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Doctoral Talks on Campus | Navigating Nature's Flows: Art, Design, and the Environment (part I)

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The Doctoral Talks on Campus: “Navigating Nature’s Flows: Art, Design, and the Environment (part I)” will take place on 30 October at the USJ Conference Room.

ABOUT DOCTORAL TALKS ON CAMPUS:

Fostering transdisciplinary perspectives in thought, research and development in the doctoral and post-doctoral programmes of the University of Saint Joseph in Macao. 

ABOUT THE TALK:

This two-day intensive seminar aims to provide a critical and nuanced reflection on the relationship between design, art, nature, and the environment from a Latin American perspective, with a particular focus on Brazil’s contributions. The seminar is rooted in contemporary debates surrounding the Anthropocene and the climate crisis, challenging the modern, extractivist, and colonial paradigms that continue to shape our ways of life.

On the first day, participants will explore key issues in art, design, and political ecology, including critiques of Western development and the rise of practices that embrace pluriverse visions, ancestral technologies, and environmental coexistence. Examples from Latin American artists will demonstrate how aesthetics, politics, and technology serve as forms of resistance and reimagining the world.

Keywords: Nature; Art and Technology; Installation; Devices; Interfaces.

ABOUT THE SPEAKER:

Gilbertto Prado is an artist and coordinator of the Grupo Poéticas Digitais. He studied Engineering and Visual Arts at the University of Campinas (UNICAMP, Brazil), and in 1994, he obtained his PhD in Arts from the University of Paris I – Sorbonne, France.    He is a Full Professor at the School of Communication and Arts, University of São Paulo, as well as at Anhembi Morumbi University.

He has participated in numerous art exhibitions in Brazil and internationally, including the São Paulo Biennale, the Mercosul Biennale, ZKM in Karlsruhe, Germany, MAAT in Lisbon, the Biennale of the Amazons, and the Museo de Arte Contemporáneo in Lima, Peru. His awards include the 9º Prix Möbius International des Multimédias (Beijing, China, 2001); the 6º Prêmio Sergio Motta de Arte e Tecnologia (2006); and Rumos Itaú Cultural, São Paulo (2000, 2003, 2020).

Priscila Almeida Cunha Arantes is a Brazilian art critic, curator, researcher, and professor specialising in contemporary art, digital aesthetics, museology, and memory politics. She holds a degree in Philosophy from USP, as well as a master’s and PhD in Communication and Semiotics from PUC-SP, where she currently serves as the director of the Faculty of Philosophy, Communication, Letters, and Arts. Her postdoctoral work was conducted at Penn State and UNICAMP. She has served as Artistic Director at Paço das Artes (2007–2020) and as Director and Curator at MIS-SP (2009–2011). An accomplished curator, she has organised exhibitions on art and technology, memory, and resistance worldwide. She authored the finalist book Arte @ Mídia and Reescrituras da Arte Contemporânea, as well as numerous articles. Currently, she oversees postgraduate arts programs at PUC-SP, teaches at Anhembi Morumbi University, and collaborates with MAC USP.

DETAILS:

Date: Thursday, 30 October 2025
Time: 7 p.m. – 10 p.m.
Location: Conference Room, 2/F, Residential Hall Building, USJ Ilha Verde Campus
Language: English

Organised by: USJ Doctoral School
General Coordinator: Prof. Adérito Fernandes-Marcos
Associate Coordinator: Prof. António Maneira
Contact: doctoral@usj.edu.mo

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