Sound Art and Media Art

Researcher grant from Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia. Currently, in the (DMAD) doctoral studies in Média-Arte Digital. Departamento de Ciências e Tecnologias - (UAb) and Faculdade de Ciências Humanas e Sociais - (UAlg).

Researcher in: (CIAC): Center for Research in Arts and Communication, University do Algarve, University Aberta.  Researcher in collaboration with: (ID+ [UA /DeCA) Group: Praxis and Poiesis: from arts practice towards art theory, Research Institute for Design, Media and Culture, University de Aveiro.

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.

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.

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.

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.