Biography
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Free Field
Real name: Vitor Joaquim
Vitor Joaquim, laptop experimentalist, sound and visual artist, graduated in sound and film directing. He started performing improvised music and get involved in experimental art by the mid 80's.Since then, he has created extensively for dance, theater, video, installations and cross media platforms. Until now, he has four solo releases, several collaborations and a long list of participation's in compilations and remixes in different labels. His cd Flow, was considered by the Wire magazine, as one of the best electronic records of the year 2006.
In the last years he has composed extensively for contemporary dance in France, Spain and Germany, and directed a few pieces in contemporary performance, video art and video mapping.
In parallel to his own artistic work, he has been invited to advise programmers and curators in several festivals and events in Europe. In 2000 he started producing his own festival EME, an event dedicated to experimental arts and non-standard music.
He has been teaching and coordinating sound and audiovisuals in art schools since the 90’s. At the moment, he is a researcher in computer music at CITAR, the Research Center for Science and Technology in Art at UCP, Porto, where he is also teacher.