Simão, Emília
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Emília Simão é Doutorada em Informação e Comunicação em Plataformas Digitais pela Universidade do Porto (UP), Especialista em Media Arts, Mestre em Multimédia e em Estudos Artísticos, e Licenciada em Ciências da Comunicação. É Coordenadora da Licenciatura em Multimédia e Artes da Universidade Portucalense e Docente nas áreas das Estéticas dos Novos Media, Práticas Emergentes das Artes, Investigação Artística, entre outras. Os principais interesses de investigaçao são as Media Arts, Música Eletrónica, Estéticas e Ambientes Digitais, Resistências e Subculturas. É Coordenadora do ObEMMA-Observatório Científico da Música Eletrónica e Arte Media e membro do CIAUD-UPT e do CITCEM. Integra a Comissão Científica e Organizadora de vários eventos internacionais e tem participou em diversas exposições como criadora/artista e curadora.
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CIAUD-UPT - Centro de Investigação em Arquitetura, Urbanismo e Design.
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CIAUD-UPT - Centro de Investigação em Arquitetura, Urbanismo e Design
O Centro de Investigação Gallaecia é responsável pela investigação e produção científica do DAMG. A equipa tem ganho regularmente financiamento para projetos de investigação, como coordenador ou parceiro, em candidaturas da FCT (projeto SEISMIC-V), programa Cultura 2000 (projeto VerSus) ou da Europa Criativa (projeto 3DPAST). A equipa realiza igualmente, consultoria e prestação de serviços a Municípios, assim como apoio às comunidades nas Juntas de Freguesia e Santa Casa da Misericórdia. Os principais projetos de investigação ganhos e coordenados pela equipa têm sido dedicados sobretudo a património vernáculo, arquitetura de terra, Património Mundial e multimédia. Atualmente, encontram-se em desenvolvimento, os projetos “Versus+: Heritage for People” do programa Europa Criativa, com participação de 4 países (2019-2023); e o projeto “SizaAtlas: Filling the gaps” projeto FCT, coordenado pelo ISCTE, com parceria da FAUP e da UPT (2021-2024).
Devido ao desenvolvimento ativo de projetos, de formação e capacitação, de valorização e proteção de património vernáculo e de arquitetura de terra, a equipa foi outorgada, com a Cátedra UNESCO de “Arquitetura de Terra, Desenvolvimento Sustentável e Culturas Construtivas”, da UNITWIN e Chaire UNESCO da CRAterre; e é membro institucional da Rede Ibero-americana PROTERRA de arquitetura e construção com terra.
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Publication Open Access Digital accessibility in Art Museum Webpages and Virtual Tours [comunicação oral]2024-10-30 - Silva, Fátima Matos; Simão, EmíliaSem resumo disponível.Publication Open Access Arts, Spirituality, and Religion2025-10-31 - Silva, Fátima Matos; Simão, EmíliaThroughout history, art has played a central role in the articulation of spirituality and the experience of the sacred. From its integration into religious rituals and sacred spaces to its capacity to transcend institutional boundaries, art has been a profound vehicle for exploring humanity’s connection to the divine. The historical use of art in religious rituals and sacred spaces forms the foundation of this inquiry, revealing how visual, architectural, and performative arts have facilitated spiritual experiences across cultures and eras. Beyond historical frameworks, artistic expression remains a powerful medium for both personal and collective spirituality, enabling individuals and communities to grapple with existential questions and express devotion in innovative ways. As the relationship between the arts, spirituality, and religion evolves in increasingly secular societies, new questions emerge about their role in navigating metaphysical concerns. For example, digital media arts and electronic music festivals have emerged as transformative spiritual vehicles in contemporary society, offering novel ways to experience connection, transcendence, and meaning in modern contexts. This Special Issue aims to analyze the dynamic intersections of arts, spirituality, and religion, exploring how these domains historically and contemporarily shape the human experience. It seeks to observe and uncover how artistic practises can serve as profound vehicles for expressing the spiritual and the sacred while challenging and reinterpreting traditional religious narratives. Contributions spanning various artistic forms—visual arts, digital media arts, music, literature, performing arts, or architecture—aim to explore the role of fostering spiritual connection, religious devotion, and existential inquiry. Simultaneously, spirituality, which often transcends institutional religious frameworks, finds resonance in abstract and non-representational practises and esthetics, where ambiguity invites subjective interpretation and deeper introspection. This Special Issue invites interdisciplinary perspectives from art, theology, philosophy, sociology, anthropology, cultural studies, and technology, among others, to illuminate the transformative power of artistic languages connected to the metaphysical and the divine. Simultaneously, contemporary reinterpretations of the sacred through abstract and non-representational art challenge conventional religious narratives, inviting subjective engagement and introspection. Contributions are encouraged to explore how the arts foster inter-religious dialogue and cultural inclusion, serving as bridges between diverse spiritual traditions. Examining these intersections seeks to foster a deeper understanding of how the arts continue to shape and be shaped by spiritual and religious experiences in a promptly changing world.Publication Restricted Access Software-based media art: from the artistic exhibition to the conservation models2020-06 - Soares, Celia; Simão, EmíliaThis chapter illustrates the reaction to the preservation and conservation of software-based media art and summarizes the crucial ideas and questions that involve this emergent area of conservation. The chapter analyzes the role in which conservators explore the impact of the method, attitudes to change, technology obsolescence, and the influence of the how the artist imagines and understands their practice on the conservation of these works as they enter the exhibition space. In addressing the conservation of software-based media art, this chapter highlights the variety of knowledge and expertise required: expertise that is personified in the teamwork of those who support these functions. The author completes the chapter by recommending that developing and maintaining these efforts has become a crucial part of the software-based media conservator's role.Publication Restricted Access Multidisciplinary Perspectives on New Media Art2020-06 - Soares, Célia; Simão, EmíliaNew media has been gaining importance in the academic world as well as the artistic world through the concept of new media art. As the connections between art and communication technologies grow and further embrace a wide range of concepts, interpretations, and applications, the number of disciplines that will be touched will likewise continue to expand. Multidisciplinary Perspectives on New Media Art is a collection of innovative research on the methods and intersections between new media, artistic practices, and digital technologies. While highlighting topics including audience relationship, digital art, and computer animation, this book is ideally designed for academicians, researchers, high-level art students, and art professionals.Publication Open Access Cosmic Dance: A technoshamanic journey through consciousness2024-04-03 - Simão, Emília; Moura, João MartinhoFrom archaic contexts to current reconfigurations, the shaman, wrapped in magical-religious lineages, operates as a guiding element, inducer of ecstatic states, and mediator between worlds. Can technology allow these attributes when digital codes and organic webs spin together, fueling cosmological dances and transitions to altered states of consciousness? The project Cosmic Dance, A Tecnhoshamanic Journey through Consciousness, explores the concept of technoshamanism, from which an allusion - possible or metaphorical - to the shamanic facet of technology is proposed.Publication Open Access The importance of creativity in vernacular heritage2021 - Carlos, Gilberto Duarte; Correia, Mariana; Simão, EmíliaIt is rather common to establish orthodox criteria when addressing built heritage subjects, especially regarding operative procedures that range from valorisation to conservation measures. [...]Publication Open Access Ob.EMMA: A pioneer observatory of electronic music and media art in Portugal2021-10 - Soares, Celia; Santos, Nadine; Simão, EmíliaThe Observatory of Electronic Music and Media Art (Ob.EMMA) is a pioneer observatory created in 2019 for monitoring, mapping, diagnosing and promoting the investigation of electronic music and media art in Portugal. Ob.EMMA is part of the ID research center CITCEM_Center for Transdisciplinary Research on Culture, Space and Memory. Given its hybrid nature, this observatory includes artists and academics from various institutions and areas, namely, communication sciences, social sciences, technologies, humanities and arts. Ob.EMMA integrates two main lines of research: 1_Elec- tronic Music and 2_Media Art. explored both autonomously and also together. One of the objectives of this observatory is to create a digi- tal platform with the main purpose of organizing, managing and preserving information, using different storytelling forms of visual- ization. The work in progress is a pilot project, developed within the scope of line 1_Electronic Music to be later applied in the line 2_Media Art and if possible, to create intersections between both and available on the web for public access.Publication Open Access Community engagement2023-11-29 - Alcindor, Mónica; Simão, EmíliaThe publication presents the results of the project ‘Versus-Heritage for People’, funded by the Creative Europe EU programme. The main aim of the project was to actively involve a broad audience and raise awareness among it concerning the value of vernacular knowledge in shaping more sustainable and resilient models of development. The material and immaterial elements constituting a vernacular heritage (encompassing local materials, construction methods, models for living and social interaction, technical and environmental knowledge for the management of territories, natural resources, settlements, etc.) have enormous potential for generating forward-thinking models that can improve the environmental and social quality of our habitats, foster a sense of identity and belonging, and relate in a balanced way to the capacities of our planet. The book explores strategies and tools for managing and transmitting knowledge and the values associated with vernacular heritage. It includes concrete examples and good practices for engaging people in processes of knowledge and the enhancement of vernacular heritage values for sustainability. The outcome is the result of the collaborative efforts between the five academic institutions involved in the project – Universitat Politècnica de València as coordinator (ES), University of Florence (IT), University of Cagliari (IT), CRAterre-ENSAG (FR) and Escola Superior Gallaecia at Universidade Portucalense (PT). A total of 63 authors, comprising both external scholars and professionals, contributed to the book.Publication Open Access Impactful creativity: The role of entrepreneurship education in driving sustainable development [abstract]2023-11-07 - Veríssimo, Medéia; Simão, Emília; Fernandes, Sandra; Durão, Marília; Nogueira, SóniaThe cultural and creative sector is one of the most dynamic sectors of the portuguese economy, contributing to job creation, innovation, social development, preservation of cultural heritage, and the promotion of the country's image across the globe. [...]Publication Restricted Access Thinking art in the technological world: an approach to digital media art creation2018-07 - Silva, Henrique; Simão, EmíliaIn this chapter, the authors discuss the use of digital media in the creation of digital art, questioning the evolution of the relationship between technology and concept in communication through art. The intersection of new media and digital art have been opening interesting and seductive new horizons and in parallel, the concept, the understanding, the legitimacy of artistic creation, the role of the artist and the role of the spectator are also redefined. Based on two experimental works of the artist Henrique Silva, the authors analyze and reflect on the relationship of technology, art and virtuality, focusing on concepts like experience, sensory, immersion, communication and interaction in artworks created through digital media.