Last
year's CRIATECH has explored imminent imbalances and the efforts to maintain existing balances, whether between
nature and men, nature and technology, or men and technology and machines. This relationship focuses on the axes of thought,
but also of memory, of how mankind views the past, feels the present, and imagines the future. CRIATECH is part of the
municipal program AVEIRO TECH CITY that encourages the link between physical, immaterial and modern memory through creative
acts in the digital and electronic areas, creating in the public a new experience with spaces and collective memory - between
ephemeral and definitive, thus generating the heritage of the future. This new art merges with Art Nouveau in its conceptual
essence, as a symbiosis of the development and innovation between technique and art.
José Pina has a degree
in International Relations, a post-graduation in Cultural Tourism (Barcelona University) and a master’s degree in Cities and
Urban Cultures (Coimbra University). He has been a cultural programmer and manager since 1998, having been responsible for
several cultural institutions and festivals. He is the current Teatro Aveirense’s director and cultural adviser to Aveiro’s
mayor, along with the management of the city’s candidacy to European Capital of Culture and the implementation of its 2019-2030
Strategic Plan for Culture. Carlos Verissimo is a curator and art work producer for the festival.
CARLOS
VERÍSSIMO and JOSÉ PINA (media artists and curators, Portugal)https://www.criatech.pt/en/https://www.aveirotechcity.pt/enhttp://www.aveiro2027.pt