Docente
Adriana Sá

Resume

Adriana Sá holds a PhD in Arts and Computing from Goldsmiths, University of London (2016) and a graduation degree in Fine Arts from the University of Lisbon (1996). She is a transdisciplinary artist, performer-composer-musician as well as editor-in-chief of the Live Interfaces journal. Her research bridges artistic practice, interaction design, audio-visual theory, neuroscience and experimental psychology. She published with Routledge (2022), MIT (Leonardo Almanac/ 2013 and Leonardo Transactions/ 2015 & Leonardo/ 2023), the Journal of Science and Technology of the Arts (2015), McGraw Hill Education (2012) and Documenta (2023), beyond xCoAx - Conference on Computation, Communication, Aesthetics & X (2014/ 17/ 19) and NIME - Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression (2007/ 14), among others. She chaired the International Conference on Live Live Interfaces in 2022 and 2014, and was the lead editor of a related e-book. Sá has been an invited professor at Coimbra University (2016-18), at ESAD / Upper School for Arts and Design (2016-2021), Lusófona University Lisbon (2016-2021) and Noroff University College (2024). Currently she is a member of the board at Lusófona and a member of CICANT - Centre for Research in Applied Communication, Culture and New Technologies. Simultaneously she continues to develop her artistic projects. Sá found early recognition as a transdisciplinary artist, musician-performer-composer. Her custom instrumentation emerged in the context of residencies at STEIM, Metronom Electronic Arts Studio and Experimental Intermedia Foundation NY. In the 1990s she started using sensor technologies to explore sound connected to light, space, movement, architecture, weather and social context. Since 2008 she works with an audio-visual instrument that combines a custom zither and software that processes sound and image based on the zither sound, extending the physical space to a digital 3D world. Sá’s artistic projects have been presented worldwide, in venues such as Aomori Contemporary Art Center in Japan; Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, Serralves Museum, Maria Matos Theatre, Bairro Alto Theatre, Chiado Museum, Casa da Música, Culturgest, Luzboa Biannual and Rivoli Theatre in Portugal; Caixa Forum, Arteleku and Museo Vostel in Spain; Institute of Contemporary Arts and Iklectic in the UK; Monty in Belgium; Experimental Intermedia Foundation and EyeBeam in NY. Her performances and installations were also presented in contexts such as the Circular Festival, Colina Project, Lisboa Soa Festival and Dar a Ouvir Festival (Pt); Ultrasound Festival, Atlantic Waves Festival and xxxxx (U.K.), Version Beta (Switzerland) and Festival Novas Frequências (Brasil). In addition to her shows, Sá produced and mixed two CDs released by Clean Feed, and participated with audio tracks in CDs released by EMF (State of the Union, 2000), MoMa (Volume: Bed of Sound, 2001) and The Wire (Atlantic Waves, 2005), among others. Complete info: http://adrianasa.org

Graus

• Doktor (PhD)
  Arts and Computational Technologies/ Dep. of Computing
• Licenciatura
  Artes Plásticas-Pintura + Artes Plásticas-Escultura

Publicações

Journal issue

• Live Interfaces journal Vol. 2, 2
• Live Interfaces journal Vol. 1, 1

Journal article

• 2024, Transdisciplinarity, Composition, Expression: Reflections on a Spherical Way of Thinking, Leonardo
• 2023-12, Edition of "Synthetic Images: Data-based Aesthetics" by Rosemary Lee , Live Interfaces journal
• 2023-12, Edition of "Resonant Embodiments: Listening to the Transcultural Body" by Michelle Lewis-King, Live Interfaces journal
• 2023-12, Edition of "Creating Music Scores Live Through Interacting with a Character-level Text Generator" by Alexandros Drymonitis, Live Interfaces journal
• 2023-12, Edition of "Computational Art, Dematerialisation and Embodiment" by Miguel Carvalhais, Live Interfaces journal
• 2023-10-04, Transdisiciplinarity, Composition, Expression: Reflections of a Spherical Way of Thinking / online version , Leonardo
• 2019-06, The Variables of Spatial Presence: A Parametric Model, xCoAx 2019
• 2014-10-01, Exploring Disparities between Acoustic and Digital Outputs, Journal Of Science And Technology Of The Arts 6 No. 1 (2014): 85-96
• 2014-07-01, The Fungible Audio-Visual Mapping and its Experience, Journal Of Science And Technology Of The Arts 6 No. 1 (2014): 85-96

Book

• 2016, A Perceptual Approach to Audio-Visual Instrument Design, Composition and Performance, Sá, Adriana

Book chapter

• 2025, Using Videogame Technologies in New Interfaces for Musical Expression: Interaction Designs, Audio-Visual Relationships and Perceptual Experience, Teaching Sound for the 21st Century
• 2023, In The Book of X, pp. 313-316, The Book of X, i2ADS - Research Institute in Art, Design and Society & Universidade Católica Portuguesa
• 2023, Expressão Sonora, Mediação e Perceção, A Experiência Sonora: da Linearidade à Circularidade
• 2022, A Parametric Model for Audio-Visual Instrument Design, Composition and Performance , Live Visuals - History, Theory, Practice, Routledge
• 2021, A Method to Analyse Sound Art and Audio-Visual Performance, Audiovisual e Indústrias Criativas: presente e futuro, 1, McGraw Hill Education
• 2013, How An Audio-Visual Instrument Can Foster the Sonic Experience, Live Visuals for Performance, Gaming, Installation, and Electronic Environments/ Leonardo Special Issue, 19, MIT Press

Edited book

• 2015

Encyclopedia entry

• "Cognition", Momentary Monument | Prospective Lexicon

Conference paper

• Repurposing Video Game Software for Musical Expression: a perceptual approach, NIME - New Interfaces for Musical Expression
• Designing Musical Expression, xCoAx – Conference on Computation, Communication, Aesthetics & X
• A Study About Confounding Causation in Audio-Visual Mapping, xCoAx – Conference on Computation, Communication, Aesthetics & X

Artistic exhibition

• 2025, Audio pieces for the retrospective exhibition IN-SONORA - 20th Anniversary
• 2024-05-11, ECO ( ) LAPSO > contribution with an audio piece
• 2021-11, Space Torsion | https://eufonia.io/adrianasa-johnklima
• 2019, Habitat | http://adrianasa.org/docu_img/cloisterworks.htm, Convento de São francisco
• 2017, To Agitate the Water to Better See in Depth | http://adrianasa.org/docu_img/LS.htm , Festival Lisboa Soa / Estufa Fria
• 2009, Emotional Object | http://www.cityarts.com/emotionalobject/, Centre pour l'Image Contemporaine, Version Beta Festival, Geneva, Suiça
• 2007, Thresholds | http://adrianasa.org/docu_img/_homeT.htm, Eyebeam
• 2006, Meta(local)morphosis | http://adrianasa.org/docu_img/LB.htm, Bienal Luzboa (urban installation in Largo do Correio-Mor, Lisboa)
• 2002, Parallax # 1: Lightlandsoundscape | http://adrianasa.org/texts_w_menu/introlayer1new.htm#p1, ACAC – Aomori Contemporary Art Center, Aomori, Japan

Audio recording

• 2020, Agora | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jF_oGtKbryI&t=1370s
• 2018, Timespine Urban Season | http://shhpuma.com/product/timespine-urban-season/
• 2013, Timespine | http://shhpuma.com/product/adriana-sa-to-trips-john-klima-timespine-2
• 2005, Adriana Sá in Atlantic Waves | https://www.thewire.co.uk/issues/15563/exploratory-music-from-portugal-05
• 2001, Adriana Sá in Volume: Bed of Sound | https://www.discogs.com/Various-Volume-Bed-Of-Sound/release/1597863
• 2001, Adriana Sá in State of the Union | http://tammen.org/cd-elliott-sharp-prod-state-of-the-union-2001/

Artistic performance

• 2025-05-08, Sprouts In-Between / https://teatrodobairroalto.pt/pt/evento/sprouts-in-between, TBA - Teatro do Bairro Alto
• 2024-05-25, Adriana Sá & Pedro Melo Alves at Indie by Night, Sala Lisa, Lisbon
• 2024-02-09, Encounter, Sala Fernando Lopes / Universidade Lusófona de Lisboa
• 2023, Favela Real #4.9 (Descomposição) | https://adrianasa.org/_videos.html, SMUP
• 2022-11-06, Favela Real #4 | https://adrianasa.org/_videos.html, Iclectik
• 2021-12-04, ABC | https://www.forumdanca.pt/concerto-pacap5, Braço de Prata
• 2021-12-03, Participation in (Re)Existência | https://vimeo.com/661786349/e98598b42c , Teatro do Bairro Alto
• 2021-08-22, Favela Real #2.1 | https://adrianasa.org/docu_img/favelareal.htm, Útero
• 2021-07-28, Favela Real #1 | https://adrianasa.org/docu_img/favelareal.htm, Penha.sco
• 2020, Lugar Elástico | http://www.lisboasoa.com/adriana-sa-e-john-klima-lugar-elastico/, Festival Lisboa Soa / Goethe Institut
• 2020, Coral Furtivo #2 | http://adrianasa.org/coralfurtivo.htm, Museu Vostel
• 2019, Coral Furtivo #1 | http://adrianasa.org/docu_img/coralfurtivo.htm, Teatro do Bairro Alto, Lisbon, Portugal
• 2018, String Practices # 1, #2.1, #2.2 & #2.3 | http://adrianasa.org/docu_img/stringpractice.htm, Casa da Música & Jardim Botânico de Coimbra & Silos Contentor Criativo & New Art Fest, Picadeiro
• 2017, Entresons | https://vimeo.com/267062988 , Teatro Maria Matos & O'Culto da Ajuda
• 2016, Included Middle | http://adrianasa.org/research/AG2.htm , Museu de Angra do Heroísmo & STEIM
• 2015, Timespine #9 | http://adrianasa.org/docu_img/timespine.htm, Festival Novas Frequências, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil
• 2007, Window Matter | http://adrianasa.org/docu_img/_windowmatter.htm, Teatro S. Luis & CAM/ Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian & Festival Bang &. Musicbox
• 2005, Parallax # 3,3: Enlightening Mills | http://adrianasa.org/texts_w_menu/introlayer1new.htm#p33, Ultrasound Festival, Huddersfield, UK
• 2003, Parallax # 3. 5: Musicshadowtheatre | http://adrianasa.org/texts_w_menu/introlayer1new.htm#p35, Festival Nouvellum, Toulouse, France
• 2003, Parallax # 2.9, Extendelasticinfinite | http://adrianasa.org/texts_w_menu/introlayer1new.htm#p29, T-U-B-E, Muenchen, Germany
• 2002, This Is Just To Do Part 3.4 | http://adrianasa.org/docu_img/TIJTD.htm , Dam Kortrijk, Kortrijk, Belgium
• 2002, This Is Just To Do Part 3.3 | http://adrianasa.org/docu_img/TIJTD.htm , Bottleraij Theatre, Brussels, Belgium
• 2001, This Is Just To Do Part 2.1 | http://adrianasa.org/docu_img/TIJTD.htm, Monty, Antwuerp, Belgium
• 1999, Sensations Laboratory #3 | http://adrianasa.org/docu_img/SL.htm , Experimental Intermedia Foundation NYC

Research technique

• Analysis of Sound Design - Podcast about the film "Os Mutantes" (1998) | https://soundcloud.com/camaralisboa/os-mutantes?in=camaralisboa/sets/topografias-imaginarias-2022-o&si=ca40f85a182c42998b50b7071b741498&utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing

Other output

• 2024-04, Report to FCT and EU: Live Interfaces journal, Film EU deliverable