Urândia Aragão
Interdisciplinary artist and designer
1977, born in Luanda, Angola
Currently lives and works in Lisbon



Education

2010/12 - PEPCC/ Choreographic Creation, Dance Research and Training Program,
an Intensive and Advanced course in Contemporary Dance at Forum Dança, Lisbon.

2004 /05 - Master in Multimedia Interface Design at the Universitat Pompeu Fabra/ ELISAVA, Barcelona.

1996 /01 - Graduation in Design and Graphic Technologies at the Art and Design University/ ESAD, Caldas da Rainha.



Professional Experience

2014
- Performance Fio Condutor, presented at Festival Humain Trop Humain, Montpellier;
- Graphic and Interface Design working on the project "BlackBox - A collaborative Platform to Document Performance Composition: from conceptual structures in the backstage to customizable visualizations in the front-end" at FCT/UNL, Lisbon.
- Performance Fio Condutor, presented at Festival Alkantara, Lisboa;
- Performance Fio Condutor, artistic creation 2014;
- Teaching classes of “Video Annotation and Documentation for Performing Arts” at PEPCC 2013/14, Forum Dança, Lisbon.

2013
- Boom Festival 2014 graphic interface design and animations, Lisbon.
- Artistic Residency with Interlocal Atelier "Sundays for Everyone" at Espaço Alkantara, Lisboa.
- Artistic Residencies with "Fio Condutor" at Espaço Alkantara, Lisboa.
- Creation Assistant and Performer in "Mais Pra Menos Que Pra Mais”, a performance of Vera Mantero presented at Culturgest, Lisbon.
- Group Coordinator and Performer in "ATLAS", a performance of Ana Borralho and João Galante, at PT.13/ Portuguese Platform of Performing Arts, Montemor-o-novo.

2010/13
- Graphic and Interface Designer on the project “TKB/ A Transmedia Knowledge Base for Performing Arts" with a research grant focus on the development of new models of annotation and documentation for performing arts at FCT/UNL, Lisbon.

2011
- Boom Festival 2012 graphic and interface design, in collaboration with Mário Belém.
- "Upon Four Feet, An Horizontal Plane", a co-creation with the Collective MESA, an artistic research project selected and presented by the Teatro Maria Matos, Lisbon.
- Interpreter in “One-More-Ti-me”, a dance piece of Martine Pisani presented at Teatro Maria Matos, Lisbon.

2009/10
- “INTERFACE”, game and performance, created and presented at eira33, Lisbon.
- Interpreter in 'MONSTER', a dance piece of Carlota Lagido, presented at eira33.

2008
- "Toni Banza", a video installation, a co-creation with David Leitão for the Exhibition PARTES 2, Lisbon.

2007/10
- Graphic and Multimedia Designer: art direction, interface design and motion graphics at thestudio, Lisbon;

2006
- Visual Artist and Interface Designer at Cloud9, Barcelona;
- Graphic and interface Designer of the Video Art Festival/ LOOP, Barcelona.

2005
- Graphic designer of the Video Art Festival/ LOOP, Barcelona.
- Interactive Dvd achievement: graphic and video edition for the Biennial Architecture Prize for the Fundació Mies Van Der Rohe, Barcelona.
- “Albert”, a video installation presented at K-Fusión Project Exhibition, Seoul-Barcelona.
- "Hipermedia", multimedia installation, presented at ELISAVA/FAUP, Barcelona.
- “Chuck.In.Love”, a game and VJ live act, a co-creation with Maria Gallet, presented at MOOG, Barcelona.

2002/04
- Art Director at BBDO Portugal, Advertising Agency, Lisbon.

1999
- Traineeship in Design and Communication at VISAR, Caldas da Rainha.



Adicional Education

2012
- Dance Workshop with Boris Charmart at Musée de la Danse/ Le Garage, Rennes.
- "Mergulhar num Processo", workshop with André Lepeki and Vera Mantero, at Artistas Unidos, Lisbon.

2011
- (Auto)Biography Creation Lab - Encounters and ateliers with Nature Theater of Oklahoma, Nelson Guerreiro, Maria Antónia Oliveira, Rui Catalão, Xavier Le Roy e Mark Deputter, at Teatro Maria Matos, Lisbon.

2010
- [k]NOwBODY I, II e III, workshop with João Fiadeiro at Atelier Real, Lisbon;
- "Just One Time", a dance workshop with Martine Pisani and Theo Kooijman, at Teatro Maria Matos, Lisbon.

2009/10
- Choreography research and composition, atelier with Carlota Lagido, at eira33, Lisbon;
- "MONSTER", workshop with Carlota Lagido, at eira33, Lisbon.

2008/09
- Workshop “RESIDENTES” BLOCO I: Body, Voice, Lighting/ BLOCO II: Body, Sound, Theater/ BLOCO III: Body, Architecture, Video with Ana Santos, Barbara Hora, Carlos Zíngaro, Lúcia Lemos, Paulo Rodrigues at ACCCA & Auditório Olga Cadaval, Sintra and Lisbon;

2008
- Choreography Composition Lab with Rafael Alvarez at eira33, Lisbon.
- Theater Research and Choreography Composition with Sílvia Real at eira33, Lisbon.
- Contemporary Dance/ Movement Classes with Ana Santos at C.E.M, Lisbon.
- "Arduíno" workshop, with André Gonçalves at Artes&Ideias, Lisbon.
- "Motion Graphics" workshop with Rui Veiga at RESTART, Lisbon.

2007/08
- Contemporary Dance Classes with Carla Ribeiro at Forum Dança, Lisbon.
- "Body In Movement" workshop at "SOU-Movimento e Arte", Lisbon.

2005
- CONCEPT&CREATION workshop with Hort at LAUS - ELISAVA, Barcelona;
- SPACE-MEDIA workshop with Konic Theater at ELISAVA, Barcelona;
- BURN STATION /ACTIVISM workshop with Platoniq at ELISAVA, Barcelona;
- HYPERMEDIA workshop with Laura Cantarella at FAUB, ELISAVA, Barcelona.
- IN-OUT workshop with Area3 , ELISAVA, Barcelona.
- PROCESSING workshop with Jared Tarbell, ELISAVA, Barcelona;
- CODEGRAPHICS workshop with Inothna / ELISAVA / Barcelona;

1998/2004
- Capoeira Classes with Nelson Barros, Lisbon.

1998
- "Video-Sampling" workshop with João Paulo Feliciano at ESAD, Caldas da Rainha.
- "Graphic Communication" workshop with David Carson at ESAD, Caldas da Rainha.


Publications

- AVI '12 Proceedings of the International Working Conference on Advanced Visual Interfaces; Pages 572-579; Cabral, D., Valent, J., Silva, J., Aragão, U., Fernandes, C. And Correia, N. A Creation-Tool for Contemporary Dance using Multimodal Video Annotation. ACM New York, NY, USA ©2012 Tkb;


Prizes

- London International Advertising and Awards 2003 Finalist Design: Self Promotion_BBDO_"Artistic Vein?"
- Bronze Bell at the Advertising Festival, Figueira da Foz 2003 In the press category with "Artistic Vein" to BBDO Portugal.
- Sino de Bronze no Festival de Publicidade de Figueira da Foz 2003 In the outdoor category with "Artistic Vein" para BBDO Portugal.
- Short-list at the Festival Clube de Criativos 2003
In the radio category with the Spot "Rotations", client Clix / BBDO Portugal


Language Skills
portuguese | english | spanish