Collective Gabirú

We are a Latin American collective of artists and researchers based in Lisbon. Formed in 2023 by Thaynã Targa (Brazilian), Fabio Curi (Luso-Brazilian), and Pablo Díaz (Italo-Chilean), we explore aesthetic and theoretical issues of contemporaneity related to the field of technology.

We dive into and enjoy experimenting with emerging tools, while also seeking to understand the political and social impacts these structures produce. Through digital experimentation and hybrid media, we explore narratives ranging between tradition and innovation, crafts and code, space and interface, politics and poetics.

Thaynã Targa Pablo Díaz Fabio Curi

THAYNÃ TARGA -1989

ABOUT ME

Artist and Contemporary Art researcher, Master's in Arts with specialization in Art Theory and History from the Federal University of Espírito Santo (PPGA-UFES/BR) and PhD Candidate in Art History at the Faculty of Social and Human Sciences of NOVA University of Lisbon, with funding from the Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT). She integrates the research groups Critical and aesthetic experience in Gerd Bornheim at the Federal University of Espírito Santo and Contemporary Art Studies at the Institute of Art History at Nova University of Lisbon. Her investigations focus on the contemporary relationship between individuals and technological processes, with the intention of exploring the aesthetic and political changes that emerge in the sphere of digital culture. Within the scope of her doctorate, she investigates the rise of memes on social networks and how they related to Brazilian politics from 2016 to 2022.

Links of interest

Scientific Curriculum

Education
  • 2021- Current - PhD in Art History - Faculty of Social and Human Sciences / NOVA University of Lisbon
  • 2016-2018 – Master's in Art Theory and History - Federal University of Espírito Santo - UFES, Vitória - ES, Brazil
  • 2010-2014 - Bachelor's in Fine Arts - Federal University of Espírito Santo - UFES, Vitória – ES, Brazil
Participation in research groups
  • 2021 - Current: Life and work of Gerd Bornheim. Correspondence, reviews and original typescripts on Philosophy of Art and History of Philosophy Coordinator: Prof. Dr. Gaspar Leal Paz
Published Studies and Works
  • 2016- Time must be nothing without text: mediations between contemporary art, science and technology in the work of Eduardo Kac. GAMA Magazine, v. 07, p. 129-137, 2016.
  • 2016- Time must be nothing without text: mediations between contemporary art, science and technology in the work of Eduardo Kac. In: Congress Creators About Other Works, 2016, Lisbon. Art from the Perspective of Creators. Lisbon: CIEBA, 2016. v. 7. p. 866-874.
  • 2020 - Does art resist censorship?: contemporary reflections. Journal of the Colloquium of Art and Research of PPGA-UFES, v. 19, p. 81-99-99, 2020.
  • 2021- Female protagonism in the arts as resistance to male domination. In: Meire Oliveira Silva. (Org.). Women's protagonisms in arts and society: from representation to resistance vol. 2. 1st ed.: Editora Diálogos, 2021, v. 2, p. 120-134.
  • 2021-What does it mean to be a woman in Brazil? Decoloniality and historical-social perspective in works by artist Priscila Rezende. In: SOBREIRA, A. C. B.; LEMES, F. Bodies, cultures and hybrid languages: decolonial perspectives v.1. Tutóia: Diálogos, 2021, p.77-99.
Communications
  • 2016- "The world is magical: Post-industrial practices in the individual's creative and perceptive process" at the Ibero-American Seminar on the creation process at the Federal University of Espírito Santo, Vitória-ES, Brazil;
  • 2016- Time must be nothing without text: mediations between contemporary art, science and technology in the work of Eduardo Kac. In: Congress Creators About Other Works, 2016, Lisbon. Art from the Perspective of Creators. Lisbon: CIEBA, 2016. v. 7. p. 866-874.
  • 2016- "Paths of Specialization in Arts" at FADA – Academic Forum in Arts held at the Federal University of Espírito Santo, Vitória-ES, Brazil;
  • 2018 – "The Fabric of Reality in the Contemporary Scope" at the XI ENCIC - National Claretian Meeting of Scientific Initiation, Vitória –ES, Brazil. Research funding 2017-2018- Master's scholarship funded by the Coordination for the Improvement of Higher Education Personnel (CAPES).
Interviews, Programs and media comments
  • 2015- Interview about the work "Urban Umbilicals" presented in the exhibition "Seeing is perhaps forgetting to speak" on the program "Visual Languages on Air" from University Radio. Vitória-ES, Brazil
  • 2016-Interview about the exhibition "Left in a hurry and told me he would return yesterday" on the Bandejão program of University Radio, Vitória –ES, Brazil;
  • 2020- Participation in episode NPT S02E06 about BioArt, Hybrid Bodies and Environment on the "Não Pod Tocar" podcast.
Artistic Curriculum - Individual exhibitions
  • 2016 – "Left in a hurry and told me he would return yesterday" exhibition with incentive from the Municipal Government of Vitória held at Casa Porto das Artes Plásticas, Vitória-ES, Brazil. 2017- "Territory | Atrium" held at Galeria Corredor, Vitória –ES, Brazil
Artistic Curriculum - Collective Exhibitions
  • 2013- Work "People over people" presented in the exhibition "As long as there is painting" at the Federal University of Espírito Santo, Vitória –ES, Brazil.
  • 2014- Work "Urban Umbilicals" exhibited in the show "Seeing is perhaps forgetting to speak" held by the Tomie Ohtake Institute in partnership with EDP at the Art and Research Gallery of the Federal University of Espírito Santo, Vitória-ES, Brazil.
  • 2015-Work "Window" exhibited at the 11th Vitória em Artes at Centro Cultural SESC Glória, Vitória-ES, Brazil.
  • 2016- Work "Return" exhibited in the Ibero-American exhibition on the creation process at the Art and Research Gallery of the Federal University of Espírito Santo, Vitória-ES, Brazil;
  • 2017 - Work "Territory|Atrium" presented at the XI National Victor Meirelles Salon, Florianópolis-SC, Brazil.
  • 2017- Work "Untitled" presented in the virtual exhibition held by the EIXO Arte platform;
  • 2018 – Work "Dwelling and the place of connection" exhibited at the Meeting of Art and Design of Vitória. Vitória-ES, Brazil.
  • 2020- Work "BR2020" presented in the virtual show "International Week of Anti-Imperialist Struggle".
Published Artistic Studies
  • 2015- "Window" in the Catalog of the exhibition "11th Vitória em Arte" of Centro Cultural SESC Glória, p.86, 2015
  • 2017- Drawing studies "Passage" in the Completion Catalog of the Extensive Course in Contemporary Art "Cápsula", SECULT - Secretary of Culture of Espírito Santo p.90-91, 2017
Awards / Honors
  • 2016 - CALL No. 009 /2016, Municipal Government of Vitória-ES with the exhibition project for Coletivo Laranja "Left in a hurry and told me he would return yesterday".
  • 2017- Drawing studies "Passage" in the Completion Catalog of the Extensive Course in Contemporary Art "Cápsula", SECULT - Secretary of Culture of Espírito Santo p.90-91, 2017

PABLO DÍAZ -1989

ABOUT ME

Musician, Sound Artist, Craftsman. He began his music studies at the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, later in Sound Art at the Universitat de Barcelona. He recently successfully completed the thesis process for his master's degree in Art and Science of Glass and Ceramics at VICARTE, FCT, Nova University of Lisbon (UNL). His research is fundamentally related to clay, ceramics and glass in relation to the sound that these materials can produce. His practice is fundamentally framed in the area of sound sculpture. In parallel, another relevant part of his practice has to do with the incorporation of digital media, especially open source, in his research and artistic production strategies, as a way of trying to connect tradition, craft, science and technology. Sound sculpture, sound design and ASMR elaboration are strategies that together with audiovisual processes, shape the body of work he has developed to date.

Links of interest

Artistic Curriculum

  • 2012 Premiere of "Stessap" for ensemble at the XXIV contemporary music festival. IMUC-GAM - Chile;
  • 2013 Premiere of "F#" for violin and flute in "INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL OF VISITING PROFESSORS" with Prof. Jean Yves Bosseur IMUC Santiago - Chile;
  • 2014-2017 (on-site) Collaborator at Cerámicas Terrablu Santiago - Chile;
  • 2015 Premiere of "L" flute quartet and mobile phones at Sala SCD. Germinacciones. Santiago - Chile;
  • 2018 Installation "Rimember mI" part of the exhibition "In a Silent way". Convent de Sant Agustí. - Barcelona - Spain;
  • 2018 Installation "Vino del Mar", Festival Zeppelin. CCCB. Barcelona - Spain;
  • 2019 Research project "Approaches and temporal and physical-sound experiences with clay. Interdisciplinary project on sound work from and with matter" Universitat de Barcelona. Barcelona - Spain;
  • 2019 Collaboration with Taller Baschet, El Gecko con botas, and Gamelão peneempan guntur in "tales told by shadows" Universitat de Barcelona. Barcelona - Spain;
  • 2019 Workshops on experimentation with clay and sound - Escola Dolors de Monserdà, Universitat de Barcelona, and Taller 1/23. Barcelona - Spain;
  • 2020 Recognized as a Chilean craftsman by the Registry of Artisans, Ministry of Culture of Chile. Santiago - Chile;
  • 2020 Participation in "Virtual and International Exhibition Compensation Zones 7.0 - Adaptabilities at the borders of confined space: poetic expressions and interlocutions." with Dr. Martí Ruiz in "Sound Art with organic materials: sounds of raw and fired clay in times of confinement". Online - Brazil;
  • 2021 Collaborator at Chile Music and Braille Foundation. Santiago - Chile;
  • 2021 Collaboration with Javiera Robledo Karapas in the performance "water column" in the artistic residency program of L'estruch;
  • 2022 Workshop "The sounds of clay" at The Hood Amadora, Lisbon - Portugal;
  • 2022 Solo exhibition at FCT library, Caparica - Portugal;
  • 2022 2023 Collective exhibition at Imargem with the piece "Y que se teje con los wavelengths";
  • 2023 Workshop for EU Crafthub, FCT NOVA, VICARTE, and Lo-Invisible Studio "Playing with clay and sound: Whistles and Shakers";
  • 2023 Workshop for EU Crafthub, FCT NOVA, VICARTE, and Lo-Invisible Studio; "SOUNDLAB -Bone Dry Clay-";
  • 2023 Collective exhibition at Imargem with the piece "Es el cristal que suena o el sonido que se cristalizó Or Sound Harvest 2 (feat. MC fainça)".
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  • Aveiro Biennial
  • "Frestas" exhibition - Collective Gabirú Teatro Avenida Lisbon 2023
  • Segreda in collaboration with clay association MAC - anilla MAC Stgo Chile 2024
  • Illuminated glass-dramas - context caldas late night collective cacos - Caldas da Rainha 2024
  • CSS Imargem Pragal 2024
  • "Frestas" exhibition - Collective Gabirú Teatro Avenida Lisbon 2024
  • Peripheria Festival (the sound that hides under the clods) in collaboration with marta castelo Trafaria Lisbon 2024
  • CSS 2.0 - Festival Peripheria Trafaria Lisbon 2024
  • The sound that hides in the clods - In collaboration with Marta Castelo context exhibition marta castelo (MNAC) Lisbon 2024
  • Collaboration with Haize lizarazu and Anxe Faraldo (so pell parets) - BCN 2025

FABIO CURI -1991

ABOUT ME

Code and artificial intelligence developer, with great interest in audiovisual and a special passion for stopmotion, video editing and algorithmic content creation. Parallel to his technical career, he currently has a stop motion project (De Bruits) where he animates plasticine objects and other objects recovered from nature, such as seashells.

Links of interest

Scientific curriculum

Education
  • 2021- MSc Artificial Intelligence - Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, 2019
  • BSc Mechanical Engineering - Institut Polytechnique de Toulouse, 2015
Artistic experience
  • Creator of the stop motion project titled De Bruits
  • Host and community manager on the French radio program Les Mots du Brésil, at Radio Occitania
  • Vice-president of the Association Franco-Brésilienne pour les Peuples - cultural development association in the Occitanie region
Technical Knowledge
Image
  • Gimp, Adobe Photoshop
Video
  • Dragon Frame, Adobe Premiere, Kdenlive
Languages
  • Python, Bash, SQL, Javascript, Java, R, HTML, CSS
Platforms
  • TensorFlow, Keras, Scikit, PyTorch, Transformers, NLTK, OpenCV
Cloud
  • Azure, Data Factory, Databricks, Logic Apps, Compute Engine
BigQuery
  • Google Firebase
Others
  • Linux, Machine Learning, Computer Vision, Linguistics
Courses
  • Video editing: Ar.Co, 2022
  • Computer Vision: Coursera, 2021
  • Photography: Instituto Candela, 2012
Conferences
  • Computer Vision into Practice: Mind Your Data, Lisbon, 2021
  • Artificial Intelligence in Practice: Lisbon Data & AI Forum, Lisbon, 2020