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. Afiliação: CIAUD-UPT - Centro de Investigação em Arquitetura, Urbanismo e Design.

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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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    Arts, Spirituality, and Religion
    2025-10-31 - Silva, Fátima Matos; Simão, Emília
    Throughout 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.
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    Software-based media art: from the artistic exhibition to the conservation models
    2020-06 - Soares, Celia; Simão, Emília
    This 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.
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    Multidisciplinary Perspectives on New Media Art
    2020-06 - Soares, Célia; Simão, Emília
    New 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.
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    Cosmic Dance: A technoshamanic journey through consciousness
    2024-04-03 - Simão, Emília; Moura, João Martinho
    From 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.
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    Community engagement
    2023-11-29 - Alcindor, Mónica; Simão, Emília
    The 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.
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    Impactful creativity: The role of entrepreneurship education in driving sustainable development [abstract]
    2023-11-07 - Veríssimo, Medéia; Simão, Emília; Fernandes, Sandra; Durão, Marília; Nogueira, Sónia
    The 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. [...]
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    Impactful creativity: The role of entrepreneurship Education in driving sustainable development in the cultural and creative industries
    2025-02-01 - Durão, Marília; Simão, Emília; Veríssimo, Medéia; Nogueira, Sónia; Fernandes, Sandra
    The 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. Entrepreneurship in the cultural and creative industries (CCIs) plays a crucial role in creating new opportunities for employment and revenue generation. Therefore, entrepreneurship education is receiving increasing attention as a means to contribute to the sustainable development of the cultural and creative sector. Underpinned on an Erasmus+ Project, FENICE ‘Fostering Entrepreneurship and Innovation in Cultural and Creative Industries through Interdisciplinary Education’, the present research contributes to the discussion on the main challenges of entrepreneurship education for the CCIs. Using a qualitative research design, this exploratory study employs a focus group with purposeful sampling as the research method. An online focus group was conducted in February 2023, with 11 participants identified as renowned professionals and experts in various cultural, artistic, and creative fields in Portugal. Preliminary results suggest that creatives are perceived, by nature, as entrepreneurial-oriented and often motivated by passion and a sense of mission. However, they also face a generalized lack of perspective on how products/services from the CCIs should be capitalized or how different monetization models may apply to them, especially when culture is perceived more as a symbolic than a capitalizable good. For many cultural and creative entrepreneurs, difficulties arise when understanding how business or project management tools can contribute to their professional growth within the CCIs.
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    Digital culture and music: the influence of fandom on musical consolidation in pandemic times through digital platforms [Abstract]
    2022-07-16 - Borges, Mariane; Simão, Emília
    This study aims to identify the influence of fandom on the consolidation of artistic success in the context of the Covid-19 pandemic, analyzing the behavioral phenomena related to the audience on digital platforms focused on the trajectory of independent artist Ana Cañas. The pandemic caused the cancellation of in-person concerts as a restrictive measure to prevent the spread of the virus, bringing major difficulties for the artists, especially for independent music artists. In the middle of this scenario, Ana Cañas achieved artistic success, made possible due the intervention of fandom: the strategy enabled a live broadcast and recording of an album using digital platforms. This research is based on qualitative and quantitative approach and is classified as a case study, using document analysis and netnography as research techniques for data collection and selection and analysis of comments generated from fan activism, around three digital platforms - Facebook, Instagram and YouTube. The uses of the three platforms in the musical experience and the proximity generated with the communication between fan and artist in this period were observed. It was found that fandom activism effectively helped in the musical consolidation of the independent artist, but represented, above all, a political act of resistance. The social impact that the fandom has had in times of crisis, as it was in the context of the Covid-19 pandemic, is extremely important. Fans played a social role in promoting the artist, using digital platforms as a space for intervention, debate and criticism. Alternative solutions were proposed through the union and collaboration of its members, who acted independently to achieve a common objective, breaking with the dominant power structures. Being independent in the music world goes beyond the debate that involves indies or majors, indie is a state of mind that sets itself against corporate hegemonic values. The fandom acted as a movement of social mobilization and political participation, claiming their rights based on the participation and engagement of the fans themselves.
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    Digital culture and music: The influence of fandom on musical consolidation in pandemic times through digital platforms
    2023-10-01 - Borges, Mariane; Simão, Emília
    This study aims to identify the influence of fandom on the consolidation of artistic success in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic, analysing the behavioral phenomena related to the audience on digital platforms of independent artist Ana Cañas. The pandemic caused the cancellation of in-person concerts, bringing major difficulties for the artists. In the middle of this scenario, Ana Cañas achieved artistic success, made possible due the intervention of fandom. This research is based on qualitative and quantitative approach and is classified as a case study, using document analysis and netnography as research techniques for data collection and selection and analysis of comments generated from fan activism, around three digital platforms - Facebook, Instagram, and YouTube. It was found that fandom activism effectively helped in the musical consolidation of the independent artist, but represented, above all, a political act of resistance.
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    Nostalgia rising Online to Offline: ZNA Gathering: A retrofuturistic celebration
    2023-10-19 - Simão, Emília
    The ZNA Festival (PT) is a proof that the feeling of nostalgia and the desire to go back made possible the return to the lost paradise of many ravers. A decade ago, web 2.0 allowed grouping people into "nostalgic groups", visibly cohesive and with a sense of community inclusion and with identities marked by their festival experiences in the late 90s. Behind ZNA Festival is the Facebook group "ZAMBU" created in 2011 by one of the founders of Boom Festival, who however withdrew from this event. The initial idea of this FB group was to bring together people who follow the evolution of Goa Trance movement in Portugal, based on nostalgia, revivalism, and old school identities of the golden age of raves in Portugal. The ZAMBUS (designation of group members, now extended to the event-goers) are today mostly between 35 and 50 years old, their favorite music genre continues to be Goa Trance and their share this nostalgia physically every 2 years, since 2013. Ten years after the first (re)encounter, beyond its retro-futuristic statement ZNA is surely a nostalgic event that fuels its frenetic dance-floor with previous 2000 odysseys dropped by the most renowned artists. If the digital world enables the creation of people, groups and communities, it also has the ability to regroup them, as happens in this case study. In addition to the old school individual and collective vs. nostalgic experiences, nowadays ZNA also allows new generations a direct immersion in the roots of this culture, which mainstream events inevitably lose.