Joana Chicau Is a Graphic Designer, Coder, Researcher
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Joana Chicau is a designer and researcher — with a background in dance. She researches the intersection of the body with the designed and programmed environment, aiming at widening the ways in which digital sciences is presented and made accessible to the public. The latter informs a practice and exploration of various forms and formats — interweaving web programming with choreography — from the making of online platforms to performances and workshops. In parallel she has been participating and co-organizing events involving multi-location collaborative coding, algorithmic improvisation, open discussions on digital equity and activism. News & updates: www.joanachicau.com CURRENTLY Associate lecturer at Bsc and MA Internet Equalities at UAL Creative Computing Institute; Associate lecturer at Graphic and Media Design at London College of Communication; Member of Varia — Center for Everyday Technology; Co-founder of Netherlands Coding Live a series of live coding sessions, discussion and more; CROSS FIELD COMPETENCIES Knowledge in both research driven and practical assignments for both both industry and cultural spheres; Professional with a variety of analogue and digital tools as well as work environments; Record in concept development and design production; with projects requiring diverse design thinking strategies across mediums; experienced and enthusiastic about collaborative and creative workflows; having used diverse methodologies from mood boards and ideation maps; role playing games; design sprints to scrums, acquainted with coding dojo; as well programming iterations, such as agile mob. Organizational skills, such as developing timelines and devising plans. Practice in producing tutorials for usage of online platforms and documentation of code (HTML; CSS; JS); Performed applied research on web and interface accessibility and techniques for handling assistive technology. Experience with team work in diverse work environments; as well as in handling both internal and external communication (with companies and clients); writing meeting summaries, reports as well as material for PR. Consultant for conceptual development of projects and advice on design tools and web technologies; Regularly participating in worldwide design and tech meet ups and actively involved in open source communities; Know-how in writing project briefs and grant proposals. Peer reviewer for multiple conferences and publications. 2017-2018: Web and Graphic Designer at support team of e-learning department at TU Delft brightspace-support.tudelft.nl 2015-2016: Researcher in the Study Group at Casco Art Institute, in Utrecht www.wearethetimemachines.org 2015-2016: Writer for the MoneyLab#2 and #3 conference organized by INC: networkcultures.org 2015-2016: Graphic designer at Publishing Lab at the Institute of Network Cultures in Amsterdam: publishinglab.nl 2014-2015: Graphic designer at Kinetic Vision, in Delft: skopeidigital.com/kv 2014: Designer Intern at Ritator Design Studio, in Stockholm: ritator.com FELLOWSHIPS 2020: Sandberg Institute Fellowship at Design Department: https://sandberg.nl 2019: Fellow Designer at Replica Institute, VW Stiftung, Weizenbaum-Institut für die vernetzte Gesellschaft and TU Berlin https://shapeofthings.replica.institute PRESENTATIONS & PUBLIC PERFORMANCES 2021: DA Z - Digital Art Zurich: https://www.da-z.net 2021: Livework Festival w/ Renick Bell curated by Choy Ka Fai https://performancespace.com.au/ 2021: Iklectik, London https://iklectikartlab.com 2021: OTHER SCREENS, Coding as an interactive practice w/ Renick Bell https://instrumentinventors.org 2020: Criatech https://www.criatech.pt 2020, 2018: Art Meets Radical Openness, Linz, Austria www.radical-openness.org/en 2020: "Adversarial Hacking in the Age of AI" by KIM & Transmediale; 2019: Radical Networks NYC, USA: radicalnetworks.org 2019: International Conference on the History and Philosophy of Computing Milano Italy 2019: AI, Design, Art Conference hosted by Institute of Experimental Design and Media Cultures of the Academy of Art and Design FHNW in collaboration with Haus der elektronischen Künste Basel (H3K) 2019: Choreographic Coding Lab by Motion Bank, Amsterdam: choreographiccoding.org 2019: Hackathon Automation And Me, Leeds, UK: leedsinternationalfestival.com 2019: CryptoRave, São Paulo Brazil: cryptorave.org 2019: New Media Bienal de Arte Contemporânea Maia, Portugal: www.bacm.pt 2019: Artist Series 3x3 at V2_Lab for the Unstable Media Rotterdam:v2.nl 2019: Creative Coding and Processing Community Day, hosted by SensorLab Utrecht 2019: International Live Coding Conference MediaLab Prado, Madrid: iclc.livecodenetwork.org 2018: Computer Chaos Congress Leipzig, Germany media.ccc.de 2018: Interface Politics Barcelona: www.gredits.org/interfacepolitics/en 2018: Mozilla Foundation, #mozsprint 2018 2018: International Conference on Live Interfaces Porto: liveinterfaces.org 2018: Meta Marathon Festival Düsseldorf, Germany: www.metamarathon.net 2018: Areté in NYC, USA: aretevenue.com 2018: Art and Science meet-up hosted by Lisa Rombout and Digilab MB Tilburg 2018: Lecturer at 6th IDOCDE Symposium during Implustanz Dance Festival Austria 2018: Creative Coding Amsterdam hosted by Fiber: www.fiber-space.nl 2018: Intervention#4 Work, Body and Leisure at ArtEZ University of the Arts (Master interior architecture) 2017: International Live Coding Conference Mexico: iclc.livecodenetwork.org/2017 2017: XcoaX — 5th Conference on Computation, Communication, Aesthetics & X Lisbon: www.xcoax.org 2017: 4th International Conference on Movement Computing London U.K.: moco17.movementcomputing.org 2017: Live Performers Meeting Amsterdam The Netherlands: liveperformersmeeting.net 2017: Het Nieuwe Instituut: institute for contemporary architecture & design Rotterdam: sleepmode.hetnieuweinstituut.nl/en 2017: Spektrum Berlin: spektrumberlin.de/home.html 2017: Participated in the symposium Digital Echoes — Dance Data: libraries and processes at C-DaRE U.K. 2016: Digital<Dis-Orders> Frankfurt: www.normativeorders.net/de/veranstaltungen/nachwuchskonferenzen 2016: Artists Symposium and Festival of Algorithmic and Mechanical Movement Sheffield U.K.: algomech.com/2016 2016: SenseLab ‘Speakers Series’ Montreal Canada: senselab.ca/wp2 2016: International Live Coding Conference Canada: iclc.livecodenetwork.org/2016 2016: Libre Graphics Meeting London: libregraphicsmeeting.org/2016 TEACHING 2021: Mentor and facilitator at the Digital Innovation Season Hackathon: https://digitalinnovationseason.com 2021: Associate lecturer at of Web Development Studio at UAL Creative Computing Institute; 2020-2021: Associate lecturer at Graphic and Media Design at London College of Communication; 2021: Online Workshop at BMA lab w/ Renick Bell: https://www.bragamediaarts.com/en/calendar/bma-lab-joana-chicau-and-renick-bell 2019/2020: Tutor of Hacking course at Willem Kooning Academy, in Rotterdam: www.wdka.nl 2020: Creative Course at India Institute of Technology Jammu: iitjammu.ac.in/hss_engineering 2020: HKU Graphic Design Department: www.hku.nl 2020: Online lecture at Architecture et Scénographies est proposé par l’Ensa de Paris-Belleville; 2020: Workshop and lecture at Interface Culture program at the Linz University of Arts Department of Media; 2019 & 2018: Invited tutor at Aarhus University, Software Studies / Aesthetic Programming Course, Denmark 2019: Invited tutor at Digital Media Major Leuphana University, Germany 2019: Workshop at Salwa Foundation: https://salwafoundation.nl 2018: Workshop at 10th edition of Seoul Mediacity Biennale: http://seoulmediaartbiennale.kr 2018: Workshop at The Reading Room at Stroom, Den Haag: www.stroom.nl 2018: Hackers&Designers Summer Academy, Amsterdam: www.hackersanddesigners.nl 2018: Workshop at Libre Software Meeting (LSM) Digital education, France: rmll2018.info 2018: Masterclass at Node 9 Summer School, Mc Master University, Canada 2018: Workshop at deliver: Agile Conference, Austin Texas USA 2018: Workshop at Integrated Digital Media department at New York University, USA 2018: Workshop in collaboration Replica Institute Berlin: replica.institute 2017: Workshop in collaboration with LavaLab and Why Not: lava.nl & www.festivalwhynot.nl 2016: Series of workshops at MediaLab Prado: medialab-prado.es CURATION &more 2019: Co-organizer of Relearn a traveling collective learning experiment. 2017/20119: Curator of Algo~Rhythms a series of live coding performances and discussions on issues of inclusion and gender equality within this practices at Worm, Rotterdam 2017-19: Peer reviewer for the International Conference on Live Coding: iclc.livecodenetwork.org 2017: Dance&Code Remix co-curated and organized with Flee Immediately! (Renée Carmichael) at Panke Gallery part of Transmediale festival for media art and digital culture, in Berlin and vorspiel.berlin EXHIBITIONS 2021: Panke Gallery Berlin, w/ Renee Carmichael: https://www.panke.gallery/exhibition/flows-frommetoyou-myscreentoyours 2021: Online Exhibition at Homeostasis Lab w/ Renick Bell: https://homeostasislab.org/ 2020: VII Artishok Biennialin Tallinn, Estonia 2020: The Stage is (a)Live w/ Renick Bell at Gneration: www.gnration.pt 2020: International Live Coding Conference Limerick, Ireland 2019: Perpetual Interpreter at LOKALE, Copenhagen 2019: Reboot Festival in Lisboa: www.rebootfest.pt 2019: Performative Computation at Navel, LA USA: https://navel.la/events/performative-computation/ 2019: ACM SIGGRAPH: The Urgency of Reality in a Hyper-Connected Age exhibition: urgency-reality.siggraph.org 2018: Near Enough? –