Lisbon-born Filipa Ramos is a writer, lecturer and curator. She received a Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) from the School of Critical Studies at Kingston University, London. Her research, manifested in critical and theoretical texts, lectures, workshops and edited publications, focuses on how art addresses ecology, fostering relationships between nature and technology. She advocates a move away from anthropocentric approaches in the arts and humanities. She is Director of the Contemporary Art Department of the city of Porto, including th
Galeria Municipal do Porto
She is curator o
Art Basel Film
and a founding curator o
Vdrome
an online artists’ cinema that she co-founded in 2013 with Editor Edoardo Bonaspetti, Curator

Jens Hoffmann Jens Hoffmann Mesén (born 1974 in San José, Costa Rica) is a writer, editor, educator, and exhibition maker. His work has attempted to expand the definition and context of exhibition making. From 2003 to 2007 Hoffmann was director of exhibiti ...

an
Haus der Kunst
s Director Andrea Lissoni. Recent projects include the arts, humanities and science festival The Shape of a Circle in the Mind of a Fish (since 2018) and "Persons Persone Personen", the 8th Biennale Gherdëina (2022), both curated together wit
Lucia Pietroiusti
In 2021, she co-curated “Bodies of Water”, the 13th Shanghai Biennale (with Andrés Jaque, Lucia Pietroiusti, Marina Otero Verzier and Mi You), and co-curated the group exhibition “Feet of Clay” at Porto's City Gallery (with Chus Martinez). Previously, she curated the large exhibition project on becoming animal and becoming other “Animalesque”, a
Bildmuseet Umeå
Sweden (Summer 2019) an
BALTIC
Gateshead (Winter/Spring 2019/20). Ramos has extensive experience as an editor and publisher. She was Editor-in-Chief of

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criticism (2013–20), Associate Editor o
Manifesta Journal
(2009–11) and contributed for Documenta 13 (2012) and 14 (2017). She authored ''Lost and Found'' (Silvana Editoriale, 2009) and edited ''Animals'' (Whitechapel Gallery/MIT Press, 2016). Her upcoming book, ''The Artist as Ecologist'', will be published in the UK by Lund Humphries in 2023. She lectures extensively in the fields of contemporary art and ecology. She is Lecturer at the Master Programme of th
Arts Institute
of the Fachhochschule Nordwestschweiz, Basel, where she leads the Art and Nature seminars. She co-authored
Theater, Garden, Bestiary A Materialist History of Exhibitions
' ed. by Tristan García and Vincent Normand (Sternberg Press, 2019), ''The Wild Book of Inventions'', ed. by Chus Martinez (Sternberg Press, 2020) and ''Sex Ecologies'', ed. by Stefanie Hessler (MIT Press, 2021). She edited ''Animals'' (London: Whitechapel Gallery/MIT Press, 2016), and authored ''Lost and Found'' (Milan: Silvana Editoriale, 2009). Her writing and research on art, film and nature has been published in magazines and catalogues worldwide, such as

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, ''art agenda''., ''Cura'', ''Frieze'', ''Mousse'', ''Nero'', ''Spike'', ''South'' or ''The White Review''. She has also extensively written for exhibition books catalogues, namely for

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's ''please listen hurry others speak better'' (2018),

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's Catalogue Raisonée (2018),

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's ''Animal That Doesn't Exist'', Heman Chong's ''Abstracts from the Straits Times'' (2018);

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's ''2 or 3 Tigers''; Allan Sekula's ''OKEANOS'' (2017); Elise Florenty & Marcel Türkowsky's ''One head too many'' (2017); ''Insomnia—Sleeplessness as a Cultural Symptom'' (2016); ''Archaeology & Exorcisms: Moving Image and the Archive'' (2016); Emma Smith's ''Practice of Place'' (2015); Christian Andersson's ''Legende'' (2015); ''Stadt/Bild — Image of a City'' (2015); Ursula Mayer's ''But We Loved Her'' (2014); ''Performing the Institution(al)'', vol. (2011). Interested in the ways in which moving-image-based technologies (film, video) are able of inaugurating and establishing relationship across humans and other animals, her research focuses on the intersection of art history, eco-activisms and film studies, with a particular emphasis on animal presences in artists' cinema. At the same time, she is interested in how the cinema and the zoo look at one another and shape each other as cinematic entities and spaces, which became the topic of "From Zao to Zoo", her PhD thesis. In 2017 she held a public conversation at

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with

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on the occasion of the London film premiere of Fabrizio Terranova's film ''Storytelling for Earthly Survival'' (2016). In 2018 she was in conversation with writer and poet

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, discussing animals, companionship and loss on occasion of their book ''Afterglow (A Dog's Memoir)''. Also in 2018, she and Lucia Pietroiusti were in conversation with anthropologist Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing during "The Shape of a Circle in the Mind of a Fish with Plants" symposium. With Serpentine Galleries' Curator of General Ecology, Lucia Pietroiusti, she initiated the symposia project "The Shape of a Circle in the Mind of a Fish". The first symposium, entitled "on language" was held at the London Zoo in May 2018, featuring

Diana Reiss Diana Reiss (born 1948 or 1949 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) is a professor of psychology at Hunter College and in the graduate program of Animal Behavior and Comparative Psychology at the City University of New York. Reiss's research has focused ...

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, '' Superflex's'' Rasmus Nielsen and

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. It also featured the performance ''Sleep Walkers/Zoo Pieces'' by

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, interpreted by long-time collaborator Claire Filmon, and the screening of Michela di Mattei's videos. The second symposium, entitled "we have never been one" took place at Ambika P3/University of Westminster in December 2018, featuring Heather Barnett, site-specific practitioners Gruff Theatre, swarm robotics engineer Sabine Hauert, science historian and writer Daisy Hildyard, neuroscientist Leah Kelly, science sociologist

Hannah Landecker Hannah L. Landecker (born 1969) is an Australian author and academic working as a professor of sociology at the University of California, Los Angeles and the UCLA Institute for Society and Genetics. Education Landecker earned a Bachelor of Sci ...

, anthropologist Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing, anthropologist Germain Meulemans, biological systems scientist and network architect Phoebe Tickell and artist Anaïs Tondeur plus film and sound works by artists

Sophia Al-Maria Sophia Al Maria (صافية المرية) (born 1983) is a Qatari-American artist, writer, and filmmaker. Her work has been exhibited at the Gwangju Biennale, the New Museum in New York, and the Architectural Association School of Architecture i ...

and Jenna Sutela and composer

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. The third symposium, entitle
"PLANTSEX"
took place at Cinema Lumiere of the French Institute in London in April 2019, featuring Melanie Bonajo, Maria Dimitrova, Chloe Aridjis, Dineo Seshee Bopape,

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, Jenna Sutela, Laurence Totelin, Alex Cecchetti, and Victoria Sin. The fourth symposium, entitle
"The Shape of a Circle in the Mind of a Fish with Plants"
took place at EartH Hackney, London, in May 2019. It featured Tabita Rezaire,

Hans Ulrich Obrist Hans Ulrich Obrist (born 1968) is a Swiss art curator, critic, and historian of art. He is artistic director at the Serpentine Galleries, London. Obrist is the author of ''The Interview Project'', an extensive ongoing project of interviews. He is ...

, Kapwani Kiwanga, Miranda Lowe, Kim Walker, Saelia Aparicio, Carlos Magdalena, Chris Watson,

Natasha Myers Natasha Myers is an associate professor of anthropology at York University. In 2016 she coined the term "Planthroposcene". Her first book, ''Rendering Life Molecular: Models, Modelers, and Excitable Matter'' is an ethnography of protein crystall ...

Michael Marder Michael Marder is Ikerbasque Research Professor of Philosophy at the University of the Basque Country, Vitoria-Gasteiz. He works in the phenomenological tradition of Continental philosophy, environmental thought, and political philosophy. Educati ...

, Teresa Castro, Antoine Bertin, Elvia Wilk, Amy Hollywood and Vivian Caccuri. In 2019, she co-curated with John Akomfrah, Guilherme Blanc and Gareth Evans th
Forum do Futuro
an annual programme of debates and performances held in Porto, Portugal, whose main objective is to invite guests from different disciplines and cultural backgrounds to discuss key issues facing contemporary societies. The five hundredth anniversary of the first circumnavigation of the world by Fernão de Magalhães inspired the edition. Symbolically adopting the title "Crossings/Travessias", the Fórum do Futuro rethought this journey and its wide-ranging multiple effects at a historical, political, and cultural level. Invited speakers included

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, Sonia Guajajara,

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Christina Sharpe Christina Elizabeth Sharpe is an American academic who is a professor of English literature and Black Studies at York University in Toronto, Canada. Education Sharpe received a bachelor's degree in English and Africana studies from the Univer ...

Elizabeth Povinelli Elizabeth A. Povinelli is Franz Boas Professor of Anthropology and Gender Studies at Columbia University, where she has also been the Director of the Institute for Research on Women and Gender and the Co-Director of the Centre for the Study of L ...

Vandana Shiva Vandana Shiva (born 5 November 1952) is an Indian scholar, environmental activist, food sovereignty advocate, ecofeminist and anti-globalisation author. Based in Delhi, Shiva has written more than 20 books. She is often referred to as "Gandhi ...

Coco Fusco Coco Fusco (born Juliana Emilia Fusco Miyares; June 18, 1960) is a Cuban-American interdisciplinary artist, writer, and curator whose work has been exhibited and published internationally. Fusco's work explores gender, identity, race, and power thr ...

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, Fiesta Warinwa from the

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, and others. In 2020, she also co-curated the Forum do Futuro, this time with

Shumon Basar Shumon Basar (born 15 October 1974) is a British writer, editor and curator. Life and education Basar was born in Pabna, Bangladesh, in 1974. His mother Dilruba Basar emigrated with him to the United Kingdom, to join his father, Abul Basar, who ...

, Jenna Sutela and Guilherme Blanc. Entitled "Vita Nova", the festival answered to the challenges and changes introduced by the Covid-19 pandemic by assuming the shape of a book and inquiring upon the present-future of humanity in a troubled and changing world. Invited contributors included

K Allado-McDowell
Tosh Basco,

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Tabita Rezaire
Denise Ferreira da Silva

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Feifei Zhou
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