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Education

01/01/2014–27/01/2021 PhD in Artistic Studies—Art and Mediations (Highest Honours). FCSH—NOVA University Lisbon, Portugal. Title of the dissertation: “Vital rhythm and the gesture of crossing. Survivals of ekstasis in cinema”

15/09/2011–01/06/2013 MA in Philosophy-Aesthetics (Qualification: 17/20), FCSH—NOVA University Lisbon, Portugal. Title of the thesis: “Jacques Rancière and Agnès Varda in the gap between cinema and politics”

15/09/1999–15/07/2004 Licenciatura (graduation) in Psychology (Qualification: 14/20), Lusíada University of Porto, Portugal

 

Academic positions

01/02/2025–[31/08/2025] Visiting Professor, Department of Communication Sciences, School of Humanities and Social Sciences, NOVA University Lisbon

01/04/2021–01/06/2021 Lecturer, National University of Arts, Argentina

01/04/2018–01/06/2018 Lecturer, National University of Arts, Argentina

01/10/2015–01/01/2016 Visiting research Fellow, National University of Arts, Argentina

 

Fellowships and Awards

  1. 01/07/2022–[30/06/2025] Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Institute of Communication of NOVA University Lisbon, Individual project Rhuthmanalysis and Ecologies of the Moving Images. 

  2. 01/04/2024 Seal of Excellence—European Commission Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions, for the research project ECOCINERHYTHMS. Rhythmic Matter in Latin American Moving Images: An Ecocinematic Exploration of Human-Environment Rhythms (Proposal ID 101153062)

  3. 20–21/11/2024 Workshop Travel and Accommodation Award to present at the International Workshop Decolozing Aesthetic Materials. Leuphana Universität Lüneburg, Germany.

  4. 01/07/2023 Conference Travel Award to attend the Reclaiming the Commons: The Association for the Study of Literature and Environment and the Association for Environmental Studies and Sciences Biannual Conference, at Portland-Oregon, awarded by FLAD—Luso-American Development Foundation

  5. 01/01/2014–01/01/2018 Doctoral fellowship, Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia, Portugal

  6. 15/09/2012–01/06/2013 Erasmus Scholarship, Paris-Sorbonne IV University, France

  7. 01/10/2015 Arco-Íris award for curating “Gender Trouble—Performance, performativity and gender politics,” Programme, at Maria Matos Lisbon Municipal Theatre, awarded by the NGO ILGA, Portugal

  8. 18/03/2011–19/03/2011 Conference Travel Award, 5th Annual Feminist Theory Workshop, Women’s Studies Department, Duke University, United States of America

  9. 01/02/2010–02/02/2010 Conference Travel Award, European Institute for Gender Equality, Belgium​

 

Supervision and Jury of Academic Degrees

  • Jury of the PhD dissertation project in Artistic Studies, "Hands and Cinema: Notes for a Kinosophia", by Laura Minervini, NOVA University Lisbon, 26/10/2023

  • Jury of the PhD dissertation in Philosophy, “Aesthetic Experience and Performance Art”, by Verónica Gullander Metello, Coimbra University, 02/05/2023

  • Advisor of the MA thesis in Scenic Arts, “Staged Performativity of Gender: the construction of gender in the performances "Androgynous", "Mistermissmissmister" and “SexyMF”, by Renata Cieslak, at NOVA University Lisbon. Co-advisor: Cláudia Madeira, 2015

 

Invited Conference Papers (selection)

  • Rhythms of Matter: rethinking nature and agency with Latin American Cinema, International Workshop “Decolonizing Aesthetic Materials in Times of Catastrophe”, Leuphana University, 21/11/2024

  • Rhythms that matter: the role of rhuthmanalysis in Artistic Studies, International Workshop “RE(a)SON(d)ANCE(s) – Philosophy, Performance and the Arts”, University of Lisbon, 18/06/2024

  • Rhuthmanalysing human and extra-human enmeshments in contemporary art, International Interdisciplinary Philosophical Conference Transformed Humanity in search for stability: rhythms in philosophy, nature, art, University of Latvia, 18/05/2024

  • More-than-human geographies, rhythm and art, Geography Club at the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa, 23/04/2024

  • Rhuthmanalysis. Troubling Euro- and human-centric approaches to rhythm, AAG2024—American Association of Geographers annual conference, 19/04/2024

  • Inorganic Intimacies and Geological Imaginaries in Latin American Experimental Cinema, SCMS- Society for Cinema and Media Studies annual conference, 14/03/2024 (Co-chair and presenter, panel on Elemental Ontologies in Experimental Cinema)

  • Cosmopolitics of images. Intersections between cinema and shamanism, International Colloquium on Cinema and Philosophy - between trance and drifting, Digital Cultural Centre—Mexican Government, 19/10/2023

  • Unstable Lands: inhuman and cinematic ontologies in Latin American moving images, ASLE—Association for the Study of Literature and Environment and AESS-Association for Environmental Studies and Sciences "Reclaiming the Commons" Conference 2023, Oregon Convention Centre (Portland), 9–12/07/2023

  • Ecologies of care and the rhythms of matter in Azucena Losana's moving images, NECS—European Network for Cinema and Media Studies 2023 Conference, Oslo University, 13–17/07/2023

  • Thinking Like a Mountain. Rhythms of inorganic matter and extractivism in Latin American cinema, 12th AIM—Portuguese Association of Researchers of the Moving Image International Conference, Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro University, 30/05–02/06/2023

  • The rhythms of matter in film. Notes for approaching rhuthmanalysis as an ecocritical tool, 2nd International Conference on Rhythm and Art, National University of Arts of Buenos Aires and NOVA University Lisbon, 10–12/05/2023 

  • Figurations and reconfigurations of the war of intra-terrestrial worlds in contemporary Latin American cinema, International Colloquium “Until one day there will be no more tomorrow.” Configurations of war and resistance in philosophy, literature and other arts, NOVA University Lisbon, 05/05/2023 

  • The rhythms of matter and the ecological and colonial meshwork in the art installation Ajuar para un conquistador (1993), paper presented at the 5th International Colloquium Aesthetics at the centre: Dimensions of the aesthetic, Federal University of Goiás, Brasilia University, 4–5/12/2022

  • Rhythm and its meshworks. Notes on the rhuthmanalysis methodology as an ecocritical tool, seminar delivered at the Stockholm Resilience Centre—University of Stockholm, 16/11/2022

  • Thinking like the Cerro Rico del Potosí: a speculative exercise in dialogue with Bocamina (Miguel Hilari) and The Silver and the Cross (Harun Farocki), paper presented at the International Workshop Archives of the Planetary Mine: Culture, Nature Extraction, and Energy Across the Americas, Stockholm University, 14–15/11/2022

  • From the balcony to Caminito: an ongoing rhuthmanalysis, paper presented at the Annual Conference of the Royal Geographical Society (with IBG), Newcastle University, 30/08–02/09/2022

  • Trousseau for a conqueror. Artistic practices and figurations of the entanglement of worlds, paper presented at the II Seminar Muses in Action, Escola Superior de Educação, Porto, 30/06–2/07/2022

  • Cinema, shamanism: gestures of crossing worlds, 11th Annual Meeting AIM—Association of Moving Image Researchers, Ecocinema panel, Évora University, 25–28/05/2022

  • Dream and Yãkoana: two hypotheses to think of cinema as a crossing of worlds, paper presented at the International Colloquium Dream, commodity, world. Three hypotheses to think A queda do céu. Palavras de um xamã Yanomami, Faculty of Philosophy and Letters, University of Buenos Aires, 08–09/11/2021

  • Cinema as trace: the vital rhythm and the ritual memory, paper presented at the 1st International Conference on Rhythm in Art, National University of Arts and French Alliance of Buenos Aires, 25–26/04/2019 

  • The politics of Agnès Varda cinema: a reading in dialogue with Jacques Rancière, paper presented at the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro, 17/08/2018

  • Crossing as a gesture, paper presented at the 5th International Journeys about Rhythm in the Arts, National University of Arts, Buenos Aires, 6–08/09/2018

  • Time, form and movement. A pre-Platonic conception of rhythm, paper presented with Aníbal Zorrilla at the 2nd International Conference on Arts, National University of Arts, Buenos Aires, 4–6/10/2017

  • Analysing rhythm in a vivid temporality: rhythmanalysis exercises in South America, paper presented at the 2nd International Journeys about Rhythm in the Arts, National University of Arts, Buenos Aires, 01–03/09/2016

  • One, two, three, one: rhythm beyond metrics, paper presented at the Permanent Seminar on Philosophy and Performance, IFILNOVA—Philosophy Institute of NOVA University Lisbon, 17/06/2016

  • Rhythm, subjectivity, and normativity in the artistic pedagogy, paper presented at the 8th Combined Artistic Languages Symposium, National University of Arts, Buenos Aires, with Melisa Galarce, Leticia Miramontes and Aníbal Zorrilla, 08–10/10/2016

  • Agnès Varda and Jacques Rancière in the gap between cinema and politics, paper presented at the EPEA-Aesthetics and Politics across the Arts Seminar, CESEM—NOVA University Lisbon, 19/06/2013

  • Shelter for gender violence victims: metaphors and images, paper presented at the International Workshop Love, Fear and Power in Intimate Relationships, 30–31/05/2011

  • Domestic and Gender Violence in LGBT couples, paper presented at the Domestic, Intimate and Gender Violence: conceptual crossroads, CES - Coimbra University, 5/04/2011 

  • Sexual Citizenship of Portuguese lesbian women: the politics of recognition and articulation, paper presented at the Conference Citizenship: Feminism and Transformation of Belonging, University of London, with João Oliveira and Cristiana Pena, 30/06–02/07/2010 

  • Gender Violence beyond closed doors. Towards a social narrative of Gender Violence, paper presented at the 7th European Feminist Research Conference. Gendered Cultures at the Crossroads of Imagination, Knowledge and Politics, Utrecht University 04–08/07/2009

 

Courses Taught & Invited Lectures

01/03/2025–[31/08/2025] Political and Cultural Ecology, MA Seminar in Communication Sciences—Contemporary Culture and New Technologies, FCSH—NOVA University Lisbon

19/03/2025 Inhuman Intimacies: experimental cinema and the queer performativity of stones, Women’s Studies MA—University College Cork, and The Eco- and Bioart Lab, Linköping University (2h)

07/11/2024 Inhuman Intimacies and the Geological Turn in Contemporary Experimental Cinema, Open lecture at the Visual Culture Postgraduate Course, FCSH—NOVA (3h)

03/07–16/07/2024 Cinema and Post-nature, Summer School of NOVA University Lisbon (15h)

10/05/2024 Analogue Cinema and Vegetal Rhythms, Open Lecture at the PhD Programmes in Communication Sciences and Artistic Studies, NOVA University Lisbon (3h)

19/01/2024 Interplays between cinema and geology. An ongoing study on/with experimental Latin American film, Ecomedia Lecture Series, Association for the Study of Literature and Environment (1.30h)

16/12/2022 Reflections and diffractions of the rhythmanalysis methodology. Approaches to rhuthmos and its analysis beyond Eurocentrism, seminar delivered at the University of Hawai'i with the American Association of Geographers (2h)

23/06/2021–07/07/2021 Rhythm in Art. An introduction to Rhuthmanalysis, National University of Arts, Buenos Aires (12h)

12/06/2018–03/07/2018 Cinema and Politics. A dialogue between Agnès Varda and Jacques Rancière, National University of Arts, Buenos Aires (12h)

12/12/2014–18/12/2014 (dance) an encounter between two monsters (cinema), practice-based research workshop, at the artistic institution c.e.m - centro em movimento, Lisbon (12h)

 

Conference Scientific Committee

  • Performativity(ies) of Memory(ies) Interdisciplinary Conference, School of Education of the Polytechnic Institute of Viana do Castelo, Research Institute for Design Media and Culture, Polytechnic University of Cávado and Ave, October 2025

  • International Conference Cadences, Attentional Moves in the Arts and Everyday Life International Conference, NOVA University Lisbon, May 2025

  • International Conference Counter-Image 2024. Visual Culture and Ecological Thinking: reimagining relationships in the world, Federal University of Santa Catarina and NOVA University Lisbon, April 2024

 

Organisation of Scientific Meetings (selection)

13/12/2024 Experimental Film and Media Scholarly Interest Group at Society for Cinema and Media Studies Online Talk Series—Azucena Losana and Elena Pardo in conversation with Salomé Lopes Coelho (US, PT)

11/2023 Organiser of the Permanent Seminar on Material Performativities, NOVA University Lisbon

10-12/05/2023 Co-organiser of the 2nd International Conference on Rhythm in Art, NOVA University Lisbon, National University of Arts, National University of the Centre of the Province of Buenos Aires (PT & ARG)

08–09/11/2021 Co-organiser of the International Colloquium Dream, commodity and world. Three hypotheses to think A queda do céu. Palavras de um xamã Yanomami, Faculty of Philosophy and Letters, University of Buenos Aires (ARG)

27/04/2019 Co-organiser of Rhythm and Power Workshop, National University of Arts and French Alliance of Buenos Aires (ARG)

25-26/04/2019 Co-organiser of the 1st International Conference on Rhythm in Art, National University of Arts and French Alliance of Buenos Aires (ARG)

06-08/09/2018 Rhythm and Art Symposium, as part of the 5th International Journeys about Rhythm in the Arts, National University of Arts, Buenos Aires (ARG)

07/2015–07/2016  Co-organiser of the Nomad Seminars of Performance Studies, ISCTE - University Institute Lisbon (PT)

 

Participation in research projects

31/12/2020–30/06/2022 Corporality after Bioart. Research and teaching on the threshold of art, technoscience and philosophy, National University of Arts, Buenos Aires, funded by the National Ministry of Education, Culture, Science and Technology. Member of the research team focusing on the philosophy of art. 

01/01/2018–31/12/2020 Rhythm as a choreographic creation trigger, National University of Arts, Buenos Aires, funded by the National Ministry of Education, Culture, Science and Technology. Member of the research team. Role: Literature review on rhythm studies and intersections with art and philosophy, organising an international conference, presenting results at national conferences, writing academic articles, co-editing a collective volume as the first editor. 

01/10/2015–31/12/2017 Learning rhythm and the rhythm of learning. Individuation, Subjectivity and Normativity, National University of Arts, Buenos Aires, funded by the National Ministry of Education, Culture, Science and Technology. Role: Literature review on rhythm studies and intersections philosophy, organise a symposium, present results at an international conference, and write academic articles.

01/06/2015–01/06/2017 Performance and Philosophy research group, AeLAB - Nova Institute of Philosophy, NOVA University Lisbon, funded by FCT. Member of the research team. Role: conduct doctoral research, organise events, present research in international conferences, publish academic articles. 

 

Institutional and Editorial Responsibilities / Memberships and Service

  • The Eco- and Bioart Lab, Linköping University (SWE), Member of the research team (since 2025)

  • La Furia Umana. Journal of Theory and History of Cinema (ISSN 2037-0431) (since 2021), Member of the editorial board

  • European Network for Cinema and Media Studies

  • Society for Cinema and Media Studies, Experimental Film Interest Group

  • ASLE—Association for the Study of Literature and Environment, Ecomedia Interest Group

  • Reviewer: Philosophies (MDPI); Eikón/Imago (Complutense University of Madrid, SPA), Cinema: Journal of Philosophy and the Moving Image (NOVA University Lisbon, PT); Revista de Estudos Feministas (Santa Catarina Federal University, BRA), ex-aequo—Revista de Estudos sobre as Mulheres (Portuguese Association of Women’s Studies, PT); Humanidades (University of Montevideo, URU); RECIAL—Revista de la Facultad de Filosofía y Humanidades (ARG); Aniki—Portuguese Journal of the Moving Image (AIM, IHC—NOVA University Lisbon, PT)

  • Representative of the ICNOVA–Institute of Communication of NOVA University Lisbon fellows and science managers in the Research Fellows and Science Communication Association, NOVA University Lisbon (2024-2025)

 

Other Academic Training

29/03/2022–09/05/2022 Dissident sustainabilities: multispecies territories and human-nonhuman assemblages in contemporary Latin American visual culture, PhD course at University of Buenos Aires (ARG) (16h)

27/05/2022–15/07/2022 Art and nature from a posthuman materialist perspective, PhD course at the National University of Tres de Febrero (ARG) (16h)

2020–2021 Argentine Cinema: reality and fiction, Postgraduate course, Faculty of Philosophy and Letters, University of Buenos Aires (ARG) (128h)

22–25/10/2021 Cosmopolitics of the image, Seminar as part of Equinoxio - University Film and Audiovisual Festival (COL) (10h)

09/09–07/10/2020 River Plate Identities: art, language and literature, FLACSO - Latin American Faculty of Social Sciences (ARG) (24h)

15/09/2007–15/07/2008 Specialisation Course in Feminist Studies (Qualification: 18/20), Faculty of Arts and Humanities, Coimbra University, Portugal

 

Cultural and Artistic activities

  • Member of the Experimental Cinema Laboratory at Torre (Portugal), a collective of artists, researchers and filmmakers for experimentation, production and training in analogue film media, since 2022

  • Curator of the talk series “Liquid Worldings. Feminist and Ecomaterial imaginaries of Water”, hosted by Contemporânea—Contemporary Art Editorial House, funded by DGARTS—Ministry of Culture, Portugal, May 2025

  • Participation in the 5th talk of the MAKING PLACES public talks cycle, with the oral presentation “The role of social and artistic rhythms in shaping spaces and places.” André Barata and João Seixas (Org.), Casa do Comum, Lisbon, 17/10/2024

  • Participation in the conversation following the screening of “Revolución Puta!”, film by María Galindo, Casa do Comum, Lisbon, 3/07/24

  • Participation in the round table “Tarahumara Cinema: The films by Raymond Carasco and Régis Hébraud”, following film screening, Hangar—Artistic Research, Lisbon, 9/10/23

  • Participation in a round table on the theme “Bodies," subject of the thematic competition of PORTO FEMME - International Film Festival, following the screening of the documentary "Choices/Voices" by Sara Marie Dutche and Melanie Sien Min Lyn, Oporto, 14/09/2022

  • Interview on the publication of the co-edited volume Estética y Política del Ritmo [Aesthetics and Politics of Rhythm], Radio show “The voice of labyrinth”—Radio Cultura, Buenos Aires, 07/12/2020

  • Organising Committee of the “7th Week of Portuguese Film”, with Vaivem—Film International Association, at MALBA—Museum of Latin American Art, Buenos Aires, 12–15/12/2019 

  • Organising Committee of the “5th AR – Argentine Film Festival”, with Vaivem—Film International Association, at Cinema São Jorge (Lisbon) and Cinema Trindade (Porto), 20-30/06/2019

  • Programmer and lecturer of “Los martes de Agnès”, film screening of Agnès Varda films followed by public lectures, Centro Cultural AMARAMA, Buenos Aires (4 films and 4 talks), 5–26/06/2018

  • Author and performer of “Desde y sobre la travesía: el ritmo y el arte” [From and about the crossing: rhythm and art”], performance-conference based on my PhD research, Dance Festival Archipielago, Teatro Sabato, Buenos Aires, 28/09–15/10/2017

  • Curator of the “Gender Trouble Programme–Performance, performativity and Gender politics”, with Mark Deputter, Maria Matos Lisbon Municipal Theatre, 05/05–24/06/2015

  • Performer in “Ma visite guidée”, a choreography by Xavier Le Roy & Frédéric Seguette, Cité Internationale Universitaire, Paris, 22/06/2013

  • Director of the short film Dépaysement, with Elodie Gomes e André Eric Fernandes, funded by FIE/Théâtre de la Cité Internationale Universitaire de Paris. Screenings: Fondation Biermans-Lapôtre (Paris), Galeria Municipal da Boavista (Lisbon), Festival Instants Vidéo (Marseille), 2013

  • Experimental video moving on. Screened as part of «Passages—Installation Vidéo», from Elisa Sepúlveda, Cité Internationale Universitaire de Paris, 2013

  • Programmer and coordinator of the Centre for Feminist Culture and Intervention, UMAR–Women’s rights NGO, Lisbon, 2011–2012

 

Languages

Portuguese (native), English (fluent), Spanish (fluent), French (Very good)

 

ORCID: www.orcid.org/0000-0003-1095-0053

Last updated in May 2025

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