Presentation

The International Conference Creation Processes CIAC is organized by the Visual Arts and Creation Processes Working Group of the Research Center in Arts and Communication (CIAC) at the University of Algarve.

Resulting from an international collaboration, initiated in 2019, with the Research Group in Creation Processes of the Pontifical Catholic University of São Paulo (PUC-SP), which has been dedicated to the broad area of Creation Processes and their intersections for over 30 years.

The first edition of the Conference is dedicated to the theme of Theories that live in practices and will take place on October 28th and 29th, 2024, in Faro, at the University of Algarve, at the Penha Campus.

Call for Submissions

In October 2024, artists and researchers gather at the University of Algarve, at the initiative of CIAC – Research Center in Arts and Communication, willing to contemplate Creation Processes across practices, materialities, procedures, and methods, under the theme of Theories that live in practices.

CIAC has intensified studies and actions in the area of Creation Processes, especially since the beginning of the partnership with the Research Group in Creation Processes of PUC-SP (2019), cwith over 30 years of experience dedicated to research in this area. The results of this Portugal-Brazil partnership include the CIAC Creation Processes Collection (2022), the Master’s Degree in Creation Processes at the University of Algarve, and the CIAC Creation Processes Conference (2024).

Thinking about Creation Processes in contemporary times means, among other things, contemplating the “faber” humanity that, in the face of its own incongruities and asymmetries, recreates, fictionalizes, and documents itself in multiple times and spaces. There is much art behind the scenes, in the theatre wings, in the frames and saved versions, in the costumes, in the pigments, in the rolls of paper, in the rearrangement of things, and in bringing people together.

The focus of this first edition is the theories that live in these (so many) practices, aiming to be a door/crack to showcase and experience this fruitful field.

The Conference welcomes abstracts for presentations by artists and researchers on the theme of the edition, Theories that live in practices, and on other suggested central themes, but not limited to:

  • Contemporary experimentation
  • Theories of artistic creation and their poetics
  • Materialities and procedures of artistic creation
  • Culture, memory, and archives of creation
  • Reception and group creation
  • Research methodologies in creation processes
  • Transdisciplinarity and creation processes
  • Genetic criticism
  • Creation and translations
  • Creation processes reports

Abstracts should have between 200 and 300 words and be submitted via the Submission Form, through the Conference website, by June 30, 2024.

After the event, speakers are invited to submit the full article, following the CIAC Editions guidelines, for publication in a special volume of the Creation Processes Collection.

The registration is free.

Registration

Registration Form

Important Dates

  • Submission of abstracts: June 30th, 2024
  • Communication of results to participants: July 15th, 2024
  • Full program: September 30th, 2024
  • Pre-Conference: October 26th, 2024
  • Conference: October 28th and 29th, 2024

Keynotes

Cecilia Sales

Cecilia Salles is an international reference in the field of Creation Processes, with over 30 years dedicated to this field of study, which has grown significantly in recent years, in part due to her contributions. She is the author of several books on the subject, including “Unfinished Gesture: Artistic Creation Process” (1998), “Genetic Criticism: A (New) Introduction” (2008), “Networks of Creation: Construction of Works of Art” (2006), “Creation Archives: Art and Curatorship” (2010), and “Group Creation Processes: Dialogues” (2017). She is a Full Professor in the Postgraduate Program in Communication and Semiotics at PUC-SP, as well as a Guest Professor in the Master’s Program in Creation Processes at the University of Algarve, where she was involved in the creation of the program. She is also the Coordinator of the Research Group in Creation Processes at PUC-SP, where she supervises innovative studies based on the cross-sectional approach to Creation Processes. She participates in various national and international projects, focusing on the approach to Creation Processes; and, since 2019, she has collaborated with CIAC, significantly contributing to the advancement of contemporary discussions on the topic.

Manuela Penafria

Manuela Penafria is Associate Professor at the Dept. of Arts, from the University of Beira Interior (UBI) where she received her PhD in Communication Sciences, Cinema variant, in 2006, and is a researcher at LabCom and iA* Arts Research Unit. At UBI, she teaches in the BA and MA in Cinema courses such as “Cinema Theory I”, “Arts Research”, “Filmmakers on Film” and also coordinates the documentary module of the Cinema Project curricular units and teaches Cinema Seminar modules on programming and cinephilia. She is co-editor of the DOC On-line journal dedicated to documentary film. At AIM she is a coordinating member of the Working Group “Filmmakers on Film”. She has participated in evaluation panels in entities such as A3es-Agency for Assessment and Accreditation of Higher Education or ICA-Cinema and Audiovisual Institute and in juries of competitions and academic exams in national universities and polytechnics. Among her publications, she highlights two pedagogical dossiers for the National Cinema Plan, the collection of three books about the cinema theory approach under the designation Filmmakers on Film (Ed. LabCom, 2016 and 2017), the co-edition of the book Filmmakers on Film- Global Perspectives, by BFI, 2023 and the book chapter “Unfinished: the cinema of Noémia Delgado” published in the book Women’s Cinema in Contemporary Portugal, edited by Mariana Liz & Hilary Owen, by Bloomsbury, which received the AIM Best Essay Award, 2022.

Leonardo Mouramateus

Leonardo Mouramateus (Fortaleza, 1991) is a Brazilian filmmaker, dramaturgist, and screenwriter based in Lisbon since 2014. Master in Multimedia Art by the University of Lisbon, graduated in Cinema and Audiovisual at the Federal University of Ceará, always staying close to the performing arts and dance dramaturgy. He wrote and directed films shown at several festivals such as Locarno, Viennale, IDFA, Cinéma du Réel and Bafici. Retrospectives of his filmography were presented in Portugal, France, Colombia, and more recently at the IFFRotterdam. “Antonio One Two Three” (2017), a Portuguese-Brazilian co-production and his first feature film, premiered at the Rotterdam Film Festival. “Life is Two Days” (2022), his second feature film, premiered in the international competition at FIDMarseille, received an honorable mention of the international competition jury. “Greice,” his third feature film, premiered in 2024, at the Rotterdam Film Festival.

Organization

Organization

CIAC – Centro de Investigação em Artes e Comunicação

CIAC Coordination

  • Mirian Tavares
  • Bruno Mendes da Silva

Co-organization

Creation Processes Research Group of Pontifical Catholic University of São Paulo (PUC-SP)

Creation Processes Research Group of PUC-SP Coordination

  • Cecilia Almeida Salles

Conference President

Mirian Tavares

Responsible Researcher

Patrícia Dourado

Organizing Committee

  • Patrícia Dourado (UAlg/CIAC, Portugal) (Coordenação)
  • Alexandre Alves Barata (UAlg/CIAC, Portugal)
  • Ana Clara Santos (UAlg/CIAC, Portugal)
  • Ana Isabel Soares (UAlg/CIAC, Portugal)
  • Camila Mangueira (UP/FBAUP, Portugal)
  • Cecilia Almeida Salles (PUC-SP, Brasil)
  • Mirian Tavares (UAlg/CIAC, Portugal)
  • Paula Martinelli (PUC-SP, Brasil)
  • Pedro Cabral Santo (UAlg/CIAC, Portugal)
  • Wagner de Miranda (PUC-SP, Brasil)

Scientific Committee

  • Alexandre Alves Barata (UAlg/CIAC, Portugal)
  • Ana Alexandra Carvalho (UAlg/CIAC, Portugal)
  • Ana Clara Santos (UAlg/CIAC, Portugal)
  • Ana Isabel Soares (UAlg/CIAC, Portugal)
  • Ana Filipa Cerol (UAlg/CIAC, Portugal)
  • António Branco (UAlg/CIAC, Portugal)
  • António Costa Valente (UAlg/CIAC, Portugal)
  • Bruno Mendes da Silva (UAlg/CIAC, Portugal)
  • Camila Mangueira (UP/FBAUP, Portugal)
  • Carina Infante (UAlg/CIAC, Portugal)
  • Cecilia Almeida Salles (PUC-SP, Brasil)
  • Gabriela Borges (UAlg/CIAC, Portugal)
  • João Carlos Carvalho (UAlg/CIAC, Portugal)
  • Jorge Carrega (UAlg/CIAC, Portugal)
  • Kenia Dias (UNB, Brasil) 
  • Mirian Tavares (UAlg/CIAC, Portugal)
  • Patrícia Dourado (UAlg/CIAC, Portugal)
  • Paula Martinelli (PUC-SP, Brasil)
  • Pedro Alves da Veiga (UAB/CIAC, Portugal)
  • Pedro Cabral Santo (UAlg/CIAC, Portugal)
  • Susana Costa (UAlg/CIAC, Portugal)
  • Vítor Kisil (BA, Brasil) 
  • Wagner de Miranda (PUC-SP, Brasil)

Communication and Logistics Committee

  • Beatriz Valente (Communication and Logistics)
  • Juan Manuel Escribano Loza (Visual Identity and Webmaster)
  • João Paulo Reis (Photo and Video Coverage)

Organization

Support

This work is financed by national funds through FCT – Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, I.P., in the framework of project «UID/04019/2020».

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