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Patrícia Nogueira
Patrícia Nogueira is a Professor of Film at the University of Beira Interior and a researcher at LabCom. She is a PhD in Digital Media under the UT Austin-Portugal international program, with a master’s degree in Documentary Film and Photography. During 2015 she was in residence at the National Film Board of Canada and in 2016 was a visiting scholar in the Film department of the University of Texas at Austin. She began working in the film industry in 2004, in the production of narrative feature films and since 2010 she has been working in documentary film. She serves as a jury for ICA – the Portuguese Film Fund, and in several film festivals. She co-directs MDOC – the International Documentary Film Festival and the research workgroup CCVA – Cinema and Contemporary Visual Arts, under NECS. Her research interests delve into all forms of documentary film – auteur, experimental, interactive, expanded – Feminist Film Theories and Digital Culture.
Joana Pestana
Joana Pestana is a designer and educator. She develops projects at the intersection of technology, design and new literacies, highlighting in this context the work of co-curatorship of the exhibitions Omnisscience: Fracture and Escape Strategies (2021, Maia Forum), Scrolling the Arcane (2020, Porto Planetarium) and Critical-GPS (2018, Royal College of Art). She is a guest lecturer at the Catholic University of Porto and the University of Maia, having previously taught at the Kingston School of Art and Sheffield Hallam University. She has a degree in Communication Design from the University of Porto (2009), a Master’s in Visual Communication from the Royal College of Art (2016) and she is currently a PhD candidate in Digital Media at the University of Porto/Universidade Nova de Lisboa.
Ana Carvalho
Ana Carvalho is a teacher, researcher, and audiovisual artist, developing her activities around digital arts and cultures. She is Assistant Professor and Coordinator of the Multimedia Art Degree at the University of Maia since 2017, teaching in the areas of digital culture, image theories, and graphic communication. As a researcher, she is a member of CIAC (Research Center for Art and Communication, University of Algarve) and CITEI (Research Center for Technologies and Intermedia Studies, University of Maia). Since 2014, she is responsible for the Ephemeral Expanded project. She is currently part of the research team of the CyPET project, funded by the FCT, in the context of which the intersections between cyberperformance and new models of online teaching are studied. Her research work also includes curatorship, having been one of the curators of the exhibition Omniscience Strategies for Fracture and Escape (Fórum da Maia, Citation2021).