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ANDRÉ RANGEL Date of birth: 3/11/1971 Birth place: Aveiro Address: Street Soeiro Pereira Gomes N. 54 rc dto 4100 - 470 Porto Telephone: +351 965166809 Email: a@3kta.net
Academic background
Summer 1999 - Advanced course in Digital Arts by the Catholic University of Porto, specialization in the nonlinear Edition modules of Video, Digital sound, 3D Animation, WebPages and Multimedia Project II; 1994 - First Degree in Visual Communication Design - Higher School of Fine Arts and Design (E.S.A.D. - Matosinhos); Traineeship in Electronic Graphics, Assembly/Post-Production and Scenography at the studios of R.T.P. (located in Monte da Virgem).
Since 2007 - Invited Professor in the High Degree course of Arts and Multimedia at the Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of Porto, teaching Programming Introduction; Since 2004 - Guest Lecturer in the Master’s course of Design and Intermediate Production at the Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of Barcelona, teaching Intermediate Production; Since 2006 - Invited Professor in the High Degree course of Digital Arts and Multimedia at the High School of Arts and Design, Matosinhos; July 2006 - Workshop “Electronic Graffiti” comprised in the summer course “Els Juliols 2006 - Els graffiti: un art revolucionari urbà ", held at the Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of Barcelona; 2005 - Author and producer of personalized software and intermediate systems, currently developing the AutomatD application, presented at the 8th Conference of Generative Design (Milan, 2005); Since 2003 - Founder and Artistic Director of the 3kta project since 2003; Since 2001 - Founder and Co-Director of the Tddy and Ula.li projects; 2005/2006 academic year - Teacher at a Workshop on Multimedia and History of Art, held at Escola Secundária Fontes Pereira de Melo Porto; 2004/2005 academic year - Teacher at a Workshop on Art and Descriptive Geometry, held at Escola Secundária Garcia de Orta Porto; 2003/2004 and 2004/2005 academic years - Guest Lecturer (recommended by Professor Luís Teixeira) to give two lessons on Generative Design and Meta-Conception to 5th-year students in the Digital Arts course; 2003/2004 academic year - Teacher at a Workshop on Art, held at Escola Secundária Filipa de Vilhena Porto; 2003 - Workshop “Synthesis and Processing of Video in Real Time” at the Escola Superior de Música e Artes do Espetáculo, Porto; 2003 - Conference on “Generative Design” comprised in the cycle of conferences “Education and Visual Culture” and integrated in the National Meeting of Teachers of Education and Visual Expression - Braga; 2002 Guest Lecturer (by the composer Carlos Guedes) to teach Introduction to the Treatment and Synthesis of Digital Image in Max/Jitter Environment to the Composition students at Escola Superior de Música e Artes do Espectáculo, Porto. 2002/2003 academic year - Professionalized Teacher at Escola Secundária Inês de Castro - V.N. Gaia; 1998-2001 - Teacher of Design de Audiovisual Communication and Video Technology at Escola Superior Soares Dos Reis Porto; Digital Post-Production of Institutional Video “QUIMAR- Industry” - Project co-financed by the Portuguese Government and European Community - FEDER and FSE; 1999 - Digital edition of a slide show with Stealing Orchestra - Festival “Other Rituals”, Rivoli Theater Porto; 1995-1998 - Teacher of Project and Video Technology, in the course of Image and Communication, at Escola Secundária Soares dos Reis Porto; 1995/1996 - Teacher of Visual Education (Basic Level Education) at Escola E.B. 2/3 de Baltar; 1994-1995 - Functions of Graphical Designer at the agency Isto é Comunicação Visual Lda.; Participation in competitions in the area of Graphical Design (posters for FantasPorto, A.I.P.- Industrial Association in Porto, among others); Experience in computer editing of school manuals; Conception of the graphical image of Cafés Grão Negro, and a few parallel applications: packaging, window-dressing, advertisements, among others; Contribution at the agency Isto é Comunicação Visual Lda, in the areas of Photography and Graphic Design; 1996 - Conception of the design of computer shops, of the company A.N.S.I.- Northern Region of Systems. Conception of the design of Nabab Bar and Quasi-Bar in Porto; 1995 - Freelancer of the agency Imaginato as Graphic Designer; 1995 - Freelancer of the agency Croma as Graphic Designer; 1995 - Freelancer of João Nunes’s Design Atelier in the area of Graphical Design.
Main Research Interests - Algorithmic implementation of processes that control, in real time, processing parameters and video synthesis through body movement; perception and cognition of diverse visual signs; analysis of the interaction between body and audiovisual movement; - Processes of Automatic Generative Design, Analysis of Digital Video and Audio Processing and Video in Real Time; - Synthesis of sound; particle generators; audio/video streaming; new media; Inter-media, communication and semiotics protocols.
Orientation Experience 2006 - Co-orientation technique and consulter of the project “Repolis” by Ana Pesquita, work carried out in the discipline of Interactive Argument, in the Undergraduate course of Sound and Image at the School of the Arts (UCP, Porto).
Participation in projects - Design, Production and Co-Art Direction of the Installation "Graffonic RGB" presented at Porto, Jully 2007 and at the Festival "Escrita Na Paisagem", Estremoz, August 2007; - Software Designer and Co-Author of the Installation "ReWork - Reactive Work of Art in RGB" presented at Casa da Música, Porto, April 2007; - Coordinator, Software Designer and Co-Author of the Installation "RME'07 - Experimental Minimal Robotics" presented at the High School of Arts and Design, Matosinhos, March 2007 and at the "Lisbon Village Festival", Lisbon, June 2007; - Curator of the "Experimental Minimal Robotics Workshop by Ralf Schreiber" at the High School of Arts and Design, Matosinhos, March 2007; - Participation in the 9th International Conference on Generative Art GA2006, Milan December 2002, with the installation work “Graffonic - Reactive Work of Art”; - Consultancy for Interface Design and Software Design of “House of affects” by Giorgos Artopoulos and Eduardo Condorcet; co-production of the Cambridge University, UK and CITAR/EA-UCP, Porto, Portugal 2006; - Authorship and development of the multi-user project “PosNeg” as guest co-operator of “Virtual Identities”, integrated in the “Meetings of Art and Communication” presented in the show room of the Cultural Centre of Belém, Lisbon, June 2005; - Visual synthesis in real time as guest co-operator of the first event “Passvite - Launch Mode " presented in the space of cultural intervention “Maus Hábitos ", Porto 2004; - As collective Ula.li, co-author of the event “TuTrazesCor”, co-production with the composer Carlos Guedes, Inesc - Porto and Kirk Woolford, presented in the format of Interactive Audiovisual Architectonic Installation in Casa da Musica during the month of June of 2003; - Video synthesis and processing in real time, video installation and intermedia software in the events `PuppyClub' (St. Maria da Feira, 2003 and Porto, 2004); - “LiveAct” of Audiovisual Architecture as collective TDDY, in the Centre of Artistic Experimentation - Common Place - Barcarena - January of 2003; - Special guest in the Summer residence “Repérages” - Young Choreographers, organized for the Balleteatro/Danse to the Lille, having developed with Carlos Guedes and Sergio Ferreira a controlled audiovisual installation in real time for the dancers’ movements, Porto September 2002; - Participation in the Festival Motion Detectors, Seatle June 2002, with TDDY with the work of audiovisual synthesis: “EMP.(TY)”; - Sample of the work of audiovisual synthesis, “EMP.(TY)”, in Munka - Museum of Modern Art of Antuérpia, July 2002 and “ZapLab”, Brugges 2002; - Participation in the Festival of Electronic Music in Braga BRG02, as one of the digitalscratcher with live audiovisual creation: “crash”; - “Parapoly” - audiovisual mix for TDDY in Festival Measured Lounge presented for Odyssey in the Images - Porto 2001 European Capital of the Culture; - Synchronization video with Stealing Orchestra - Festival “Other Rituals”, Rivoli Theatre Porto 1999.
Publications - Reflection “School - Establishment of Convergences and Multiplicities” published online: http://3kta.net/ecm (2003); - Presentation “Objectile”, e-zine “vector”, http://virose.pt/vector/b_12/rangel.html (Jan 2005); - “Art Science and Technology" - interviewed by Francisco Cardoso Lima, 2005 http://clinik.net/ua/act/index.html
Communications - Communication “Graffonic - Reactive Work of Art” in the Seminar “GA2006 - 9th International Conference on Generative Art” (Milan 2006); - Communication “Colour in monitors” in the Seminar “Light and Colour” organized by APECV (Aveiro 2005); - Communication “Colour in monitors” in the Seminar “Light and Colour” organized by APECV (Lisbon 2005); - Communication “Goal-Creation: personalized software” in the Seminar “New Technologies in Visual Arts Teaching” (Lisbon 2005); - Communication “Goal-Creation: personalized software” in the Seminar “New Technologies in Visual Arts Teaching” (Aveiro 2004); - Communication “Stories of Pedagogical Experiences” at the 16th National Meeting of APECV “Arteducação - Changing Consciencenesses” (Luso 2004);
Master Classes - Kirk Wolford (Gulbenkian Lisbon, Summer 2001), John Dekam (Porto, Spring 2001), Frank Baldé (Porto, Spring 2001), Daniel Shorno (Porto, Spring 2001), Carlos Guedes (Porto, Spring 2001), Mladen Milicevich (Porto CPU, Spring 2000), Maria Judite Dos Santos (Porto CPU, Winter 2000), Abi Feijó (Porto CPU, Winter 1999).
Further professional training - Workshop “Drawing with Satelites”, lectured byJeremy Wood and Hugh Pryor, curated by Ana Boa Ventura within Mapa, University of Porto, 2007; - Workshop “InstallaSon - KITTy”, lectured by António Sousa Dias, within the Festival of Digital Arts “Looks of Autumn”, organized by the Catholic University of Porto, in 2006; - Workshop “From Structure to Expression”, lectured by Ludger Bruemmer, within the Festival of Digital Arts “Looks of Autumn”, organized by the Catholic University of Porto, in 2005; - Workshop “Layers of Performance”, lectured by Stanislav Roudavsky, within in the Festival of Digital Arts “Looks of Autumn”, organized by the Catholic University of Porto, in 2004; - Workshop “Interactive systems for artistic expression”, lectured by Rosa Sánchez & Alain Baumann within in the Festival of Digital Arts "Olhares de Outono", in the Catholic University of Porto, in 2004; - Workshop “Expressive gesture toward new paradigms for multimedia and rich media”, lectured by Antonio Camurri, within the Festival of Digital Arts "Olhares de Outono", in the Catholic University of Porto, in 2003; - Workshop “Virtual Music Instruments”, lectured by Suguru Goto, within the Festival of Digital Arts "Olhares de Outono", in the Catholic University of Porto, in 2003; - Workshop “Closing the Loop - Biomecanics Perception and Control”, held in cooperation with the Center for Artistic Experimentation - Lugar Comum, in July of 2001; - Workshop “Never stand up in a canoe - Hybrid Installation / Performance”, held in cooperation with the Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian - Centro de Arte Moderna / ACARTE, in June 2001; - Workshop “Interactive Media - Software e Hardware Steim”, held in cooperation with the Area of Odyssey in Images of Porto 2001 - European Capital of Culture, in April 2001; - Workshop “Interactive Media - Midi e Audio digital in Max/Msp environment”, held in cooperation with the Area of Odyssey in Images of Porto 2001 - European Capital of Culture, in April 2001; - Workshop “Video Sampling - Improvisação Vídeo”, held in cooperation with the Area of Odyssey in Images of Porto 2001 - European Capital of Culture, in May 2001; - Workshop “Video Sampling - Generative Graphic Design / nato 0+55 modular”, held in cooperation with the Area of Odyssey in Images of Porto 2001 - European Capital of Culture, in June 2001; - Training and experience in Macintosh environment, within the course curriculum, namely: Aldus FreeHand, Adobe Photoshop, Quark Xpress, Adobe Premiere. |
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