Session 1
April 27th, 17h30
Patrick Thomas
Patrick Thomas is a graphic artist, author and educator.
He studied at
Central Saint
Martins
and the
College of Art
in London before relocating to Barcelona in 1991. He currently
lives and works in Berlin, Germany.
He has exhibited his limited-edition silkscreens across five
continents, where many are now held in private and public
collections. He has lectured and held many workshops
worldwide, extensively in the UK and Spain. In 2005 he
published Black & White, a compilation of his work for the
International Press. In 2011 his
Protest Stencil Toolkit
was
published by Laurence King, UK. A revised edition was
released in April 2019.
In April 2018 he was
interviewed
on BBC Radio 4 Front Row
about his twenty-four hour public installation Breaking News
in Liverpool for RRU News an independent art organisation
funded by the Arts Council of Great Britain and Liverpool
City Council. The project was since developed and shown in
London, Manchester, Seoul, Novi Saad and Rome.
In 2019 he created Open Collab a self-run workshop format
to enable and encourage collaboration, dialogue and
experimentation between participants. In March 2020 a free
online platform was launched during Covid-19 lockdown
to enable remote real-time collaboration. Since its launch
thousands of creatives have participated worldwide.
Since October 2013 he is a
professor at
Staatlichen Akademie
der Bildenden Künste Stuttgart. He is a member of
Alliance
Graphique Internationale
and in Spring 2019 he was invited
for a seven week residency at Deutsche Akademie Rom Villa
Massimo, the German Academy in Rome. In January 2020 his
artwork for The Berliner Philharmoniker was shortlisted for a
Grammy.
Nina Paim
Nina Paim (she/her) is a Brazilian designer, researcher, curator,
educator and activist. Her work revolves around notions of directing, supporting, and collaborating
with others. She was born in Nova Friburgo 168 years after Swiss settler-colonialists displaced
indigenous puris, coroados, and guarus. Love and fate brought her to Basel, where she now seeks to
transmute her daily immigrant anger into care practices of making space. She curated the exhibition
“Taking a Line for a Walk” at the 2014 Brno Design Biennial, and co-curated “Department of
Non-Binaries” at the 2018 Fikra Design Biennial.
Nina has
served as the program coordinator for the
2018 Swiss Design Network conference “Beyond Change” and she also co-edited its resulting 2021
publication Design Struggles. Between 2018–2020, Nina also co-led the design research practice
common-interest. A two-time recipient of the Swiss Design Award, she is currently a PhD candidate at
the Laboratory of Design and Anthropology of Esdi/Uerj, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Session 2
May 4th, 17h30
Adriana Sá
Adriana Sá is transdisciplinary artist, performer, musician-composer.
She was a pioneer in the use of sensor technologies to explore connections between sound, light,
physical space, meteorology, movement and social context. Later, she developed several versions
of an instrument that includes a zither (ancestral string instrument) and a reactive 3D software
that processes pre-recorded sounds and images based on the zither sound. Bridging creative
practice and perception science, she obtained a PhD in Arts and Computing (Goldsmiths,
University of London) and published in several scientific journals. Currently she is also a
professor at Lusófona University.
Sá has been
presenting performances and installations in Europe, USA,
Japan and Brazil since
1996. In Portugal she performed in venues such as Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, Maria Matos
Theatre, Culturgest, Serralves Foundation, Rivoli and Bairro Alto Theatre, amongst many others.
In Europe, her work was presented at Arteleku (Spain), Monty (Belgium), ICA-Institute for
Contemporary Arts (UK) and at the Huddersfield Media Center (UK), a.o. In the EUA she presented
at Experimental Intermedia Foundation, PS1/ MoMa and Eyebeam, a.o., and in Japan at the Aomori
Contemporary Arts Center. She equally participated in festivals such as LEM (Spain), Ultrasound
(UK), Atlantic Waves (UK), Bienal Luzboa (Portugal), Lisboa Soa (Portugal), xxxxx (UK),
Sonorities (Irland), NIME- New Instruments for Musical Expression (USA and UK), Version Beta
(Switzerland) and Novas Frequências (Brazil).
Photo by Nuno Martins.
André Rangel
André Rangel, 1971. Artist and Designer. Conceives and produces contemporary events in the field of practice and thought, as means of artistic expression. He has been developing and disseminating knowledge and skills inherent to the process of making and experiencing intermedia, interactive and multi-sensory artworks. Holds a PhD in Science and Technology of the Art, a Master in Digital Arts and a degree in Communication Design. Is Assistant professor at Fine Arts Faculty of Porto University, Integrated Researcher at CITAR – Research Center Research Center for Science and Technology of the Arts – and collaborates with i2ADS – Research Institute in Art Design and Society. Director and founder of the studio http://3kta.net, co-organizer and co-founder of xCoAx – International Conference on Computing, Communication, Aesthetics and X.
Session 3
May 11th, 17h30
Thomas Castro
Thomas Castro views his practice as a trilogy, from maker to educator to curator. As maker, he was a founding member of LUST, a multi-disciplinary studio and research lab at the intersection of design and technology. LUST closed its doors in 2017 upon the death of one of the partners, but not before they we awarded the prestigious BNO Piet Zwart Award for their 20 year oeuvre. As educator, Thomas was senior lecturer at the Graphic Design department of ArtEZ University of the Arts in Arnhem from 2001-2019, becoming head of the department in 2012-2019. And as curator, he was appointed in 2019 as the Curator of Graphic Design at the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam. “I want to focus on the heritage of graphic design. How can we recalibrate and broaden the current design canon with new attitudes, knowledge and developments within the contemporary socio-cultural landscape? Can we embrace and support more diverse forms of graphic design which at times only have a street life of one day.
Joana Monteiro
Joana is a graphic designer, art director. Through her work one can recognize a passion for typography. She uses and mixes different techniques to build graphic images. She did her master in Graphic Design (University of the Arts London). Studied at Royal College of Arts, London, where she experimented in video and letterpress. Collaborated with the studio FBA. for 5 years. Has been a freelancer since 2007, working with clients mainly from the cultural. Co-founder of Clube dos Tipos, collaborating with Tipografia Damasceno, Rui Damasceno's letterpress. Founder of Editora dos Tipos, published in 2016 Manual Prático do Tipógrafo; in 2017, together with Xerefé, Clube Mediterrâneo – doze fotogramas e uma devoração; in 2019 Tipografia Damasceno: 50 anos and in 2021 Vozes de Letras.