Heitor Alvelos

Heitor Alvelos has a PhD in media culture from the Royal College of Art in London. He is Professor of Design at the University of Porto, and Associate Director of ID+: Institute of Research in Design, Media and Culture. Heitor is on various international advisory boards (including Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia, Prix Ars Electronica for Digital Communities, and Crime Media Culture), and has lectured extensively in Europe and the U.S. His main research areas are collaborative media, post-subcultural environments and cultural criminology.

Heitor works with music projects and media labels, including: Touch (UK), Cronica Electronica (Portugal), Autodigest (AWOL) and un (Portugal). Recent curatorship has included Nomadic.0910 – meetings between art and science, and the 2011 Conference of the European Academy of Design.

Karen Gustafson

Karen Gustafson is the University of Texas-based manager of the Digital Media Program of the UT Austin|Portugal Program. She completed her PhD in Radio-Television-Film in 2006, with major topics of study including U.S. telecommunications policy, media and social construction, and digital divide issues. Her interests also include gender studies and historiography, with master’s research focusing on online communities and conspiracy theory.

Nuno Correia

Nuno Correia is co-director of the UTAustin-Portugal program in Digital Media. He is a professor at the New University of Lisbon (Computer Science Department, Faculty of Sciences and Technology), couurently conducting research work on several aspects of describing, processing, delivering and presenting multimedia information.

Nuno is also the coordinator of IMG (Interactive Multimedia Group), a research stream of CITI/FCT/UNL. Furher information on Nuno’s research projects can be found at www-ctp.di.fct.unl.pt/~nmc

Pedro Branco

Pedro Branco is Assistant Professor at the Department of Information Systems, University of Minho where he is currently the director of the Master Program in Technology and Digital Art. He graduated in Computer Science from University of Porto in 1997. From 1998 to 1999 he participated in the first joint Fraunhofer Center for Research in Computer Graphics/ Rhode Island School of Design New Media program. In 2000, he joined Fraunhofer’s U.S. operations as Researcher/3D Software Engineer in the development of virtual reality interaction techniques. Starting in 2003 he worked at IMEDIA in Providence, RI, studying user interface usability based on physiological monitoring. In 2006 he received his doctorate degree in Information Systems from University of Minho with the topic: “Computer-based Facial Expression Analysis for Assessing User Experience”.

Pedro is working on several funded research projects focusing on diverse aspects of human-computer interaction, ranging from new educational interfaces for pre-school,  to systems that are aware of users’ social signals. Throughout the Technology and Digital Art master program he works closely with students from a wide range of backgrounds developing interactive systems that explore a synergy of technology and aesthetics, exploring future directions for our interaction with technology.

Elizabeth Stark

Elizabeth Stark is a Lecturer in Law at Stanford Law School, where she started the “Ideas for a Better Internet” program. She is a Visiting Fellow at the Yale Information Society Project and a Lecturer in Computer Science at Yale University. Stark is a cofounder of the Open Video Alliance, and a producer of the annual Open Video Conference, dedicated to promoting free expression and innovation in online video.

A graduate of Harvard Law School, Stark founded the Harvard Free Culture Group and served on the board of directors of Students for Free Culture. While at Harvard, she spent years researching for the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard on projects ranging from net censorship to crowdsourcing to digital copyright policy.

Elizabeth has collaborated with myriad organizations on advocating for shared knowledge, digital freedom, and the open web. She has lived and worked in Berlin, Singapore, Paris, and Rio de Janeiro, and speaks French, German, and Portuguese.

Peter Sunde Kolmisoppi

Peter Sunde Kolmisoppi, 33, a Berlin/Kuopio-based Scandinavian hacker/entrepreneur/dj, is working with projects that have the potential to change the society and particularly deals with questions of intellectual property rights. Sunde is best known for co-founding the controversial The Pirate Bay, a Swedish website that indexes BitTorrent files and bills itself as “The world’s most resilient bittorrent site”. Besides this involvement, Sunde is the Founder of Flattr, the first real social micropayment/money sharing service.

Sharon Strover

Sharon Strover is the Philip G. Warner Regents Professor in Communication and former Chair of the Radio-TV-Film Department at the University of Texas, where she teaches communications and telecommunications courses and directs the Telecommunications and Information Policy Institute. Some of her current research projects examine statewide networks and advanced broadband services; the relationship between economic outcomes and investments in digital media programs in higher education in Portugal; social media; the digital divide; rural broadband deployment; e-government; telecommunications infrastructure deployment and economic development in rural regions; and market structure and policy issues for international audio-visual industries.

Sérgio Branco

Sérgio Branco. Fundação Getulio Vargas, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. PhD and Master in Civil Law at the University of the State of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Research Assistent Professor of Intellectual Property Law at Fundação Getulio Vargas Law School, at Rio de Janeiro.

Former General Attorney of Brazilian Information Technology Institute – ITI, in Brasilia. Author of books Copyright Law at the Internet and the Use of Other People’s Works and Public Domain in Brazil. Majored in Intellectual Property (Catholic University at Rio de Janeiro) and in Cinema (FGV). Lawyer.

Teresa Nobre

Creative Commons Portugal, Lisbon, Portugal. Teresa Nobre is the Legal Project Lead of Creative Commons Portugal, having as her main responsibility the adaptation of all CC licenses and legal tools to Portugal. Last year, Teresa devoted her research activities to the digital public domain, representing the Portuguese Member Catholic University of Portugal (UCP) in the COMMUNIA – The European Thematic Network on the Digital Public Domain. This year she is focused on understanding how to improve the Creative Commons licenses in order to create a truly international license suite.

Teresa holds a J.D. from the University of Lisbon Faculty of Law and an LL.M. in Intellectual Property from the University of Augsburg, in association with the Max Planck Institute for Intellectual Property, Competition and Tax Law, the Technische Universität München and the George Washington University. Teresa is licensed to practice law in Portugal, she serves as a senior legal counsel in two Portuguese companies (information technology and music fields) and she provides consultancy and research services on Intellectual Property to both private and public sector organisations.

Gregg Perry

Gregg Perry. MBA Program in Digital Media Management, St. Edwards University, Austin, Texas, USA. Gregory Perry, J.D., is an attorney and educator currently serving as an Assistant Professor of Digital Media Management at St. Edward’s University in Austin, Texas, U.S.A. At St. Edward’s, Perry teaches classes in digital law, interactive technology, and digital convergence at both the graduate and undergraduate level.

A former Counsel with the international law firm of Jones Day, Mr. Perry has represented worldwide business interests in various matters, including Texas Instruments, Estee Lauder, Hotels.com, Travelocity, Expedia, and entertainer Diana Krall. He is a Certified Apple Trainer for Final Cut Pro, and an avid gamer who designed and teaches in St. Edward’s new and innovative video game design degrees. Prior to law school, Mr. Perry worked in radio, television, and film production, and has programmed and run several online radio stations. He is a frequent speaker to business and digital media groups, and the author of various articles and papers.

GANA

GANA, acronym for Guionistas e Argumentistas Não-Alinhados (Non-Alligned Screen and Scriptwriters), is a group of three creatives who got together at the end of 2007. Their goal was to prove that technical and budget limitations could walk hand-in-hand with valid humoristic contents in a wide range of media fields (radio, press, web, TV). In December 2007, with a very experimental humorous approach, they made their debut in a radio bit called “Rosa Mota”. A few months later, Bruno Aleixo, their most popular character, was launched on Youtube, in three small posthumous videos in which he left very practical life advices for his loved ones. In November 2008, they debuted on TV, with Bruno Aleixo as the host of a very peculiar talk-show that co-starred a bust of Napoleon. Simultaneously, some web video sagas were launched as well, particularly “Aleixo na Escola” (Aleixo at School), that along with the TV talk-show got into the Brazilian market, reaching a cult status in some areas.

The following year, GANA consolidated their web work with their official channel (CENA) being fed regularly, with many new sagas, and by the end of 2009 they returned to radio, launching a daily program called “Aleixo FM”, again starring Bruno Aleixo. The show was a hit, with its podcast being the most downloaded ever in the history of RDP (the national radio broadcaster). In May 2010, with the World Cup fever, GANA produced a web series called “Copa Aleixo”, in which a panel of peculiar football experts scrutinized the national teams involved in the tournament. Overall, with a deep viral dynamic that spread through the social networks, these web sagas created by GANA have been seen online more than 10 million times.

Rádio Zero

Rádio Zero is a university radio in Lisbon, Portugal, streaming 24/7 on the web promoting free access to broadcasting and allowing any person access to radio. It strives to instigate and promote unorthodox or exploratory uses of radio, as content, form or technology.

Radio Zero is one of the founding partners of the Radia network of radios is responsible for the bienal Radio Art Festival in Lisboa, RadiaLx. Implicitly connected with its phylosophy is the development of radio software technology targeting community radios, which have different needs from other type of broadcasters.

Jeanne Stern

Jeanne Stern is an animator, puppet filmmaker and multimedia artist based in Austin TX. Her work has screened internationally at venues including SXSW, the Smithsonian, PBS, the Werk-Raum Gallery (Berlin), Guggenheim Center for Documentary (at the National Archives), Moving Things Festival (Capetown, South Africa), and the Athens Video Art Festival. In 2009 she animated Ruth Fertig’s film, “Yizkor,” winner of the Student Academy Award Gold Prize for documentary and the Cine Golden Eagle Award. Her work has included stereoscopic filmmaking, with a 3D puppet film commissioned for Connecticut College’s Arts & Technology symposium, and a solo show of stereoscopic work at Texas State Art Gallery. She has taught experimental animation courses at the University of Porto for the UT | Portugal summer institute, and at the Austin School of Film.

Born and raised in Massachusetts, she received her MFA in Film Production from UT Austin and her BA in Art and Computer Science from Connecticut College.

Pablo Peinado

Pablo Peinado is former director of Zero, a pioneer magazine of LGTB culture in Spain, a post he held for seven years. Director of Visible Madrid and A Coruña Visible festivals, as well as the “Certamen Internacional Leopoldo Alas para textos teatrales LGTB”. Pablo Peinado is also the creator and curator of “Colección Visible”, one of the main collections of LGTB art in the world. In 2009, Colección Visible was exhibited in eight American countries, under the sponsorship of the Spanish Ministry for Foreign Affairs. As an artist and curator, Pablo has developed over sixty exhibitions, performances and installations, focusing on social and LGTB issues.

David Trullo

David Trullo is a visual artist based in Madrid. He has had numerous exhibitions both in his own country and all over Europe and the Americas, and has participated in art fairs and festivals such as ARCO, Estampa and PhotoEspaña in Spain and Art Miami and The Armory Show in the US. He was artist in residence in the Museum of Modern Art in Dublin in 2002 and at the Karl Hofer Society, Universität der Kunst Berlin in 2010.

David’s photo and video artworks deal with the iconographical representation of beauty and the different levels attached to representation, context, reproduction and distribution of images. In all of Trullo’s photographic work there is a connection with history, with the culture and belief of the Western world, where subjects such as prejudice, intolerance, religion, gender, desire or pain look into the past with a contemporary eye.

±

‘± maismenos ±’ surfaces in 2005 as a personal project developed in an academic research context. It quickly became a reference of creative intervention in Portuguese urban circles, due to its viral mechanics as well as the various media it wove itself into.
Initially, ± presented itself as a brand against brands, its utopian mission being the antidote to advertising: ± may be found as illegal marks over a wide variety of urban environments, just as it may surface as an art installation.
According to the author, Miguel Januário, ± is the visual representation of the collapse of capitalist systems (+ – = 0), clearly conveying a standpoint in regards to it – while also acting as a blank canvas, a particularly open-ended icon where the citizen may be able to project anything they wish, fear or suspect.
For more information, look up maismenos on Facebook, or walk around the streets of Porto with an open eye.

Brett Caraway

Brett Caraway earned his Ph.D. in Media Studies from the University of Texas at Austin in 2011.  His research interests include digital media production, copyright law, peer-to-peer networking, and the economics of new media. Before coming to the University of Texas for graduate school, Brett worked in the local music scene as a studio and live sound engineer and as a recording and professional audio equipment service technician.

He currently teaches an introductory digital media course in the Department of Radio-Television-Film at UTAustin.

Eduardo Brito

Eduardo Brito works as project coordinator of a documental photography programme for the Cinema cluster of Guimarães 2012, European Capital of Culture. He is currently attending a master’s degree in Artistic Studies – Museology and Curatorial Studies – at the Faculty of Fine Arts of Porto University. At the Photography Department of the Guimarães’ Cineclub, of which he was a co-founder, Eduardo teaches black and white photography since 2003.

Between 2007 and 2009, he did the photographic work of Minho, Traços de Identidade (2007-2009), comissioned by the Cultural Council of Minho University. In 2009, directed the short film Antropia for the project Embankment no.6, Espaço Campanhã, Porto. Author of the photographic series Terras Últimas (2010) – a car journey to Finisterre, Finistère and Land’s End, with soundtrack by Sandy Kilpatrick, released by and exhibited at Vila Flor Cultural Centre, Guimarães.

Anselmo Canha

Anselmo Canha has a Masters in Image Design from the University of Porto. He has also been a musician since 1985, serving as bass player, keyboard player, and programmer in many bands and projects. In addition, he is a designer and researcher focused on the Stop Shopping Center musicians collective, and is one of the coordinators of Stopestra.

Peter Principle

Born in the fifties in NYC and self educated, he has traveled the world as an experimental musician, starting life banging on drums in garagebands in the late 60′s, but soon moving on to sonic sculpting with tape recorders and any instruments at hand, mainly abusing electric guitars. Found himself in San Francisco at a key time in the late 70′s as a concert promotor and radio personality. Besides a number of critically acclaimed solo albums, he has scored art videos which have played from the Kitchen in NY to the Rijksarchive in Amsterdam in the 80s, worked as art director for a multimedia development company (More Media) in the early 90′s, spoken at public gatherings on a variety of topics ranging from the esoteric to leading discussion panels on artists rights issues or exploring environmental sustainability memes applied to the cultural sphere.  Even more recently, he has exploited his reputation as a record collector/sometimes dj, co-currating a number of exotic cd releases including one by Bruce Haack and an influential compilation of Bollywood soundtracks, and spinning at the long running In HiFi parties.  His ongoing experiments with shortwave radios led to a collaboration with like minded NYC sound artist/thereminist Dok Gregory, with whom he formed Zero Gravity Thinkers (ZGT) in 2007. Performing on prepared guitar, and, with the addition of Zemi 17 (midi-sax, ableton) ZGT have become a highly regarded improvisational trio on the east coast of america and in Russia.  Probably best known for his 33+ year association with the pan-national multi-disciplined performance music group Tuxedomoon (extensively described in the 2008 book “Music For Vagabonds” by Isabelle Corbisier) where his distinctive bass playing and sound design are an essential element. He lived in NYC for the past 20 years, but has recently relocated to a more pastoral setting.

Jorge Brandão Pereira

Jorge Brandão Pereira is a designer and PhD student in Digital Media at the University of Porto, on the UTAustin-Portugal Doctoral Programme. He holds an MA in Multimedia Arts (2007) and a BA in Communication Design (2002), both  from the University of Porto.

Jorge is assistant professor in Graphic Design and Printing Production at the Polytechnic Institute of Cávado and Ave, Barcelos, and member of ID+: Research Institute for Design, Media and Culture. His main research areas include communication design strategy, visual culture and mediatization.

His main claim to fame is being one of the “thumbed up” fans at the futureplaces 2011 stickers!