Identification
Personal identification
- Full name
- Alexandra Virgínia da Mota Pinto
Citation names
- Mota, Virgínia
- Virgínia Mota
Author identifiers
- Ciência ID
- E316-9533-2A65
- ORCID iD
- 0000-0001-6736-2266
- Google Scholar ID
- https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=pt-PT&view_op=list_works&gmla=AL3_zii9Bf3BccD_8_y3SJ1eDF3PUCQu4aTTd5JCVsvBNLa9OZ4fFQQYhxTBP-k1Jrth7V3ydna8170m5_NsWpGmBX3KEk5ngjUBty4oLwD5oQ&user=EMYxOTMAAAAJ
- LattesiD
- https://lattes.cnpq.br/8209767918946398
Email addresses
- virginiamota2@gmail.com (Professional)
- virginia.mota@eaad.uminho.pt (Professional)
Telephones
- Mobile phone
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- (+351) 912277131 (Personal)
Websites
- Currículo Lattes: http://lattes.cnpq.br/8209767918946398 (Professional)
- https://virginiamota.wordpress.com/ (Blog)
- https://lab2pt.net/people/integrated-members/alexandra-virginia-da-mota-pinto (Professional)
Knowledge fields
- Humanities - Arts
- Humanities - Philosophy, Ethics and Religion
- Humanities - Arts - Art history
Languages
Language | Speaking | Reading | Writing | Listening | Peer-review |
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Portuguese | Advanced (C1) | Advanced (C1) | Advanced (C1) | Advanced (C1) | |
English | Intermediate (B1) | Advanced (C1) | Intermediate (B1) | Intermediate (B1) | |
French | Intermediate (B1) | Advanced (C1) | Intermediate (B1) | Intermediate (B1) | |
Spanish; Castilian | Intermediate (B1) | Intermediate (B1) | Beginner (A1) | Intermediate (B1) | |
Spanish; Castilian | Intermediate (B1) | Intermediate (B1) | Beginner (A1) | Intermediate (B1) | |
German | Beginner (A1) | Elementary (A2) | Beginner (A1) | Elementary (A2) |
Education
Degree | Classification | |
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2015 - 2019
Concluded
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PhD in Philosophy/Aesthetics (Doutoramento)
Major in Estética/Aesthetics
Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
"A arte da nostalgia - experiência e infância segundo Walter Benjamin
The art of nostalgia - experience and childhood according to Walter Benjamin " (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
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Aprovada |
2014/07/15 - 2018/12/11
Concluded
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PhD in Contemporary Art and Culture (Artistic Processes) (Doktor (PhD))
Major in Contemporary artistic processes
Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
"Anonymous companies: from anonymity to sensitive communities " (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
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Aprovada |
2012 - 2014/02/13
Concluded
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Master of Philosophy (Master)
Major in Aesthetics and Philosophy of Art
Universidade Federal Fluminense, Brazil
"Aura, trace and experience of Art in Walter Benjamin " (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
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approved |
2006 - 2006
Concluded
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Curso de Criatividade e Criação Artística, Artes Visuais/Creativity and Artistic Creation Course, Visual Arts (Curso de Especialização
Tecnológica)
Major in Artes Visuais/ Visual Arts
Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, Portugal
Ar.CO - Centro de Arte & Comunicação Visual , Portugal |
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2001 - 2002
Concluded
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Individual Project in Plastic Arts (Curso de Especialização Tecnológica)
Major in Artes Visuais/ Visual Arts
Ar.CO - Centro de Arte & Comunicação Visual , Portugal
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1996 - 2001/06
Concluded
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Degree and Bachelor of Arts (Licenciatura)
Major in Visual Arts
Instituto Politécnico de Leiria Escola Superior de Artes e Design das Caldas da Rainha, Portugal
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16 |
1992 - 1996
Concluded
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Art education (Ensino secundário)
Major in Artes Visuais/ Visual Arts
Escola Artística de Soares dos Reis, Portugal
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16 |
Affiliation
Teaching in Higher Education
Category Host institution |
Employer | |
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2021/03 - Current | Invited Assistant Professor (University Teacher) | Universidade do Minho - Escola de Arquitetura, Artes e Design, Portugal |
Universidade do Minho - Escola de Arquitetura, Artes e Design, Portugal |
Positions / Appointments
Category Host institution |
Employer | |
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2021/08/02 - 2024/01/01 | Highly qualified senior technician in fine arts | Câmara Municipal de Santo Tirso, Portugal |
Centro de Arte Alberto Carneiro, Portugal |
Others
Category Host institution |
Employer | |
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2015/03 - 2019/12 | CAPES/CNPQ Doctoral Fellow | Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior, Brazil |
Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil | ||
2014 - 2016 | Coordenadora Educativa do PIPA Prize/Educational Coordinator of PIPA Prize | PIPA Prize, Brazil |
2014 - 2014 | Estágio de docência/ Teaching Internship | Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil |
2010/09 - 2013/09 | Artista colaboradora do Núcleo Experimental de Educação e Arte do Museu de Arte Moderna do Rio de Janeiro/Collaborating artist of the Experimental Nucleus of Education and Art of the Museum of Modern | Museu de Arte Moderna do Rio de Janeiro , Brazil |
2013 - 2013 | Docente do curso Imagem fotográfica e outras imagens /Course teacher: Photographic Image and other images | Museu Bispo do Rosário, Brazil |
2009/05/19 - 2010/05/12 | INOV Art internship at the Niterói Museum of Contemporary Art | Ministério da Cultura, Portugal |
Museu de Arte Contemporânea de Niterói, Brazil |
Projects
Other
Designation | Funders | |
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2014 - Current | Área de Convivência/ Living Area
PIPA Prize
Researcher
PIPA Prize, Brazil
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Ongoing
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2020/04 - 2021 | Aisthesis and Katastrophe: media exercises in perception and dramaturgy
Researcher
Universidade Federal de Goiás, Brazil
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Ongoing
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2009/05/19 - 2010/05/12 | Biblioteca de Afectos no Museu de Arte Contemporânea de Niterói/Library of Affection at the Museum of Contemporary Art of
Niterói
MAC
Other
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Concluded
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Outputs
Publications
Book |
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Book chapter |
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Exhibition catalog |
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Journal article |
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Magazine article |
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Newspaper article |
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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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2018/08/29 | O que pode a arte da mediação? / What can the art of mediation? | I Fórum de Mediação em Arte e Cultura: educação estética e educação política como estratégias de resistência/ I Forum of Mediation
in Art and Culture: aesthetic education and political education as strategies of resistance
Universidade Estadual de Minas Gerais (Belo Horizonte, Brazil)
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2016/10 | Rememoração e escrita como processo de vacinação segundo Walter Benjamin Remembrance and writing as a vaccination process according to Walter Benjamin | 8o Encontro do GT de Estética da ANPOF- Estética Moderna e Contemporânea
Universidade Federal Ouro Preto (Ouro Preto, Brazil)
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2016/05 | Walter Benjamin e as imagens de infância/ Walter Benjamin and the childhood images | Semana dos Alunos de Filosofia
Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil)
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Supervision
Thesis Title Role |
Degree Subject (Type) Institution / Organization |
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2023/01/07 - 2024/09/09 | A arte de não ser músico: acessibilidade ao processo criativo musical
The art of not being a musician: accessibility to the musical creative process
Supervisor of Tomé Vaz de Azevedo
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Mestrado em Media Arts (Master)
Universidade do Minho- Instituto de Ciências Sociais, Portugal
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2022/09/08 - 2023/12/11 | Performance e Desenho: entre memória, casa e corpo
Performance and Drawing: between memory, home and body
Supervisor of Graziella Rodrigues Bonisolo
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Mestrado em Artes Visuais (Master)
Instituto Politécnico de Leiria-Escola Superior de Artes e Design, Portugal
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Event organisation
Event name Type of event (Role) |
Institution / Organization | |
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2016/11/06 - Current | Oficina de Cinema de Animação com Fernando Galrito: Jardim Animado no Museu de Arte Moderna/
Animation Film Workshop with Fernando Galrito: Animated Garden at the Museum of Modern Art (2016/11/06 - 2016/11/06)
Workshop (Co-organisor)
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Museu de Arte Moderna do Rio de Janeiro , Brazil |
2023/10/20 - 2023/10/21 | An artistic residency aimed at creating a performance that consisted of interpreting and reading images of thought in front
of 300 paintings, conceived and preserved in notebooks by the artist Virgínia Mota, producing a collective score called 'Atmos,
vapor envolvente', a work made and exhibited as part of the 13th Amadeo de Souza-Cardoso Prize. Conceived and directed by
Virgínia Mota with the participation of: Ana Leandro, André Vaz, Daniel Lobo, Eleonor Cadete, Hugo Sousa and Inês Varandas (2023/10/20 - 2023/10/21)
Other (Co-organisor)
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Museu Municipal Amadeo de Souza-Cardoso, Portugal |
2023/10/03 - 2023/10/03 | A conversation between Virgínia Mota and Brazilian artist Mercedes Lachmann in the context of her exhibition Flecha, at the
Santo Tirso International Sculpture Museum, reviewing her trajectory and aesthetic-environmental concerns in a production
that traverses an inner connection to nature, which calls for collective actions in the mediation of relationships of care
and affection towards the forest. The event was open to the public and was attended by third-year Visual Arts students from
the School of Architecture, Art and Design at the Univ. Minho (2023/10/03 - 2023/10/03)
Round table (Co-organisor)
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Universidade do Minho Escola de Arquitetura Arte e Design, Portugal Museu Internacional de Escultura Contemporânea de Santo Tirso, Portugal |
2022/12/15 - 2022/12/15 | “Reading of Diário Atmosférico - A collective portrait of our time”, by Virgínia Mota
The reading of the notebooks of paintings that make up the exhibition Diário Atmosférico will be guided by the artist Virgínia
Mota, in a session aimed at students and teachers of the Visual Arts course at the School of Architecture, Art and Design
at the University of Minho.
(2022/12/15 - 2022/12/15)
Other (Other)
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Centro Internacional das Artes José de Guimarães, Portugal |
2022/11/12 - 2022/11/12 | Visit and talk led by Virgínia Mota at the exhibition Museu Mineiro, by artist Isabel Carvalho, at Galeria Quadrado Azul,
with the participation of students from EAAD's UC Atelier V, reflecting on environmental politics and aesthetics. (2022/11/03 - 2022/11/03)
Meeting (Co-organisor)
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Universidade do Minho Escola de Arquitetura Arte e Design, Portugal |
2017/12/22 - 2017/12/22 | Leitura Colectiva/Performance: Andam soltas na cidade
Collective Reading / Performance: they walk free in the city (2017/12/22 - 2017/12/22)
Other (Co-organisor)
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49, ZDB, Portugal |
2017/12/09 - 2017/12/09 | Dar cor aos nomes: Abrir os cadernos, ler o céu, a tinta/ Give color to names: Open the notebooks, read the sky, the ink (2017/12/09 - 2017/12/09)
Round table (Co-organisor)
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Irreal, Portugal |
2016/10/26 - 2016/10/26 | Encontro sobre Curadorias para Crianças/ Meeting on Curatorial Programs for Children (2016/10/26 - 2016/10/26)
Round table (Co-organisor)
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Museu de Arte Moderna do Rio de Janeiro , Brazil |
2016/10/19 - 2016/10/19 | Encontro sobre Novos desafios da curadoria/ Meeting on New Challenges of Curatorship (2016/10/19 - 2016/10/19)
Round table (Co-organisor)
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Museu de Arte Moderna do Rio de Janeiro , Brazil |
2016/05/16 - 2016/05/21 | Semana dos alunos de Filosofia da Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro (2016/05/16 - 2016/05/16)
Symposium (Member of the Organising Committee)
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Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil |
Jury of academic degree
Topic Role |
Candidate name (Type of degree) Institution / Organization |
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2024/12/16 | Segue uma linha e encontra o seu fim: o desenho enquanto gerador de processos inter-relacionais/
It follows a line and finds its end: Drawing as a generator of inter-relational processes
(Thesis) Main arguer
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Inês Silva Soares (Master)
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Belas Artes, Portugal
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2024/11/15 | JOIN IN CIRCLES: Especulações sobre espaços de encontro/ JOIN IN CIRCLES: Speculations on meeting spaces
(Thesis) Main arguer
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Leonor Talefe (Master)
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Belas Artes, Portugal
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2024/10/30 | Diário do Invisível: uma crónica sobre doença e deficiência como motivador do processo artístico
Diary of the Invisible: a chronicle of illness and disability as a motivator for the artistic process
(Thesis) Main arguer
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Nara Coló Rosetto (Master)
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Belas Artes, Portugal
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2024/01/22 | Respigar, caminhos por entre a vida vegetal
Gleaning paths through plant life
(Thesis) Main arguer
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Maria Francisca Cunha das Neves (Master)
Instituto Politécnico de Leiria Escola Superior de Artes e Design das Caldas da Rainha, Portugal
Instituto Politécnico de Leiria-Escola Superior de Artes e Design, Portugal |
2024/01/22 | A exploração da identidade como forma de autoconhecimento
The exploration of identity as a form of self-knowledge
(Thesis) Main arguer
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Alice Durão de Almeida (Master)
Instituto Politécnico de Leiria Escola Superior de Artes e Design das Caldas da Rainha, Portugal
Instituto Politécnico de Leiria-Escola Superior de Artes e Design, Portugal |
2023/07/24 | Interface-práticas de auto-revelação/ Interface-practices of self-disclosure
(Thesis) Main arguer
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Maria Miguel von Hafe Lima Quadros Ferreira (Master)
Instituto Politécnico de Leiria Escola Superior de Artes e Design das Caldas da Rainha, Portugal
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2023/01/18 | Um Lugar Onde Cair: Reflexões sobre a casa na arte contemporânea
A Place to Fall: Reflections on the home in contemporary art
(Thesis) Main arguer
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Beatriz Filipa Lopes Roldão (Master)
Instituto Politécnico de Leiria Escola Superior de Artes e Design das Caldas da Rainha, Portugal
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2022/09/21 | Diálogos em Silêncio: Modos de Relação entre as audiências não especializadas e a coleção pública de escultura contemporânea
de Santo Tirso
Dialogues in Silence: Modes of Relation between non-specialized audiences and Santo Tirso's public collection of contemporary
sculpture
(Thesis) Main arguer
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Rita Carolina Morais da Costa (PhD)
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Belas Artes, Portugal
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2022/09/05 | Arquétipos: um encontro entre o desenho e a performance
(Thesis) Main arguer
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Brigitte Canepa (Master)
Instituto Politécnico de Leiria Escola Superior de Artes e Design das Caldas da Rainha, Portugal
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Course / Discipline taught
Academic session | Degree Subject (Type) | Institution / Organization | |
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2023/09/03 - 2024/03/03 | Atelier V is a Curricular Unit taught in the Visual Arts Degree at the School of Architecture, Art and Design of the University of Minho and consists of guiding students' individual and/or collective artistic experimentation and production projects | Artes Visuais (Licenciatura) | Universidade do Minho Escola de Arquitetura Arte e Design, Portugal |
2021/09 - 2022/02 | Atelier V | Atelier V (Licenciatura) | Universidade do Minho - Escola de Arquitetura, Artes e Design, Portugal |
2021/03 - 2021/07 | Atelier VI | Atelier VI (Licenciatura) | Universidade do Minho - Escola de Arquitetura, Artes e Design, Portugal |
2014/07 - 2014/12 | Processos Artísticos Contemporâneos/ Contemporary Art Processes | Artes/ Arts (Postgraduate Certificate) | Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil |
2013 - 2013 | Imagem Fotográfica e outras imagens/ Fhotographic-image and other images | Imagem fotográfica e outras imagens | Museu Bispo do Rosário, Brazil |
Interview (newspaper / magazine)
Activity description | Newspaper / Forum | |
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2020/08/06 | “Without the catharsis of art we would die of sadness” - interview with Virgína Mota/editor Urutau Interview about poetry and the book “Alguns Mundos” by the author Virgínia Mota | Ed. Urutau |
Distinctions
Award
2023 | 13 Prémio Amadeo Souza-Cardozo
Museu Municipal Amadeo de Souza-Cardoso, Portugal
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2017 | Residência Artística Teatro do Silêncio
Lisboa Capital Ibero-americana de Cultura 2017/Lisbon Ibero-American Capital of Culture 2017, Portugal
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2007 | Residência artística O sítio das Artes; Programa O Estado do Mundo/Artistic residence The Arts site; The State of the World
Program
Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, Portugal
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2003 | Primeiro Prémio no Festival de Música dos Açores/ First Prize at Azorean Music Festival
Direção Regional da Cultura - Governo dos Açores, Portugal
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Other distinction
2009 | INOV ART - Estágio Profissional/ INOV ART - Professional Internship
Direção-Geral das Artes, Portugal
Ministério da Cultura, Portugal |
2008 | Bolsa de Investigação em Arte e Ciência/ Research Grant in Art and Science
Ciência Viva, Portugal
Instituto Superior de Sistemas e Robótica da Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal |
2007 | Artistic research grant from the National Culture Centre
Centro Nacional de Cultura, Portugal
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2005 | Bolsa de Criação Artística da Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian/Artistic Creation Grant of the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation
Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, Portugal
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2001 | Merit Scholarship
Ar.CO - Centro de Arte & Comunicação Visual , Portugal
Banco Espírito Santo e Comercial de Lisboa, Portugal |