Keynote Speakers

Michael Archer

Damian Sutton

Michael Archer is a critic, writer and curator, and Professor of Art at Goldsmiths, University of London. He is the author of Art Since 1960 (3rd edn 2015), provided the text for Installation Art (1994), and wrote the later chapters on modern and contemporary art for Hugh Honour and John Fleming's A World History of Art (2009), as well as contributing to monographs on Mona Hatoum (2016) and Richard Wilson (2001). In the 1980s he worked as part of Audio Arts, making installations, records and performances as well as contributing to the editing and production of many issues of Audio Arts magazine. His Audio Arts interviews with Donald Judd, Frank Stella, Marina Abramovic, Mike Kelley, Mona Hatoum and Rachel Whiteread have subsequently appeared in the collection Speaking of Art (2010). His exhibitions, including Material Culture: The Object in British Art of the 80s and 90s (1997), and How To Improve The World (2006), both at the Hayward Gallery, London. In addition to a study of Jeff Koons' One Ball Total Equilibrium Tank (2011), he has recently written on Miroslaw Balka, Dexter Dalwood, Helen Marten, Keith Tyson, Liam Gillick, Eva Rothschild, Cerith Wyn Evans, Imi Knoebel, Carlos Nogueira, and the Politics of Minimalism. His work has appeared in many journals, including Artforum, Art Monthly, Frieze and Parkett, and in numerous catalogues.

Damian Sutton is Professor of Photography Theory and Culture at Coventry University, where he has been since 2016. He was previously at Middlesex University and The Glasgow School of Art. He has published widely on photography, cinema and film, with a particular focus on philosophy, and is the author of Photography, Cinema, Memory (2009) and co-author of Deleuze Reframed. His current focus is the portrait in photography and wider visual culture, from the perspective of film and philosophy, and with a particular focus on Kant, Deleuze, and the diagrammatic.

Guest Speaker

Francisco Paiva

Francisco Paiva (Covilhã 1973). Professor Associado da Universidade da Beira Interior (UBI), onde dirige o curso de 3º Ciclo/ Doutoramento em Media Artes. Doutor em Belas Artes / Desenho pela Faculdade de Belas Artes da Universidade do País Basco, licenciado em Arquitectura pela Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia da Universidade de Coimbra e licenciado em Design pela Faculdade de Belas Artes da Universidade de Lisboa, fez uma estância como investigador visitante na Universidade de Bordéus 3, França. Coordena o Grupo de Artes e Humanidades do LABCOM.IFP(www.labcom-ifp.ubi.pt). Desenvolve pesquisa e criação sobre processos espacio-temporais, intermedialidade e identidade nas artes. Integra comissões científicas de eventos e de diversas publicações internacionais especializadas. Coordenador científico da DESIGNA, Conferência Internacional de Investigação em Design (www.designa.ubi.p) e da plataforma Montanha Mágica* Arte e Paisagem (http://montanhamagica.ubi.pt). Integra ainda a CooLabora, cooperativa de intervenção social.

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