INDEX 2022: ODE: ORQUESTRA DE DISPOSITIVOS ELETRÓNICOS

Promoted by Circuito – Braga Media Arts Educational
Program, Orquestra de Dispositivos Eletrónicos (Electronic Devices Orchestra)
is a project with regular activity, open to the local community, with the
intention of promoting informal meetings around sound production based on
technology. This year, its artistic direction is in charge of the Portuguese
artist and musician Pedro Augusto. Through an artistic residence, they are
preparing a special show for the first edition of Index, a performance that
will feature visuals by Mariana Vilanova.Pedro Augusto (1983) works as an artist and musical
composer for Dance, Theater, Performance and Cinema. He has a vast phonographic
career as musician, producer and editor in several Portuguese music albums in
the last decade. Conducts training, since 2011, in various aspects of sound:
from theory to synthesis. He is responsible for the Found Tapes Porto archive
and the Live Low music project.Mariana Vilanova (1996) is an artist currently
living and working in Porto. Through photography, video or multimedia
installations she has been producing artworks that bring us closer to themes
and challenges of the 21st century, such as the impact of technological
advances on human beings and on the planet. In 2021 she completed a Masters in
Multimedia (FEUP) with the artwork ‘Evoking a Simulated Past’ (gnration). Since
2016, she exhibits regularly, highlighting the works ‘Hiato’, with Francisco
Oliveira (Semibreve Festival), ‘War and the End of Empathy’ (Municipal Gallery
of Porto), and the exhibition ‘Before and After Us’ as the third moment of the
project ‘Future Past Imaginaries’ (Rampa Gallery). In 2019, she won the Sonae
Media Art award for the work ‘Systems Synthesis’ by the berru collective, which
she was part of until 2020.