ALICE MICELI

Alice Miceli's (Rio de Janeiro, 1980) work alternates between video and photography, often starting from the investigation of historical events and exploratory journeys, through which she reconstitutes cultural and physical traces of past traumas inflicted on social and natural landscapes. Her work is part of important international collections such as the Museu de Arte Moderna do Rio de Janeiro(Brazil), Cisneros Fontanals Art Foundation (USA) and Moscow Biennale Art Foundation (Russia).

CARLES GUERRA

Carles Guerra (Amposta, 1965) is an art critic, lecturer and researcher. He has been the director of the photo festival, Primavera Fotogràfica de Catalunya, the director of the Virreina Centre de la Imatge, and chief curator at the Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona (MACBA). He was the director of the Fundació Antoni Tàpies from 2015 to 2020. His research has focused on dialogue as a practice in the fields of art and visual culture. Many of his publications have focused on critical pedagogy, documentary practices and the conditions for post-Fordist cultural production. He has been associate profes­sor at the Pompeu Fabra University and a faculty member at the Center for Curatorial Studies (CCS), Bard College. He has curated a wide range of exhibitions featuring artists such as Perejaume, Joaquim Jordà, Xavier Ribas, Ahlam Shibli, Art & Langua­ge, Allan Sekula, Susan Meiselas, Harun Farocki, Oriol Vilanova and Ariella Aïsha Azoulay.

SAMANEH MOAFI

As Forensic Architecture’s Senior Researcher, Samaneh provides conceptual oversight across projects and oversees the Centre for Contemporary Nature. Her research is focused on developing new evidentiary techniques for environmental violence. She holds a PhD from The Architectural Association (AA), and a a BA and MA in Architecture from the University of Technology, Sydney. Samaneh’s PhD thesis examined struggle and resistance from the home, with a particular focus on gender and class relations in Iran.

Before joining Forensic Architecture in 2015, Samaneh practiced as an architect in Australia, taught BA Architecture at the University of Technology, Sydney, MArch Urban Design at the Bartlett School, University College, London, and led a number of short courses at the Royal College of Arts and the AA.

SUSAN MEISELAS (a confirmar)

Susan Meiselas is a documentary photographer based in New York. She is the author of Carnival Strippers (1976), Nicaragua (1981), Kurdistan: In the Shadow of History (1997), Pandora’s Box (2001), Encounters with the Dani (2003) Prince Street Girls (2016), A Room Of Their Own (2017) and Tar Beach (2020).

Meiselas is well known for her documentation of human rights issues in Latin America. Her photographs are included in North American and international collections. In 1992 she was made a MacArthur Fellow, received a Guggenheim Fellowship (2015), and most recently the Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation Prize (2019) and the first Women in Motion Award from Kering and the Rencontres d’Arles. Mediations, a survey exhibition of her work from the 1970s to present was recently exhibited at the Fundació Antoni Tàpies, Jeu de Paume, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and the Instituto Moreira Salles in São Paulo and is presently on view at the Kunst Haus Wien.

She has been the President of the Magnum Foundation since 2007, with a mission to expand diversity and creativity in documentary photography.

UTE META BAUER

Ute Meta Bauer is an Associate Professor and served as the Founding Director of the Program in Art, Culture, and Technology at MIT’s School of Architecture and Planning from October 2009 – January 2012. Previously she was Director of the MIT Visual Arts Program from 2005 – 2009. From 1996 until 2006, she held an appointment at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna (Austria) as Professor of Theory and Practice of Contemporary Art. 

Bauer was born in Germany, educated as an artist at the Hochschule für Bildende Künste Hamburg (Academy of Fine Arts Hamburg, Germany), where she received her Diploma with Honors in Visual Communication/Stage Design in 1987.

For more than twenty-five years, Bauer has worked as a curator of exhibitions and presentations on contemporary art, film, video and sound, with a focus on transdisciplinary formats. Bauer curated section “?” along with artist Fareed Armaly for the exhibition “NowHere” at the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art on the occasion of Copenhagen Cultural Capital of Europe 1996. In 2001 she curated “First Story – Women Building/New Narratives for the 21st Century” for Porto 2001 – Cultural Capital of Europe and “Architecture of Discourse” for the Fundació Antoni Tàpies, Barcelona. She was a Co-Curator of Documenta11 (2001/2002) on the team of Okwui Enwezor and the Artistic Director of the 3rd Berlin Biennale for Contemporary Art (2004). In 2005 she curated the “Mobile_Transborder Archive” for InSite05, Tijuana / San Diego, and in 2008 she was the Director of SITAC VI (Symposio International Arte Contemporanea, Mexico City).

Bauer served as Founding Director of the Office For Contemporary Art Norway (OCA) from 2002-2005 and was the Commissioner for the Scandinavian Pavilion at the 50th Venice Biennale (2003) and for the official Norwegian contribution for the 26th São Paulo Biennale (2004). She was the Chairwoman of the Art Advisory Board of the Goethe Institutes and served as General Secretary for the International Curators Association (IKT). Currently, she is a member of the International Scientific Board of the Bauhaus Foundation in Dessau (Germany), of the Advisory Board of the LIST Visual Art Center at MIT, and of the Advisory Board of the newly established Bergen Assembly (Norway).

Uma iniciativa conjunta:  Escolas das Artes da Universidade Católica Portuguesa; CITAR – Centro de Investigação em Ciência e Tecnologia das Artes; PUC – Rio; CAPES Print; Grupo de Arte, Autonomia e Política