María PEÑA LOMBAO PhD in Fine Arts from the University of Vigo. When she completes her specialisation in Sculpture, she becomes interested in research in dance, theatre and music. She currently coordinates activities, courses and seminars around aesthetic theory in relation to dance and dramatic practice. She is an art critic on the publication ABCD Cultural and a memeber of the El Paso del Noroeste group /

Antonio PINTO is Master in Communication Sciences at the Lisbon Universidade Nova, and he is preparing his Ph.D. focusing on the subject of ‘Conditions for artistic reception in the post-colonial time’. He was Culturgest’s (Cultural Centre in Lisbon) Artistic Director. He was also the Chief Curator of the “State of the World” cultural forum at the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisbon, where he is currently the Director of the Creativity and Artistic Creation Programme /

Paulo PIRES DO VALE is a Doctorate at Social and Human Sciences at Nova University of Lisboa. He was Professor at Açores University and Lusófona University, and from 1999 at Católica Portuguesa University and at the Superior School for Infancy Educators Maria Ulrich. He is the author of multiple published lectures and essays about art, aestethics, education or culture, among others /

Raphaela PLATOW Raphaela Platow is the Alice & Harris Weston Director and Chief Curator at the Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA. After curating and organizing exhibitions at galleries and museums in Germany, she was a staff member of the German Pavilion at the 1999 Venice Biennale. She went to the United States to serve as International Curator for the Contemporary Art Museum in Raleigh, North Carolina /

Nuno PORTO is a Professor at the Department of Anthropology of the Universidade de Coimbra, he is also collaborator of CEAS (Centro de Estudos de Antropologia) and coordinator of the Museu Antropológico de la universidad /

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