Ana Leonor M. Madeira Rodrigues is an artist and researcher interested in the cognitive processes of the act of drawing and in its specificity as a mode of non verbal communication. She is also interested in cultural and feminists studies.
Ana L. M. Rodrigues graduated in Fine Arts at ESBAL. During a semester, she attended the practical Anatomy Lessons at Campo Santana Hospital (which resulted on her first solo drawing exhibition). In 1984/85, under a scholarship by the Gulbenkian Foundation she attended the Akademie der Bildenden Kunst, in Munich. Between 1989 and 1992 she lived in Berlin where she specialized in Cultural Studies and Techniques of Aesthetics and Artistic Communication, at Hochschule der Kunst TU (1996). Ana L. M. Rodrigues holds a PhD in Architecture (Visual Communication) and she works as an Associate Lecturer at FA-UTL.
Ana L. M. Rodrigues published the following books O Desenho, Ordem do Pensamento Arquitectónico [Drawing, Order and Architectonic Thinking], by Estampa, Lisbon, 2000; O Desenho [Drawing], by Quimera, Lisbon, 2003; Queimado Por Azul [Burnt By Blue], by Assírio e Alvim, Lisbon, 2006 and Ensaios nas Margens do Futuro, Sentidos e Significações [Essays at the margins of the Future, Senses and Significations], a collection by Estampa, Lisbon, 2007.
Some of her more significant solo exhibitions were: Desenhos [Drawings], Casa da Cerca, Almada (1998);Der BBB Effect (video and installation), Galerie Fruchtig , Frankfurt (1998); The BBB Effect, a performance and participation at the conference Real Culture, Reproduction(s)and Rip-Offs, Kansas State University, USA; The BBB effect, more theories on a Pseudo Science performance and participation at a conference for the Festival of Postmodern Piracy, Ohio – Kent State University; Entropia, an installation at an old chemical laboratory at Escola Politécnica-Museu de Ciência, Lisbon (1999); Ai Flores do Verde Pinho, Museum and Botanical Garden, Lisbon (2001); O efeito BBB revisitado [the effect of BBB revisited] (drawings and video), Diferença Gallery, Lisbon (2002); Documentos Sobre um Caso Tipo, Assírio & Alvim Gallery, Lisbon (2004); Perder-se de amores…, at the Monumental Gallery, Lisbon (2005); Actos Compulsivos da Comunicação entre Bactérias e Humanos [Compulsive Acts of Communication between Bacteria and Humans], Library of the College of Science and Technology, Universidade Nova (2009); When a kitchen dreams II, Painting, Victor Pinto da Fonseca Gallery (2009).
She participated in several collective exhibitions such as Not to…, Lisbon (1999); O Efeito BBB,Lisbon (2000); Passos 2000 with the installation and video Sweet Sixteen, Lisbon (2002); Freemanifesta, distribution of 700 stickers allusive to the BBB effect, Frankfurt (2002); Drawing, - The Process, Kingston University, UK (2003); 10 anos de Desenho [10 years of Drawing] and O Desenho Dito [Drawing Told], both at Casa da Cerca, Almada (2008).
In 1999 she participated in a painting project for the Wall of Berlin, organized by East Side Gallery, which was restored last June.
James Faure Walker (St Martins, RCA) has been incorporating computer graphics in his painting since 1988. He exhibits with the DAM Gallery, Berlin, and has shown eight times at SIGGRAPH. He won the Golden Plotter’at Computerkunst, Gladbeck, Germany in 1998. Group shows include: Block Museum, Illinois (2008); Bloomberg Space (2005); John Moores (1982, 2002); Digital Salon, New York (2001); Serpentine (1982); Hayward Annual (1979). Solo shows include Galerie Wolf Lieser, Berlin (2003); Galerie der Gegenwart, Wiesbaden (2000, 2001); Colville Place Gallery (1998, 2000) the Whitworth, Manchester (1985). He co-founded Artscribe magazine in 1976, and edited it for eight years. He has also written for Studio International, Modern Painters, Mute, Computer Generated Imaging, Wired, and Garageland. His book, Painting the Digital River: How an Artist Learned to Love the Computer, (Prentice Hall, USA, 2006) received a New England Book Show Award. In 2002 he was an AHRC Senior Research Fellow. He is Reader in Painting and the Computer at Camberwell, University of the Arts. He is showing in Digital Pioneers at the V and A in December, and has eleven works in their collection. He is one of five English artists commissioned by FIFA’s Fine Art 2010 for the South African World Cup.
Pedro Saraiva Associate Professor with Aggregation at FBAUL (Drawing) and Associate Professor, Invited Guest at the Department of Architecture at ISCTE (Drawing).
His work has been developed around research methods and conceptual methods implicit in drawing as a project.
He participated in several research projects in the field of ‘The patrimony of drawing’.
He participated in several exhibitions, such as:
Solos: Ibéria - SNBA (1986), Pintor Cego/Blind Painter – Módulo (2006), Gabinete > Codina – Módulo (2008), Gabinete > Cambedo – Voyeurprojectview (2008), Gabinete > Bárcea – Cerca House (2009).
Colectives: moderne portugiesische grafik - Galerie Felizitas Mentel (1978), zeitgenoisische grafik aus Portugal - Mannheimer Abendakademie, Mannheime (1979),zeitgenosische portuesische grafik - Collini-Center/Gal. Bernhard Weber (1980), II internacional trienal of drawing - Nuremberg (1982), arco 87 (Módulo) Madrid (1987), art 18/87, (Módulo) Basileia (1987), art la 88, (Módulo) Los Angeles (1988), 10ª exhibition int. of drawing - Catania, (1995), Come as you is – Galeria Monumental (1999), Lisbon Contemporary Art Fair (2001/02/03/04/06/07), XXX – Módulo (2005), Coleccionar I – Módulo (2009).
Ana L. M. Rodrigues graduated in Fine Arts at ESBAL. During a semester, she attended the practical Anatomy Lessons at Campo Santana Hospital (which resulted on her first solo drawing exhibition). In 1984/85, under a scholarship by the Gulbenkian Foundation she attended the Akademie der Bildenden Kunst, in Munich. Between 1989 and 1992 she lived in Berlin where she specialized in Cultural Studies and Techniques of Aesthetics and Artistic Communication, at Hochschule der Kunst TU (1996). Ana L. M. Rodrigues holds a PhD in Architecture (Visual Communication) and she works as an Associate Lecturer at FA-UTL.
Ana L. M. Rodrigues published the following books O Desenho, Ordem do Pensamento Arquitectónico [Drawing, Order and Architectonic Thinking], by Estampa, Lisbon, 2000; O Desenho [Drawing], by Quimera, Lisbon, 2003; Queimado Por Azul [Burnt By Blue], by Assírio e Alvim, Lisbon, 2006 and Ensaios nas Margens do Futuro, Sentidos e Significações [Essays at the margins of the Future, Senses and Significations], a collection by Estampa, Lisbon, 2007.
Some of her more significant solo exhibitions were: Desenhos [Drawings], Casa da Cerca, Almada (1998);Der BBB Effect (video and installation), Galerie Fruchtig , Frankfurt (1998); The BBB Effect, a performance and participation at the conference Real Culture, Reproduction(s)and Rip-Offs, Kansas State University, USA; The BBB effect, more theories on a Pseudo Science performance and participation at a conference for the Festival of Postmodern Piracy, Ohio – Kent State University; Entropia, an installation at an old chemical laboratory at Escola Politécnica-Museu de Ciência, Lisbon (1999); Ai Flores do Verde Pinho, Museum and Botanical Garden, Lisbon (2001); O efeito BBB revisitado [the effect of BBB revisited] (drawings and video), Diferença Gallery, Lisbon (2002); Documentos Sobre um Caso Tipo, Assírio & Alvim Gallery, Lisbon (2004); Perder-se de amores…, at the Monumental Gallery, Lisbon (2005); Actos Compulsivos da Comunicação entre Bactérias e Humanos [Compulsive Acts of Communication between Bacteria and Humans], Library of the College of Science and Technology, Universidade Nova (2009); When a kitchen dreams II, Painting, Victor Pinto da Fonseca Gallery (2009).
She participated in several collective exhibitions such as Not to…, Lisbon (1999); O Efeito BBB,Lisbon (2000); Passos 2000 with the installation and video Sweet Sixteen, Lisbon (2002); Freemanifesta, distribution of 700 stickers allusive to the BBB effect, Frankfurt (2002); Drawing, - The Process, Kingston University, UK (2003); 10 anos de Desenho [10 years of Drawing] and O Desenho Dito [Drawing Told], both at Casa da Cerca, Almada (2008).
In 1999 she participated in a painting project for the Wall of Berlin, organized by East Side Gallery, which was restored last June.
James Faure Walker (St Martins, RCA) has been incorporating computer graphics in his painting since 1988. He exhibits with the DAM Gallery, Berlin, and has shown eight times at SIGGRAPH. He won the Golden Plotter’at Computerkunst, Gladbeck, Germany in 1998. Group shows include: Block Museum, Illinois (2008); Bloomberg Space (2005); John Moores (1982, 2002); Digital Salon, New York (2001); Serpentine (1982); Hayward Annual (1979). Solo shows include Galerie Wolf Lieser, Berlin (2003); Galerie der Gegenwart, Wiesbaden (2000, 2001); Colville Place Gallery (1998, 2000) the Whitworth, Manchester (1985). He co-founded Artscribe magazine in 1976, and edited it for eight years. He has also written for Studio International, Modern Painters, Mute, Computer Generated Imaging, Wired, and Garageland. His book, Painting the Digital River: How an Artist Learned to Love the Computer, (Prentice Hall, USA, 2006) received a New England Book Show Award. In 2002 he was an AHRC Senior Research Fellow. He is Reader in Painting and the Computer at Camberwell, University of the Arts. He is showing in Digital Pioneers at the V and A in December, and has eleven works in their collection. He is one of five English artists commissioned by FIFA’s Fine Art 2010 for the South African World Cup.
Pedro Saraiva Associate Professor with Aggregation at FBAUL (Drawing) and Associate Professor, Invited Guest at the Department of Architecture at ISCTE (Drawing).
His work has been developed around research methods and conceptual methods implicit in drawing as a project.
He participated in several research projects in the field of ‘The patrimony of drawing’.
He participated in several exhibitions, such as:
Solos: Ibéria - SNBA (1986), Pintor Cego/Blind Painter – Módulo (2006), Gabinete > Codina – Módulo (2008), Gabinete > Cambedo – Voyeurprojectview (2008), Gabinete > Bárcea – Cerca House (2009).
Colectives: moderne portugiesische grafik - Galerie Felizitas Mentel (1978), zeitgenoisische grafik aus Portugal - Mannheimer Abendakademie, Mannheime (1979),zeitgenosische portuesische grafik - Collini-Center/Gal. Bernhard Weber (1980), II internacional trienal of drawing - Nuremberg (1982), arco 87 (Módulo) Madrid (1987), art 18/87, (Módulo) Basileia (1987), art la 88, (Módulo) Los Angeles (1988), 10ª exhibition int. of drawing - Catania, (1995), Come as you is – Galeria Monumental (1999), Lisbon Contemporary Art Fair (2001/02/03/04/06/07), XXX – Módulo (2005), Coleccionar I – Módulo (2009).
