Surface Disorder — Guided Tour

Aida Castro‘s practice brings together diverse productions that explore hybrid methodologies between practices (visual and written) and speculative knowledge. Her research has explored the archaeologies of media-bodies, a term that emerged in the project (de)MONSTRAS: imaginaries, corporealities and amphibious materialities, to study figures, materials and imaginaries in demonstrations of hybrid and technical bodies.

Aida Castro is a researcher, teacher and artist with a PhD in Communication Sciences: Communication and Arts from the Faculty of Social and Human Sciences of the New University of Lisbon. She is currently a guest lecturer at the Multimedia department of the Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of Porto, where she teaches on the bachelor’s and master’s programmes. She is a member of ICNOVA, where she coordinates the research project (de)MONSTRAS: imaginaries, corporealities and amphibious materialities (2024). She is also a collaborator with I2ADS, where she co-programmed VIDEODREAMS: Practices of the Imaginary (2022, FBAUP). She has been working with Maria Mire as an artistic duo since 2017, having co-edited issue 59 of the Journal of Communication and Languages, with the theme “Media-Bodies: Matters and Imaginaries” (2023), and the book DEAD LINK: mediations of artistic practices (2021), for Interact: Online Journal of Art, Culture and Technology.

Photographs by Sérgio Monteiro