Biography
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João Martinho Moura
Media Art
João Martinho Moura is a Portuguese researcher and media artist. Over the last 20 years, his work has been shown internationally several times in more than 20 countries, some of them city-wide. In 2013, he was awarded the National Multimedia Art and Culture Prize in Lisbon for his contribution to the media arts in Portugal. He is the author of several academic publications in the field of media arts, interfaces, computer graphics, artificial intelligence, and visualisation. His work has been included in the curated collections ‘Selected Works ARS ELECTRONICA Animation Festival’ (Linz, 2012), ‘Processing curated collection’ (USA, 2008) and in the catalogue of ISEA 2019: 25th International Symposium on Electronic Art, in South Korea, where he was a guest artist. He is a founding member of the Artech-International Association and is a member of the artistic co-operative Au Au Feio Mau. He has also been a guest media artist at Balleteatro, Porto, since 2008, working with choreographer Né Barros. Since 2013, he has collaborated as a media artist with international institutions such as the European Space Agency (ESA), the International Iberian Nanotechnology Laboratory (INL), the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO), and UNESCO. From 2015 to 2017, he was a member of the committee for Braga’s application to UNESCO’s Creative Cities Network in the Media Arts category. The title was awarded to the city of Braga on 31 October 2017. Since then, he has been a partner artist in the Braga Media Arts network, and along with this initiative, he co-founded a Master’s program in Media Arts at the University of Minho in 2019, serving as an Invited Professor of Media Arts. He is a partner artist in the Braga Media Arts network. In 2018-2019 he was a laureate and resident artist in the European Commission’s STARTS (EU Science, Technology and Arts) programme, having presented the results of his work and research at INL in Braga, at IRCAM: Centre Pompidou and Centquatre in Paris, and at the Art Center Nabi gallery in Seoul. In 2020, he was selected artist at the MindSpaces initiative, a European Commission programme that aims to create new urban and architectural approaches by integrating immersive ‘neuroenvironments’ in virtual reality. He has a PhD in Science and Technology of the Arts from the School of Arts of the Portuguese Catholic University. He is currently a senior researcher at the International Iberian Nanotechnology Laboratory and a visiting professor at the University of Minho.
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YMYI, João Martinho Moura, 2007. 2019 Exhibition in the City of Prague
Born in Portugal, João Martinho Moura has presented his work and research in a variety of venues and conferences related to the arts and technology, including the International Festival for the Post-Digital Creation Culture OFFF (2008); World Congress on Communication and Arts (2010); SHiFT – Social and Human Ideas for Technology (2009); International Symposium on Computational Aesthetics in Graphics, Visualization, and Imaging CAe (2008); ARTECH (2008, 2010); Computer Interaction (2009); ZON Digital Games (2007); International Creative Arts Fair (2008); ZON Multimédia Premium (2008); Le Corps Numérique – Centre Culturel Saint-Exupéry (2011); Semibreve Festival (2012); TEI International Conference on Tangible, Embedded and Embodied Interaction (2011); Guimarães European Capital of Culture 2012; Bodycontrolled Series LEAP – Lab for Electronic Arts and Performance Berlin (2012); Futureplaces (2012); ARS ELECTRONICA Animation Festival (2012); SLSA Conference – Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts (2013), xCoAx – Computation Communication Aesthetics and X (2013), ESA – European Space Agency (2014), Fundacion Carlos Slim (2015), World Financial Center Beijing (2017); INL – International Iberian Nanotechnology Laboratory (2018); Braga UNESCO City of Media Arts (2018), European Commission STARTS initiative (2018); NATO Arts Programme (2019), Art Center Nabi (2019), ISEA 2019 – 25th International Symposium on Electronic Arts (2019), MindSpaces (2020).
His work has been presented in a variety of places in Austria, Belgium, Brazil, China, Czech Republic, France, Germany, Israel, Italy, Japan, México, Portugal, Scotland, Spain, Slovakia, UK, USA, Republic of Korea, Slovakia and was included in the curated collections ‘Selected Works ARS ELECTRONICA Animation Festival’ (Linz, 2012), the ‘Processing curated collection’ (USA, 2008) and the curated catalog of 25th International Symposium on Electronic Arts, ISEA (Gwangju, 2019).
Picture: João Martinho Moura, performing at MadeiraDIG Festival. Madeira Island. Picture: Roland Owsnitzki, Digital in Berlin, 2017.
Starting in the 2000’s a series of embodied and theater interactive works Moura created YMYI, in 2007, an embodiment and media work presented in France, Belgium, USA, Czech Republic, and Portugal.
Since 2009, guest media artist at Balleteatro, Porto, collaborating with choreographer Né Barros. (link1) (link2) (link3)
In 2012, he presented “Camara Neuronal“, a neuro-audio-visual performance commissioned by the Guimarães – European Capital of Culture, a project that involved science and art, delivering a single performer on the stage, with his body inter-connected to an audio-visual apparatus.
In 2012 presented “Super Collider Shape” in Linz, Austria, at the ARS ELECTRONICA Animation Festival, a minimal continuous audiovisual sculpture of sound and imagined black ink exploring Super Collider generative sound algorithms.
In 2013, João Martinho Moura received, in Lisbon, the National Multimedia Award – Art and Culture, for the public interactive artwork B/Side.
In 2013, premiered the first media art exhibition at gnration, a new space built in the City of Braga, a platform for creation, performance, and exhibition in the field of contemporary music, art, and technology.
In 2015, Moura was invited by the Carlos Slim Foundation and presented an interactive public artwork, Wide/Side, in the historic center of Mexico City during the Visual Art Week event as part of the celebrations of the UNESCO International Year of the Light. The artwork was presented in the following years in Braga, Barcelona, Prague, Cascais, and Beijing.
Has collaborated with the development of projects related to scientific data visualization for ESA (European Space Agency) space missions (link1) (link2) (link3).
From 2015 to 2017, he was an active member as a media artist consultant and contributor for the application of the city of Braga to the UNESCO Creative Cities Network – Braga Media Arts. The title of ‘UNESCO Creative City of Media Arts’ was attributed to the city of Braga on the 31st of October 2017 (link1, link2). Since then, João Martinho Moura has been a partner artist in the Braga Media Arts network. Along with this initiative, he co-founded a Master’s program in Media Arts at the University of Minho in 2019, serving as an Invited Professor of Media Arts.
Since 2015, invited lecturer at Escola Superior de Tecnologia at IPCA – Polytechnic Institute of Cavado and Ave. Between 2010-2013, he was an invited lecturer at the Master Program in Technology and Digital Arts at the University of Minho, Portugal, teaching Media Art and Programming for Digital Arts.
Member of the artistic cooperative AUAUFEIOMAU, and founding member of the Artech-International Association. Secretary of the Direction of Artech Associação since 2019.
Between 2016 and 2020, presented with Choreographer Né Barros, Co:Lateral performance in 14 theaters, a real to virtual embodied performance, and its research at the 25th edition of ISEA.
In 2017 was in an artistic residence at the INL (International Iberian Nanotechnology Laboratory) to prepare an artistic performance (Nano Abstractions) that was presented at the MNE 2017 – 43rd International Conference on Micro and Nano-Engineering, and INL Summit 2017.
In 2017, he started ‘How Computers Imagine Humans?‘, a research work related to the awareness of artificial Intelligence possibilities, and presented its research in China. The first exhibition premiered in Germany in 2018, and the work was exhibited as invited artwork at the 25th International Symposium on Electronic Art in 2019. (link)
In 2018, he is part of the Organizing Committee of ArtsIT 2018 – 7th EAI International Conference: ArtsIT, Interactivity & Game Creation and DLI 2018 – 3rd EAI International Conference on Design, Learning & Innovation. He is also part of the organizing committee of Artech 2019 Conference – 9th International Conference on Digital Arts, which happened in Braga, in 2019.
In 2018, 10e-10, an audiovisual performance related to data visualizations developed in the context of an artistic collaboration with the Micro and Nanofabrication Department of INL, was presented at the 10th anniversary of the INL ceremony.
In 2018 was invited to present a video façade work at the 103rd-anniversary celebration of Theatro Circo.
Between 2018 and 2019 laureate artist at the European Commission’s STARTS initiative, which promotes the inclusion of artists in innovation projects funded in H2020. The artistic project, called ‘Sci-fi Miners‘, was created at the INL – International Iberian Nanotechnology Laboratory and Aalto University facilities and presented in 2019 as a Virtual Reality Performance in Braga and as an audio-visual and VR exhibition in Seoul. Link1, Link2 (video documentary), Link3. In 2020, he presented the Sci-fi Miners VR performance at Le Centquatre in Paris.
In 2019, João Martinho Moura premiered the first media art exhibition at the new NATO headquarters in Brussels. Link1, Link2
In 2019, João Martinho Moura was a guest artist at the Special Exhibition of ISEA 2019, the 25th International Symposium on Electronic Arts, ‘Lux Aeterna, ‘ in Gwangju, South Korea. (link)
In 2019 presented a three-month solo exhibition at Art Center Nabi in Seoul as the result of his residency at the European Commission’s STARTS initiative. (link)
Created, in 2019, the embodied performance UNA, with choreographer and performer Né Barros, and presented it at Coliseu do Porto in 2020, a virtual/physical reality experience. The UNA research was presented at the ArtsIT conference in Denmark with Né Barros and Paulo Ferreira-Lopes in 2020.
In 2020 was selected artist in the MindSpaces program, a European Commission project aiming to create new urban and architectural approaches integrating immersive ‘neuroenvironments’ in virtual reality (link to video documentary).
In 2021, he joined the Technology Engineering Group team at INL, an International Scientific Institution where he was an invited artist many times in the previous years, collaborating now as a Senior Research Engineer in the areas of Media Art, Digital Media, Data Visualization, Virtual and Augmented reality, and Artificial Intelligence.
In 2022, he presented space~aprox at Index Media Arts in Theatro Circo. In this performance piece, he places, in an abstract and possibly more intimate way, reflections and passages through the concept of space, sometimes perceptible, sometimes obliterated, using memories, records or sound, and visual annotations.
In 2024, he presented micromacronano at the European Researchers’ Night, an audiovisual performance that blends visual abstractions – real and imagined – across different scales. It incorporates scientific observations from the International Iberian Nanotechnology Laboratory and soundscapes. These spaces become a collision of limits, exploring the boundaries between the microscopic, the macroscopic, and the nanoscopic.
Studied Technology and Digital Arts, with Professors: Né Barros, Adérito Marcos, Nelson Zagalo, Pedro Branco and Paulo Ferreira-Lopes.
João Martinho Moura conducted his research at engageLab (University of Minho), a laboratory at the intersection of arts and technology, and was an integrated researcher at CITAR – Centro de Investigação em Ciência e Tecnologia das Artes (Escola das Artes, Universidade Católica Portuguesa).
Studied Arts and Computer Sciences, obtained a master’s degree in Technology and Digital Arts and a degree in Technology and Information Systems, both at the University of Minho, and a PhD in Science, Technology and Arts at the School of Arts of Universidade Católica Portuguesa.
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