Interarts

The Postgraduate Course in Interarts aims to provide students with practical skills and conceptual tools in the area of contemporary art, with artistic installation and performance as its main disciplinary anchors. Taking into account the growing relationship between art, body and technology, the curricular plan presents an interdisciplinary approach focused on expanded artistic production, bringing together curricular units of a laboratory and theoretical-practical nature.  

With a strong connection to the professional sector, the course also aims to encourage students' contact with the world of work, featuring a teaching staff with prestigious Portuguese artists, as well as several emerging artists. In order to complement the study program, the postgraduate course also offers a series of seminars with guest teachers in the areas of art and technology. 

At the end of the course, each student must present the project developed throughout the year, under tutoring, in a collective exhibition, curated by the coordinators.

SCHEDULE

October 2024 to July 2025

4th, 5th and Friday
17:00–22:00
After work

DURATION

60 ECTS | 390 hours

LOCAL

School of Arts – Universidade Autónoma de Lisboa (Campo de Ourique)

Scientific Coordination
Luis Lima
Pedagogical Coordination
Alexandra Martins
Structure

1st Semester

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Image and Movement

Understanding of the main concepts of image theory in relation to movement, taking into account transmedia practice and artistic creation, and mastery of technical tools appropriate to the realization of the artistic object

Teacher: Tatiana Macedo

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Sound Art

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Teacher: João Polido Gomes

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Body and Performativity

Seizure of instruments of investigation, 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

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Contemporary Problems

Introduction to the main questions aesthetic of contemporaneity and understanding of different ontological approaches to dominant discourses and counter-dominants It is of the objects contemporary artistic works, or produced from these

Teachers: Luís Lima and Alexandra Martins

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Introduction to Visual Programming

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

Teacher: Bárbara Paixão

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Project I

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!)

2nd Semester

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Media Theory

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

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Digital Technologies

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

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Art and Community

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

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Expanded Expository Practices

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

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Seminars

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

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Project II

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!)

FEES

3.900, 00 €

Payment conditions
Payment can be made in installments or in full.

Special conditions
10% discount for Autónoma community

ACCESS CONDITIONS

The following will be admitted as candidates:

  • Holders of a bachelor's degree or legal equivalent in the areas of Fine Arts, Visual Arts, Design, Multimedia Art, Drawing, Art and Heritage Sciences, Architecture, as well as in related areas;
  • Holders of a foreign higher academic degree awarded following a 1st cycle of studies organized in accordance with the principles of the Bologna Process by a State adhering to this Process;
  • Holders of a foreign higher academic degree in the areas indicated above, which is recognized as meeting the objectives of the degree;
  • Holders of an academic, scientific or professional curriculum that is recognized as attesting the ability to undertake this course;
  • Students who are in the process of completing their degree, in the areas indicated above, at a Portuguese higher education establishment.
APPLICATIONS

Applications can be submitted using the form.

Application fee: €100.00
Registration fee: €100.00
School insurance: €20.00

Number of vacancies: 15

The course will only take place with a minimum number of registered students.

FACULTY

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Alexandra Martins

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.

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Ana Mira

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.

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Antonio Poppe

António Poppe was born in Lisbon. He studied at Ar.Co., the Royal College of Arts in London and the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, where he completed a Masters in Performing Art and Cinema. He published four books: Torre de Juan Abad (Assirio&Alvim), Livro da Luz (Documenta), medicin. and eats coral (Douda Correria).

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Barbara Paixão

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.

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João Alves

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.

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João Pedro Fonseca

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.

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João Polido Gomes
João Polido Gomes is a composer and artist from Marinha Grande, residing in Lisbon and student at the Dutch Art Institute (2020-2022). Edits and performs music under Polido. Recent musical editions include Sabor A Terra & A Casa E Os Cães (Holuzam, 2020) and Música Livre/Free Music (author's edition with support from Spirit Shop, 2019). He collaborated as sound director and/or composer for films by Louis Henderson, Madalena Fragoso and Margarida Meneses, Romana Schmalisch & Robert Schlicht, Filipa César and Marte Eknæs & Michael Amstad.
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José Marmeleira

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.

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Luis Lima

PhD in Philosophy – specialty of Aesthetics –, from FCS/ Universidade Nova de Lisboa, as a PhD fellow from the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation for co-tutorship in Paris IV – Sorbonne, in the Literature department. FCT scholarship holder for a master's degree in Communication, Contemporary Culture and New Technologies from the same university. He graduated in Communication Sciences with a thesis on the mutual conditioning between criticism and art. He collaborated as a journalist in several publications (Around the world, Magazine National GeographicIberian ArtCapital 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.).

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Martha Angela

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.

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Tatiana Macedo

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.