The 10th Doctoral Retreat in Digital Media-Art (DMAD Retreat) takes place between the 10th and 14th of July, at the Convent of Espírito Santo, in Loulé.
The event arises from the collaboration between the Universities of the Algarve and Aberta and, after another end of the school year, the DMAD course brings together all its stakeholders in an intense week of work with presentations, exhibitions and lectures that will allow students, teachers , guests and, sometimes, the general public, to show, interact and gain greater knowledge in the field of digital art.
There are five days of programming marked by the contemporary world of arts, digital, and technology at the service of humanity, in general, and the arts, in particular – as reinforced by Professor Nuno Bicho, vice-rector of the University of Algarve, stressing that «there will be five days of an immersive (and immersive) experience of humanism, creation, culture and aesthetics that will allow all participants to make a substantial qualitative leap in full integration into the contemporary world of the arts, which makes us (more human)».
Professor Carla Padrel de Oliveira, rector of Universidade Aberta, also congratulates all participants in the 10th DMAD Retreat, recalling that it is an event that «meets the needs of academia and society in terms of the transdisciplinarity of the different areas of specialization scientific, artistic and digital and, at the same time, reinforce and strengthen the social ties of a virtual community of practice characteristic of online distance education».
CIAC artist and researcher Pedro Cabral Santo takes over the inaugural conference "Motion In Motion: Creative Processes in moving image” and researchers Mirian Tavares and Pedro Alves da Veiga the closing one. Throughout the week, professors from DMAD (Universidade do Algarve and Universidade Aberta) give masterclasses and workshops.
From the DMAD 2023 Retiro programme, the visit to the exhibition of the Visual Arts finalists and the visit to the Alfaia Association also stand out; sessions on Media and Digital Art with researchers Gabriela Borges and Bruno Mendes da Silva, the session on Digital Artivism and the session on Generative Art.
In addition, it will be possible to attend the inauguration of the exhibition “Rizoma” with digital medium-art projects, participate in the conference “Animation and Digital Cinema” with researcher António Costa Valente and in the conference “Sound and Digital Music” with professor José Alberto Gomes.
During the week of the DMAD Retreat, two round tables will also take place that focus on the themes “Processes of Creation” and “Digital Literacy”, as well as the conference “Critical Digital Humanities”, which will focus on the need for permanent critical review of the field of the Digital Humanities.
The DMAD Retreat is, according to the organization, «a space for reflection and debate, with a strong dialogue with the regional, national and international community».
The event has the support of the Municipality of Loulé and is funded by national funds through the FCT – Foundation for Science and Technology, within the scope of the UIDB/04019/2020 project.
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