Underneath the skin another skin
Patrícia J. Reis, Selected Works
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Beschreibung
The first monographic publication of artist Patrícia J. Reis assembling selected works accomplished between the years of 2008 and 2019, focusing on her practice in the field of media and interactive art. With essays by: Claudia Giannetti, Michael Wonnerth-Magnusson, Sophia Pantaliadou, Patrícia J. Reis, Taguhi Torosyan
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Reis Patrícia J.
Patrícia J. Reis (b. 1981, Lisbon, PT) is an installation media artist based in Vienna (AT) whose practice encompasses different formats and media to examine our relationship with modern technology. Through an ongoing investigation that destabilize the boundaries between science, technology, magic and spiritual believes, she explores questions “How do we believe in machines?” and “How technology is shaping us bodily?”. In her complex installations she often appeals to the visitor’s sensoriality in an intimate and sensual way, encourage them to become active participants. Seeking to subvert visuality as a primarily mode of experience, she plays with technology as a mean to expand and stimulate corporeal perceptions in the viewer. Inspired by Media theory and Cybernetics, Reis analyses similar modus operandi among humans and machines, such as program, system and automatism, suggesting the human body as such, and playing around with its own sensorial mechanisms. Her work becomes distinctive in the contemporary art scene by combining such disparate imagery, with contrasting media (painting, sculpture, photography, video, interactive systems) and materials (paper, resin, styrofoam, wood, metal, foam, textile).
She studied Painting (ESAD, Superior School of Art and Desing, Caldas da Rainha Portugal, 2004), Media Art (Master program at the Lusófona University, Lisbon, Portugal, 2011), and she holds a Ph.D. in Art (University of Évora, Portugal, 2016).
Reis was a fellow researcher from National Science Technology Foundation of Portugal (2011-2015). From 2006 to 2012, she was lecturing Photography, Video and Digital Arts at the Polytechnic Institute of Beja, Portugal, as a full-time Assistant Professor. Currently she is a post-doc researcher at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna (AT) within the framework of the artist based titled Feminist hacking: building circuits as an artistic practice and she is a Lecturer at the Digital Arts Department of the University of Applied Arts in Vienna (AT), and at the Media Design department of the Art University in Linz, (AT). Currently she is also a guest post-doc researcher at the Weizenbau Institut at TU in Berlin. Since 2012 Reis has been offering workshops, exhibitions, and talks, locally and internationally (Brussels, Copenhagen, Lisbon, Madrid, San Paulo, Rio de Janeiro, San Francisco).
Furthermore, she has a feminist approach on her artistic practice, focusing on the assigned female roles in terms of representation (in the digital image), and on the lack of female participation and visibility behind the production of new technologies and art. Since 2012 she is a board member of the collective Mz* Baltazar’s Lab, a feminist hackerspace based in Vienna (AT) in which she is curating exhibitions and collectively creating and researching on interactive installations on the intersection between art, gender, science and open source technology.
Reis has exhibited her work frequently nationally and internationally in solo and group shows. In 2021 she was awarded with the Outstanding Artist Award in Media Art by the Austrian chancellery for Culture and was the artist selected for the International exchange program IMPACT ART between Austria and San Francisco Bay in the USA, awarded by the Arselectronica, BKMÖES and zero1.org. She participated in several artistic residence programs such as in Canada: Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity (2018) in Banff; Greece: ResidenceSEA — Sensing your environment through art in Heraklion (2016); Germany: Hanse-Wissenschaftskolleg (HWK) in Delmenhorst (2014) and at the Edith-Russ-Haus für Medienkunst (2013) in Oldenburg.
Themen in »Underneath the skin another skin«
Medienkunst Interaktive kunst Interactive haptic visuality