Prof. José Manuel Martins
(Portugal)
José Manuel Martins is an assistant professor and director of the Department of Philosophy of the University of Évora and member of the Center of Philosophy of Lisbon. He teaches and researches mainly in the area of Aesthetics and Art Theory, dividing his interests and activities over the multiplicity of artistic fields, and collaborating with several departments in the three cycles. In recent years, it has been developing research and organizing conferences, also internationally, in the field of Philosophy and Cinema, extended in initiatives in the field of cinephilia.
Prof. Eduardo Manuel Alves Duarte
(Portugal)
Eduardo Duarte (b.1966) BA in Industrial Design (Escola Superior de Belas-Artes de Lisboa, 1990); MA in History of Art (Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, dissertation: “Carlos Amarante e o Final do Classicismo”, 1997); PhD in Art Sciences and Cultural Heritage (Universidade de Lisboa, Faculdade de Belas-Artes, thesis: “Desenho Romântico Português. Cinco Artistas Desenham em Sintra”, 2007).
Assistant Professor in Art Sciences and Cultural Heritage (Universidade de Lisboa, Faculdade de Belas-Artes).
Some publications: Carlos Amarante (1748-1815) e o Final do Classicismo. (2000). Porto: Faculdade de Arquitetura da Universidade do Porto; A Escultura na Primeira República. (2010). Coleção A República das Artes. Lisboa: Tugaland; articles, papers and chapters in: Monumentos; Arte Teoria; The Dictionary of Art. London: Macmillan Publishers/New York: Grove; Dicionário de Escultura Portuguesa; Os 250 Anos do Plano da Baixa
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Helena Elias
(Portugal)
Professor, research artist, she is part of an Erasmus generation, who studied and lived in cities like Lisbon, Aberdeen and Barcelona and attended several Faculties of Fine Arts, obtaining academic degrees in different systems of education and investigation in Arts (1999, 2000, 2007 ). He therefore recognized the need to think about the place of artistic research in academia. Artistic practice, teaching, research are the activities that shape their scientific-artistic performance, fed simultaneously by the action of practice and theoretical reflection. Coordinates the line of investigation. Research in the making of arts and sciences in VICARTE..