Art Open Days 2020
13 MAY - 01 JUNE · 17H-19H

The School of Arts will organize during the month of May a set of virtual visits for all those potential interested in learning about the degrees, master's and postgraduate courses we offer in the areas of Film, New Media Art, Sound and Music, Animation, Creative Industries, Photography, Curatorship and Markets and Heritage and Conservation and Restoration.

Given the paradigm shift required by the current situation, EA will adapt the open day program that happens annually. This way, the Art Open Days will take place digitally, with one day dedicated to each of EA's areas. Participation is free for all interested parties. 

This is an opportunity to meet teachers, facilities and equipment of the School, as well as its project focused on the articulation of teaching with artistic production and research, stimulating the exploration and dissemination of different artistic languages and with strong ambition in the development of differentiated models of teaching and artistic research.

Participation is free of charge, upon prior registration through the following form.

The Red Turtle (2016), Michaël Dudok de Wit 

Special CITAR Lecture · From Michaël · Ink & Motion in Advance
With Michaël Dudok de Wit
19 MAI · 17H

Michaël Dudok de Wit is a well-known Dutch animator, director and illustrator. Whose works have already been awarded with an Oscar and a BAFTA Award. He was also the first non-Japanese director to direct a production in the renowned Ghibli Studios of Hayao Miyazaki and Isao Takahata.

In "From Michaël" (2020), Michaël Dudok de Wit will adress some questions from students of the School of Arts regarding subjects such as his creative process, his particular style of animation, his major influences and his thoughts on the future of hand-drawn animation. He also speaks about the spirituality and musicality of his films, and the changes brought about by the pandemic for animators. 

Leonor Henriques, Bruno Mutti, Maria Giraldes, Daniel Claro and Inês Russell will be the students involved in this conversation.
 
This session will also serve as a launch for Ink and Motion # 1 · International Conference on Animation and Comics, where Michaël Dudok de Wit will be present as a keynote speaker.
 
The transmission will take place simultaneously in the School of Arts' website, Facebook and YouTube pages.

Conversa com Ralf Baecker
19 NOV · 6PM · Ilídio Pinho Auditorium
Moderation: Cristina Sá

The session will be broadcasted live at https://artes.porto.ucp.pt/pt/central-eventos/ralf-baecker-talk

Ralf Baecker, resident artist at GNRation, will be in conversation via Zoom with professor Cristina Sá.

In his representations and specializations of digital and technological processes, he offers a poetic point of view behind the surfaces of contemporary image production. With a perspective of media archeology, Ralf Baecker looks for obsolete devices with features and functions that can still be detected in contemporary technologies. The artist does not understand technology as a tool, but rather as an epistemological instrument, as a way of asking elementary questions about the world, perceived through technological impressions.

Access: Free for students of the School of Arts. For external visitors by appointment at artes@porto.ucp.pt.

Ralf Baecker (* 1977 Düsseldorf, Germany) is an artist who works at the interface between art, science and technology. Through installations and machines, Baecker explores fundamental new media mechanisms and technologies. Baecker received multiple awards for his work, including the Japan Media Art Festival in 2017, an honorary mention at the Prix Ars Electronica in 2012 and 2014, the second prize at the VIDA 14.0 Art & Artificial Life Award in Madrid, a production scholarship Stiftung Kunstfond Bonn, the Stiftung Niedersachsen Media Art 2010 work fund, among others.

His work has been presented at international festivals and exhibitions, such as the 2014 New Media Art International Triennial in Beijing, Künstlerhaus Wien, ZKM | Center for Art and New Media in Karlsruhe, Martin-Gropius-Bau in Berlin, WINZAVOD Center for Contemporary Art in Moscow, Laboral Art Center in Gijon, Barcelona Center for Contemporary Culture (CCCB), NTT InterCommunication Center in Tokyo, Kasseler Kunstverein and Malmö Konsthall.

Since 2016 he is a professor of Experimental Design of New Technologies in the Digital Media program at the University of the Arts Bremen.

Exhibition
Partituras & Objectos
Pedro Tudela
25 FEB – 26 MAR 2021 · On-Line

NBio note | Credits | Supports

Visits to the gallery in date to be announced. 

Curator: João Silvério

Opening: 25 FEB · from 18H30 · On-Line
Opening programme:
Live transmission of the Open Programme with Delfim Sardo + info here
Live transmission of a virtual visit and talk with the artist and curator

Throughout 2020, Pedro Tudela worked in collaboration with students from the School of Arts in the development of a sound installation. Starting from the sonification of everyday objects, converted in instruments that interpret scores of sound compositions, the artist prepared an immersive installation of 16 audio channels in the Exhibition Room of the School of Arts.

Given the current pandemic situation, the exhibition will be inaugurated On-Line, with a virtual walk through the exhibition and a talk between the artist and the curator. As soon as possible, the Exhibition Room will also be open for visits.

Virtual Visit

360º Visit

Teaser

Pedro Tudela (Viseu, 1962). Com um percurso consolidado de mais de três décadas de trabalho, Pedro Tudela é um artista que mantém uma atividade que cruza disciplinas como a pintura, o desenho, a escultura, a instalação e a fotografia. A sua intervenção na esfera sonora não só o sinaliza como um pioneiro no modo como a trata como elemento não exclusivamente ilustrativo ou adjacente à sua prática escultórica ou de instalação, mas como uma entidade que pode ganhar espessura própria e determinar condições de materialização site-specific.

João Silvério. Mestre em Estudos Curatoriais pela Faculdade Belas-Artes da Universidade de Lisboa.É curador associado da colecção de arte contemporânea da Fundação PLMJ. Curador e tutor no projeto RAMA Residências para Artistas, Maceira, Portugal.Inicia a sua actividade como curador independente em 2003. Cria o projecto independente EMPTY CUBE em Outubro de 2007 que tem apresentado projectos de artistas, designers e arquitectos. (www.emptycube.org) Foi Presidente da Secção Portuguesa da AICA – Associação Internacional de Críticos de Arte, desde Março de 2013 até Dezembro de 2015. Escreve regularmente sobre projectos artísticos em catálogos, publicações e websites entre os quais no www.emptycube.org

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Credits

 

 

Curatorship
João Silvério

Coordenation
Diana Roque Ferreira

Technical Direction
João Pereira
José Vasco Carvalho
José Alberto Gomes

Text revision
José Gabriel Flores

Communication
João Pedro Amorim

Design
Joana Machado - Colönia Design Studio

Editions 
Diana Roque Ferreira

Assistants
Francisco Antão
João Duarte
Nádia Moura
Rafael Maia

Assembling
Bruno Fernandes
Nuno Fonseca

Educational Service
Margarida Dinis

Production Support
Maria Silva

Technical Support
Pedro Oliveira
Infraestruturas, UCP - Centro Regional do Porto

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This publication is sponsored by National Funds through FCT – Foundation for Science and Technology under the project UIDB/00622/2020.

 

This article is a result of the project NORTE-01-0145-FEDER-022133, supported by Norte Portugal Regional Operational Programme (NORTE 2020), under the PORTUGAL 2020 Partnership Agreement, through the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF).

 

Support

Câmara Municipal do Porto (Programa de Apoio à Programação Artística CRIATÓRIO)

 

 

Repeatedly untamed, sound remains as an active agent suited to bathe, modulate, probe and infect. It is a permanently open and involuntary external signal sensed through an auditory system that receives it effortlessly, providing a constant three–dimensional perception and navigation abilities. Its volatility as matter marks a platform of interference with the world or of production of worlds. Such condition renders sound as a paradoxical figure floating between the possibilities of an ethereal state, one that refuses medium specificities beyond its own; and the practicalities of its parasitic behaviour, one defined by a continued palpable involvement with surrounding materials.

It is precisely in this internal oscillation that sound finds its validation as an epistemological instrument, expanding its operational capabilities into fields of speculation and deviation, a procedure that manifests itself in the sonification of data, in the construction of sonic ecologies, in the reconfiguration and reevaluation of categories, in questioning and testing of social, cultural, environmental and artistic contracts, in mapping, rendering and establishing invisible territories, in the overall reconstitution of itself as a modality and experience of knowledge.

In 2021, the School of Arts — UCP Open Lectures Programme aims to approach sound as a set of practices that can emerge, lead to or simply make use of sound as a world–building tool in politics, philosophy, geography, engineering, poetry, ecology and art. As such, a group of guests, among artists, researchers, and performers, from different contexts and geographies will gather in order to explore a transversal profile of sound as a functional instrument in contemporary culture.

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“… the world is not for the beholding. It is for hearing. It is not legible, but audible.”
— Jacques Attali (1977) Noise: The Political Economy of Music

“… thinking through sounding takes on an altogether different complexion than it does in practice. Sounding boasts a radical edge, entirely absent from habitual patterns of thought in terms of light and image. From the trumpets sounding the downfall of the walls of Jericho, the destabilising influence of audition has long been recognised."
— Julian Henriques (2011) Sonic Bodies: Reggae Sound Systems, Performance Techniques, and Ways of Knowing

Curators: Diogo Tudela and José Alberto Gomes

PROGRAMME

Complete programme here.

11 MAR · Salomé Voegelin · To Know from the Invisible (On-Line Lecture) + info

18 MAR · Amina Abbas-Nazari · Phonocentric Adventures in Design Fiction (On-Line Lecture) + info

25 FEB · Delfim Sardo · Ambience is a Material Reality (On-Line Lecture)* + info

25 MAR · Cláudia Martinho · Ambientes Ressonantes: Arquitetura, Lugares, Ecossistemas + info

08 APR · Miguel Carvalhais · Computational Listening + info

15 APR · Steve Goodman / Kode9 · Audio Virology + info

22 APR · Warren Neidich · Noise and the Brain without Organs Art (On-Line Lecture) + info

29 APR · Ricardo Jacinto · Medusa – Solo for Cello, Electronics and Resonant Objects (Performance)* + info

13 MAY · Clarence Barlow · Deriving Music from the Visual - Deriving the Visual from Music + info

20 MAY · Luisa Cunha · A Sound can be an object* + info

27 MAY · Tarek Atoui · Layering and Stratification + info

3 JUN · Florian Hecker · Analysis, Resynthesis, Synopsis + info

17 JUN · Vincent Moon. · Towards Non-Duality (2021, Arts and Realities) – Remix Culture, Sonic Cinema and Appropriations in the Cosmic Realm (Performance) + info

* These sessions will be in portuguese.

All sessions will be broadcasted online in this webpage and in the social networks of the School of Arts. When the pandemic context allows it, the sessions will also take place physically in the Ilídio Pinho Auditorium at the School of Arts. 

On March 17, the School of Arts will promote an Open Day for all those interested in knowing the degrees the School offer in the areas of Cinema, Sound and Image and Conservation and Restoration.

This is an unique opportunity to meet teachers, facilities and equipment of the School, as well as its project focused on the articulation of teaching with artistic production and research, stimulating the exploration and dissemination of different artistic languages and with strong ambition in the development of differentiated models of teaching and artistic research.

Throughout the day, it will be possible to take a Virtual Tour through the School and get to know its facilities and equipment, know the latest projects developed by students, in different artistic areas and hear statements of those who study at the School, and who are already in the professional market.

In three different moments, we will hold a live with the coordinators of the degrees in Conservation and Restoration, Sound and Image and Cinema, who will talk to students and be able to answer all questions asked by the participants. Please register here.

Agenda:

• 11h00 às 12h00 – Live Degree in Conservation and Restoration
• 15h00 às 16h00 – Live Degree in Sound and Image
• 17h00 às 18h00 – Live Degree in Cinema