Patrícia J. Reis will be discussing the topic
of interactivity as an aesthetic strategy to stimulate a haptic visual experience.
In that framework
she will present her most recent project Untherneath the skin another skin, an interactive installation that encloses audio-visual-tactile
feedback that triggers in the interactor multiple sensorial stimuli. The artwork focuses on the interactor’s intimate haptic
experience taking in consideration his or her sensorial and cognitive mechanisms as a potential apparatus in the construction
of unique individual phenomenological experiences.
Patrícia J. Reis b. Lisbon, Portugal, 1981. Her artist practice
pursues new ways of interaction and sensorial engagement with the public in the interdisciplinary field of art and technology.
She graduated in Visual Arts at ESAD, Portugal, in 2004, and in 2011 presented her masters dissertation in Media Art, at the
Lusófona University, Lisbon, Portugal. She has a Ph.D. in art with the thesis Underneath the skin another skin: Body, screen
and interface for an interactive haptic visuality presented at the University of Évora, Portugal, in 2016 with summa cum laude
distinction. From 2006 to 2012, she was lecturing Digital Arts at the Polytechnic Institute of Beja, Portugal. Currently she
lectures at the Universität für Angewandte Kunst in Vienna and at the Kunstuniversität Linz, Austria. Since 2012 she is a
member of Mz Baltazar’s Laboratory – a feminist hackerspace based in Vienna, Austria.
Her work has been widely
exhibited nationally and internationally. In 2013 she was awarded with the Media Art prize from the Edith-Russ-Haus für Medienkunst
in Germany and in 2011 with the grant form the Foundation for Science and technology of Portugal. She currently lives in Vienna,
Austria.
www.patriciajreis.com
