ABOUT
My work explores the
relationship between critical theory and multimedia experiences. With
influences as diverse as
Wittgenstein and L. Ron Hubbard, new tensions are manufactured
from both opaque and transparent textures.
What starts out as vision soon becomes manipulated into a carnival of lust, leaving only a sense of dread and the chance of a new beginning. As shimmering derivatives become distorted through emergent and academic practice, the viewer is left with an insight into the edges of our era.
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What I really like to do is stuff with things.
I’ve been presenting my work regularly since 2005, through exhibitions, lectures, and publications. Latest exhibitions include ARTeFACTo Macao (CN); After Shot, Taipei Photo Festival (TW); SITUATIONS / The Right to Look, Fotomuseum Winterthur (CH); Selections from the Seagrave Museum, DAAP Gallery (USA); Palimpsesto, Penafiel Museum (PT); Timelessness at Ars Electronica Campus (co-curated with Professor Mónica Mendes); Athens Photo Festival, GR; and FORMAT Festival, UK.
Co-coordinated the Post-Screen: International Festival of Art, New Media and Cybercultures (2014 and 2016, FBAUL, ULHT, Fundação Millenium bcp, Lisbon, PT).
My project-oriented practice integrates an investigative approach and subject-based research, using both optical and non-optical technologies. From analogue to digital mediums, I use vernacular archives, old maps, paper-based documents, as well as various resources, such as polystyrene, ferrofluid, bugs, plants, or bioplastics. I‘m keen on exploring different mediums, using interdisciplinary research practice as a creative method.
In 2020, I pursued an AIR at In-situ and V54 in Hong Kong, with a grant by Fundação Oriente. In 2022, I was awarded the Halaqat Media Arts residency, organised by Bozar – Centre for Fine Arts Brussels, Goethe-Institut, and IMAL in Brussels, Belgium (2022) and later in Cairo, organised by Goethe-Institut Kairo and Cairotronica (2023).
Coming from a photochemical photography background, my focus the past few years has been on creating, advocating, and making use of sustainable practices. Currently, as a lecturer at ESAD.cr, Caldas da Rainha (IPL, PT), designed a curricular unit on alternative photographic processes focusing precisely on environmentally conscious practices for the studio/darkroom.
︎︎︎ Senior Researcher @ CIEBA (FBAUL, PT)
︎︎︎ Studio practice
︎︎︎ Invited adjunct lecturer at ESAD.cr (PT)
CIÊNCIA ID 5D15-D6D7-DE1C
ORCID ID 0000-0002-3096-3794
What starts out as vision soon becomes manipulated into a carnival of lust, leaving only a sense of dread and the chance of a new beginning. As shimmering derivatives become distorted through emergent and academic practice, the viewer is left with an insight into the edges of our era.
Now, that was written by a bot.
Try it out > artybollocks.com
What I really like to do is stuff with things.
I’ve been presenting my work regularly since 2005, through exhibitions, lectures, and publications. Latest exhibitions include ARTeFACTo Macao (CN); After Shot, Taipei Photo Festival (TW); SITUATIONS / The Right to Look, Fotomuseum Winterthur (CH); Selections from the Seagrave Museum, DAAP Gallery (USA); Palimpsesto, Penafiel Museum (PT); Timelessness at Ars Electronica Campus (co-curated with Professor Mónica Mendes); Athens Photo Festival, GR; and FORMAT Festival, UK.
Co-coordinated the Post-Screen: International Festival of Art, New Media and Cybercultures (2014 and 2016, FBAUL, ULHT, Fundação Millenium bcp, Lisbon, PT).
My project-oriented practice integrates an investigative approach and subject-based research, using both optical and non-optical technologies. From analogue to digital mediums, I use vernacular archives, old maps, paper-based documents, as well as various resources, such as polystyrene, ferrofluid, bugs, plants, or bioplastics. I‘m keen on exploring different mediums, using interdisciplinary research practice as a creative method.
In 2020, I pursued an AIR at In-situ and V54 in Hong Kong, with a grant by Fundação Oriente. In 2022, I was awarded the Halaqat Media Arts residency, organised by Bozar – Centre for Fine Arts Brussels, Goethe-Institut, and IMAL in Brussels, Belgium (2022) and later in Cairo, organised by Goethe-Institut Kairo and Cairotronica (2023).
Coming from a photochemical photography background, my focus the past few years has been on creating, advocating, and making use of sustainable practices. Currently, as a lecturer at ESAD.cr, Caldas da Rainha (IPL, PT), designed a curricular unit on alternative photographic processes focusing precisely on environmentally conscious practices for the studio/darkroom.
︎︎︎ Senior Researcher @ CIEBA (FBAUL, PT)
︎︎︎ Studio practice
︎︎︎ Invited adjunct lecturer at ESAD.cr (PT)
CIÊNCIA ID 5D15-D6D7-DE1C
ORCID ID 0000-0002-3096-3794
Academic education
︎︎︎ PhD in Fine Arts - Photography, University of Lisbon, Faculty of Fine Arts (FBAUL), FCT Doctoral Studies Fellowship SFRH/BD/91327/2012; Member of Centro de Investigação e de Estudos em Belas-Artes (CIEBA, FBAUL);
︎︎︎ Master Degree in Fine Arts - Painting (FBAUL);
︎︎︎ Degree in Fine-Arts - Painting (FBAUL), specialisation in photochemical photography and darkroom practices;
︎︎︎ Image and Movement course, Centro de Imagem e Técnicas Narrativas do Centro sde Arte Moderna José de Azeredo Perdigão, Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian.
Selection of exhibitions include
Halaqat at the Goethe-Institut Kairo (EG); ARTeFACTo Macau (MO); Taipei Photo Festival (TW); SITUATIONS / The Right to Look, Fotomuseum Winterthur (CH); Selections from the Seagrave Museum, DAAP Gallery (USA); Timelessness, Ars Electronica, Campus Exhibition (AT), Athens Photo Festival (GR); FOREVER/NOW FORMAT19 (UK); Binary/Non-binary, GESTE Paris (FR); Immersive | Imersivo, Stereo & Immersive Media18, SNBA (PT); Failure is a Given, Archivo Studio (PT); Face-Value: Personification and Identity in a Post-Digital Age, Liverpool John Moores University (UK); O Chiado da Dramaturgia e da Performance - Arte na Esfera Pública, Museu Arqueológico do Carmo (PT); Finalistas, Mestrado em Pintura, Galeria da FBAUL (PT); XV Biennial of Young Artists from Europe and the Mediterranean (GR); eCREA Prize, EMERGENTS international festival of photography and visual arts (ES); Jovens Criadores 09, Palácio D. Manuel (PT); Pandora’s box, BAC!10, International Festival of Contemporary Art (ES); Finalistas, SNBA (PT); 3.41, Interpress (PT).
Selection of publications include ARTeFACTo Macau (MO), ARCHIVO Platform 10-years, ARCHIVO: The constant flux of reappropriation (interview with Clare Strand), ARCHIVO Papers Journal, _IMG01: Encoded Replication, Dark Traces of Material Luminescence (PT); ; Revista Invisibilidades (PT); FLAT Journal UCLA (USA); 2047, Flanzine (PT); Post-Screen Research Project - Unspoken Dialogues, Intermittence+interference, Post-Screen: device, medium, and concept (PT); DAKAM Research Centre (TR).
Conferences and artist talks about my practice include
Towards an Automated Art? (PT); ARTeFACTo Macau (MO); IBÉRICAS 2020, Universidad Rey Juan Carlos (ES, online); #18.ART: Of the admirable order of things: art, emotion and technology, FBAUL (PT); Transtopia Artist Talk, In-Situ and V54 (HK); Waking Life Festival (PT); Stereo & Immersive Media Conference 18, SNBA (PT); FEMeeting (PT); The European Conference on Arts & Humanities ECAH2017 (UK); Seventh Conference on The Image, Liverpool John Moores University (UK); CONTEMPHOTO’16: International Visual Culture and Contemporary Photography Conference Istambul (TR); Post-Screen: Um projecto de investigação em arte”, FBAUL (PT).
Full CV upon request.
︎︎︎ PhD in Fine Arts - Photography, University of Lisbon, Faculty of Fine Arts (FBAUL), FCT Doctoral Studies Fellowship SFRH/BD/91327/2012; Member of Centro de Investigação e de Estudos em Belas-Artes (CIEBA, FBAUL);
︎︎︎ Master Degree in Fine Arts - Painting (FBAUL);
︎︎︎ Degree in Fine-Arts - Painting (FBAUL), specialisation in photochemical photography and darkroom practices;
︎︎︎ Image and Movement course, Centro de Imagem e Técnicas Narrativas do Centro sde Arte Moderna José de Azeredo Perdigão, Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian.
Selection of exhibitions include
Halaqat at the Goethe-Institut Kairo (EG); ARTeFACTo Macau (MO); Taipei Photo Festival (TW); SITUATIONS / The Right to Look, Fotomuseum Winterthur (CH); Selections from the Seagrave Museum, DAAP Gallery (USA); Timelessness, Ars Electronica, Campus Exhibition (AT), Athens Photo Festival (GR); FOREVER/NOW FORMAT19 (UK); Binary/Non-binary, GESTE Paris (FR); Immersive | Imersivo, Stereo & Immersive Media18, SNBA (PT); Failure is a Given, Archivo Studio (PT); Face-Value: Personification and Identity in a Post-Digital Age, Liverpool John Moores University (UK); O Chiado da Dramaturgia e da Performance - Arte na Esfera Pública, Museu Arqueológico do Carmo (PT); Finalistas, Mestrado em Pintura, Galeria da FBAUL (PT); XV Biennial of Young Artists from Europe and the Mediterranean (GR); eCREA Prize, EMERGENTS international festival of photography and visual arts (ES); Jovens Criadores 09, Palácio D. Manuel (PT); Pandora’s box, BAC!10, International Festival of Contemporary Art (ES); Finalistas, SNBA (PT); 3.41, Interpress (PT).
Selection of publications include ARTeFACTo Macau (MO), ARCHIVO Platform 10-years, ARCHIVO: The constant flux of reappropriation (interview with Clare Strand), ARCHIVO Papers Journal, _IMG01: Encoded Replication, Dark Traces of Material Luminescence (PT); ; Revista Invisibilidades (PT); FLAT Journal UCLA (USA); 2047, Flanzine (PT); Post-Screen Research Project - Unspoken Dialogues, Intermittence+interference, Post-Screen: device, medium, and concept (PT); DAKAM Research Centre (TR).
Conferences and artist talks about my practice include
Towards an Automated Art? (PT); ARTeFACTo Macau (MO); IBÉRICAS 2020, Universidad Rey Juan Carlos (ES, online); #18.ART: Of the admirable order of things: art, emotion and technology, FBAUL (PT); Transtopia Artist Talk, In-Situ and V54 (HK); Waking Life Festival (PT); Stereo & Immersive Media Conference 18, SNBA (PT); FEMeeting (PT); The European Conference on Arts & Humanities ECAH2017 (UK); Seventh Conference on The Image, Liverpool John Moores University (UK); CONTEMPHOTO’16: International Visual Culture and Contemporary Photography Conference Istambul (TR); Post-Screen: Um projecto de investigação em arte”, FBAUL (PT).
Full CV upon request.