Luiz Zanotello is an artist, researcher and educator investigating transmedia ecologies between space, language and the (post-)digital. Often taking shape as installations, his practice unfolds through research and writing vis-à-vis the revising of old and devising of new media to evidence a critical shift in affect and time. Through his artistic research, he aims to sense and provoke new imaginaries for the technologically mediated present and its ecological compass from a warm, pluriversal perspective.
His work has been shown in the Museum of Contemporary Art in Zagreb, Museum of Applied Arts Vienna, Personal Structures Biennial in Venice, Technische Sammlungen Dresden, Städtische Galerie Karlsruhe, FILE Festival São Paulo, Cidade das Artes in Rio de Janeiro, among others. With an MA in Digital Media from HfK Bremen, he is currently a PhD candidate in Artistic Research at the PhDArts program at Leiden University in collaboration with the HfK Bremen, with a doctoral scholarship from the Studienstiftung. He was Assistant Professor for New Media at the UdK Berlin for six years and a guest lecturer for Artistic Research in Media Art at the HfK Bremen. He is a former DAAD fellow, a Petra & Dieter Frese Stiftung Preis awardee, and a former artistic resident of the European Media Art Platform and the Akademie Schloss Solitude with SAVVY Contemporary, among others.
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.
