¿Quién es: João Martinho Moura?

João Martinho Moura is a researcher and Portuguese media artist. He specializes in media art, computer graphics, visualization, and information systems and has developed his work in this area since the early 2000s. He researches digital art, interfaces, visualization, artificial intelligence, electronic music, virtual reality, and computational aesthetics. In 2013, in Lisbon, he received the National Multimedia Award for Art and Culture for his contribution to media arts in Portugal. Since 2009, he has been a guest artist at Balleteatro, Porto, collaborating with choreographer Né Barros. His work has been presented internationally, several times, in more than 18 countries, with some exhibitions at the scale of cities. He is the author of many academic publications in media arts, interfaces, and visualization. His work was 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 holds a degree in Technologies and Information Systems, a master degree in Technology and Digital Art from the University of Minho, and a PhD in Science and Technology of the Arts from the School of Arts of the Portuguese Catholic University. He is a founding member of the Artech-International Association, and a member of the artistic cooperative Au Au Feio Mau. Since 2013, he has collaborated as a media artist with international institutions such as ESA (European Space Agency), INL (International Iberian Nanotechnology Laboratory), NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization), and UNESCO. Since 2010, he has been a guest lecturer in Portuguese higher education on media art, virtual reality, interfaces, and information visualization. From 2015 to 2017, he was a committee member for the city of Braga's candidacy to the UNESCO Creative Cities Network in the Media Arts category. The title was awarded to the city of Braga on October 31, 2017. Since that date, he has been a partner artist in the Braga Media Arts network, and within the scope of this initiative, he co-founded a master’s program in Media Arts at the University of Minho, where he is an invited professor. In 2018-2019, he was a laureate and resident artist in the European Commission’s STARTS program (EU Science, Technology and Arts), within INL, having presented the results of his work and research at INL in Braga, at IRCAM – Centre Pompidou and at Le Centquatre in Paris, and the Art Centre Nabi gallery, in Seoul. In 2020, he was awarded the MindSpaces prize, a European Commission program that aims to create new urban and architectural approaches by integrating immersive “neuroenvironments” in virtual reality. In 2022, João Martinho Moura joined the Technology Engineering Group (TEG) team at INL (International Iberian Nanotechnology Laboratory). In this international scientific institution, he had been a guest artist several times in previous years. At INL TEG, he collaborates as a Senior Research Engineer in Computer Graphics, Computer Vision, Data Visualization, Virtual and Augmented Reality, Artificial Intelligence, Digital Media, and Media Arts.