Luiz Zanotello in collaboration with Ricardo Vieira

Luiz Zanotello's (*1986, Brazil) current artistic research stems from a poetics of abyss and time. Departing from pluriversal perspectives of experience, his practice often unfolds as installations and performative gestures that inquire into the paradoxical nature of language, matter and time. By reappropriating methods from the intersections of art, science, and technology, he explores new constellations of perceiving the present time and probing for its critical contingencies. Based in Berlin (DE), he is currently a PhD Candidate in Artistic Research at the University of the Arts Bremen (DE) together with the PhDArts program (Academy of Creative and Performing Arts and Royal Academy of Art, NL).

His work has been shown in the Museum of Contemporary Art in Zagreb (HR), the Museum of Applied Arts Vienna (AT), the Personal Structures Biennial in Venice (IT), and Cidade das Artes in Rio de Janeiro (BR). He was Assistant Professor for New Media at the Berlin University of the Arts (DE) for six years, as well as a DAAD scholarship holder, a Petra & Dieter Frese Stiftung Preis awardee, an artistic resident funded by the Goethe Institute, among others. He holds a BA in Design from the São Paulo State University (BR) and an MA in Digital Media from the University of the Arts Bremen (DE).

Ricardo Vieira (*1992, Porto) works as a performer, composer, sound artist and writer, also co-leading workshops, developing art installations and musical-pedagogical software. Since 2019 he’s collaborated with Digitópia at Casa da Música, Interferência, composer José Alberto Gomes, Terra Amarela, Noitarder, Melífluo, film director Francisca Dores, and various others.

His own work entails both word and sound thought of as entities built by the human perception to enable the construction of not just one world-version, but multiple, equally valid ones. “We Press For Silence”, an art installation worked atop a handwritten notebook obsessed with communal silence, was presented at gnration in 2019 (EDIGMA Semibreve Scholar). In 2023, delving into the perception of oneself through an exploration of the panoptical system, ”Panóptico. Reprovável Pessoa-Torre.” premiered at the Serralves Museum (Serralves em Festa 2023), with recorded voice acting by Simão Collares. Graduated in Jazz-Piano at ESMAE (Porto, PT) in 2019, he’s currently a candidate for a Master's degree in New Media Art at the School of Arts at UCP. His master’s dissertation “A sound from another: the object, the mark and the symbol” continues to delve into a greater understanding of the human perception of sound and the uses and significations we attribute to it.

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