Curriculum Vitae
Selected exhibitions, academic appointments, fellowships, and education.
Current Positions & Academic Affiliations
- 2023–2027 — Principal Investigator (Elise Richter PEEK Fellowship) Hacking the body as the black box, University of Applied Arts Vienna (die Angewandte), Austria
- 2015–present — Senior Lecturer in Digital Arts Department of Digital Arts, University of Applied Arts Vienna, Austria
- 2012–present — Board Member & Co-Curator Mz* Baltazar’s Laboratory — Feminist Hackerspace & Exhibition Space, Vienna, Austria
- 2020–2023 — Postdoctoral Researcher (PEEK Grant) Feminist Hacking: Building Circuits as an Artistic Practice, Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, Austria
- 2022 — Guest Postdoctoral Researcher Weizenbaum Institute for the Networked Society, Technical University Berlin, Germany
- 2015–2023 — Lecturer in Physical Computing & Interface Cultures Media Design Department, University of Art and Design Linz, Austria
- 2006–2012 — Assistant Professor Polytechnic Institute of Beja, Portugal (Photography, Video, and Digital Arts)
Honors, Prizes & Fellowships
- 2024 — Nomination, S+T+ARTS Prize — European Commission & Ars Electronica Festival, Linz, Austria
- 2023–2027 — Elise Richter PEEK Grant — FWF Austrian Science Fund
- 2021 — Outstanding Artist Award for Media Art — BMKÖS (Federal Ministry for Arts, Culture, Civil Service and Sport, Austria)
- 2021 — IMPACT ART International Exchange Fellowship — San Francisco Bay Area / Ars Electronica Linz / ZERO1
- 2020 — State Scholarship for Media Art — BKA Bundeskanzleramt Kunst und Kultur, Austria
- 2020–2023 — PEEK Research Fellowship — FWF Austrian Science Fund
- 2020 — Artist-in-Residence Fellowship (Mexico City) — BKA Bundeskanzleramt Kunst und Kultur, Austria
- 2018 — Artist-in-Residence Fellowship — Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity, Canada
- 2017 — Working Grant for Video & Media Art — BKA Bundeskanzleramt Kunst und Kultur, Austria
- 2016–2017 — Artist-in-Residence Fellowship — ResidenceSEA, Heraklion, Greece
- 2014 — Fellowship in Residence — Hanse-Wissenschaftskolleg (HWK) Institute for Advanced Study, Delmenhorst, Germany
- 2013 — Media Art Project Grant — Stiftung Niedersachsen / Edith-Russ-Haus für Medienkunst, Oldenburg, Germany
- 2013 — Artist-in-Residence Fellowship — CRIR (Christiania Researcher in Residence), Copenhagen, Denmark
- 2011–2015 — Doctoral Research Fellowship — FCT (Foundation for Science and Technology), Portugal
- 2007 — Rothschild Art Prize (Finalist / Selected Artist) — Lisbon, Portugal
Selected Exhibitions
2026
- Massage Chair (Solo Show) — Vienna Secession Tuesdays, Vienna, Austria
- Are You Human? (Group Show) — Khoj Studios, New Delhi, India
- whatamess (Group Show) — Galerie Lisi Hämmerle, Bregenz, Austria
2025
- Sensorial Mechanisms (Duo Show) — Łaźnia Centre for Contemporary Art, Gdańsk, Poland
- Suck my Code (Group Show) — Exhibit Galerie, Vienna, Austria
- Machinic Metabolism (Group Show) — Lothringer 13 Halle, Munich, Germany
- Traces of Control (Solo Show with Ruth Schnell) — Galerie Lisi Hämmerle, Bregenz, Austria
- Anti/Medea: Phantasms, Love, Deceptions (Group Show) — Back to Athens Festival, Isaia Mansion, Athens, Greece
- The Unexpected: Enquiries on Human-AI Interaction (Group Show) — AIL (Angewandte Interdisciplinary Lab), Vienna, Austria
- Deep Skin (Group Show) — NODE Media Lab, ORF Funkhaus, Vienna, Austria
2024
- Coffee Table (with Stefanie Wuschitz & Taguhi Torosyan) — xCoAx 2024, 12th Conference on Computation, Communication, Aesthetics & X, Treviso, Italy
- Tombola VII (Group Show) — ES49, Vienna, Austria
2022
- Critical Care & Feminist Electronics — Ars Electronica Festival, Linz, Austria
2019
- BLOW! — Somatic Respiratory Interface — Vienna / Berlin
2017
- [B.M.I.] Believer. Machine. Interface. — Schauraum Angewandte, MuseumsQuartier, Vienna, Austria
- Intimate Archives After Media (with Carla Cabanas) — Mz* Baltazar’s Lab, Vienna, Austria
2016
- Underneath the Skin Another Skin — Lisbon, Portugal & Vienna, Austria
- The Wishing Machine Project — Vienna, Austria
2013–2015
- Cutting the Body — Oldenburg & Vienna
- Odalisques #2 — Interactive Installation
- Myself as Diana — Audiovisual Participative Installation
Education
- 2016 — PhD in Art & Media Theory — University of Évora, Portugal Thesis: Underneath the Skin Another Skin: Tactility and Sensoriality in Interactive Art (Fellowship: FCT)
- 2011 — Master in Media Art — Lusófona University of Humanities and Technologies, Lisbon, Portugal
- 2004 — Bachelor / Diploma in Fine Arts (Painting) — ESAD (School of Arts and Design), Caldas da Rainha, Portugal