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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”

02/01/2016 - 02/04/2016 Doctoral Fieldwork in the Andean region of Argentina, Bolivia, Chile and Peru

01/01/2014 - 01/07/2015 Completion of the doctoral course in Artistic Studies - Art and Mediations, FCSH-UNL, Portugal

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”

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

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

 

Academic positions

01/03/2025-[31/08/2025] Visiting Professor, Department of Communication Sciences, FCSH—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

 

Fellowships

01/07/2022–31/03/2025 Postdoctoral fellowship, Communication Institute of NOVA University Lisbon, competitively awarded by Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia

01/10/2015–01/01/2016 Visiting research fellow, National University of Arts, Argentina, awarded by Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia

01/01/2014 - 01/01/2018 Doctoral fellowship, NOVA University Lisbon, competitively awarded by Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia

15/09/2012 - 01/06/2013 Erasmus Scholarship, Paris-Sorbonne IV University, awarded competitively by European Commission

 

Awards

01/04/2024 Seal of Excellence - European Commission Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions, for the research project ECOCYNEMA Rhythms

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

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 Luso-American Development Foundation

01/10/2015 Arco-Íris award for curating the programme Gender Trouble–Performance, performativity and gender politics, at Maria Matos Lisbon Municipal Theatre, awarded by the NGO ILGA, Portugal

18/03/2011 - 19/03/2011 Conference Travel Award, 5th Annual Feminist Theory Workshop, Women’s Studies Department, Duke University, US

01/02/2010 - 02/02/2010 Conference Travel Award, European Institute for Gender Equality, Belgium

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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

  • 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

  • “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 (Presenter and co-chair of the 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 Center - 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 Center (Portland), 9-12/07/2023

  • Ecologies of care and the rhythms of the 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 the 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 Center - 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

  • 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

 

Courses Taught & Invited Lectures

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 (2h) 

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 Programs 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 Counter-Image 2024. Visual Culture and Ecological Thinking: reimagining relationships in the world, Federal University of Santa Catarina and NOVA University Lisbon, 04/2024

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

 

Organisation of Scientific Meetings (selection) 

24/02/2025 "From the Anthropocene to the Aerocene. The Sky as a Material and Posthuman Problem in Contemporary Latin American Art" Seminar. With Guadalupe Lucero (University of Buenos Aires) and response by Erik Bordeleau (IFILNOVA) 

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 Center 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)

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)

 

Participation in research projects (selection)

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. 

 

Institutional and Editorial Responsibilities / Memberships

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

  • 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

  • ASLE - Association for the Study of Literature and Environment

  • 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 and IHC – NOVA University Lisbon)

 

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)

 

Cultural and Artistic activities (selection)

  • 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

  • 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”, 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 Program - 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, founded 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)

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