Horácio Tomé Marques
Director of uniMAD
Bio
Horácio Tomé Marques is Doctor in Digital Media (Audio-visual and Interactive
Content Creation), by the University of Porto and Nova University of Lisbon (UT
Austin Portugal Program). Also holds a Licenciatura in Communication
Design/Graphic Arts by the Fine Arts School of the University of Porto. He is
Adjunct Professor in the School of Media Arts and Design (Department of
Multimedia), Polytechnic of Porto, where coordinates the course of Motion Design
and VFX. Horácio is an artist, designer and researcher with more than 30 years
of practice and transdisciplinary work production covering a wide spectrum of
areas, including painting, music, digital 3d, and 360 interactive visualization.
He has been at the front of innovative multimedia projects, some now historical
and of national relevance, like the very-first virtual visit to the National
Parliament. In the last decade, he has been developing performative real-time
generative audio-visual projects using technology such as brain-computer
interfaces and methods such as neurofeedback/ biofeedback. He has been
performing and participating in events/ venues such as music festivals, art
exhibitions, techno art hackathons, in concert halls, museums, and contemporary
art galleries. Horácio is an awarded artist/ researcher.
Research interests
- Media/ Multimedia Arts
- Interfaces for communications and art expression
- Art, Science and Technology intersections
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