Isabelle Ferreira (Montreuil, France, 1972) has presented her work in venues such as the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation in Paris, the Château d’Oiron, the Institut d’art contemporain de Villeurbanne, Espace de l’Art Concret in Mouans-Sartoux, and the 23rd edition of Art dans les chapelles in Brittany. In 2008, she created an in situ work, SpacioCorès, for the Centre d’Art Passerelle in Brest, which she later reinterpreted for the Kunstverein Tiergarten in Berlin. The artist has received several institutional grants and awards and has undertaken residencies at notable institutions, including the Cité des Arts, Paris; Location One, New York; Terra Foundation, Giverny; Astérides, Marseille; and Domaine de Kerguéhennec. In 2018, she was in residence at the Josef & Anni Albers Foundation. In 2019, she won a public commission for the city of Vitry-sur-Seine. In 2022, she was awarded the Ekphrasis grant (ADAGP, AICA and Le Quotidien de l’Art). Her work forms part of the collections at the Musée d’Arts de Nantes, Frac Normandie, the Josef & Anni Albers Foundation, CNAP – Centre National des Arts Plastiques, Fonds d’Art Contemporain – Paris Collections, Fonds Municipal d’Œuvres Graphiques et Photographiques de Vitry-sur-Seine, Frac Auvergne, Frac Poitou-Charentes, and recently MRAC Occitanie. She is represented in France by Galerie Maubert.

Liliana Coutinho is a conference programmer at Culturgest. She curated the INDEX 2022 and INDEX 2024 Art and Technology Festival / Braga Media Arts, as well as the Walk&Talk Art Biennial in Ponta Delgada, Azores (2025). She has also co-edited the books Close-Up (Orfeu Negro, 2022), Paisagens Imprevistas (2020), and the academic journal JSTA, dedicated to Techno-Aesthetics (2025). Her writings include, among others: ‘Empatia: Reflexões sobre uma possível correlação humano-artificial,’ in Arte, Digital, Academia, Museu Zer0 (Museu Zer0 & i2ADS, 2024); ‘O delicado fio do comum,’ in André Guedes, Ensaios para uma antológica (Kunsthalle Lissabon & Cura Books, 2016); ‘L’objet: ni un fétiche ni une preuve, mais un don pour la performance,’ in Performance Vie d’Archive (Les Presses du Réel, 2014); ‘O Coro, outra vez,’ in Anne Teresa de Keersmaeker em Lisboa (INCM, 2013); ‘On the utility of a universal’s fiction,’ in Gimme Shelter: Global Discourses in Aesthetics (Amsterdam University Press, 2013); and ‘Hearing our pathway – A Sensuous Walk,’ in Mobility and Fantasy in Visual Culture (Routledge, 2013). She oversaw the Education Department’s programming at Museu de Arte Contemporânea de Serralves (2012-2015) and was curator and assistant director at Teatro Municipal Maria Matos (2015-2017).  Liliana holds a PhD in Aesthetics and Art Sciences from Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne and is a researcher at IHC – NOVA FCSH / IN2PAST. She is also a guest lecturer for the postgraduate course in Art Curatorship at FCSH/UNL. 

Hugo Dos Santos holds a master’s degree in Contemporary History and Film. He began his career in documentary filmmaking as an assistant on films based on audiovisual archives, addressing topics such as immigration, exile, colonialism, and social struggles, working with directors including João Canijo and Pascal Blanchard, before also pursuing journalism. He has published for media outlets including France 24, Courrier International, RFI, Voxeurop, and Libération. Alongside this, he is involved with the association Mémoire vive / Memória viva, which undertakes critical work on the memory of Portuguese immigration in France. He contributed to the creation of the first archival collection dedicated to this topic and helped organise film screening cycles of rare or previously unseen works. In 2019, he curated the exhibition Refuser la guerre coloniale, exploring the Parisian exile of Portuguese conscientious objectors, draft resisters and deserters from the colonial war. He is also the director of the documentaries Transit (2021) and Les mains invisibles (2022), the latter focusing on a group of Portuguese deserters and anti-colonialist activists exiled in Paris. After living in Paris and Lisbon, he now resides in Sofia, Bulgaria. 

Victor Pereira holds a PhD in History from the Institut des Sciences Politiques de Paris and is a researcher at the Institute of Contemporary History, Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities, NOVA University Lisbon. He focuses on the study of Portuguese emigration and the Estado Novo regime and has published numerous academic works on these subjects. Together with Nuno Domingos, he organised O Estado Novo em questão (Edições 70, 2010), and he is the author of A ditadura de Salazar e a emigração. O Estado português e os seus emigrantes em França (1957-1974) (Temas e Debates, 2014) and C’est le peuple qui commande. La révolution des Oeillets (1974-1976) (Éditions du Détour, 2023).

Vincent Debut is a French researcher and professor specialising in acoustics and vibrations, who has been living in Portugal for over 20 years. With a background in engineering and music, he develops interdisciplinary work that bridges physics and artistic creation, exploring aspects related to sound production, musical instruments construction and audio technologies.Among his most notable projects are the acoustic characterisation of the carillons of the National Palace of Mafra, the design of the Sixxen metallophones for the Portuguese Chamber Orchestra, presented at MAAT in 2022 as part of the celebrations of the centenary of Iannis Xenakis, and the virtual reconstruction of the sound of the oldest bell in Portugal (São Pedro de Coruche). His work has been recognised with five national and international awards, and he is regularly invited as an acoustics consultant by various Portuguese entities.In parallel with his academic activities at the Institute of Ethnomusicology of the New University of Lisbon and the School of Applied Arts of Castelo Branco, he maintains an artistic practice focused on the creation and manipulation of sound environments, as well as audio mastering.

Joana P. R. Neves is a Portuguese independent writer and curator based in London. She is the Artistic Director of Drawing Now Paris, co-founder of the art residency WORLDING, and creator and host of the podcast Exhibitionistas. Her work constellates curating, education, research, and writing for artist books, academic and art magazines, as well as her Substack page, Art Thinkosaurus.