meiac by António Cerveira Pinto

António Cerveira Pinto is an artist, writer and concept designer who has been exploring new creative strategies since the 70s. He was part of the direction of the National Gallery of Modern Art, in Portugal (1979-81), participated in the Paris Biennial in 82, in 83 he organized a huge exhibition in Lisbon called “After Modernism”, participated in the exhibition “Processos, cultura y nuevas tecnologias” at the museum Reina Sofia in Madrid, in 94 formed a school for advanced art practices named “Aula do Risco”, ran the Quadrum Gallery and integrated some art & technology projects at EXPO98.

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Since 95 António has been working more specifically in art & technology projects: he presented ex-mater in 96, made a few presentations on this issue in Madrid, curated a show called META.morfosis – the museum and the art in the digital era, curated BIOS4 at CAAC, was connected with the project LAlaboral and has been involved in several art and science initiatives at meiac – museo extremeño ibero-americano de arte contemporáneo.

At the art & science meeting António Cerveira talked about his experience in projects where art, science and technology meet and introduced the concepts of post contemporary culture, in opposition to modernism and post modernism, and of cognitive art as an a true art of knowledge.