“Culture Stops Development!”: Bijagó Youth and the Appropriation of Developmentalist Discourse in Guinea-B

African Studies Review, Volume 52, Number 2, pp. 69–

Pesquisa de clip arts combinando imagens raster e vectoriais

Existe actualmente um crescente desenvolvimento de sistemas de armazenamento e pesquisa de imagens. Uma aproximação adoptada nesses sistemas é a recuperação de imagens baseada em conteúdo (CBIR, Content-Based Image Retrieval). No âmbito destas aplicações existem utilizadores que pretendem utilizar imagens clip art para os seus trabalhos e apresentações. Existem muitas imagens clip art espalhadas por diversas bases de dados em sítios na Internet ou em colecções vendidas em dispositivos ópticos. A pesquisa de imagens nestas bases de dados leva os utilizadores a percorrem várias listas de imagens manualmente ou por métodos de pesquisa por texto, muitas vezes ineficientes. Essas bases de dados de clip arts são representadas por imagens vectoriais e imagens raster. Existem várias tecnologias de pesquisa e recuperação de ambos os tipos de imagens clip art, raster e vectoriais, contudo, a investigação tem sido realizada em separado sem retirar partido das duas áreas de investigação em conjunto, no problema de recuperar e explorar colecções de clip arts. O objectivo deste trabalho é implementar um motor de busca para encontrar clip arts em base de dados compostas por imagens vectoriais e imagens raster. O trabalho envolve um conversor de imagens raster em vectoriais, a extracção de características das imagens raster e vectoriais e a avaliação do sistema de recuperação de clip arts.

ARTiVIS Arts, real-time video and interactivity for sustainability

Dissertação para obtenção do Grau de Doutor em Media Digitais

Going Public: Conservation of Contemporary Artworks. Between Backstage and Frontstage in Contemporary Art Museums

In museum studies and history of art, what happens behind the scenes of museums stays relatively unseen and unspoken about. In the arts, generally speaking, what is dismissed as irrelevant (e.g. the realm of practices) is deliberately detached from what is thought to really matter; theory, discourse, content and meaning. Up till recently, backstage activities such as conservation practices are merely discussed among specialists and museum professionals. Only the outcomes of these discussions are sometimes – if at all – explicitly communicated to a larger public. Studies into the practices of contemporary art conservation however show that practices behind the scenes play an important role in the perpetuation of these artworks. What happens behind the scenes in terms of conservation has, in several ways, important effects on the ongoing life of these artworks in a museum context. Conservation practices, I argue, should therefore become a necessary part of museum studies and history of art. How can the working practices of conservators become more visible and transparent to a diversity of audiences, including researchers? And what does this mean in terms of research methodology?

A arte ao serviço do império e das colónias: o contributo de alguns programas expositivos e museológicos para o discurso de legitimação territorial

Artigo escrito no âmbito da realização de tese de doutoramento em História da Arte financiado por bolsa FCT (SFRH/BD/63763/2009)

Arts management

For the purpose of analyzing how did the considerable increase in the Portuguese tourism has influenced its cultural sector, this paper seeks to explore how has the company AntiFrame | Art Consulting replied to it. Arts Management: Contemporary Art Guides. Alibi – The Portuguese Case reviews some Arts Management literature whilst a multi-method approach is used. A market research was conducted, in which existing contemporary guides were analyzed as well as interviews made to tourists in Lisbon. Findings show that there is a flaw in the Portuguese contemporary art market, which the project Alibi aims to solve. Metrics on how the project’s results should be monitored, as part of a follow-up phase, were included, as well as limitations.

Portugal (1928-1968) : Um Filme de J. Leitão de Barros

Apoio financeiro da FCT e do FSE no âmbito do III Quadro Comunitário de Apoio