Creative Coder. My work materializes in various formats ranging from tangible interactive installations to Web applications.

I started working on the Web more than 20 years ago and have always been curious and interested in every aspect of it. I have been involved, often concurrently, in every step of its production pipeline, from the interface design and front-end development to server-side programming, database implementation and CMS management.

I'm an educator in various multimedia-related fields with a special focus on interaction in design and artistic settings. In tandem with this activity, I took part in side gigs, which I been exploring more assiduously in recent times. These have been focused lately on the development of apps for brand generative design systems.

I enjoy discovering and experimenting with different technologies and production frameworks as they prove themselves the best fit for any given job. I have been doing this also with my own artistic exploration projects since I first laid my hands on a ZX Spectrum computer and started using it to draw with code.

When away from the computer I find relaxation in ceramic tile painting.

still from trois couleurs (WIP - early prototype)
multiple video analysis and real time recombination (prototyping with processing)

stills from popes (WIP - early prototype)
big data image analysis and recombination (prototyping with processing)

screenshots from vodafone Living Speechmark Generator
client: vodafone - creative coding for superunion Hong Kong - UI design by superunion London
Web app for generative image and video assets creation (javascript, node.js, p5.js)

screenshot from le joy hotel moving logo generator
client: le joy hotel - creative coding for superunion Hong Kong
Desktop app for generative logo creation (processing)

screenshot from genetron generative logo creator tool
client: genetron health - creative coding for superunion Hong Kong
Desktop app for generative logo creation (processing)

16 years teaching

Undergrad subjects taught at ESAP - Escola Superior Artística do Porto

Multimedia Programming Environments;
Multimedia Communication Design II;
Art and Multimedia Communication;
Programming Logic;
Multimedia Script;

Undergrad and postgrad subjects taught at UCP's School of Arts

3D modeling and texturing for videogames and virtual reality (undergrad);
Mobile Apps design and development (undergrad);
Programming languages (undergrad);
Global Arts Studio III (undergrad);
Infographics (postgrad);
Web Design (postgrad);
Artistic project: Multimedia Production I and II (undergrad);
Interdisciplinary Project I and II (undergrad);
Web development (undergrad);
Net Art (masters);
Advanced 3D modeling (masters);
3D texturing and lighting (masters);
Art and digital comunication (masters).

Babel's Monkeys installation
Featured in Torres, R. & Kozak, C. (orgs.) Fobias - Fonias - Fagias. Escritas Experimentais e Eletrónicas Ibero-AfroLatinoamericanas (pp. 258-266) Coleção Cibertextualidades, Vol. 1. Porto: Publicações Universidade Fernando Pessoa
On exhibit (No Legacy || Literatura Electrónica) at the Bernice Layne Brown Gallery, Doe Library, UC Berkeley, Mar. 11 - Sep. 2 '16
presented at xCoAx 2014, 25-28 Jun.'14
(javascript, Twitter API)

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screenshot from Georges's Seurat afternoon at the movies
an homage to both John Hughes on Ferris Bueller's Day Off 30th anniversary and Georges Seurat on Un dimanche après-midi à l'Île de la Grande Jatte exhibition's 130th anniversary. (video)

to video

screenshot from i feel sea
a self-organizing maps inspired algorithm for an alternative visualization of the data from We Feel Fine (2006) by Jonathan Harris and Sep Kamvar
(processing, Twitter API)

screenshot of ocidental sentimento dum o from Cesário Verde's O Sentimento de um Ocidental
Web project of poetry recombination
(javascript, jQuery)

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