Patrícia Castello Branco
Email: pscbranco@fcsh.unl.pt
Research Interests
- Aesthetics and Philosophy of Film and Moving Images
- Image, Body, Technology
- New Media Art
Education
- PhD Communication Sciences, New University of Lisbon.
- MA Communication Sciences, New University of Lisbon.
- Lic. Communication Sciences, New University of Lisbon.
Presentations
- (2010). "Am I Human?: A Posthuman Reading of Avatar." International Conference on Audiovisual Posthumanism: Aesthetics, Cultural Theory and the Arts. University of the Aegean, Greece, 24–26 Sept.
- (2010). "Ernst Junger and the Posthuman Suject: Technology as an Ally of Nature." The Emergence of the Posthuman Subject. The University of Surrey, 2-3 Jul.
- (2009). "Haptic Visuality: Phenomenology and Neuroscience." The Aesthetic Dimension of Visual Culture. Academy of Fine Arts, Prague, 20-22 Oct.
- (2009). "Film as Embodied or Disembodied Experience? - Overcoming Dualism: Early Abstract Cinematographic Experiences as ‘Pure Sensation". 2nd Film-Philosophy Conference. University of Dundee, 16-18 Jul.
- (2009). "A Imagem como Acontecimento Fenomenológico?" VI Congresso SOPCOM. Lusophone University of Humanities and Technologies, 14-18 Apr.
Publications
- (2011). Imagem, Corpo, Tecnologia: A Função Háptica das Novas Imagens Tecnológicas. Lisbon: Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian. (forthcoming)
- (2011). "The Difficult Task of Art in the Technological Era: Gerhard Richter and Martin Heidegger’s Transcendence Without a Transcendent". Sztuka i Filozofia. (peer-reviewed)
- (2011). "Hans Richter: Rythmus 2". In The Directory of World Cinema: Germany. Bristol: Intellect Books. (peer-reviewed)
- (2011). "A Physicalist Approach to Images: Alexandre Estrela’s Journey to the Center". Millennium Film Journal 53, Migration/Dislocations. (peer-reviewed)
- (2011). "Walter Ruttmann: Melody of the World". In The Directory of World Cinema: Germany. Bristol: Intellect Books. (peer-reviewed)
- (2011). "Walter Ruttmann: Weekend". In The Directory of World Cinema: Germany. Bristol: Intellect Books.
- (2010). "Cinema Abstracto: Da Vanguarda Europeia às Primeiras Manipulações Digitais da Imagem". BOCC: Biblioteca Online de Ciências da Comunicação. Covilhã: University of Beira Interior.
PDF - (2010), with DIAS BRANCO, Sérgio and VIEGAS, Susana. "Editorial". Cinema: Journal of Philosophy and the Moving Image 1, 1-6 (eng.), 7-13 (port.).
Link (eng.)
Link (port.) - (2010). "Haptic Visuality and Neuroscience". In Dadejík, Stejskal (eds.), The Aesthetic Dimention of Visual Culture, 98-111. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing. (peer-reviewed)
- (2010). “Pure Sensations: From Abstract Cinema to Digital Image". Animation: An Interdisciplinary Journal 5:1, 25-40. (peer-reviewed)
- (2010). "Revistando a Pintura Abstracta: de Kandinsky ao Minimalismo". Artciencia: Revista de Arte. Ciência e Comunicação V:12.
- (2009). "A Visualidade Háptica da Televisão Contemporânea". Intercom: Revista Brasileira de Ciências da Comunicação 32:2, 15-37. (peer-reviewed)
Link - (2009). "A Imagem como Acontecimento Fenomenológico". Proceedings of "VI Congresso SOPCOM".
PDF - (2009). "Martin Heidegger: A Técnica como Possibilidade de Poésis". A Parte Rei: Revista de Filosofia 63.
