Academic degrees
2011- 2016- European Ph.D. in art with the thesis Underneath the skin another skin: Body, screen and interface for an interactive haptic visuality presented at the University of Évora, Portugal, in 2016 with summa cum laude distinction
2008-2010- Master degree in Production and Creation of Technological Arts at University Lusófona, Lisbon, Portugal, with the dissertation Inside out: Myself as Diana. Audiovisual participatory Installation. Female representation and its relation between public and private with the final classification of 19(/20).
2002-2004- Post-Graduation in Visual Arts at ESAD, Superior School of Art and Design, Caldas da Rainha, Portugal, with the final classification of 16 (/20).
1999-2002- B.A. in Visual Arts – Painting at ESAD, Superior School of Art and Design, Caldas da Rainha, Portugal, with the final classification of 14 (/20).
Research Affiliations
CHAIA – Centre for Art History and Artistic Research of the University of Évora, Évora, Portugal.
Digitale Kunst Department – Universität für Angewandte Kunst, Vienna, Austria.
Visited research centres
Hanse-Wissenschaftskolleg (HWK) Institute for Advanced Study Delmenhorst/ Germany (February – June 2014)
Vilém Flusser Archiv, udk, Berlin, Germany. (February, 2012)
ZKM – Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie Karlsruhe, Germany. — ZKM | Mediathek / Bibliothek. (December, 2011)
Honors, prizes and artistic residences (Selected)
Artist Residency at ResidenceSEA — Sensing your environment through art, Heraklion, Greece. (August 2016)
Artist Residency with artist Carla Cabanas at Mz* Baltazar’s Lab, Vienna, Austria. (June 2016)
Grantee for Arbeitsstipendium für Video und Medienkunst from BKA — Bundeskanzleramt Kunst und Kultur, Austria (2016)
Grantee for ÖH-Uni-Wien-Topf zur Förderung feministicher/ queer, from ÖH uni Wien, Austria (2015)
Grantee for Fördertopf für feministiche/ queere Forschung — ÖH.ac, Austria. (2015)
Grantee for International exhibition from the Universität fur Angewandte Kunst, Austria (2015)
Artist-in-Residence Hanse-Wissenschaftskolleg (HWK) Institute for Advanced Study Delmenhorst/ Germany (February – June 2014)
Grantee for Neue Medien – Förderungsantrag, from MA7 — Kulturabteilung der Stadt Wien, Austria (2013)
Grantee for International exhibition from Instituto Camões, Portugal (2013).
Grantee for International Visual Arts from Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, Portugal (2013)
Prize for Media Art Project: Stipendien der Stiftung Niedersachsen für Medienkunst 2013, from Edith-Russ-Haus für Medienkunst, Oldenburg, Germany. (June –December)
Artist Residency at CRIR – Christiania Resercher in Residence, Copenhagen, Denmark. (April 2013)
Grantee for Artist Residency Interchange programme Lisbon/ Budapest, August
2007, Lisbon City Hall, Lisbon, Portugal.
Selected artist to the Rothschild 2007 3rd Art Prize, Lisbon, Portugal. (2007)
Exhibitions (Selected: 2013-2017)
Solo Show [BMI] BELIEVER.MACHINE.INTERFACE at Schauraum Q21, Vienna, Austria. (24th March — 19th May 2017)
Solo Show Collaborative project with artist Carla Cabanas Intimate archives after media at Schneiderei Studio gallery, Vienna, Austria. (6th February — 3rd March 2017)
Group Show Zerstören at esc medien kunst labor, Graz, Austria. (24th September — 18th November 2016)
Solo Show “Penetrating the black box” at Museum Quartier — Electric Avenue, Vienna, Austria (25th May — 17th June 2016)
Solo Show “Underneath the skin another skin” at Fórum Eugénio de Almeida, Évora, Portugal (15th — 27th April 2016)
Group Show “Artificial Cinema” at Tranzitdisplay, Prague, Czech Republic (19th April — 29th June 2016)
Group Show “Sharing spaces” at Alte Post, Vienna, Austria (16th December 2015 — 9 January 2016)
Group Show “Flash back”, CAPC — Cículo de Artes Plásticas de Coimbra, Torres Vedras, Portugal. (9th — 31st January 2016).
Group Show “WhatsAPPROPRIATION a arte de revisitar a arte, Fundição Progresso, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. (9th — 25th October 2015).
Group Show “Flash back”, CCC, Torres Vedras, Portugal. (12th September — 31st October 2015).
Group Show Baba Vasa’s Cellar organized by <dienstag abend>, Shabla, Bulgaria. (8th — 22nd August 2015).
Group Show “Flash back”, Museu José Malhoa, Caldas da Rainha, Portugal. (14th May — 14th June 2015).
Group Show “Can’t connect at all”, Friday Exit, Vienna, Austria. (7th — 21st March 2015).
Group Show “Who makes Europe”, Gdanska Galeria Miejska, Gdansk, Poland. (16th January — 3rd March 2015).
Group Show “The Essence” Künstlerhaus Wien, Vienna, Austria. (25th June — 13th July 2014).
Group Show “Quién hace Europa” at Matadero in Madrid, Spain. (7th de June — 14th de July 2013).
Group Show “Something other than Photography: Photo & Media” na Edith-Russ-Haus für Medienkunst em Oldenburg na Alemanha. (26th de June — 15th de September de 2013).
Group Show “Who makes Europe” at Städtische Galerie in Bremen, Germany (8th December 2013 — 9th February 2014).
Group Show “Digital Frictions” galery Das Weisse Haus in Vienna, Austria. (4th — 14th December 2013).
Solo Show “Penetrating the black box” Galery Luftsteuer Show Window project in Vienna, Austria. ( 24th March — 7th April 2013).
Publications/ Papers/ Lectures (Selected)
Reis, P. (2017). Playfulness in interactive systems: an empirical study for the creative development of Underneath the skin another skin, in: Sonvilla-Weiss S, (Ed.), VIS-A-VIS Medien Kunst Bildung, Berlin/Boston: De Gruyter. 105-118.
Guest lecture with the title Underneath the skin another skin: for an interactive haptic visuality, at the University of Art and Design Linz, Austria. (26th January, 2017)
Seminar Open source technologies in the field of art, science and technology at the Doctor School of Physics in Vienna. (9th – 11th February, 2017)
Guest lecture with the title Artistic Research, at the University of Art and Design Linz. (26th January, 2017)
Seminar with the title Situated making practices at Blekinge institute of Technology, Karlshamn, Sweden. (14th-18th November, 2016)
Guest lecture with the title Underneath the skin another skin: for an interactive haptic visuality, at the University of Applied Arts, Vienna, Austria. (16th June, 2016)
Guest lecture with the title Open source technologies in the field of art, science and technology at the University Parque Lage in Rio de Janeiro, Brasil. (9th October, 2015).
Guest lecture with the title Endoscreen at mo.ë, Vienna, Austria (February 2015).
Guest lecture with the title Looking for an Interactive Haptic Visuality: Studies on Body-Screen-Tactility, at Hanse-Wissenschaftskolleg in Delmenhorst, Germany (February 2014)
Reis, P. (2013). Odalisques#2: Partizipative Installation. in Ruth, S. (Ed.). (2013). Digital Frictions: digital art at das weisse haus. Wien: Universität für angewandte Kunst Wien, pp. 72-73.
Reis, P. (2013). Penetrating the black box: Elektronische Closed-Circuit Installation in Giannetti, C. (Ed.). (2013). Something Other Than Photography: Photo & Media. Oldenburg: Edith-Russ-Haus für Medienkunst, pp. 96-99.
Reis, P. (2013). Odalisques #2: Partizipative Installation. in Giannetti, C. (Ed.). (2013). Something Other Than Photography: Photo & Media. Oldenburg: Edith-Russ-Haus für Medienkunst, pp. 100-103.
Lecture with the title “Making”, deconstruction and hacking as a methodology for the artist practice and research in the field of gendering technology, at Flossie: women & software Libre– Queen Mary University of London, UK. (November 2013)
Presentation with the title The brain is the screen, at the Edith Russ-Haus für Medienkunst, Oldenburg, Germany. (October, 2013)
Lecture with the title “Making”, deconstruction and hacking as a methodology for the artist practice and research, at CIID – Copenhagen Institute of Interaction Design in Copenhagen, Denmark. (April 2013)
Reis, P. (2013). Vjam Theory. TECCOGS: revista digital de tecnologias cognitivas do Programa de Estudos Pós-Graduados em Tecnologias de Inteligência e Design Digital da Universidade de São Paulo, Volume: 6 287-291.
Reis, P. & Bila, V. (2012). Inside out: Myself as Diana. Audiovisual participatory installation. Em: ARTECH 2012, Crossing digital boundaries. Proceedings of 6th International Conference on Digital Arts. Faro, Novembro 7-9, 2012, Universidade do Algarve em cooperação com Artech International e Grupo Português de Computação gráfica, Faro. 493-496.
Reis, P. (2011). “IMAGE IN SCIENCE AND ART” (on the international conference Image in Science and Art, held in Lisbon, 17-19 February, 2011). ARTECAPITAL, 09/03/2013. http://www.artecapital.net/opinioes.php?ref=102
Passarinho, A., Velhinho, A., Santos, C., Silva, M., Reis, P., Nunes, T., Silva, V. (2011). “Arte(Cá), an International Artist Residencies Programme: The Importance of Place in the Global Concept of Art and Nature”. International Journal of the Arts in Society, Volume 6, Issue 3. Illinois: International Journal of the Arts in Society: pp.279-292.
Passarinho, A., Velhinho, A., Santos, C., Silva, M., Reis, P., Nunes, T., Silva, V. (2011). “ArtShots – Art and Multimedia Communication Labs: Framing Strategies and Platforms for Crossing Experiences in Teaching and Learning”. International Journal of the Arts in Society, Volume 6, Issue 2. Illinois: International Journal of the Arts in Society: pp.351-366.
Passarinho, A., Velhinho, A., Santos, C., Silva, M., Reis, P., Nunes, T., Silva, V. (2011). “Arte(Cá), an International Artist Residencies Program: The Importance of Place in the Global Concept of Art and Nature”. Paper presented at the Sixth International Conference on the Arts in Society, at the Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenchaften, May 2011, Berlin, Germany.
Passarinho, A., Velhinho, A., Santos, C., Silva, M., Reis, P., Nunes, T., Silva, V. (2011). “ArtShots–Art and Multimedia Communication Labs: Framing Strategies and Platforms for Crossing Experiences in Teaching and Learning”. Paper presented at the Sixth International Conference on the Arts in Society, held at the Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenchaften, May 2011, Berlin, Germany.
Reis, P. (2011). Artist practice methodology. Case study: Media art project Inside out: Myself as Diana. Paper presented at the Art and Multimedia Seminars, held at Beja Polytechnic Institute, March 2011, Beja, Portugal.
Reis, P. (2010). Introduction to the Seminários de Arte e Comunicação Multimédia panel. Art, Multimedia and Communication Seminars, held at Beja Polytechnic Institute, April 2011, Beja, Portugal.
Reis, P. (2011). Artist practice methodology. Case study: Media art project Inside out: Myself as Diana,presented at the Visual Art Seminars, held at the University of Évora, Department of Visual Arts, December 2010, Évora, Portugal.
Workshops (Selected)
February 2017, Arduino© Tinkerkit module at Kranabethhütte, Austria, organized by the Doctor School of Physics in Vienna.
November 2016, Workshop with the title Situated making, Blekinge institute of Technology, Karlshamn, Sweden.
June 2016, Workshop with the title Penetrating the black box, hacking as an emancipatory strategy in Art, Science & technology, New Jörg Srtudio, Vienna, Austria.
January 2016, Workshop with the title Hackerspaces Culture at VisAvis Medien.kunst.bildung. Arselectronica Centre, Linz, Austria.
October 2015, Workshop with the title Tecnologias open source e articulação entre arte e tecnologia at Escola de Artes Parque Lage in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
October 2015, Workshop with the title Build your own megaphone! at Garoa Hacker club in São Paulo, Brazil.
June 2015, Workshop with the title Programming servo Motors with Arduino at the Mz* Baltazar’s Laboratory in Vienna, Austria.
April 2015, Workshop with the title “Workshop – Electronics & Arduino Introduction Workshop I &II at the Mz* Baltazar’s Laboratory in Vienna, Austria.
November 2013, Workshop with the title Mz* Baltazar`s Collective- Lab with Lale Rodgarkia-Dara and Stefanie Wuchitz at Flossie: women & software Libre– Queen Mary University of London, UK.
May/ June 2013, Workshop with the title Mz* Baltazar’s laboratory: Electronics & ArduinA introduction, at the Pianofabriek, in Brussels, Belgium.
April 2013, Workshop with the title Mz* Baltazar’s laboratory: Electronics & ArduinA introduction in Maelkeboetten, Copenhagen, Denmark.
March 2013, Workshop with the title Controlling motors using a motor shield, at the Mz* Baltazar’s Laboratory in Vienna, Austria.
March 2013, Workshop “Eletronics & ArduiA II”. Universität für Angewandte Kunst/ Referat für Feministische Politik. in Vienna, Austria.
November 2012, Workshop “Eletronics Introduction I, II & III: Women and Transgender only”. Mz* Baltazar’s Laboratory in Vienna, Austria.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]