Absonus Lab – Innovating Sound Through Art, Technology & Research

 Director of the Absonus Lab association, responsible for leadership, curation, and creation. A multidisciplinary sound artist, researcher, and educator, he explores electronic music, acousmatic art, digital media art, and performance. His work combines theoretical and practical experimentation with post-industrial, post-minimalist, and post-digital aesthetics in music, art, and technology. This includes experimentation in the realms of rhythm and noise as a means of signification, addressing meta-political and imaginative aspects between popular and erudite culture in contemporary art.

Hugo Paquete: Research Fellow of the Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT, 2017-2022). PhD in Digital Media Art (UAB-UA, 2022). Completed coursework for the PhD in Music Sciences - Music as Culture and Cognition (FSCH/NOVA, 2017-2019). Master’s degree in Contemporary Artistic Creation (UA, 2014).

  Assistant Director of the Absonus Lab association, specializing in production, communication, and marketing. With 4 years of experience as a freelance professional in Digital Marketing and online sales, she is responsible for brand and product communication. Additionally, she integrates her expertise in 3D modeling and printing projects at Absonus Lab, contributing to the materialization of artistic and technological concepts.

She holds a degree in Plastic Arts from the Escola Superior de Artes e Design of IPL and a postgraduate degree in Artistic Education from the Faculty of Fine Arts of Lisbon. She has been involved in teaching arts and other humanities disciplines for 6 years. Simultaneously, she has developed artistic work in the fields of illustration, graphic design, and modeling. As a co-founder of Absonus Lab, she plays a central role in coordinating production and providing advisory support to the association.

 Production at Absonus Lab. Artist and researcher working in Portugal and Germany, where she currently resides, Santos develops a disciplinary crossover between her artistic practice and her research practice in Anthropology. As an artist, she has been interested in the aesthetic and performative experience of the intersections between the body and technology, addressing the anthropological shift in post-digital society. In this context, she works in the fields of performance and audiovisual installation. She has been a fellow and partner in national and international productions, where she has carried out artistic projects in collaboration with other artists. In addition to her partnerships as a creator, she interned at Raul Walch's studio and collaborated on projects with other artists, such as House for the End of the World by Elena Katz, and served as an assistant art director, for example, in the project Lovembrace:.Baroness by Rodrigo Garcia Alves and Studio Disorder.

One of her recent personal projects received support from the Visual Arts Fund of the Gulbenkian Foundation. She produces theoretical work that is part of her Ph.D. in Anthropology at ISCTE-IUL, where she is currently enrolled.

 She is involved with and is a member of the Absonus Lab Team. She has a background in Fashion Design from CITEX and in Plastic Arts with a focus on Painting from the Faculty of Fine Arts at the University of Porto, where she also completed a Master's degree in Painting in 2010. She was a fellow of the Foundation for Science and Technology during her Ph.D. in Information Sciences – Theory and History of Communication, which she completed in 2017 at Fernando Pessoa University, with the thesis titled "Art Criticism as a Field and Its Practice in Portugal in the 1960s."

Her activities also extend to painting, with several solo and group exhibitions in Portugal, Spain, France, Germany, and Puerto Rico. She has worked with the Trindade, Alvarez, Sala Maior, and Mariana Jones galleries in Porto, as well as with the Trema gallery in Lisbon. Since 2014, she has been collaborating with Marcela de Navascuès on a project called "Equipa MoMa," working with the Edurne Gallery in Spain in Escoreal. She is a co-founder of the Absonus Lab association, where she primarily handles treasury, creation, and training.

 Responsible for design, communication, and documentation. Born in Porto in 2002, he holds a degree in Graphic Design from the Instituto Politécnico do Cávado e do Ave, with prior studies in the audiovisual field. He has worked on illustration and design projects and created a short animated film that has been nominated at several festivals, including "BragaCine 2020" in Braga, "Festival del Cinema di Cefalù 2021" in Italy, "Fest - New Directors New Films Festival 2021" in Porto, and "First Time Filmmaker Online Sessions - Lift Off Global Network @Pinewood Studios 2021" in the UK, among others. He was also awarded an Honorable Mention in the category of Best High School Animation Film at the "AÇÃO07!" festival.

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 He is part of the Absonus Lab Team. He is a sound artist, improviser, organist, and composer. He is the titular organist of the historic organ at the Parish of Ajuda (Lisbon) and a researcher at GIMC (CESEM). He holds a DAS in contemporary music for organ and a master's degree distinguished with the Dean's Honor Roll in 2018. Currently, he is a Ph.D. candidate and FCT grant holder in the same field (ESML/FCSH). He studied at the Gregorian Institute of Lisbon, Hot Jazz Club, and Physics Engineering (FCUL). He has undertaken supplementary studies with renowned artists such as Adrian Moore, Åke Parmerud, Annette Vande Gorne, Barry Truax, Gilles Gobeil, Hans Tutschku, and Trevor Wishart. His works have premiered worldwide at various festivals and projects, and his acousmatic works have been published in prestigious compilations. He has released two independent albums, Asteroeidēs and Palimpsestus, and in 2022, he released Avant-garde Organ, funded by the GDA Foundation and published by 9musas.