Organisation
Presidency
- Nerea Legarreta Altzibar
University of the Basque Country / Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea - Ricardo Horcajada
Complutense University of Madrid - Daniel Villegas González
University of La Laguna
International partner
- Sandra Susana Pires da Silva Palhares
Universidade do Minho, Portugal
Instituto de Educação
Departamento de Teoria da Educação
e Educação Artística e Física - Artes Visuais
Management committee. Department of Drawing, UPV/EHU.
- Nerea Legarreta Altzibar
- Cristina Miranda de Almeida
- Lourdes de la Villa Liso
Administrative secretary
- Begoña Gómez Albarrán
Academic secretary
- Oihane Sánchez Duro
Graphic design
- Joseba K. Cejudo
Organizing committee
- Julen Agirre Egibar
- María Luisa Bajo Segura
- Laia Becerra Martínez
- Iker Bengoetxea Arruti
- José María Bullón de Diego
- Ramiro Carrillo Fernández
- Joseba K. Cejudo Estévez
- Alberto Chinchón Espino
- Jon Martín Colorado
- David Cortés Santamarta
- Lourdes de la Villa Liso
- Margarita González Vázquez
- Miriam Inza Pascual
- Nerea Legarreta Altzibar
- Madeleine Lohrum Strancari
- Amparo Lozano Sancha
- Eva María Mayo Ramos
- Laura María Mesa Lima
- Cristina Miranda de Almeida
- Sandra Santana Pérez
- Javier Sicilia Rodríguez
- Oihana Torre Landa
Scientific committee
- Vega Asensio Herrero
NorArte
Doctor of Biology from the University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU), she has worked and studied at various European universities as a researcher.
She founded NorArte, a studio specialising in Scientific Illustration, in 2011, combining her two passions, drawing and science, and driven by the need to improve communication and scientific dissemination.
She is the coordinator and lecturer on the first Master of Continuing Education in Scientific Illustration. She is also the Spanish representative of the European Association of Medical and Scientific Illustrators (AEIMS), a member of EuskalIrudigileak and a member of the board of the Duranguesado Artists' Association (Bizkaia).
- Mikel Bilbao Salsisua
Universidad del País Vasco / Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea
Doctor in Art History from the UPV-EHU, he has taken three postgraduate courses on documentation and management of historical heritage, contemporary art and cultural management. He has been a professor in the Department of Art History and Music at the UPV-EHU since 2005 and teaches at the Faculty of Fine Arts, where he has held various management positions.
He has participated in four research projects and is currently one of the members of the consolidated research group funded by the Basque Government GizaArtea. He is the author and co-author of several dozen indexed articles, book chapters, books and exhibition catalogs. His research focuses on the field of contemporary art history and design history.
He has also curated several exhibitions related to the field of graphic design and has collaborated on specific projects with institutions such as the Provincial Council of Bizkaia, the Basque Government, Eusko Ikaskuntza, the Museum of Sacred Art of Bizkaia, the Museum of Fine Arts of Bilbao, the Prado Museum or Eresbil: Basque music archive.
- Ramiro Carrillo Fernández
Universidad de La Laguna
PhD in Fine Arts and Professor of Painting at the University of La Laguna since 1990, he was Director of the Department of Fine Arts between 2015 and 2022.
Trained as a painter and engraver, as an artist he held more than fifty solo and group exhibitions between 1985 and 2005; from then on his main activity shifted towards the analysis and criticism of contemporary artistic phenomena, focusing mainly on artistic creation in the Canary Islands.
His publications include the book Páginas sueltas sobre artistas y arte (Ed. Idea, 2010) and his monographs on the artists Carlos Matallana (Government of the Canary Islands, 2019) and Martín y Sicilia (Government of the Canary Islands, 2022); as well as numerous essays in different art publications, and essays on art criticism for art magazines and periodicals.
He has curated art exhibitions such as Estar aquí es todo (Tenerife, 2019), the Primer Salón de artes plásticas en Canarias (Tenerife, 2002), and was co-responsible for the projects La Piel y el Geómetra (Tenerife-Gran Canaria, 2007) and the Bienal de miniaturas (Tenerife 1994-2006).
- Tania Castellano San Jacinto
Universidad de La Laguna
PhD in Fine Arts and Master in Theory and Practice of Contemporary Visual Arts from the Complutense University of Madrid. She currently works as a teacher and researcher in the area of Drawing in the Faculty of Fine Arts at the University of La Laguna.
She is a member of the R&D project ‘Materias de la imagen’ (Unizar) and has previously taken part in other projects such as Imágenes, acción y poder (Unizar) and Interacciones del arte en la tecnosfera (UCM).
His latest publications include: Perder la mirada. Ensimismamiento y ensoñación como prácticas (art) de resistencia (Revista Laocoonte, 2024); Prácticas de lo prescindible. Dialecticas (in-)visuales de la imagen plástica, in Discurso, materia y contextos. Volver a pensar las artes (Tirant Lo Blanch, 2024) and Límites Difusos y Horizontes Expandidos. Convergences between Experimental Animation and Contemporary Art (Revista Con A de Animación, 2023).
- Matteo Ciastellardi
Politecnico di Milano, Italia
Matteo Ciastellardi has been an assistant professor in the Design Department at the Polytechnic University of Milan since 2017, where he teaches Sociology of Media and Cultural and Communication Processes.
He holds a PhD in Communication Design and his scientific production focuses on communication design, digital humanities, hybrid ontologies and transmedia literacy. He also holds a degree in Philosophy with a thesis entitled The Liquid Architectures: the thought in the networks and the networks of the thought.
He was a senior researcher at the IN3 of the Open University of Catalonia (2010–2014), within the Digital Culture programme directed by Derrick de Kerckhove, where he coordinated research on digital culture, connective intelligence and media ecology and published extensively, including books, articles and key chapters such as Media Culture Design (2017) and Media Analytics Design (2017).
He has led competitively funded projects such as ‘Hybrid Ontologies’ and ‘Transalfabetismo’ and has been invited to international conferences and projects exploring the intersection between design, digital media and contemporary culture.
- Giovanna Di Rosario
Università degli Studi Di Milano-Biccoca, Italia
Giovanna Di Rosario holds a PhD in Digital Culture from the University of Jyväskylä, Finland, and is a researcher at the Dipartimento di Scienze Umane per la Formazione Ricardo Massa, Università degli Studi Di Milano-Biccoca, Didattica e Pedagogia Speciale. She taught Communication Culture–Digital Culture at the Department of Design (department of excellence 2018-2022) at the Polytechnic University of Milan.
She was co-director of the Hermeneia research group at the University of Barcelona. Di Rosario has enjoyed a Marie Curie Actions Grant and has taught at several European universities, including the University of Geneva (Switzerland); Catholic University of Leuven (Belgium); IT University of Copenhagen (Denmark); the University of Siena (Italy); the University of Barcelona (Spain) and the University of Jyväskylä (Finland).
From 2013 to 2015, she was local co-coordinator of the ERAMUS Mundus doctoral programme ‘Cultural Studies in Literary Interzones’. In 2016, she was a visiting professor at the UNAM-National Autonomous University of Mexico. She has been invited as a keynote speaker in Argentina, India and Brazil. Di Rosario has also translated several works of digital literature and organised various exhibitions of electronic literature, the most recent of which was held in Barcelona at the Arts Santa Mònica Centre (2016).
Some of her recent publications include Enhancing Design Pedagogy through Generative AI: a Theoretical and Practical Perspective (2024, Di Rosario, G., Ferri, P., Ciastellardi, M.) and Artificial Intelligence and a Case Study in the Educational Context of Young University Students (2023, Di Rosario, G., Ferri; Ciastellardi, M.).
- Leire Fernández Iñurritegui
Universidad del País Vasco / Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea
Doctor of Fine Arts. Extraordinary Doctorate Award. Professor of Graphic Design in the Department of Drawing at the Faculty of Fine Arts of the UPV/EHU.
Co-director, together with Eduardo Herrera Fernández, of the ‘Letraz’ Research Group on Graphic Design and Typography. Current lines of research: Graphology and Discourse, Typography, Corporate Visual Identity, Editorial Graphics, Graphic Activism.
Among her publications, in collaboration with Eduardo Herrera Fernández, the following books are particularly noteworthy: ‘Book Cover Design’ (Editorial Síntesis), ‘A Creative Process in Graphic Poster Design’ (UPV/EHU Publishing Service), ‘Comunicar Visualmente’ (Experimenta Libros), ‘Imágenes Activistas para la Sostenibilidad’ (UPV/EHU Publishing Service) and ‘Historias que marcan’ (Editorial GG).
Among other awards, she has been recognised with the ‘CLAP Platinum’, the ‘Juan de Yciar’ Editorial Quality Award, the ‘Anuaria de Oro’, National Graphic Design Award, the “Letra de Oro” Visual and Graphic Communication Award, the “Pelikanor de Oro” International Applied Illustration Award, and the “Merit Award” at the 14th Encontro de Tipografia.
- Maria Luiza Fragoso
Universidad Federal de Rio de Janeiro, Brasil
Maria Luiza (Malu) Fragoso is an artist, researcher and a full professor in the Department of Visual Communication Design at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. She obtained her PhD in Arts and Multimedia from the State University of Campinas, São Paulo (2003). She also has a postdoctoral degree from the School of Art and Communication at the University of São Paulo (2014) and another postdoctoral degree from the École de Beaux-Arts de Nantes, France (2024).
She is currently and coordinator of NANO Lab, where she develops artistic practices that address the interaction between traditional and scientific knowledge at the intersection of art, science, technology and nature, drawing inspiration from models of thought that range from scientific to ancestral knowledge, such as Amerindian indigenous traditions and Eastern cultures.
In 2005, she published, together with artists Tania Fraga and Wagner Barja, the book and exhibition catalogue ‘>= 4D. Computational Art in Brazil’. In 2014, she was the producer and organiser of the proceedings and event ‘CAC.4 Congress of Computational Art in Rio de Janeiro’. Together with Guto Nóbrega, NANO Lab organised and published four books in the ‘Hiperorgánica’ collection with a compendium of articles on the themes Resonances: Art, Hybridisation and Biotelematics (2015), Ancestor-Futurist Reconnections (2020), Art, Consciousness and Nature. Create, Cultivate, Connect (2021) and Cosmogonies and Mobile Plant Art (2024).
- Edurne González Ibáñez
Universidad del País Vasco / Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea
Artist, teacher and researcher, Doctor Cum Laude in Fine Arts from the EHU since 2013, where she currently works as an assistant lecturer in the Department of Sculpture and Art and Technology and also as Vice-Dean of Cultural Extension of the Faculty of Fine Arts.
She is part of the consolidated research group AKMEKA Arte, Kultura eta Media, her contributions in various congresses and conferences with contributions linked to the study of the problematics of the image in contemporaneity, including; ‘Articular la imagen-pregunta’ at the Department of Visual Arts of the University of Education Sciences of Santiago de Chile, “Desaparecer la imagen” at the Seminar of Photographic Production of the Centro de la Imagen of Mexico City and “La construcción de imaginarios híbridos y el desplazamiento de elementos locales en la práctica artística” within the framework of ANIAV of the Universitat Politècnica de València.
She also collaborates as a reviewer in various academic journals such as ‘Estoa. Revista de Arquitectura y Urbanismo’ of the University of Cuenca in Ecuador, “Arte y Políticas de identidad” of the University of Murcia, ’14. Revista de investigación en el campo del arte’ of the Universidad Francisco José de Caldas in Colombia and is part of the editorial committee of the journal “AusArt. Journal for Research in Art” of the EHU.
He has participated in numerous group and solo exhibitions that make up his professional career, including those held at: El Horno de la Ciudadela in Pamplona, BilbaoArte in Bilbao, Torre Ariz in Basauri, Centro Casyc in Santander, Museo de Arte Moderno CAAM in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Espacio Pensart in Madrid, Centro Cantieri Culturali alla Zisa in Palermo, Casa de Estudios Vascos at the University of Frankfurt, Mission Cultural Center in San Francisco, Museo de Arte Antonio Paredes Candia in La Paz, Casa Galería in Mexico City, Galería EGGB and the Instituto Cervantes in Beijing.
- Margarita González Vázquez
Universidad Complutense de Madrid
Margarita González Vázquez has a PhD in Fine Arts and is a tenured professor in the Department of Drawing and Engraving at the Faculty of Fine Arts of the Complutense University of Madrid, UCM, where she teaches drawing in the Fine Arts degree programme and intaglio engraving in the Master's Degree in Drawing and Contemporary Graphics (MUDIG). As a professional, she has extensive experience in the publication of graphic work and research linking drawing and knowledge modelling, focusing her work on contemporary graphic languages from an interdisciplinary perspective.
Among the seminars and projects she has carried out are: ‘Typology of printmaking and printing’ (IPCE, 2019); ‘Relevant factors in the development of an artistic career: context, strategies and agents involved’ (XXXV Summer Courses of El Escorial, 2022); ‘Diagrammatics of knowledge: applications of drawing in academic research’ and ‘Research in Fine Arts: The usefulness of drawing. Cognitive and methodological resources’, since 2021, and the International and Interuniversity Congress on Research in Contemporary Drawing (2024).
She is the director of the UCM continuing education master's degree programme “Art, Market and Entrepreneurship”, which links university academic training with the professionalisation of the artistic career.
Contact: marggonz@ucm.es
- Eduardo Herrera Fernández
Universidad del País Vasco / Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea
Doctor of Fine Arts. Professor of Graphic Design in the Department of Drawing at the Faculty of Fine Arts of the UPV/EHU.
Co-director, together with Leire Fernández Iñurritegui, of the ‘Letraz’ Research Group on Graphic Design and Typography. Current lines of research: Graphology and Discourse, Typography, Corporate Visual Identity, Editorial Graphics, Graphic Activism.
Among his publications, in collaboration with Leire Fernández Iñurritegui, the following books are particularly noteworthy: ‘Book Cover Design’ (Editorial Síntesis), ‘A Creative Process in Graphic Poster Design’ (UPV/EHU Publishing Service), ‘Comunicar Visualmente’ (Experimenta Libros), ‘Imágenes Activistas para la Sostenibilidad’ (UPV/EHU Publishing Service) and ‘Historias que marcan’ (Editorial GG).
Among other awards, he has been recognised with the ‘CLAP Platinum’, the “Juan de Yciar” Editorial Quality Award, the “Anuaria de Oro” National Graphic Design Award, the “Letra de Oro” Visual and Graphic Communication Award, the “Pelikanor de Oro” International Applied Illustration Award, and the “Merit Award” at the 14th Encontro de Tipografia.
- Miriam Isasi Arce
Universidad de La Laguna
Professor at the University of La Laguna, she holds a PhD in Fine Arts from the UPV/EHU in the Basque Country and the UNAM in Mexico. She has participated in residency programmes at the Academia de España in Rome (Italy), Artista x Artista (Cuba), Fundación BilbaoArte, Kunsthaus in Bregenz (Austria), EAS-EZE Bitamine Faktoria (Irún-Buenos Aires), MA Studio in Beijing, Nekatoenea in Hendaye (France), Centre d'Art i Natura in Farrera (Spain) and the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México.
From a contemporary position, he generates a discourse that is constructed from nods to anthropology, history, activism, alchemy, landscape and memory.
He has participated in different exhibitions in ARTIUM, Spanish Academy in Rome, San Fernando Academy, Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, Bilbao Fine Arts Museum, Sala Rekalde, MUSAC, HUARTE, CAB, BilbaoArte Foundation, Azkuna Zentroa Alhóndiga in Bilbao, San Telmo Museum, Tabakalera, Montehermoso or La Panera Art Centre in Lleida among others. He is currently working with Talka Galería on the production and visualisation of some of his latest projects.
- Susana Jodra Llorente
University of the Basque Country / Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea
She holds a degree in Fine Arts from the UPV/EHU, a postgraduate degree from the Hochschule der Künste Berlin and a PhD in Fine Arts from the UPV/EHU. She focuses her artistic, research and teaching activity on analogue and digital expanded graphics, from an ecofeminist and socio-environmental perspective.
She has participated in solo and group exhibitions at national and international level: Modulares III (Basel, 2016), XI Invitational printexibithion (Tainan, 2007), Azimuth, (Hasselt, 2018), Impact 10 (Santander, 2018)... Together with the Swiss artist Patricia Schneider she works on the artistic project Modulares. She has produced illustrations and writings for numerous publications:(ORCID).
She is currently a lecturer in the Drawing Department of the Fine Arts Faculty of the UPV/EHU and collaborates with the printmaking department of the Hochschule der Künste in Bern. She is a member of the consolidated research group LAIDA, literatura eta identitatea (LAIDA) and the working group ARTEKOM: Art and communication for the energy transition (ARTEKOM).
- Moneiba Lemes Lemes
Universidad de La Laguna
Visual artist. Graduate in Fine Arts from the ULL, she holds a Master's degree in Audiovisual and Literary Culture from the ULPGC. Doctor in Arts and Humanities and Assistant Professor in the Painting Department at the Faculty of Fine Arts of the ULL.
Since 2007 she has exhibited her work in Spain and abroad and her work forms part of collections such as that of the Centro Atlántico de Arte Moderno CAAM and TEA Tenerife Espacio de las Artes.
His research focuses on the field of painting and visual culture from a sociological and intertextual perspective.
- Maria Carmen Leñero Elu
Universidad Nacional Autónoma de Mexico (UNAM), Mexico
María del Carmen Leñero Elu is a poet, essayist, storyteller and researcher. She holds a PhD in Literature from the UNAM (2004), has been a member of the Centre for Poetics at the Institute of Philological Research since 1988 and is a lecturer on the Postgraduate Course in Literature at the National University of Mexico (UNAM).
She has published 13 books of poetry, 8 of fiction and 5 of essays, including Río (Era, 2008), Prismáticas (SM, 2021), Emilio y el viaje sin tesoro (FCE, 2023) and Las transmigraciones de Fausto (IIFL, 2014). Her work also includes several phonograms that set poetry to music. She has contributed to more than 100 national and international magazines and media outlets and has been recognised with awards such as the 1998 Carlos Pellicer Ibero-American Poetry Prize; the 1996 Juan de la Cabada National Children's Story Prize; the 1994 National Literary Essay Prize (U.V); the 2010 XV FILIJ International Children's Book Prize; participant in the 2013 Bologna Ragazzi Prize; Honourable Mention in the 2007 Vicente Huidobro Aphorism Prize 2007 (Chile); nomination for the Astrid Lindgren Literature Prize by the Swedish Academy of Arts in 2011; nomination for the UNAM Prize for Artistic Creation, 2019.
She is currently a member of the SNCA (2023) and has given workshops, courses, lectures and concerts at institutions such as the University of Almería, the Banff Centre and the UPV/EHU. Her recent activities include new publications, concerts, tributes and the preparation of two novels and a new book of essays. Her work crosses literature, music and thought with a profound poetic and critical dimension.
- Débora Madrid Brito
Universidad de La Laguna
Professor of Aesthetics at the Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of La Laguna. She holds a degree in Art History (ULL), a Master's degree in Contemporary Art History and Visual Culture (UAM) and a PhD in Artistic, Literary and Cultural Studies, with an extraordinary doctoral prize (UAM).
She has carried out research stays at the Margaret Herrick Library in Los Angeles and at The Graduate Center, City University of New York. She is a member of the editorial board of Latente. Revista de Historia y Estética del Cine, Fotografía y Cultura Visual (ULL) and the Journal of Science Fiction (Museum of Science Fiction, Washington). He is also a member of the advisory board of Accadere. Revista de Historia del arte (ULL) and is a member of the board of Surcos. Asociación de Estudios Cinematográficos. His publications include the book Creaciones (in)humanas. Alteraciones y suplantaciones del ser humano en el cine español (2023).
- Sara Martínez Pérez-Coleman
Universidad de La Laguna
Artist, designer and teacher, Sara Coleman holds a PhD in Fine Arts from the University of Vigo - with stays at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna and the Cité Internationale Universitaire in Paris - as well as having studied Fashion Design, Textile Design and Pattern Making.
She currently teaches Sculpture at the Faculty of Fine Arts at the ULL and previously taught at the Faculty of Fine Arts at UVigo, at ESDEMGA (UVigo), at LCI and at the EASD_Gran Canaria.
Her awards and mentions include: First Prize ArtsFAD, Julián Trincado Prize in the Biennial 15 Mostra de Arte Naturgy (MAC), Cultiva Cultura Prize (Diputación de Pontevedra) and an Accésit in the I Premio Textil de Arte Contemporáneo (ICA Juan Gil-Albert). In the field of design, she has received the First Prize for Entrepreneurship and has been nominated for the International Woolmark Prize and the Mango Fashion Awards.
Her artistic work has been exhibited at the Valentiny Foundation in Luxembourg, the Cervantes Institute, the Museu del Disseny in Barcelona, the MNAD, CentroCentro_Cibeles in Madrid and the RAC Foundation, among many others.
His theoretical-practical research explores the materiality and spatiality of textile modes, understanding them as interrelational operators and transdisciplinary spatial interfaces.
- Carlos Augusto [Guto] Nóbrega
Universidad Federal de Río de Janeiro (UFRJ), Brasil
Carlos Augusto Nóbrega is a professor at the School of Fine Arts of the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ) and coordinator of the Postgraduate Programme in Visual Arts at the same institution. Since 2023, he has held the position of Vice-Dean and Postgraduate Coordinator at the Centre for Literature and Arts at UFRJ.
Together with Professor Malu Fragoso, he founded and currently coordinates the Núcleo de Arte e Novos Organismos (NANO), a laboratory dedicated to research and artistic creation at the intersection of art, science and technology.
He obtained his PhD in Interactive Arts in 2009 from The Planetary Collegium (formerly CAiiA-STAR) at the School of Art and Media at Plymouth University, United Kingdom, with funding from CAPES – Brazil. His transdisciplinary doctoral thesis explores the intersections between art, science, technology and nature.
His research interests include interactivity, biotelematics, field theories, nature, coherence, ancestry and hyperorganisms. He develops his work in media such as drawing, printmaking, illustration and robotics, among others. In 2019, he completed a postdoctoral fellowship in Art and Technology at the Graduate Programme in Visual Arts (PPGAV) at the University of Brasilia (UnB).
He is also a productivity researcher at the Conselho Nacional de Pesquisa (National Research Council) CNPq (Brazil). Both his research and artistic work have been widely presented at conferences and exhibitions in Brazil and abroad.
Personal work:
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- Maren Ortíz de Zarragoitia
Universidad del País Vasco / Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea
PhD in Biology from the UPV/EHU, he is a professor of Cell Biology and vice-dean of the Faculty of Science and Technology (ZTF/FCT) at the same university. He teaches Cell Biology, Tissue Biology and Molecular Cell Biology in three degree programmes at the ZTF/FCT.
Since 2016, he has served as Vice Dean of Basque Language and International Relations. He has given numerous seminars at universities in Europe and Latin America and currently serves as International Coordinator of the Erasmus Mundus EMJMD ECT+ master's programme.
He is also Director of the Master's Degree in Scientific Illustration, where he teaches Medical and Histological Illustration. He is co-author of the online book Ehunen Biología, a reference work in the field of tissue biology.
- José Otero Cabrera
Universidad de La Laguna
José Otero Cabrera (Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, 1979) is an artist. He holds a degree in Fine Arts from the ULL and a Master's degree in Hispanic-African Relations from the ULPGC. Doctor in Arts and Humanities and Assistant Professor in the Department of Painting at the Faculty of Fine Arts of the ULL, he has exhibited his artistic work locally, nationally and internationally and his work is part of collections such as the CAAM, the Government of the Canary Islands and the Centro de Arte Dos de Mayo. For several years he was a Visual Arts Technician and Director of Exhibition Assembly at the Canary Islands Government Art Centres. His research interests include the cultural relations between the African continent and the Canary Islands.
- Sandra Palhares
Universidade do Minho, Portugal
Sandra Palhares has been an Assistant Professor of Art Education in the specific field of Visual Arts at the Institute of Education of the University of Minho since 2014. She is a member of the Centre for Research on Childhood Studies (CIEC). She has been conducting research in the area of art education, specifically in the field of visual arts, focusing on recent paradigm shifts in approaches and strategies in formal, informal and non-formal education, with a view to developing mechanisms to improve teacher training and access to the arts, culture and heritage.
In addition to her teaching at the Instituto de Educação, she has been a lecturer at the Faculty of Architecture and Arts of the Universidade Lusíada and has collaborated with the FBAUP and ESAP.
She has been part of the team of several IE consulting and advisory projects in the field of initial teacher training (RECEB, PNFGPD, UNTL) and is currently director of the new master's degree in Teaching Visual Arts in the Third Cycle of Basic Education and Secondary Education. She is currently participating in the European project ‘Ecological Making in Intercultural Cooperation through STEAM’ and with Brazil and Argentina in the project ‘Espaços Expositivos de Arte Contemporânea, Diálogos com Ambientes Virtuais de Formação’.
- Patricia Schneider
Universidad de las Artes de Berna, Suiza
Art educator and artist. She worked as a mediator at the Kunstmuseum Bern and the Museum Franz Gertsch in Burgdorf and taught art education at a high school in Solothurn for nineteen years.
She has been working at the Bern University of the Arts since 2006 and has been involved in various research projects. Since then, she has taught various print and theory modules as a lecturer and has been head of the print studio since 2020.
As an artist, Patricia Schneider works in the fields of printmaking, photography and installation. She has regularly exhibited her work and collaborative projects in Switzerland and abroad since 2000.
- Fernando Zamora Águila
Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM), Mexico
He holds a degree in Modern Literature (French Literature) and a PhD in Philosophy from the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM).
He is a professor at the Faculty of Arts and Design at UNAM, where he teaches courses on art theory, image theory and literary theory at undergraduate and postgraduate level. He has taught courses on these subjects at various universities in Mexico and abroad.
He has published (in Mexico, Spain, Italy, Germany and Argentina) around 30 articles and essays on the relationship between image and the fields of art, education, cinema, writing, literature and philosophy. He has given lectures and presentations on these topics. He translated the books La vida de las formas (by Henri Focillon) and Hacia el universo de las imágenes técnicas (by Vilém Flusser, published by FAD-UNAM).
He is the author of the essay Imagen y razón: los caminos de la creación artística included in the book Arte y diseño. Experiencia, creación y método (2002, first edition, 2010, second edition). In 2007, he published Filosofía de la imagen. Lenguaje, imagen y representación (2019, fifth reprint; 2021, first electronic edition). In 2024, he published Estudios de la imagen. Imaginarios colectivos y construcción de lo humano, México.
In 2023, he received the National University Award in the field of Arts Research in Mexico.
Review committee
- Laura de la Colina Tejeda
Universidad Complutense de Madrid - Giovanna di Rosario
Università degli Studi Di Milano-Biccoca, Italia - Leire Fernández Iñurritegi
Universidad del País Vasco / Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea - Edurne González Ibáñez
Universidad del País Vasco / Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea - Eduardo Herrera
Universidad del País Vasco / Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea - Susana Jodra
Universidad del País Vasco / Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea - Jose Antonio Morlesin Mellado
Universidad del País Vasco / Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea - Itahisa Pérez Conesa
Universidad de La Laguna - Tania Quindós González
Universidad del País Vasco / Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea - Ignacio Rodríguez Domínguez
Universidad Complutense de Madrid - Ana María Sainz
Universidad del País Vasco / Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea - Ramón Salas Lamamie de Clairac
Universidad de La Laguna - Sandra Santana Pérez
Universidad de La Laguna - Patricia Schneider
Universidad de las Artes de Berna, Suiza - Carlos Trigueros Mori
Universidad de Salamanca