VISUAL ARTS

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.

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.

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. 

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.

Studied photography at Arco - Centro de Arte e Comunicação Visual. He consolidated a path with relevant national and international exhibition projects, both individually and collectively. He is represented in prestigious institutional and private collections in Portugal and abroad. João Tabarra is currently developing his doctoral research, entitled 'Image and porosity', with Nicole Brenez as thesis director. He is professor of Moving Images at the Media Arts Department of HGK - Karlsruhe University for Arts and Design, where he founded, with professors Razvan Radulesco and Christine Reh, the platform to support the production and distribution of cinematographic work by students at the University (Zeitbild- L).

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. 

PhD in Design by the Department of Communication and Art at the University of Aveiro. Master's Degree in Multimedia Education, 2007 at the University of Aveiro. Degree in Design from the School of Arts and Design of Matosinhos,1996. Member of the ID+ Institute for Research, Design, Media and Culture, where integrates the research group SD Lab - Strategy and Design Management. Professor at ESAP since 2001, where integrates the faculty of the Communication Design Course. At the same time, designer since 1996, essentially in communication.

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.

NR graduated in Sculpture at FBAUP/School of Fine Arts, University of Porto (1999), and holds an MFA in New Genres from the San Francisco Art Institute (2008). In 2011 he began a PhD research in Art at Goldsmiths College, University of London, and completed it at FBAUP/School of Fine Arts, University of Porto. Since 1999 he has been developing his work in the field of visual arts, individually and in collaboration with other artists, in areas such as drawing, installation, sculpture, performance, sound, video and curatorial practices. He has held 17 solo exhibitions, 5 of which in collaboration with fellow artists, and participated in over 60 group shows in Portugal, Brazil, Spain, USA, Norway, UK, Russia and Germany. He was the curator of 7 exhibitions, and since 2016 he is the programmer of the Portuguese video art and moving image screening project Playlist, held in Porto, with 42 shows produced and presented so far. Together with Isabel Ribeiro and Susana Chiocca, he was responsible for the Recursos Humanos / Human Resources programme, a series of talks dedicated to the public presentation and discussion of works and creation processes by artists, architects, designers and others. His work is represented in institutional collections such as CAV - Centro de Artes Visuais and the Serralves Museum of Contemporary Art, as well as in several private collections. In 2002 he was resident artist at Triangle France, Marseille, and in 2004 he was one of the nominees for the EDP Young Artists award in Portugal. Between 2006 and 2008 he was the recipient of a Fulbright scholarship, and the Louise Woods Memorial scholarship. He was also awarded a Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation Art Research grant between 2011 and 2015. From 2000 to 2005 he collaborated with the education program of the Serralves Museum of Contemporary Art. He was teaching assistant in the New Genres course at the San Francisco Art Institute in 2007, and in 2011 began teaching at the BFA in Photography program, ESAP - Porto Art School, where he leads a seminar on Portuguese video art since 2017. He lives and works in Porto and is represented by Graça Brandão gallery, Lisbon.

Nuno Faleiro Rodrigues is a lecturer at ESAP where he teaches in the Ba in Photography-Visual Arts and the MA in Visual Arts. 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. 

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 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.