Curriculum Vitae
SORAYA VASCONCELOS
Identification
Personal identification
- Full name
- SORAIA ALEXANDRA CANCELA DA FONSECA DE VASCONCELOS MAGALHÃES
Citation names
- VASCONCELOS, SORAYA
Author identifiers
- Ciência ID
- A211-9776-0D49
- ORCID iD
- 0000-0002-7781-151X
Email addresses
- soraya.vasconcelos@ulusofona.pt (Professional)
- sorayavasconcelos@fcsh.unl.pt (Professional)
Addresses
- Campo Grande, 376, 1749-024, Lisboa, Lisboa, Portugal (Professional)
Websites
- https://grupolusofona.academia.edu/SorayaVasconcelos (Scholar)
- https://cargocollective.com/sorayavasconcelos (Professional)
Knowledge fields
- Humanities - Arts
Languages
| Language | Speaking | Reading | Writing | Listening | Peer-review |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| English | Proficiency (C2) | Proficiency (C2) | Advanced (C1) | Proficiency (C2) | Advanced (C1) |
| French | Upper intermediate (B2) | Proficiency (C2) | Upper intermediate (B2) | Proficiency (C2) | Upper intermediate (B2) |
| Spanish; Castilian | Intermediate (B1) | Intermediate (B1) | Elementary (A2) | Intermediate (B1) | Elementary (A2) |
Education
| Degree | Classification | |
|---|---|---|
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2009 - 2014
Concluded
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PHD in Communication, Culture and Arts (Doutoramento)
Major in Artes Visuais
Universidade do Algarve Faculdade de Ciências Humanas e Sociais, Portugal
"Afecto - Oscilógrafo do Sentido [Affect – Oscillograph of Sense]" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
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Approved - Very Good |
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2009 - 2011
Concluded
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Philosophy - Aesthetics (Pós-Graduação)
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Portugal
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16 |
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2005
Concluded
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The Gulbenkian Creativity and Artistic Creation Programme - Photography Course [1st ed.] (Outros)
Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, Portugal
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N/A |
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2004
Concluded
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Implementing Digital Technology in the Practice of Photography (Postgraduate Certificate)
Universidade Autonoma de Barcelona, Spain
"Color Management - The Reproduction of Artworks in the Digital Medium" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
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Approved |
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1996 - 2002
Concluded
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Fine Arts (Licenciatura)
Major in Painting
Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Belas-Artes, Portugal
"N/A" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
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14 |
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2002
Concluded
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Technical Course in Commercial Photography (Curso de Especialização Tecnológica)
Escola de Tecnologias Inovação e Criação, Portugal
"N/A" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
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16 |
Affiliation
Science
| Category Host institution |
Employer | |
|---|---|---|
| 2022/09 - Current | Auxiliary Researcher (Research) | Universidade Lusófona de Humanidades e Tecnologias, Portugal |
| Universidade Lusófona de Humanidades e Tecnologias Centro de Investigação em Comunicação Aplicada Cultura e Novas Tecnologias, Portugal | ||
| 2019/10/09 - 2022/07/31 | Contracted Researcher (Research) | Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal |
| ICNOVA, Portugal |
Teaching in Higher Education
| Category Host institution |
Employer | |
|---|---|---|
| 2022/09/01 - Current | Assistant Professor (University Teacher) | Universidade Lusófona de Humanidades e Tecnologias, Portugal |
| Universidade Lusófona de Humanidades e Tecnologias Escola de Comunicação Arquitectura Artes e Tecnologias da Informação, Portugal | ||
| 2014/09/20 - 2022/08/31 | Invited Assistant Professor (University Teacher) | Universidade Lusófona de Humanidades e Tecnologias, Portugal |
| 2015/02/01 - 2019/08/31 | Invited Adjunct Teacher (Polytechnic Teacher) | Instituto Politécnico de Tomar, Portugal |
| 2009/10/01 - 2010/02/28 | Visiting Teacher (Polytechnic Teacher) | Instituto Politécnico de Tomar, Portugal |
| Instituto Politécnico de Tomar, Portugal |
Others
| Category Host institution |
Employer | |
|---|---|---|
| 2006 - 2012 | DOZE, photographers collective (Barbara Assis Pacheco, Carlos Lobo, Daniel Malhão, Duarte Amaral Netto, João Paulo Serafim, José Pedro Cortes, Manuel Duarte, Pauliana Valente Pimentel, Rodrigo Peixoto | Freelancer, Portugal |
| 2003/01/01 - 2010 | Freelance photographer, mainly in the field of Art reproduction, interior and product photography. | Freelancer, Portugal |
| 2006/10/01 - 2009/09/30 | Color and quality management, prepress | L2 Spirit – Soluções de Impressão Digital, S.A., Portugal |
| 2009/07/01 - 2009/07/31 | Assistant to the scenographer Carlos Cristo (prop construction for children's play). | Teatro Municipal de Almada, Portugal |
| 2004/10/01 - 2006/06/30 | Color management advising services for image digitization projects | Lupa - Luís Pavão, Lda, Portugal |
| 2003 - 2005 | inÚtil, art collective (Inês Leiria, Raquel Mendes, Soraya Vasconcelos, Vanessa Santos).The collective developed work in the field of visual arts, including photography and video | Freelancer, Portugal |
| 2002/10/01 - 2003/07/31 | Photographer's assistant, digitizing and image processing. | RCL. Imagem e comunicação, Lda. - Estágio profissional pelo IEFP., Portugal |
Projects
Grant
| Designation | Funders | |
|---|---|---|
| 2009/11/01 - 2014/03/31 | Afecto: Oscilografo do Sentido
SFRH/BD/61397/2009
PhD Student Fellow
Universidade do Algarve Centro de Investigação em Artes e Comunicação, Portugal
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Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia
Concluded
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| 2007/01 - 2007/06 | Residency Network Programme: Art/Science/Technology
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artist
Instituto Nacional de Engenharia Biomédica, Portugal
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Direção Geral das Artes
Concluded
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Contract
| Designation | Funders | |
|---|---|---|
| 2025/02 - 2026/01 | Cocktail do Mês [Cocktail of the Month]
artist and editor
Venus em Fúrias - Artist Union, Portugal
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Direção Geral das Artes
Ongoing
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| 2022/06 - 2023/06 | T-Factor
work proposal
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Portugal
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EU Framework Programme for Research and Innovation Future and Emerging Technologies
Concluded
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| 2022 - 2023/04 | Calhamaço
Technical development
Pizz Buin, art collective, Portugal
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Direção Geral das Artes
Concluded
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| 2019/10/09 - 2022/07/31 | The Photographic Impulse: Measuring the Colonies and the Colonial Bodies. The Photographic and Filmic Archive of the Portuguese
Geographic and Anthropologic Missions
PTDC/COM-OUT/29608/2017
Researcher
ICNOVA, Portugal
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Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded
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| 2019/02 - 2019/10 | Rethink, Alternative Narratives to Violent Extremism
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photographer; image production
Universidade Lusófona de Humanidades e Tecnologias Centro de Investigação em Comunicação Aplicada Cultura e Novas Tecnologias,
Portugal
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Internal Security Fund Police
Concluded
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| 2017/01 - 2018 | Estação Vernadsky
Artist
Centro Cultural Emmerico Nunes , Portugal
Centro de Artes de Sines , Portugal |
Câmara Municipal de Sines Direção Geral das Artes Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian Concluded
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| 2016/09 - 2017/05 | ALQUIMIA, Itinerâncias Culturais
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co-coordinator
Oficina Bartolomeu dos Santos, Portugal
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Secretaria de Estado da Cultura Câmara Municipal de Loulé Câmara Municipal de São Brás de Alportel Câmara Municipal de Tavira Associação Turismo do Algarve Concluded
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| 2013 - 2013 | Réplica - Reflexão sobre Gravura Contemporânea
Other
Oficina Bartolomeu dos Santos, Portugal
Contraprova Atelier de Gravura, Portugal Universidade do Algarve Centro de Investigação em Artes e Comunicação, Portugal |
Direção Geral das Artes Universidade do Algarve Concluded
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| 2011/01/01 - 2012/12/31 | Projecto Estratégico - UI 4019 - 2011-2012
PEst-OE/EAT/UI4019/2011
Universidade do Algarve, Portugal
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Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded
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| 2007 - 2012 | Fabrico Próprio: Design of Portuguese Semi-Industrial Confectionery
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Photographer
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Republica Portuguesa Direção-Geral das Artes
Concluded
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| 2008 - 2009 | Paisagem e Povoamento [Landscape and People]
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artist and editor
Centro Cultural Emmerico Nunes , Portugal
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Republica Portuguesa Direção-Geral das Artes
Concluded
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Outputs
Publications
| Book |
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| Exhibition catalog |
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| Journal article |
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| Magazine article |
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| Preface / Postscript |
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| Thesis / Dissertation |
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Artistic / Performance
| Artistic exhibition |
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| Curatorial / Museum exhibition |
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| Visual artwork |
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Activities
Oral presentation
| Presentation title | Event name Host (Event location) |
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|---|---|---|
| 2025/01/10 | Visita orientada à exposição “Miguel Marquês: Walkin' Thru the Sleepy City - novobanco revelação 2024” | Visita orientada à exposição “Miguel Marquês: Walkin' Thru the Sleepy City - novobanco revelação 2024”
Fundação de Serralves - Museu de Arte Contemporânea (Porto, Portugal)
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| 2024/03/25 | Expor a pesquisa: como passar do papel para a parede e quais as vantagens? O caso do projeto “O impulso fotográfico” no MUNHAC. | MUSEUS, EDUCAÇÃO E INVESTIGAÇÃO JORNADAS DE PRIMAVERA ICOM PORTUGAL
ICOM, International Council of Museums, Portugal (Lisboa, Portugal)
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| 2023/10/04 | Round Table Artistic Research, symposium Peripheral Perspectives, 3º FilmEU Summit, Genk (4 Oct.); included in FilmEU Artistic Research Exhibition, Genk (3-7 Oct) and Online – ARE2023 | Peripheral Perspectives, 3º FilmEU Summit
Luca, School of Art (Genk, Belgium)
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| 2023/06/24 | What is repairing in the exhibition The Photographic Impulse: (dis)organizing the colonial archive? | 4th Visual Culture Meeting; Repairing the Irreparable.
SOPCOM; Teatro Mala Voadora (Porto, Portugal)
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| 2022/09 | Photographies' Other Histories: New Visual Imaginaries | Cost Action Meeting: Peripheral Memories, Transnational Memories: Decolonial Approaches to the Visual and Material Traces
of Empire,
(Lisboa, Portugal)
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| 2022/07/15 | Artistic Research in the context of the Photo Impulse project | Counter Image International Conference
NOVA University of Lisbon (Lisboa, Portugal)
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Supervision
| Thesis Title Role |
Degree Subject (Type) Institution / Organization |
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|---|---|---|
| 2024/04 - Current | Relógio: Projecto de Documentação de Uma Feira Com Vista à Produção de Um Foto-livro
Supervisor of Tiago Amorim
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Photography (Master)
Universidade Lusófona de Humanidades e Tecnologias, Portugal
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| 2024/04 - Current | projecto fotográfico de uma viagem entre Lisboa e Chisinau
Supervisor of Miguel Marquês
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Photography (Master)
Universidade Lusófona de Humanidades e Tecnologias, Portugal
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Event organisation
| Event name Type of event (Role) |
Institution / Organization | |
|---|---|---|
| 2017 - 2024/03 | DUplo - Artist Editions; project comprising of 4 artist residencies with 8 artists (Xana, Sara&André, Pedro Calapez, Susana
Gaudêncio, Rui Sanches, Inês Botelho, Armanda Duarte, Marco Pires) and the editioning of their work. (2017)
Other (Co-organisor)
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Oficina Bartolomeu dos Santos, Portugal |
| 2015/09 - 2015/09 | Practice of Place, Documentary film screenings and talks; Casa da Avenida, Setúbal; Óbvia Associação Cultural, APORDOC with
the support of U.Lusófona e União das Juntas de Freguesia de Setúbal. (2015/09 - 2015/09)
Seminar (Co-organisor)
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Óbvia – Associação Cultural, Portugal |
| 2015/07 - 2015/07 | Organization of Oficina de Poesia Visual, OBS, Tavira. Experimental visual poetry creation residency with Tomás Cunha Ferreira,
supported by Direcção Regional de Cultura do Algarve and Álvaro de Campos Library. (2015/07)
Symposium (Co-organisor)
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Oficina Bartolomeu dos Santos, Portugal |
Event participation
| Activity description Type of event |
Event name Institution / Organization |
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|---|---|---|
| 2024/02/22 - 2024/02/22 | Debate around the movie The Teacher's Lounge (Ilker Çatak), Sala Fernando Lopes, U.Lusófona
Round table
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Debate around the movie The Teacher’s Lounge
Universidade Lusófona de Humanidades e Tecnologias, Portugal
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| 2021/07/13 - 2021/07/17 | Porto Summer School on Art & Cinema 2021, one week advanced course of new practices of cinema, combining a critical thought
with the contact with creators of film and contemporary art. Survivance, as coined by Native American scholar Gerald Vizenor,
will be discussed from the perspective of the ones often unaccounted for or ignored; guests and participants will unfold how
modes of Survivance can produce creative forms for subverting violence in challenging times of severe sociopolitical and ecological
injustice.
Symposium
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SURVIVANCE - Porto Summer School on Art & Cinema 2021
Universidade Católica Portuguesa Escola das Artes, Portugal
New Alphabet School (Haus der Kulturen der Welt), Germany |
| 2021/07/11 - 2021/07/15 | presentation of O Festim [the Feast], a short animation photo essay, whose starting point was an image from the photographic
album of the Portuguese border delimitation mission of a section of the Angolan/Congolese (DRC) frontier (Dilolo); within
the program of Flow34: Virtual Cinema and Podcasts at the annual conference of the International Association for Media and
Communication Research, IAMCR Online 2021.
Conference
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IAMCR 2021
International Association for Media and Communication Research, United States
United States International University, Kenya |
Jury of academic degree
| Topic Role |
Candidate name (Type of degree) Institution / Organization |
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|---|---|---|
| 2024/07/10 | «Apropriação participativa de memórias fotográficas coloniais: o arquivo e a construção de narrativas na Guiné-Bissau», Universidade
NOVA de Lisboa
(Thesis) Arguer
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Maria Kowalski (PhD)
Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal
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| 2021/11/15 | "O retrato fotográfico : media e arte" The relationship between the Portrait, the new media and the various visual representations
of identity in contemporaneity.
(Thesis) Arguer
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António José de Jesus Martins Alves (PhD)
Universidade Lusófona de Humanidades e Tecnologias, Portugal
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| 2021/09/20 | «Cinema Relacional: Cinema como Diálogo em uma Trilogia do Encontro» a reading for the cinema of Nicolas Bourriaud's relational
aesthetics and how process, understood as event, can produce cinema.
(Thesis) Arguer
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Nycolas Albuquerque (PhD)
Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Belas-Artes, Portugal
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| 2019/04/15 | This dissertation aims to put in perspective the influence of the discovery of colour, in the early days of film due to 1935,
and its evolving processes, as a polarizing element that would help to elevate the status of the film establishing it has
an art form.
(Thesis) Arguer
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Hipólito, João Guilherme Furtado (Master)
Universidade Lusófona de Humanidades e Tecnologias, Portugal
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| 2019 | The purpose of this document is to reflect on some of the themes covered in my artistic journey during my Master's Degree
in Fine Arts. My work has focused on the issues of sculpture and drawing, with these practices coexisting in a dialog of their
own
(Thesis) Arguer
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Pereira, Constança Bettencourt (Master)
Instituto Politécnico de Leiria Escola Superior de Artes e Design das Caldas da Rainha, Portugal
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| 2017/01/24 | The forms of the Informe; Inspired by landscape, nature and poetry, my intention is not to create a recognizable image, but
to convey emotions, "surrendering to my surroundings, joining the clouds and the stones", on a path of creative solitude that
I share with in this thesis.
(Thesis) Arguer
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Sydorenko, Viktoria (Master)
Instituto Politécnico de Leiria Escola Superior de Artes e Design das Caldas da Rainha, Portugal
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Ad Hoc journal article review
| Journal title (ISSN) | Publisher | |
|---|---|---|
| 2020 - 2021 | Impact, Printmaking Journal | Centre For Print Research University of the West of England (UWE Bristol) |
Association member
| Society Organization name | Role | |
|---|---|---|
| 2014 - Current | Oficina Bartolomeu dos Santos (OBS); the Association is dedicated to managing the Printmaking studio of the artist Bartolomeu dos Santos, through projects aiming to promote contemporary printmaking practice and research. | Member of the board |
| 2011 - 2015 | Contraprova Atelier de Gravura | Member/Member of the board |
| 2006 - 2012 | Member of Photographer's Collective DOZE, formed by the participants of 1st edition of the Photography Course - Gulbenkian Creation and Artistic Creativity Programme (Barbara Assis Pacheco, Carlos Lobo, Daniel Malhão, Duarte Amaral Netto, João Paulo Serafim, José Pedro Cortes, Manuel Duarte, Pauliana Valente Pimentel, Rodrigo Peixoto Tavarela Sonia Galicia, Soraya Vasconcelos, Tatiana Macedo). Developed work in the fields of Visual Arts and Photography. | Member |
Interview (tv / radio show)
| Program | Topic | |
|---|---|---|
| 2024/07/16 - Current | RDP AFRICA - Dossier África Ep. 18, Teresa Mendes Flores, Universidade Nova de Lisboa; Soraya Vasconcelos, Universidade Lusófona de Lisboa; Catarina Mateus, Museu Nacional de História Natural e da Ciência de Portugal https://www.rtp.pt/play/p9753/e783826/dossier-africa | «Visita à exposição; O impulso fotográfico: (Des)arrumar o arquivo» |
| 2021/10/27 - 2021/10/27 | webinar with Joseph Tonda, professor of sociology and anthropology at Omar Bongo University in Libreville, Gabon, discussing his views and recent book Afrodystopie; The "colonial encounter" did not take place between humans. They are shadows and screen images that met in a non-place, a chimera known as the "dark continent". It was on this nowhere continent that the shadows and screen images were the monsters whose unnatural activities took on the name of civilization and progress. | Ombres et Images-Écrans de la Colonisation |
Mentoring / Tutoring
| Topic | Student name | |
|---|---|---|
| 2022/03 - 2022/07 | co-coordination of curricular internship in photography at the Museum of Natural History and Science; archive photography | José Fadolla |
| 2022/03 - 2022/07 | co-coordination of curricular internship in photography at the Museum of Natural History and Science; archive photography | Bruno Santos |
Other jury / evaluation
| Activity description | Institution / Organization | |
|---|---|---|
| 2016 - Current | Selection Juri for Bolsa de Jovens Criadores (visual arts), Centro Nacional de Cultura and IPJ. | Centro Nacional de Cultura / IPJ, Portugal |
Scientific expedition
| Activity description | Institution / Organization | |
|---|---|---|
| 2020/10/12 - 2020/10/17 | Workshop with photography MA students at LUCA School of Art; research at Africa Museum Tervuren, archive and Museum exhibit. (ERASMUS +) | ICNOVA, Portugal Universidade Lusófona de Humanidades e Tecnologias, Portugal |
| 2011 - 2011 | guest illustrator; invited by Centro Nacional de Cultura to accompany an excursion of the cycle Portugueses ao Encontro da sua História (Portuguese in quest of their History) to Malacca, Indonesia and Timor. | Centro Nacional de Cultura, Portugal |
Distinctions
Award
| 2006 | 3º prize photography - Jovens Criadores
Jovens Criadores , Portugal
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| 2005 | Shortlist - V Prémio Citydesk |
| 2004 | Shortlist - IV Prémio Citydesk |
| 2004 | Honorable Mention - Cena D´Arte |
| 2000 | Honorable Mention - 1º Encontro de Tapeçaria Portuguesa Contemporânea
Câmara Municipal de Loures, Portugal
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Other distinction
| 2008 | Bolsa Jovens Criadores [grant-prize]
Centro Nacional de Cultura / IPJ, Portugal
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