instigate and produce

Teacher: José Marmeleira

Understanding of the tools and techniques used in the creation of digital art and in the interaction between man and computer and mastery of techniques in the use of specialized software, creation of 2D and 3D visuals, forms of projection and exploration of sensors for an interactive environment 

Teacher: Bárbara Paixão

Critical understanding of participatory art concepts and collaborative art and spectator in contemporary times and seizure of Skills practices for collaboration inter-community.

Teacher: António Poppe

Critical understanding of the fields of human extension linked to technological developments (cyborg, more-than-human) and their relationship with expanded artistic practice, in an introduction to technical software tools for creating hybrid environments in a unique ecosystem where light, sound, video, interaction, 3D and artificial intelligence coexist. This process counts on the collaboration of ZABRA – Center for Posthuman Art Research

Teacher: João Pedro Fonseca

Free seminars and workshops with professionals in the artistic and IT fields (artists, curators, gallerists, etc.)

Design and development of an advanced individual project with support from teachers to be presented publicly at the end of the course

Teachers: João Alves and Marta Ângela (Von Calhau!)

She has a degree in Communication Sciences, a master's degree in Artistic Studies from the University of Porto, and a PhD student in Artistic Studies at FCSH-Universidade Nova de Lisboa, having received a scholarship from FCT. He wrote for several publications. He collaborated and was a member of the selection committees for the Curtas Vila do Conde and Porto/Post/Doc festivals. In 2017, she was selected for Talent Press Rio and, in 2018, she curated the exhibition Like the Sun/Like the Night, with the support of the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, as part of the retrospective dedicated to António Reis and Margarida Cordeiro in Porto/Post/Doc.

Ana Mira dedicates herself to theoretical and artistic research at the meeting between movement, aesthetics and philosophy. Currently, she teaches at the Escola Superior de Teatro e Cinema, Instituto Politécnico de Lisboa and at Ar.Co – Centro de Arte e Comunicação Visual, and is a researcher at the Instituto de Filosofia da Nova. She studied Somatic Practices, Contemporary Dance and Internal Martial Arts in Europe and the United States, and completed her PhD in Philosophy/Aesthetics at the Faculty of Social and Human Sciences, Universidade Nova de Lisboa under the guidance of the philosopher José Gil, as a visiting researcher at the Center for Research in Modern European Philosophy, Kingston University and scholarship from FCT – Foundation for Science and Technology (2014). She was a visiting researcher at the Performance Studies department, Tisch School of the Arts, New York University as a fellow at the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation. The dance performance highlights “At Once”, an adaptation of the solo by Deborah Hay/SPCP 2009 (Teatro Maria Matos, 2010) and her collaboration with Rosemary Butcher in “After Kaprow: The silent room + Book of journeys” (The Place Theater , 2012) and “Test Pieces” (Nottdance Festival, 2015), in England. His dance and philosophy essays have been published internationally.

Poet, visual artist, and performer, he lives and works in Lisbon. He completed the advanced visual arts course at Ar.Co, in Lisbon, and studied drawing and sculpture at the Royal College of Arts, London. He completed a master's degree in Performing Arts and Cinema at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, with a scholarship from the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation and the Luso-American Foundation for Development.

Author of a hybrid work between visual arts, performance and poetry, which he has presented since 1996 in various cultural institutions and galleries such as the Serralves Museum, MAAT, Culturgest, Gulbenkian, Carmona e Costa Foundation, Soares dos Reis Museum, ZDB Gallery, 111 Gallery, Casa Fernando Pessoa, GIAJG, among others. He has published five books: Torre de Juan Abad (Assírio e Alvim), Livro da Luz (Documenta), Medicin (Douda Correria), Come Coral (Douda Correria), O Agitador e a Corrente (written with Mumtazz and published in Mariposa Azual).

Bárbara Paixão (Bombarral, 1994) is a new media digital artist who develops 2D visuals, interactive installations and VJing sets. Motivated by the complementarity between art and technology, her focus is on working on the interaction between the body and the computer. It is in the format of an audiovisual installation that takes greater advantage of interactive experiences. It often works with sensors that capture human presence and software that acts in real time. Using real-time, it also allows you to create visuals that are reactive to sound, in addition to being manipulated live, creating synesthetic experiences.

João Alves is one of the members of the duo Von Calhau!, which was born in 2006 in Porto. It is the designation of the body of work developed in communion by Marta Ângela and João Artur, in the unrecognizable forms of music, text, visual arts, performance, among others. Recent performances include Oximoroboro and Volta Subicida at Culturgest Lisboa in 2015; in 2016 Rotornariz at Galeria Pedro Alfacinha, the year in which they released Ú (Kraak), an album presented in places such as Cafe Oto, De Player or at the LAFMS Uncanny Valley Festival; in 2017 they presented the performance Tau-Tau, at the biennial BoCA, re-presented in São Paulo at the Videobrasil Festival; in 2018 they presented the exhibition/performance Phantom Blot Back to Attack at Kunstraum in London and the performance O Praner de Urizar at the Serralves Museum; between February and May 2019 they were artists at Residency Unlimited, New York (Atelier-Museu Júlio Pomar scholarship); in February 2020 they opened the exhibition Unharias Ratóricas at MAAT, Lisbon.

João Pedro Fonseca is a transdisciplinary artist based in Lisbon with work dedicated to cyberspirituality, transcendence, xenomorphism, molecular faith, artificial intelligence and immaterial properties. Together with the artist Carincur, he directs ZABRA – Post-Human Art Research Center, the ZONA artistic residencies and is the founder of ZIGURFEST. To date, it has held several exhibitions and creations through structures such as Futurama, ModaLisboa, Lux Frágil, Fundação Champalimaud, Sónar Lisboa, FCT, FITEI, Teatro S. Luiz, among others. He also develops scenographic and light design work in the performing arts, including several plays, opera and dance, collaborating with names such as Albano Jerónimo, Carlos Pimenta, Miguel Moreira, Olga Roriz or Gaya de Medeiros, passing through the current largest theaters of the country from the Teatro Nacional D. Maria II, Lisbon, to the Teatro Nacional do São João, Porto.

With a PhD in Philosophy of Science, specialty of Art and Science, within the scope of the Doctoral Program in Philosophy of Science, Technology, Art and Society, José Marmeleira is a Guest Adjunct Professor at the Escola Superior de Artes e Design – Politécnico de Leiria. He also works as an independent journalist and cultural critic at Ípsilon, a supplement to the newspaper Público, and at Contemporânea magazine.

PhD in Philosophy – specializing in Aesthetics – from FCSH/ Universidade Nova de Lisboa, as a Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation PhD fellow for a co-supervision position at Paris IV – Sorbonne, in the Literature Department. FCT fellow for the Master’s degree in Communication, Contemporary Culture and New Technologies at the same university. Graduated in Communication Sciences with a thesis on the mutual conditioning between criticism and art. He has collaborated as a journalist in several publications (Around the world, Magazine National Geographic, Iberian Art, Capital Art, etc.). Since April 2023, he has been founding director of the School of Arts of the Autonomous University of Lisbon (UAL). He is an Associate Professor at UAL and a guest lecturer at the IPCA Superior School of Design (ESD) and teaches at these institutions, among other UC's, Image Theories, Creative Writing, Communication and Digital Storytelling, Cyberculture. He is a researcher at LabCom (Communication and Arts) and collaborator at CEAA (Art and Critical Studies) and at the Nip.Com Communication Research Center, at UAL. Since 2016, he has been a member of the Scientific Committee of CONFIA – International Conference on Illustration and Animation within the scope of the Masters in Illustration and Animation at ESD at IPCA. Since 2018, he has been a member of the Selection Committee of the Porto/Post/Doc film festival. He works as a freelance translator in the field of contemporary aesthetic and literary thought (Gilles Deleuze, Jacques Rancière, Georges Didi-Huberman, François Truffaut, Bernard Stiegler, Marie-José Mondzain, Paul Éluard, Pierre Klossowski, Ghérasim Luca, etc.).

Marta Ângela is one of the members of the duo Von Calhau!, which was born in 2006 in Porto. It is the designation of the body of work developed in communion by Marta Ângela and João Artur, in the unrecognizable forms of music, text, visual arts, performance, among others. Recent performances include Oximoroboro and Volta Subicida at Culturgest Lisboa in 2015; in 2016 Rotornariz at Galeria Pedro Alfacinha, the year in which they released Ú (Kraak), an album presented in places such as Cafe Oto, De Player or at the LAFMS Uncanny Valley Festival; in 2017 they presented the performance Tau-Tau, at the biennial BoCA, re-presented in São Paulo at the Videobrasil Festival; in 2018 they presented the exhibition/performance Phantom Blot Back to Attack at Kunstraum in London and the performance O Praner de Urizar at the Serralves Museum; between February and May 2019 they were artists at Residency Unlimited, New York (Atelier-Museu Júlio Pomar scholarship); in February 2020 they opened the exhibition Unharias Ratóricas at MAAT, Lisbon.

She exhibits internationally and works mainly in the hybrid fields of photography, film-essay, sound and installation. She holds a Master’s degree in Visual Anthropology from FCSH – Universidade Nova de Lisboa (2012) and a Bachelor’s degree in Fine Arts from Central St Martins College of Art & Design (London, 2004). In 2015 Macedo won the first Sonae Media Art Award with the multichannel video installation 1989. His first film, Seems So Long Ago, Nancy (2012) was shot at Tate Britain and Tate Modern, London, and screened in museums, galleries and film festivals including DocLisboa (2012), MARFICI – Mar del Plata (Argentina, 2013), Transcinema – Lima (Peru, 2013), Tate Britain (2012 and 2013), Tegenboschvanvreden Gallery (Amsterdam 2014) and Stedelijk Museum Bureau Video Programme (Amsterdam 2012). This work also won the SAW Film Prize from the American Anthropological Association – AAA (Washington-DC, 2014). She was a Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation scholarship holder for the International Studio Programme at Künstlerhaus Bethanien (Berlin, 2016), among others. Her solo and group exhibitions have been held at Culturgest (Porto), DIDAC – DARDO Foundation (Santiago de Compostela), Tegenboschvanvreden (Amsterdam), Jeju Biennial (South Korea), MAAT, Appleton Square, Galeria Zé dos Bois, MNAC-MC (Lisbon), Iwalewahaus (Bayreuth), Kunstraum Botschaft (Berlin), Paris Photo, Arco Madrid, Photo Basel, among others. Her work is represented in several public and private collections.

Ana Cardoso (b. 1978, Lisbon) currently lives and works in Lisbon, after having lived and worked in New York between 2004 and 2020, a crucial period in the way her work developed and responded to the context and history of recent painting. Her work focuses on the practice of painting in dialogue with abstraction, installation, and its activation as an object that dialogues with the body and its context.

His most recent exhibition, Leaky Abstraction, curated by João Pinharanda, MAAT — Museu de Arte, Aquitectura e Tecnologia, Lisbon, 2023, gave rise to an artist publication, Leaky Abstraction — Four Color Edition (2024), developed in collaboration with Ana Baliza, which includes texts by the curator and the North American writers Maika Pollack and William J. Simmons.

Ana Cardoso completed her Masters in Painting (MFA) at Hunter College — CUNY, New York (2006), and a Bachelor's degree in Painting at FBAUL, Lisbon (2003).
She was a fellow of the Pollock-Krasner Foundation, New York (2019-2020), a fellow of the Shandaken Projects — Paint School masterclass, New York (2018-2019), and a fellow of the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation and the Luso-American Foundation between 2004 and 2006.

Her work was included in Painting Now, edited by Suzanne Hudson and published by Thames & Hudson (2015), and has appeared in critical texts in Artforum, Flash Art, Mousse, Modern Painters, Art in America, The Brooklyn Rail, Contemporânea, Público, Expresso, among others.

Cardoso was a finalist for the New Artists Award, EDP Foundation / MAAT, Lisbon (2017), and the Young Painters Award — Fidelidade Mundial, Culturgest, Lisbon (2007).

A selection of his exhibitions include: Nuno Centeno, Porto (2023); Renata Fabbri, Milan (2023); Cristina Guerra, Lisbon (2021); Calouste Gulbenkian Museum, Lisbon (2019); Klaus Von Nichtssagend, New York (2019); Parapet Real Humans, St Louis (2018); Arpad Szenes — Vieira da Silva Museum, Lisbon (2018); MAAT, Lisbon (2017); Temnikova and Kasela, Tallinn (2017); Granpalazzo, Rome (2017); Jablonka Maruani Mercier, Knokke (2016); Rachel Uffner, New York (2015); Andrew Rafacz, Chicago (2015); MNAC — Chiado Museum, Lisbon (2015); Múrias Centeno, Lisbon (2014); Longhouse Projects, New York (2014); Marianne Boesky, New York (2012); Maisterravalbuena, Madrid (2012); Pedro Cera, Lisbon (2012); Prague Biennale 5, Prague (2011); Simone Subal, New York (2011); Emily Harvey Foundation, New York (2010); On Stellar Rays, New York (2010); The Kitchen, New York (2009); Tracy Williams, New York (2009).

Her work is represented in private and institutional collections such as: Calouste Gulbenkian Museum; EDP/MAAT Foundation; CACE—State Contemporary Art Collection; Lisbon City Council Contemporary Art Center, Municipal Galleries/EGEAC; Norlinda and José de Lima Collection; Akzo Nobel Art Foundation, Amsterdam; among others.

In 2020, Ana Cardoso founded the independent space Figura Avulsa in Santa Catarina, Lisbon, where she organizes occasional exhibitions and events. The program has been establishing a community among local and international artists such as: Rebecca Watson Horn, Max Ruf, Christine Rebet, Gonçalo Pena, Leyla Gediz, Marta Angela (Von Calhau!), Allison Knowles, João Simões, Gwenn Thomas, Charles Mayton, Ellie Ga, Nikolai Nekh, among others.

Diogo Baldaia was born in Porto and grew up in Maia. He studied at the Escola Superior de Teatro e Cinema (Lisbon) where he graduated in Directing and Image. He obtained a Master's degree in Fine Arts from the KASK Conservatorium (Ghent, Belgium). He worked and lived in Brussels before returning to Portugal, where he currently lives in Lisbon. His films have won awards and been shown at national and international film festivals, such as the Rotterdam International Film Festival, Vienna Shorts, Oberhausen Festival, IndieLisboa.

Salomé Lamas (1987, Lisbon) studied cinema in Lisbon (Higher School of Theatre and Cinema) and Prague (Filmová a Televizni Fakulta Akademie Múzick'VCH
V Praze), Visual Arts MFA in Amsterdam (Sandberg Instituut, Gerrit Rietveld Academie) and is a PhD candidate in Contemporary Art in Coimbra (University of Coimbra).

His work has been shown in art spaces and film festivals such as Berlinale – Internationale Filmfestspiele Berlin, NIMK – Netherlands Instituut voor Mediakunst, Festival Internazionale del Cinema di Roma, BAFICI, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, FIAC, MNAC – Museu do Chiado, DocLisboa, Cinema du Réel, Visions du Réel, MoMA – Museum of Modern Art, Museo Guggenheim Bilbao, Pacific Film Archive, Harvard Film Archive, Museum of Moving Images NY, Jewish Museum NY, Fid Marseille, Arsenal Institut fur film und videokunst, Viennale, Hong Kong Film Festival, UCLA Film & Television Archive, Serralves – Museu de Arte Comtemporânea, Tate Modern, Centre d'Art Contemporain de Genève, Bozar – Palais des Beaux-Arts, TABAKALERA, ICA – The Institute of Contemporary Arts, Mostra de São Paulo, CAC – Contemporary Art Center Vilnius, Ann Harbor.

Lamas has received several scholarships, such as The Gardner Film Study Center Fellowship – Harvard University, The Rockefeller Foundation – Bellagio Center, Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, Fundação Oriente, Bogliasco Foundation, The MacDowell Colony, Yaddo, Berliner Künstlerprogramm des DAAD.

She regularly collaborates with the production company O Som e a Fúria and is represented by Galeria Miguel Nabinho – Lisboa 20.