Researcher, performer and video-artist living and working in Lisbon, where he was born in 1970. Graduated in Sociology. Master degree in social sciences (scholarship by the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology) about form and ideology in the portuguese movie comedies of the thirties and forties. Attendance to the School of Cinema (Escola Superior de Teatro e Cinema) at Lisbon. As a performer/actor he has collaborated among others with Projecto Teatral. As a video-artist he has worked on several projects including tv commercials for spectacles, theatre promos, installation/performance videos and independent video art works, where he is often a performer in self-representation. He is now working in the video department of the National Theatre at Lisbon.

Animated Drawings consists of the live video manipulation of original black-and white drawings, screened in their original form and with image parameter changes in order to achieve the production of movement, anima and profundity. In this first version I used a video jamming software controlled by an oxygen midi, a laptop, video projector, voice, piano and actual exhibition of the original drawings. The idea was to give shape to a piano song voice concert in which the voice acts like the piano and the piano (the midi controller) acts as if images were played according to the way electronic music is played. The traditional intimate place of the atelier was transferred to the public space of performance, where visual improvisation is tuned with a more direct expression of a vital energy, free of the narrowing structures of rationality, understood as a civilizational process...