2020 – Conference Program

Materialities / Networks / Remediation / Migration
Materialidades / Redes / Remediação / Migração

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Wednesday 22nd July 2020

12.30 – Opening session

13.00 – Porto Screening Sessions 1 & 2
in loop throughout the day – watch on YouTube: Session 01 / Session 02

13.00 – Painel 1: REPENSAR A MATERIALIDADE | Panel 1: RETHINKING MATERIALITY
Chair: Virginia Crisp (King’s College)

  • Non-immersive media: collaborating in an ‘immertical’ virtual world (Alexandra Antonopoulou & Eleanor Dare, LCC/RCL, UK)
  • Neural networks and movement: autonomy in AI-generated video (Bruno Caldas, University of Helsinki, FI)
  • @#D: face filters, satisfying videos and socio-spatial justice (Gaspar Cohen, independent researcher, PT)
  • O abismo olha de volta: os gestos da câmera assubjetiva da arte contemporânea (Rômulo Moraes, UFRJ, BR)
  • Husserl’s “object-image” concept revisited through the interactive installation Sense of Place (Carlos Sena Caires & Gerald Estadieu, University of Saint Joseph, MO)
  • O campo audiovisual expandido: repertório crítico (Marcus Bastos, PUC-SP, BR)


15.00 – Painel 2: ECRÃS E NOVAS VISUALIDADES | Panel 2: SCREENS AND NEW VISUALITIES
Chair: Ana Carvalho (University Institute of Maia)

  • Flying Objects: Sistership TV and the spectacle of feminist variety (Emily Pelstring, Queen’s University, CA)
  • Filmes em rede: novas tecnologias e autoria coletiva no cinema cearense contemporâneo (Fábio Camarneiro, UFES, BR)
  • Matéria, estrutura e repetição – notas sobre alguns filmes estruturais/materialistas de Peter Gidal (Fernando Stutz, BR)
  • Any space whatever (Susana Mouzinho (CineLab – IFILNOVA, PT)


Thursday 23rd July 2020

10.00 – Porto Screening Sessions 3 & 4
in loop throughout the day – watch on YouTube: Session 03 / Session 04

10.00 – Painel 3: ADAPTAÇÃO | Panel 3: ADAPTATION
Chair: Célia Vieira (University Institute of Maia)

  • A adaptação como mundividência intersemiótica: o paradoxo da mulher de Lot, o dilema de Ícaro e a questionação de Leviatã (Luís Miguel Oliveira Barros Cardoso, Politécnico de Portalegre, PT)
  • After the Magician (Lea Petrikova, Film and TV School of Academy of Performing Arts, CZ)
  • Stalking the Zone: Fan Tourism, Tarkovsky and Chernobyl (Melissa Beattie & John A. Riley, Woosong University, KO)
  • Teoria e prática da adaptação: o caso de António de Macedo (Célia Vieira & Carlos Coelho Costa, ISMAI, PT)


13.00 – Painel 4: REMEDIAÇÃO, MIGRAÇÃO, INTERMEDIALIDADE | Panel 4: REMEDIATION, MIGRATION, INTERMEDIALITY
Chair: Inês Guerra (University Institute of Maia)


15.30 – Painel 5: CULTURA DAS IMAGENS E IMAGENS DA CULTURA | Panel 5: CULTURE OF IMAGES AND IMAGES OF CULTURE
Chair: Gabriel Menotti (UFES / Queen’s University)

  • In Return: a decolonial approach to fashion and hairstyles in music videos by afrodiasporic re-pats (Cornelia Lund, Fluctuating Images, DE)
  • Rusty Odyssey: the colonial trajectory of copper across the Atlantic (Yeon Sung, The Royal Academy of Arts, NL)
  • Arthur Jafa: the Aby Warburg of the Poor Image (Vinícius Portella, BR)
  • Animist Post-Cinema: Ursula Biemann’s Acoustic Ocean (2018) and Matthew Barney’s Redoubt (2019) (Radek Przedpelski, Trinity College Dublin, IE)
  • Changes of Address: voice over and landscape in Long Distance (Richard O’Sullivan, Queen’s University, Belfast)


18.00 – Conferência de encerramento | Conference closing session


Friday 24th July 2020

13.00 – Artists Talk Videos
in loop throughout the day – watch on YouTube


13.00 – Artists Talk
Chair: Ana Carvalho (University Institute of Maia)

  • Mez Breeze – V[R]ignettes: A Microstory Series (2019)
  • Coletivo Telemusik – Incertezas_caminhada (2020)
  • Mark Tholander – They built the widened coral reef (2019)
  • Tiago Cruz – Light and Shadow (2020)
  • Simon Biggs – Double Agent (2018)
  • Dudu Tsuda – Robalo em Prato Inflamado (2019)