Helena Ferreira (Lisbon, 1982) is a visual artist whose work spans across different supports and materials with a special focus on drawing, video, and installation. Her body of work is centered on multiple perceptual and narrative processes that result from the subject’s interaction with the world around them. Based on personal experiences, or using historical and social references, Helena Ferreira evokes suspensions and fractures in temporal linearity to rethink and contemplate what is imperceptible, unspeakable, or veiled.  

Helena Ferreira has shown her artwork in Portugal and abroad, has curated art exhibitions, and has been invited to present her work at conferences, seminars, and workshops. She has a degree in Sculpture (2008) from the Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of Lisbon and a PhD in Fine Arts/Multimedia Art (2022) from the same institution with a scholarship from the Foundation for Science and Technology, with a thesis based on her artistic practice: The projecting image. She is a professor at IPLUSO [Instituto Politécnico para a Lusofonia] and associate researcher at CIEBA/GIAM [Centro de Investigação e Estudos em Belas-Artes/Grupo de Investigação em Arte Multimédia]. Helena has authored essays and edited books and exhibition catalogs, and was co-curator and co-coordinator of Post-Screen: International Festival of Art, Media, and Cybercultures (2013-2017).

Ana Teresa Vicente é uma artista e investigadora sediada em Lisboa, Portugal. Tem um doutoramento em Belas Artes - Fotografia, Faculdade de Belas Artes da Universidade de Lisboa (FBAUL), com bolsa FCT (PT). Desde 2005 que apresenta o seu trabalho regularmente, através de exposições, palestras e publicações. Exposições recentes do seu trabalho incluem: Halaqat, Goethe-Institut Kairo (EG); ARTeFACTo Macau (MO); Taipei Photo Festival (TW), SITUATIONS | The Right to Look, Fotomuseum Winterthur (CH); Selections from the Seagrave Museum, DAAP Gallery (USA); Format Festival (UK); Athens Photofestival (GR); Timelessness at Ars Electronica Campus (AT); Binary/Non-binary, GESTE Paris (FR); Immersive | Imersivo, SNBA (PT), eCREA Prize, Festival Emergents (ES); XV Biennial of Young Artists from Europe and the Mediterranean (GR). 

Foi co-coordenadora e investigadora do Post-Screen: Festival Internacional de Arte, Novos Media e Ciberculturas (FBAUL em 2014 e, em 2016, FBAUL, Fundação Millennium e ULHT, Lisboa, PT). Em 2020, iniciou o projeto “From Transtopia to Supertopia”, primeiro na In-Situ Hong Kong Artist Residency com uma bolsa da Fundação Oriente e na residência Halaqat Media Arts, organizada pelo Bozar – Centre for Fine Arts Brussels, Goethe-Institut e IMAL (BE, 2022), e pelo Goethe-Institut Kairo, Cairotronica e com o apoio da American University of Cairo (EG, 2023).

Atualmente é docente adjunta convidada no curso de Som e Imagem, ESAD.cr, Caldas da Rainha, Portugal.

Researcher Associate at University College London, Lecturer at Universidade Lusófona and UX Designer at Holition. Ana has been collaborating on some research projects at UCL, such as Screens in the Wild: Exploring the potential of networked urban screens for communities and culture (2013, led by EPSCR), 2 KE Secondments at Holition (2014, funded by UCL Advances) and Visage: Augmented Reality for Cultural Heritage (Reserach project from the Computer Science Department - UCL). Ana’s background is Multimedia Art, Computer Science and Museology. Ana was guest co-coordinator of the Post-Screen research project based on the use of screens within artistic practices, technology and cybercultures contexts.

is a communication designer, PhD student at the Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of Lisbon and a researcher at LAB:ACM–Art and Media Lab of the Polytechnic Institute of Beja collaborating on international research projects on digital media. Is a member of the editorial committee of Invisibilidades, Iberoamerican Magazine on Research in Education, Culture and Arts and co-coordinator of Avenida Marginal Project based on the network production and dissemination of Comics and Illustration. As a designer she develops graphic, editorial and multimedia projects focusing her research on post-internet culture and the influence of media and networking on image-driven practices and literacies. Currently Ana Velhinho is coordinator assistant and researcher of the Post-Screen research project based on the use of screens within artistic practices, technology and cybercultures contexts.

Doctorate in Fine Arts (Painting) at the Faculty of Fine Arts, University of Lisbon - thesis: «Painting as hypertext visible, establishment of tecno-imaginary of the «Citor» (2007); title of Associate Professor - essay:«Cyberart, cyberpunk imagery, or the implosion of the future» (1996). Master in Educationl Multimedia for Communication, at the Open University - dissertation: «Cyberspace, as a matter of the dream; tribes and virtual territories» (1995). Postgraduate studies in Sociology of Sacred and Religious Thought from the New  University of Lisbon - essay: ««Madonna della Vittoria, versus Sacra Conversazion, visibility and legibility of pictorial discourse» (1992). Associate Professor of Painting; creates the discipline of Cyberart; founder and first chairman of CIEBA (2007); chairman of the Scientific Council (2006-2012) – Faculty of Fine-Arts. Member of the General Council of the Universty of Lisbon (2011-2016). Research and publishes in the fields of painting, symbology, iconography, cyberart, cyberculture, and hypertext.

Ava Fatah gen Schieck is Architect, Educator and Researcher. She is Associate Professor in ‘Media Architecture and Urban Digital Interaction’ and leads the studio ‘Body as Inteface’ and ‘City as Interface’ on the MSc (Adaptive) Architectural Computation at the Bartlett School of Architecture, University College London. Her research in the area of Architecture, Urban Interaction Design, Mixed Reality and Ubiquitous Computing has developed over the last 15 years through teaching and research positions she held at UCL.  She is the Principal Investigator of the 'Screens in the Wild’, which explores the potential of networked urban screens for communities and culture and offers a unique longitudinal research and a living lab environment since 2011 in the UK. Ava is a chair and a member of the organising committee on the Media Architecture Biennale (2012, 14 in Aarhus and 16 in June, Sydney).

José Gomes Pinto holds a PhD in Philosophy. He an Associate Professor at School of Arts, Architecture, Arts and Information Technologies, Lusófona University in Lisbon, Portugal. He is currently Invited Professor at Fine Arts Faculty of Lisbon University. He taught also as a Guest Professor at Salamanca University, Spain and Évora University, Portugal. He is the head of a PhD Program in Philosophy-Contemporary Thought and Media Art. He is affiliated to CICANT (Center for Research in Applied Communication, Culture and New Technologies), being part of its Board since 2011.

He was a visiting fellow at Humboldt Universität, Philosophische Fakultät III, Ästhetik Seminar under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Friedrich Kittler.

He main areas of interest are Aesthetics and Theory of Art, Media Art and Media Theory, Philosophy of Technology, Philosophy of Media, Politics and the Media.

Mário Moutinho, works in the area of Social Museology and Urbanism. He taught at the Universidade de Lisboa and was main Advisor at the National Museum of Natural history in Lisbon between 1977 and 2007. He is a professor and researcher in the Department of Museology and Urbanism of the Universidade Lusófona de Humanidades e Tecnologia, where he is also the Rector of that University. Among others he published “A Função Social do Museu” and “Pobres e Ricos: Globalização ou Neoliberalismo”. He is a DPLG architect from the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts (ENSBA) in Paris and doctorate in Anthropology from the University of Paris VII Jussieu. He is a former president of the International Coordination of MINOM-ICOM (International Council of Museums) and is currently a member of that entity.

With a PhD in Education from the Universidade Portucalense Infante D. Henrique (2007), a Master’s in Museology from the Universidade Lusófona de Humanidades e Tecnologia (2000) and a Degree in Museology from the Federal University of Bahia (1996), she is Director of the Department of Museology at the Universidade Lusófona de Humanidades e Tecnologia de Lisboa, where she coordinates the Museology specialism of the Doctoral and Museology programmes. An integrated Researcher CeiED-UI&D at the ULHT in the areas of Education, Heritage, Human Development and Museology, she carries out research in the fields of Museological Theory, Sociomuseology, Heritage, Local Museums and Social Memory. A member of the Editorial Board of the Journal of Sociomuseology and the Revista Lusófona de Educação, she has experience in the field of Museology, with an emphasis on Sociomuseology. She is also a lecturer on the Doctorate and Master's programmes in Museology at ULHT, and the Degree Courses in Human Resources, Economics, and Arts for the curriculum units of Sociology of Culture, Cultural Policies, Museology and Heritage, Museology and Contemporary Thought, Introduction to Contemporary Thought, Museology and Cultural Policies and Museology and Gender.