Keynote Speakers
Artist Talk
AV Performance
Workshops
Exhibitions
Film Screenings
Keynote Speakers
Tarik Barri
Creating Visual Music
Tarik Barri is a builder of audiovisual worlds. As an audiovisual composer and software developer, he programs his own tools for performance and composition. As co-founder of Showsync, he co-developed Videosync – software that extends Ableton Live into an audiovisual engine for controlling visuals alongside music. While his work is built on technical foundations, his approach is guided more by intuition than analysis – seeking that resonance between sound and image where they become inseparable. His work takes various forms including installations, videos and AV performances. Barri frequently collaborates with artists like Thom Yorke, Ben Frost, Nicolas Jaar, and Robert Henke.
Miguel Carvalhais
From Analogue to Metaphor: Art in the computational turn.
Miguel Carvalhais is a designer, artist, musician, and Professor of Design at the Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of Porto. His research explores computational art, design, and aesthetics, topics to which he has dedicated two books: “Art and Computation” (2022, V2_) and “Artificial Aesthetics” (2016, U. Porto Press). His artistic practice is developed between computational music, sound art, performance, and installation, collaborating with Pedro Tudela in the @c project, and often with other sound and visual artists. He runs Crónica, a label for experimental music and sound art, and the xCoAx conference on computation, communication, aesthetics, and x.
Artist Talk
Fernando Mota
Composer, musician, and performer, Fernando Mota has been developing a multidisciplinary approach that blends music, theatre, visual arts, and poetry to create performances, installations and film. He regularly composes music for theatre, dance, and cinema. His work is shaped by the intersection of diverse languages, geographies, and tools, as well as the exploration of the expressive and symbolic potential of natural elements and spaces, alongside the creation of experimental musical instruments.
AV Performance
30×N by @c + Visiophone
Pedro Tudela and Miguel Carvalhais collaborate as @c since 2000, having produced performances, music releases and installations in a practice marked by experimentalism with computational sound. In 2003 they founded Crónica, a label dedicated to experimental music and sound art.
Rodrigo Carvalho (Visiophone) is a designer and artist. He works with computational media to develop visuals, creative programming and interactive art in contexts ranging from screens to stages or installations. He is part of the Openfield Creativelab collective and the Boris Chimp 504 project, and he regularly collaborates with several other artists.
Workshops
Creating visual music with Videosync | by Tarik Barri
10:00 – 17:30 – 1 April 2025
Colégio dos Leões – Escola de Artes – Universidade de Évora
Audiovisual artist Tarik Barri will show how to get started with Videosync, software that allows musicians and visual artists to create real-time visuals that evolve with sound — or stand independently as purely visual works. Videosync extends Ableton Live’s creative workflow into the visual realm. Videos can be looped, processed, warped, while visual instruments and effects work alongside Live’s audio devices, using MIDI, automation, and signal routing. You can combine live improvisation with precisely pre-composed elements, develop your own audiovisual interactions, and build unique visual worlds. Initially the domain of tech enthusiasts, with Videosync these techniques are now accessible to creators from all backgrounds.
Exploratory Music & Creative Practices | by João Silva
29-30 March | 14:00 – 20:00
Colégio Mateus D’Aranda – Escola de Artes – Universidade de Évora
This workshop is designed for students seeking to deepen their practical knowledge in contemporary music creation and real-time creative performance: by applying their own understanding of musical elements in an interdisciplinary environment – characterized by extensive collaboration with their peers and interaction with visiting lecturers -, participants will be encouraged to engage both critically and creatively with music and sound, learning to convey their ideas and emotions, while reciprocally fostering responses to their own and others’ musical materials.
João Silva is a trumpeter, educator, and researcher with a diverse background in music. His eclectic and multifaceted career is particularly focused on the instrument’s contemporary repertoire, having played at some of the most important festivals and venues throughout Europe. In recent years, he has developed a particular interest in music for trumpet and electronics, a genre he has delved into and explored, working together with composers and frequently performing in Portugal and abroad. João is also avidly dedicated to improvisation, participating in various experimental music performances, often combining multimedia elements and multidisciplinary intersections.
Exhibitions
ELABORARTE – Student Exhibition
1 – 22 April | 9:00 – 17:00
Galeria 6 – Colégio dos Leões
The “ELABORARTE” exhibition, produced for MULTIMODUS’25, showcases a selection of works by students from various curricular units of the Degree in Animation and Multimedia Design (DAM) at the Department of Arts, Design, and Animation of the Higher School of Technology, Management, and Design at the Polytechnic of Portalegre.This exhibition offers a behind-the-scenes look at the creative process, featuring sketches, storyboards, character and environment designs, animation tests, and other materials that trace the journey from concept to final execution. “ELABORARTE” celebrates the artistic process—embracing experimentation, trial and error, and moments of discovery. It highlights the dedication, talent, and creativity of students as they bring their stories to life, transforming ideas from paper to screen.
Illustration by Petra Fernandes
MODUS PRINT – Student Exhibition
1 – 27 April | 9:30 – 13:00 and 14:30 – 18:00 (opening: 1 April – 17:00)
Museu da Tapeçaria de Portalegre – Guy Fino
The “MODUS PRINT” exhibition, produced for MULTIMODUS’25, showcases printed works created within the Printing Techniques curricular units of the Degree in Plastic Arts and Multimedia and the Degree in Design at the University of Évora. The collection features relief engraving, metal engraving, and screen printing techniques, highlighting a diverse range of artistic approaches. Spanning multiple academic years and including recent works, the exhibition presents a rich variety of themes, techniques, and forms of expression.
Image by Carolina Condeço
Film Screenings
MONSTRA 2025 – Festival Extension
1 April | 21:30
Auditório SOROR Mariana (free entry)
Since 2000, MONSTRA | Lisbon Animation Festival has as main goals to celebrate artistic transversality and to promote encounters between people with different artistic backgrounds by using the most basic and multidisciplinary language we know: the one of Animation Cinema. Throughout the years, the Festival has developed into a concept… MONSTRA on the Loose. Firstly, taking over Lisbon, in multiple places and finding publics of different interests and sensibilities. Then, MONSTRA is set loose across the country, visiting more than 40 cities each year.
Punto Y Raya Festival – Festival Extension
31 March | 21:30
Auditório SOROR Mariana (free entry)
2 March | 21:30
Centro de Artes do Espetáculo de Portalegre (free entry)
PUNTO Y RAYA FESTIVAL is the world event for Abstract Art in Motion, bringing together the PyR community in various cities. The Festival celebrates the latest achievements in abstract film, animation & new media, and recovers & contextualises great classics, providing a creative meeting point between artists and general audiences.
It invites experimenters to take the genre’s possibilities to the limit, and motivates new audiences to take an active role in the creative process.