VISUAL ARTS

Ana Isabel Carvalho is a designer with a degree from FBAUP and a MA in the same institution, on the theme of print publications and book cover design. Her work explores the intersections between design and hacker culture, the digital and the physical. Over the years she developed an exploratory practice in software/hardware archaeology and obsolete printing devices. Along with Ricardo Lafuente, she runs the Manufactura Independente design and research studio. In parallel, she works in information design, building data visualizations and interactive web interfaces as part of the J++ international data journalism agency.

Anselmo Canha. Degree in Communication Design - Graphic Art (University of Porto, 1984). Master in Image Design (University of Porto, 2008), PhD in Design (University of Porto, 2018). As a researcher, he is dedicated to the relationships between independent contexts of creation - namely non-professional and experimental - and social transformation. In his master dissertation he studied the Stop Shopping Center. His PhD thesis elected a community radio - Radio Manobras - as the center of a constellation of cases in the city of Porto. He co-coordinated “Manobras no Porto”, a project dedicated to think and act through creative action in the Historic Center of Porto. He has been a professional designer since 1984, having developed work mainly in the editorial, corporate identity and signage fields, the latter being his current professional specialization.

António Gonçalves (1975) Portuguese nationality. Attended Soares dos Reis school in Porto (High School artistic education). Bachelor of Fine Arts-Painting at Oporto Fine Arts College -(Faculdade de Belas Artes da Universidade do Porto). Attended Fine Arts College at Cuenca, Spain, under Erasmus Program 1998/ 1999. Currently undertaking the Doctoral program in Art History at University Les Balears- Palma de Maiorca, Spain. Painter. Artistic Director at Ala da FrenteGallery, V. N. Famalicão since 2015.Artistic Director at Fundação Cupertino de Miranda, Vila Nova de Famalicão since 2002 to 2018.Professor of Continuing Education Courses at Porto College of Fine Arts,from 2017 to 2010.Assistant professor at Porto artistic college(ESAP)-(Guimarães extension), since 2003 to 2014

From 1986 to 1989 he attended the Porto Superior Art School where he completed his Bachelor in Photography and from 2002 to 2003 he graduated in Art and Communication - Photography. Attends since 2014/15 the University of Porto Lusófona PhD in Media Arts Works in photography since 1990 in the most varied areas. He has been working as a visual artist since 1991. He continually investigates many aspects of the Visual Arts, both practical and theoretical. More recent works we highlight in 2014 - "Memories" Exhibition Integrated in the 38th FITEI, Photography and Image Editing of the Project Some Reasons for a Non-Demissionary Art, supported by DGARTES-Secretariat of State for Culture, Photography and production of the exhibition SUFOCO of the artist Silvestre Pestana, Espaço Mira Porto .2015 - Photography and Image Editing of the Correspondence Project He has taught several curricular units at ESAP since 1990/1991.

Completed a Master Degree on Illustration and Animation and graduated on Graphic Design. He has been working as a professor in several higher education entities (IPCA, IPP and IPB) and tutoring Workshops and Masterclasses with IPCA, Cinanima, Casa da Animação, Casa da Juv. Famalicão and individually. Professionally he works as a digital animator, graphic designer, visual effects artist and sound designer. He has some animations transmitted on FOX, RTP2 and TELE5 TV Channels and already produced and implemented audiovisual content in digital games. It stands out the collaboration with Portuguese Football Federation, ComicCon, "Pedro e o Gato", MagikBee, Original Features and Animgram. He also dedicates himself to research, constantly publishing and presenting scientific articles on international conferences. He currently attends a PhD in Communication Sciences at the University of Minho.

Bruno Borges (Lisbon, 1976). Works and lives in Porto. Technical course in Graphic Design at António Arroio Visual ArtSchool (1994) and graduate in Panting, Faculdade de Belas Artes from the University of Lisbon(2001).He’s currently a PhD student in Contemporary Art. Doctoral programme at Colégiodas Artes, University of Coimbra. Collaborated regularly between 2001 and 2011with the Galleries Artfit, MCO and Sopro; made individual exhibitions recently at Senhora Presidenta(2018) and Galeria do Sol(2020) showing painting and drawing. Participated with comics and illustrations in various editing collective projects (Chili Com Carne, Opuntia Books, Oficina do Cego, Homem do Saco, Cão Celeste, Stripburger, Novo Doba) and exhibitions (“Tinta nos Nervos–Contemporary Portuguese Comics”, at Museu Berardo in 2011, curated by Pedro Vieira de Moura). Founding member of the magazine Buraco and part ofthe artistic collective Oficina Arara. Created his own publishing house, O Gorila, specialized in zines and other troglodyte manufactures. Lecturer in the Comics Graduation at ESAP, lecturer in visual art vocational courses from IEFP and art instructor in workshops for children and adults.

Bachelor of Fine Arts / Painting by FBAUP (1981). PhD from the University of Vigo (Department of Sculpture, 2014), with the thesis "Art and Memory: Developments and derivations about the concept of memory and its contribution to artistic practice". He was a Fellow of the Foundation for Science and Technology (2009-2012). Since 1982, he has been teaching at ESAP's Higher Arts Courses, of which he was one of the founders, having held various positions. As a plastic artist, he began exhibiting in 1978: he held 5 solo exhibitions and participated in more than 150 collectives, in Portugal and abroad, being represented in some public and private collections. Between 1976 and 1981 he worked in Animation Cinema, including two films subsidized by the Portuguese Cinema Institute, produced by Cinematógrafo - collective of intervention, of which he was one of the founders. In 2015 Trindade re-started working in cinema, having produced two short films which were shown in some international film festivals. 

Degree in Fine Arts, Master in Drawing (illustration project) and Phd in Fine Arts (thesis + project in the area of comics and illustration). Since 2006, has been illustrating writers such as Alice Vieira, Ana Saldanha, João Pedro Mésseder, José Luís Peixoto, Machado de Assis, Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen e Raul Brandão, among others.

Actualmente A terminar o doutoramento em Estudos Literários, Culturais e Interartísticos — Variante de Estudos Comparatistas em regime de cotutela entre a Faculdade de Letras da Universidade do Porto e a Faculteit Letteren — KU Leuven, onde prepara, com uma bolsa da FCT, uma tese sobre banda desenhada e cinema sob a orientação de Joana Matos Frias e Jan Baetens. Assistente convidado na Escola das Artes da Universidade Católica Portuguesa, concebendo e leccionando, com Sahra Kunz, uma edição da cadeira de mestrado "Teoria da Animação" (módulo "Cinema de Animação Americano").
Concepção e docência de uma edição da cadeira de "Banda Desenhada", integrada no curso de especialização em Cinema e Cultura Visual, na Faculdade de Letras da Universidade do Porto. 2017 Estadia de investigação de uma semana nos arquivos da Cité internationale de la bande dessinée et de l'image, em Angoulême. 2016-2018 Três estadias de investigação (duas de cinco meses e uma de quatro) na KU Leuven, orientadas por Jan Baetens. 2008-2011 Mestrado em Ciências da Comunicação — Variante de Cinema e Televisão na Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas da Universidade Nova de Lisboa, com dissertação intitulada “Do Elogio da Sombra ao Enterro do Sol: Luz e Cor no Cinema da Nuberu Bagu Japonesa” (elaborada sob orientação de Alexandra Curvelo e José Manuel Costa e com a nota de 19 valores), e com a média final de 18 valores (Excelente).
2004-2008 Licenciatura pré-Bolonha em Línguas e Literaturas Modernas — Variante de Estudos Franceses e Ingleses na Faculdade de Letras da Universidade do Porto, com a média final de 18 valores.  2007 Erasmus na Université de la Sorbonne Nouvelle na área de estudos cinematográficos.

Diogo Tudela (Porto, 1987) graduated in Sound and Image in 2009 and Master in Digital Arts in 2011, both by School of Arts of the Universidade Católica Portuguesa, where worked as a researcher at CITAR - Center for Research in Science and Technology. Technology, and where taught the course of Typography and Communication Design in the Postgraduate Degree of Digital Design, between 2012 and 2014. Currently teaches in Multimedia Art degree at ISMAI, at the Postgraduate Degree of Printmaking at FBAUP, and  in the bachelor degree of Fine Arts and Intermedia at ESAP. In 2015  was finalist of the New Bank Revelation Prize of  Serralves Foundation, and selected to join the official selection of BAFTA Qualifying ASFF. In 2017  presented the play "Parametric Solar" at the CAAA, Guimarães, through a grant from the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation.

Hugo Paquete (1979). Research grant, (FCT) Ph.D student: Doutoramento em Média-Arte Digital. Aberta University and Algarve University, Portugal. Master in Contemporary artistic Creation, (UA, 2014). (CIAC): Center for Research in Arts and Communication, University do Algarve, University Aberta. And in the (ID+ [UA /DeCA) Group: Praxis and Poiesis: from arts practice towards art theory, Research Institute for Design, Media and Culture, Aveiro University. Researcher in collaboration with: (FCSH/NOVA-CESEM/CYSMUS): Group of Advanced Studies in Music and Cyberculture. He was an artist in residence at the ZKM / Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie Karlsruhe, IMA | Institute for Music & Acoustics, developing research on sound spatialization and acousmatic music. In his research, Paquete addresses notions such as space, noise, error, and glitch. He critically analyze the related subjects of sound art in sound studies and in digital art that contribute to the post-digital aesthetics. And the regimes of perception mediated by technology.

Inês Moreira (1977, PT) is an architect, curator and postdoctoral researcher. Currently affiliated to IHA-FCSH, Universidade NOVA de Lisboa, funded by the Foundation of Science and Technology. Guest Professor at the Fine Arts Faculty, University of Porto, lecturing on Contemporary Culture and on Curatorial Studies. Co-editor of Jornal Arquitectos [Architect’s Newspaper], the Portuguese Association of Architects’ official magazine.

Holds a PhD degree in Curatorial Knowledge (Goldsmiths College, University of London, 2014); a Master’s degree in Architecture and Urban Culture (Metropolis, UPC/CCCB, Barcelona, 2003); graduated in Architecture (FAUP, Porto, 2001).

Her research engages with ruined architectures, collective memories, outcast historical buildings and other man-made territories, such as postindustrial landscapes or spaces. She essays readings of architecture as a cultural field, exploring new curatorial epistemologies within the urban, the visual and the techno-cultural critique.

Jaime Reis is a Portuguese composer based in Lisbon who studied with Karlheinz Stockhausen and with Emmanuel Nunes (also PhD co-adviser), after studying Composition and Electronic Music in Aveiro University (with J.P.Oliveira). He's the artistic director of Festival DME (counting more than 60 editions) and Lisboa Incomum. His music has been presented over more than 20 countries, both instrumental and electroacoustic, having received prizes in competitions. He has worked with institutions/ensembles such as: ZKM, IRCAM, Musik Fabrik, The Acousmonium Project of Vienna, Aleph Guitar Quartet, Musiques & Recherches. He's Professor in ESART and in the Superior Music School of Lisbon (ESML), where he teaches composition and electronic music.

Porto, 25 de Abril de 1974

2015 – Doutoramento em Educação Artística, Faculdade de Belas Artes da Universidade do Porto.

2007 – Mestrado em Desenho e Técnicas de Impressão, Faculdade de Belas Artes da Universidade do Porto.

1997 – Licenciatura em Artes Plásticas, Pintura, Faculdade de Belas Artes da Universidade do Porto

Bolseira FCT (2011-2014).

Membro do i2ADS- Instituto de Investigação em Arte, Design e Sociedade, Faculdade de Belas Artes da Universidade do Porto.

Professora auxiliar na ESAG e Universidade do Minho.

Orientação de Mestrados nas áreas da Obra Gráfica e Ilustração, e Doutoramento na área da Educação Artística e Prática Artísticas.

Coordenadora de oficinas, estágios e residências artísticas na área das técnicas de impressão - em regime tutorial, no seu atelier, desde 2007.

Edição e direcção artística de Obra gráfica.

Expõe individualmente desde 1997, participa em exposições colectivas e projectos artísticos, entre os quais o Identidades.

João Cruz. Bachelor Degree in Communication Design (1993), Masters in Multimedia Art (2003) and PhD in Art & Design (2011) from the School of Fine Arts at the University of Porto.
Lecturer of design and media studies for the Bachelor, Master and PhD programmes at the School of Fine Arts at the University of Porto (1999–2017). Member of ID+ Unexpected Media Research Group (2007–2017). Editor and co-founder of media-label Crónica Electrónica (http://cronicaelectronica.org) (2002–2010). Co-founder and co-creative director of Colönia Design Studio, Store & Micro-Gallery (2009–2014). Currently director of Mountain Superstudio™ (http://mountainsuperstudio.com) (2017), a design studio specialising in art direction, editorial design, branding and video with a focus on Portuguese fashion.

Attending the PhD in Art and Design at FBAUP and Master in Image Design and Licentiate in Communication Design at FBAUP. He has been working as a graphic designer since 2003. He is co-founder of the design office - GSA Design, specializing in the development of visual identities as well as in editorial in the area of cultural production, among others. He has been a senior designer at the Serralves Foundation since 2004. From his teaching experience, ESAP has been teaching since 2010 and ESAD in Matosinhos where he has been teaching since 2009. Since 2010 he has co-hosted ESAP's "Plug and Play" design conferences . His work has already been selected for the Trnava Poster Triennial (2003), International Museum Communication Awards (2007) and winner of the Best Design Prize for Art and Photography Prize edition Read / Booktailors with the book "Berlin - Critical Reconstruction" ( 2009).

Degree in Communication Design at the Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of Porto and Master of Design at the Faculty of Architecture of the University of Lisbon. Attends currently the PhD and Information and Communication in Digital Platforms in a consortium between the University of Aveiro and the University of Porto. He has taught in polytechnic and university higher education since 2009 in curricular units of Graphic Design, Web Design and Multimedia, Audiovisual Design, 2D Animation, 3D Modeling and Animation, Drawing, Illustration at both undergraduate and masters level. He was Junior Designer, Senior and did art direction in several Design offices in Oporto. He has also been a freelance Designer for over 10 years in Graphic Design, Web Design, Audiovisual Design, and Animation projects. He is a researcher at CETAC research centers. Media (Univ. Porto and Univ. Aveiro) and CIAUD (University)

Jorge Cunha Pimentel graduated in Fine Arts - Painting from FBAUP, in 1989, and PhD in Arquitecturapela Universidad de Valladolid, in 2014, with the thesis Public Works of Rogério de Azevedo. The years of the SPN / SNI and the DGEMN. He has been a professor at ESAP since 1987. He was Director of the Superior Course of Design and coordinator of the degree of Plastic Arts. She has been developing research in the fields of Architecture History and Architectural Design, with the participation in two ESAP projects already completed or in the process of being completed, around the subject of Design Architecture (2014-2016), as responsible researcher; and participation in the FCT project already completed Photography, Modern Architecture and the "Porto School". Interpretations around the Teófilo Rego Archive (2013-2015), as a member of the research team.

Researcher and curator in Contemporary Art. Living between Valencia, Spain and Porto, Portugal. PhD by the Faculty of Fine Arts of the Polytechnic University of Valencia. He is an assistant professor at ESAP, Escola Superior Artística do Porto. He is an Integrated Researcher at the Arnaldo Araújo Research Center, in the group of Research in Art and Critical Studies. In the field of cultural production he has collaborated with different institutions such as the Serralves Museum of Contemporary Art, the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation and the Art and Architecture program of the European Capital of Culture, Guimarães 2012. Since 2004 he has been a member of several university research groups at the UPV in Valencia, and UFRGS in Porto Alegre, Brazil, for the development of international cooperation projects, based on the creation of nuclei of thought around new contemporary processes of artistic creation, as well as the investigation of new territories in production, criticism and diffusion of the plastic arts. He is the editor of the book, Infraestructuras emergentes, on the production, management and cultural diffusion. He has developed research on the relations between art, politics and society with an emphasis on spatial and performative arthritic practices. During 2017/18 was curator in residence of the Center of Contemporary Culture - Center del Carme and currently is associated curator in the Galeria Municipal do Porto. 

Natural de Coimbra, viveu até aos 18 anos na Figueira da Foz. Tem Mestrado em Arquitectura pela Faculdade de Arquitectura da Universidade Técnica de Lisboa (2010). Como arquitecto, trabalhou em Lisboa e Xangai (em reabilitação e planeamento urbano, respectivamente). É  professor do 1º ano do curso de  Banda Desenhada no Ar.Co desde 2018. Encontra-se neste momento a iniciar o Doutoramento na área de História da Tecnologia na FCT-Nova.

Começou a auto-publicar o seu trabalho em 2012, com o zine Enjoo de Invocação, escrito a meias com Astromanta. No mesmo ano publicou ainda Inner Math/Megafauna, também colaborando com Astromanta, com quem fundou, juntamente com Hetamoé e Mao, o colectivo Clube do Inferno. Publicou ainda com a Kingpin Books (Safe Place), a Polvo (Madoka Machina) e a Chili Com Carne (QCDI #3000). Actualmente, coordena a recém fundada chancela de zines Erva Daninha com a artista Joana Mosi.

Expõe individual e colectivamente desde 2012: participou na exposição Parasitas, na Mundo Fantasma, em 2012. Em 2014, esteve patente na LIGHTNING RIDING WAVES OF FIRE, na El Pep Store. Em 2015, na mesma loja, teve uma exposição individual. Voltou a expor novamente em nome próprio com Bestiário, em 2019, no espaço AHTAKI (Lisboa).

Composer of electroacoustic and instrumental music, Luís Antunes Pena was born in 1973 in Lisbon/Portugal. He is currently based in Germany. His compositions result from the intensive work on computer generated structures based on the development of his own computer tools, reflecting his interest in new forms of rhythm and noise. 2013 was released the portrait CD Terrains Vagues and 2015 the CD Caffeine from the Edition Zeitgenšssische Musik / Wergo / German Council of Music. His music is heard regularly in national and international festivals played by renowned ensembles like the mosaik ensemble, asamisimasa, nadar, hand werk or remix ensemble. Currently, he teaches at the Zurich University of the Arts and the Hochschule für Musik Karlsruhe.

Maite Camacho (Madrid, 1978)

Currently active as Multimedia Artist, she combines these tasks with those of a supervisor and cultural manager for her own creative projects and those of others, highlighting the implementation and general coordination of Espacio Menosuno from 2005 to 2012, a collective space with intense programming, and the management of IN-SONORA, a platform for the support and dissemination of the most emerging sound and interactive art, which has become a national and international benchmark after 10 exhibitions and various projects abroad. In 2012 she founded together with other artists the high-performance production space Taller Omnívoros located in the Vallecas district of Madrid and which currently serves as a workplace and meeting place for local and international artists.

Coimbra, 1978. Licenciado em Design pela Faculdade de Belas Artes da Universidade do Porto, em
2002. Autor de Banda Desenhada, ilustrador e artista plástico, com vasta obra publicada em
Portugal e no estrangeiro. Recebeu em 2015 o Prémio de Melhor Albúm do Ano no Festival
Internacional de Banda Desenhada da Amadora. Responsável pela publicação de diversas revistas e
antologias de banda desenhada, ilustração e artes plásticas, bem como por inúmeras exposições
colectivas, em Portugal e no estrangeiro. Publicou em 2008 o livro "Tomorrow the Chinese Will
Deliver the Pandas" (Plana Press), em 2012 a novela gráfica "Diário Rasgado", em 2013 o álbum de
desenhos "Anos Dourados", em 2014 a novela gráfica "Zombie" e em 2019 a novela gráfica "Tutti
Frutti" (todos pela Mundo Fantasma) que reúne as bandas desenhadas publicadas no Jornal de
Notícias em 2018. Professor da licenciatura em Ilustração e Banda Desenhada da Escola Superior
Artística do Porto, da licenciatura em Design da Universidade de Aveiro, na licenciatura em Design
Industrial do Instituto Politécnico do Cávado e do Ave, na licenciatura em Design de Produto da
Universidade do Minho e no Clube de Desenho, do Porto.

Designer, graduated from the School of Art and Design since 1996, with work developed essentially in the area of communication. Master in Multimedia in Education from the University of Aveiro since 2007. She is developing her PhD in Design at the University of Aveiro, where she is a collaborator of the ID + Institute of Research, Design, Media and Culture. His research work is part of the Strategic Design for Sustainability Research Line. He has been teaching at the Escola Superior Artística do Porto (ESAP) since 2001, where he is currently a member of the Multimedia Design and Communication Course. He was President of the Pedagogical Council and integrated some working groups of curricular organization.

Mª Covadonga Barreiro, graduated in Belas Artes (Univesidade de Vigo, 2006) and Doutorada com Menção Internacional (Universidade de Vigo, 2012). Expôs em various national and international institutions, with the participation of the Correspondências e Hors-Série projects, curated by Eduarda Neves. Tem recebido prémios pela sua trajetória academica (Extraordinary Prize of Bachelor, Extraordinary Award and Award of Investigation in Humanities of Deputação de Pontevedra) and artistic (Prémio Novos Valores, Primeiro Prémio no Certame de Artes Plásticas da Deputação de Ourense ...). É researcher at Centro de Estudos Arnaldo Araújo (Critical Studies and Art Group), professor at the Escola Superior Artística do Porto since 2014 and Professora Associada at the University of Vigo (Spain) since 2017. 

Bachelor in Photography (ESAP - 1995), Degree in Design (ESAD - 1998), Iberian Master - Graphic and Intermediate Production (University of Barcelona - 2007) and PhD in Fine Arts - Design, Drawing and Expression Techniques program University of Valencia - 2016, recognized by the University of Porto in 2017). She has been a professor at the ESD (IPCA) since 2009. She has been sworn in the profession of Graphic Design SKILLS Portugal since 2011. She has been developing research in the field of photography and graphic arts at the Marques Abreu Portuguese Photograver. IN PURE PRINT on Graphic Works by Marques Abreu (1898-1974), Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of Porto in 2016.

Degree in Plastic Arts - Painting by the Faculty of Fine Arts of Porto. Master in Image Design (FBAUP) and Printing Techniques (Camberwell College of Arts, London Institute). Professor at ESAG - Escola Superior Artística de Guimarães [2001-2017]. Author of the Degree Course in Art - BD and Illustration and the Master in Illustration ESAG. Co-authoress of the postgraduate course in BD at ESAP - Escola Superior Artística do Porto. Plastic Artist; exhibits individually and collectively in national and international artistic context. Editor of the Leonorana magazine from 2017 to the present. Authoress of several editorial projects including the independent publisher Braço-de-Ferro [2007-2011]. Co-editor of the Satélite Internacional magazine [2001-2005]. Author of essays published in catalogs and magazines.

Concluiu o Mestrado em Design Gráfico e Projetos Editoriais, em 2017/12/07, pela Universidade do Porto, Faculdade de Belas Artes; Bachelor em Design Gráfico em 2007/12/31 pela Universidade do Estado de Minas Gerais e Bachelor em Artes Plásticas em 2012/12/01 pela Universidade do Estado de Minas Gerais. Frequenta o Doutoramento em Artes Plásticas pela Universidade do Porto, Faculdade de Belas Artes, desde 2018/09/01. Atua na área de Artes e Humanidades com ênfase em Arquitetura e Design.

No seu currículo Ciência Vitae os termos mais frequentes na contextualização da produção científica, tecnológica e artístico-cultural são: Artes; Arts; Humanidades::Artes; Humanities::Arts; Picturebook; narrative resources; digital influence; postmodernism; crossover; Livro de artista; publicação; .

Doutorado em Educação Artística pela Faculdade de Belas Artes (FBAUP), com a tese “Imagens em Falta - Desenho, Narrativa Gráfica e o Trabalho da Memória” (2017). Mestre em Ensino de Artes Visuais pela Faculdade de Psicologia e Ciências da Educação (FPCEUP) e pela FBAUP, com a dissertação “Fazer Acontecer - Construção de um não-método de aprendizagem” (2010). Licenciado em Artes Plásticas – Escultura pela FBAUP (2007). Expõe regularmente desde 2005. Em 2012 publicou o livro “Sobrevida”, em co-autoria com Carlos Pinheiro, editado pela Imprensa Canalha, Lisboa.Co-fundador do Clube de Desenho (clubedesenho.wordpress.com) — criado em Setembro de 2010 juntamente com Carlos Pinheiro, Marco Mendes e Sofia Barreira.  Ilustrador da revista 2, suplemento do jornalPúblico, entre 2012 e 2015.Co-editor e autor do jornal Buraco, entre 2011/2013. Foi membro fundador do colectivo artístico Senhorio, no Porto, participando desde 2004 na produção e publicação de vários fanzines de banda desenhada e ilustração.Compositor e intérprete de música para diversos projectos: nos filmes “Baal”  e "Santa Joana dos Matadouros” de João Sousa Cardoso; nas peças de teatro - “Rubro”, de Marta Bernards, e “Barafunda”, de Afonso Cruz e Marta Bernardes (Teatro Maria Matos, Lisboa) e nos projectos musicais Stowaways, João Peludo & Orquestra Sonâmbula e Sr.Doutor. Assistente convidado na Faculdade de Arquitectura da Universidade do Porto (FAUP) em 2009/10 e desde 2011 em Desenho I. Assistente convidado na Escola de Arquitectura da Universidade do Minho desde 2014, em Desenho de Observação; Coordenador das unidades curriculares de Desenho de Observação e Desenho II em 2016/17.  Docente de várias unidades curriculares da licenciatura em Artes/BD/Ilustração da Escola Superior Artística de Guimarães (ESAG) em Projecto I, Desenvolvimento de Personagens, Desenho de Espaço, entre 2010 e 2015.Coordenador do departamento de Ilustração da ESAG entre 2012 e 2014. Autor do blog sorvedouro@wordpress.pt, onde edita periodicamente trabalho gráfico na área da banda desenhada e do desenho. 

Nuno Faleiro Rodrigues is a lecturer at ESAP where he teaches in Photography-Visual Arts and Post-Graduate Studies in Contemporary Art. In 2009 he completed his PhD at Middlesex University, London under the guidance of Professor Peter Osborne and Professor Éric Alliez. He has taught Critical Studies at Norwich University of the Arts and Metropolitan Cardiff University, UK. Between 2007 and 2009, he presented a series of seminars in art theory at Ar.Co, Lisbon, about art and repetition in the postwar period and art and aesthetics in the philosophy of Gilles Deleuze. He is an integrated researcher at the Arnaldo Araújo Research Center where he is a member of the Research Group on Art and Critical Studies. Currently, he is Deputy Director of ESAP. 

Paulo Jorge da Silva Fernandes is Multimedia Developer, Photographer and Professor of University Higher Education since 2002. He holds a BA in Photography (2001) and a BA in Multimedia Art and Communication from ESAP (2002). Attends the doctoral program in Communication Sciences, University of Minho, with research focused on interactive media and social semiotics. He has published articles in the areas of Teaching of Visual Arts, Multimedia and New Media, following international conferences, and also participated as a responsible and technical collaborator in the organization and scientific committee of scientific events such as XV AECA, CONFIA'13 / 14 / 15/16, SEGAH'14, Videogames'14. Since 2002 he has been responsible for several multimedia projects, namely international projects of virtual reality photography, multimedia products such as educational games, desktop and web applications, as well as various websites developed in flash technologies, HTML5, CSS, Javascript, PHP, NodeJS, among others. Since the beginning of 2012, he has signed with Gato Sério (gatoserio.com), with whom he has already made several Multimedia and Interaction projects, including the Bread and Wine Museum of Favaios, Motion Graphics for the Cupertino Foundation miranda, web products for the Hospital Center of Oporto, Museum of the Wine of S. João da Pesqueira (Honorable Mention of Best National Museum 2015) among other clients of National Renewal. It publishes numerous curricular units of the scientific areas of Multimedia, Photography, Information Technology, Marketing and Audio-Visual in Higher Education Institutions since 2002. Since 2010, he has been a founding member of the organizing committee of the International Conference on Design and Multimedia, Plug & Play, at ESAP.

Graduated from the Accademia di Belle Arti di Roma in Painting, MS in Lithography at Tama Art University, Japan, Diploma from the Tamarind Institute, University of New Mexico, USA at the Professional Printer Training Program and Diploma of Advanced Studies (DEA) Doctoral Program in "Modes of Knowledge in Contemporary Artistic Practice". He has been a lecturer at ESAP since 1998, Director of the Licenciatura Course in Plastic and Intermediate Arts as well as Coordinator of the Artistic Residence in the area of ESAP Printing. Lecturer of the curricular units of Print, Co-organizer of the 1st International Cycle of Reflection "Devices in Contemporary Artistic Practice". It is IR from the Research Project ESAP / 2015 / P25 / DAV.

Ricardo Lafuente has a degree on Communication Design by FBAUP and an MA on Networked Media/Media Design by the Piet Zwart Institute, focusing his academic research on the intersections between digital media and type design. He specialised in code as a way to develop practical and speculative design tools, directed towards new perspectives and methodologies for design processes, based on free culture and F/LOSS principles. His interest in applying software design methodologies and data architecture principles to information and interface design underlies his practice at the J++ data journalism agency and the Manufactura Independente design studio.

Degree in History, from the Variant in Art History by the Faculty of Letters of the Universidade de Lisboa. Master and PhD student in Art History by the Faculty of Social and Human Sciences of the Universidade Nova de Lisboa. Professor at ESAP-Guimarães / ESAG since 1992. President of the Scientific Council of ESAP / Guimarães / ESAG between 2006-2014 and 2018-2020. Coordinator of the Master's Course in Illustration at the Superior Artistic School of Porto - Guimarães / ESAG between 2008 and 2014. Technician of Heritage Inventory at the Portuguese Museum Institute / Lamego Museum (1999-2001) and Casa de Mateus (2003-2004) . Senior Technician at the Peneda Gerês National Park, within the scope of the Regional Research Project Landscape Archeology (Castro Laboreiro - Serra da Peneda) - 1992-1995. Author of several scientific publications in books, catalogs and magazines.

Degree in Art and Communication and Doctor in Media Arts was participant and fellow at the Stage Europeo degli Esordi in Lucca, Italy. He is currently a researcher in the Art and Critical Studies research group at the Arnaldo Araújo Study Center. Develops work in the scope of his research, the photographic, the ethnographic and the funerary. Experiments and works continuously with the photographic and cinematographic processes. He has been continuously presenting communications, conferences and exhibitions about his research and artistic practice. He teaches at the Escola Superior Artística do Porto in several curricular units in the project and printing areas where he is currently Director of the Curso Superior de Artes Visuais - Fotografia.

Completou a Licenciatura em Artes Plásticas na Escola Superior de Artes e Design das Caldas da Rainha
(2008), tendo feito os primeiros anos do curso na FBAUP, na especialidade de Pintura (2003-2007).
Entre 2010 e 2011 viveu em Barcelona, onde estudou Restauro e Conservação de Pintura e Papel. Aqui
começou a sua aproximação ao mundo da Encadernação, através do Restauro de livros.
Em 2014, iniciou a Pós-Graduação em Restauro e Conservação de Obras de Arte e Documentos Gráficos
no IIPC-Tarea, Universidad de San Martin, em Buenos AIres. Aqui aprendeu várias técnicas de
Encadernação na sua perspectiva histórica. Em 2015, fez um Curso de Iniciação à Encadernação
Artesanal na Iuna - Universidad Nacional de Artes de Buenos Aires.
De volta a Portugal, em Setembro de 2015, abre o seu atelier de encadernação e cria a sua própria marca
de cadernos artesanais juntamente com Enzo Coria - Cadernos Musgo. ( www.fb/cadernosmusgo.com )
Tem vindo a trabalhar como encadernadora e técnica de Restauro e Conservação até à presente data.