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Catarina A. Barbosa M. Reis is an architect and media artist based in Lisbon, Portugal, working at the intersection of art and science. Her practice focuses on transmedia and hybrid media artworks that explore feral ecologies and unexpected ecological entanglements. She is currently a Ph.D. researcher at the Department of Multimedia Art, Faculty of Fine Arts, University of Lisbon. Her practice-based research project, Tentacular Ecologies: Co-Creating with Plants and Other Vibrant Nonhumans, develops a series of artworks in which nonhuman agencies—such as plants, materials, sensors, and computational systems—are invited to affect, disturb, and co-compose the creative process. By combining artistic methods with scientific tools, her work seeks to uncover new possibilities for ecological engagement and understanding. Catarina is a member of the Artistic Studies Research Centre (CIEBA) and the Interactive Technologies Institute (ITI – LARSyS). She was awarded a Ph.D. fellowship by the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT) in 2020.
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Identification

Personal identification

Full name
CATARINA ALEXANDRA BARBOSA MOREIRA REIS

Citation names

  • REIS, Catarina

Author identifiers

Ciência ID
7F1D-5D14-7EC3

Email addresses

  • reisc@edu.ulisboa.pt (Professional)

Websites

  • www.catarina-reis.com (Personal)

Knowledge fields

  • Humanities - Arts - Arts
  • Humanities - Arts - Architectural design
  • Humanities - Arts - Architectural design
Education
Degree Classification
2020/09/15 - 2025/06/15
Ongoing
 P.h.D in Fine Arts (Multimedia) (Doutoramento)
Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Belas-Artes, Portugal
"Tentacular Ecologies. Co-Creating with Plants and Other Vibrant Nonhumans" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
2024 - 2024
Attended
 Erasmus + Mobility for Doctoral Research (Doutoramento)
Accademia di Belle Arti di Firenze, Italy
2023 - 2023
Attended
 Erasmus + Mobility for Doctoral Research (Doutoramento)
Universität für angewandte Kunst Wien, Austria
2015 - 2018/10
Attended
 Arquitetura dos Territórios Metropolitanos Contemporâneos (Doutoramento)
ISCTE-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa, Portugal
"Ecologia e Arquitectura num Território Pós-Humano. O muro como elemento aquitectónico de mediação ecológica em Lisboa" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
2009/09 - 2015/02
Concluded
 Arquitetura, na área de especialização em Interiores e Reabilitação do Edificado (Mestrado integrado)
Major in Interiores e Reabilitação do Edificado
Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Arquitectura, Portugal
"Reabilitação do Miradouro da Senhora do Monte; uma história de limites, entre o muro e a encosta" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
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2010/09 - 2011/02
Attended
 Concevoir et Habiter L'architecture (Programa ERASMUS) (Mestrado integrado)
Major in Arquitetura e Habitação
École nationale supérieure d'architecture et de paysage de Bordeaux, France
2004/09/20 - 2007/07/10
Concluded
 Design e Produção Cerâmica (Ensino secundário)
Major in Cerâmica
ARCA - EAC (Escola de Artes de Coimbra), Portugal
Affiliation

Science

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2021 - Current Research Assistant (Research) Universidade de Lisboa Centro de Investigação e de Estudos em Belas-Artes, Portugal
2021 - Current Research Assistant (Research) Laboratório de Robótica e Sistemas de Engenharia, Portugal
2018 - 2020 Research Assistant (Research) ISCTE-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa, Portugal
ISCTE-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa DINÂMIA'CET Centro de Estudos sobre a Mudança Socioeconómica e o Território, Portugal
Outputs

Publications

Book chapter
  1. REIS, Catarina. "Ecologias da cidade em sete andamentos: do território de Alvalade à história do Bairro das Caixas". In Paredes Meias, 117-141. Lisboa, Portugal: Junta de Freguesia de Alvalade, 2021.
    Published
Conference paper
  1. REIS, Catarina; Mendes, Mónica. Corresponding author: Mendes, Mónica. "Still Life Ecologies: Co-creating the representation of plants". Paper presented in TEI'25, Bordeaux, 2025.
    Published • 10.1145/3689050.3707687
  2. REIS, Catarina; Mendes, Mónica S. Santos. "Weed Ecologies: a Hybrid Media Experiment on Interstitial Spaces.". Paper presented in ARTeFACTO. 3rd International Conference on Digital Creation in Arts, Media and Technology, Macau, 2022.
    10.1109/artefacto57448.2022.10061243
Conference poster
  1. REIS, Catarina; Guilherme Nogueira Aguiar. "Unproductive Ecologies. A Transmedia Art Experiment on Urban Weeds.". Paper presented in Larsys Annual Meetings, 2023.
Journal article
  1. REIS, Catarina. "Fabulating With Medusa: Towards a Tentacular Methodology for More-Than-Human World-Making". Green Letters: Studies in Ecocriticism (2026):
    Submitted
  2. REIS, Catarina. "Vibrant Media: Shimmering Ecologies of Artistic Co-Creation". Journal of Posthuman Studies: Philosophy, Technology, Media (2025):
    Submitted
  3. REIS, Catarina. "Towards a Phytophilic Gaze". Convocarte 16-17 (2025):
    Accepted
Newspaper article
  1. REIS, Catarina. "O Antropoceno não-antropocêntrico", Público, 2020, P3, https://www.publico.pt/2020/04/24/p3/cronica/antropoceno-naoantropocentrico-1913361.
  2. REIS, CATARINA. "O Arquitecto vai nu", Público, 2018, P3, https://www.publico.pt/2018/03/26/p3/cronica/o-arquitecto-vai-nu-1831740.
Preprint
  1. REIS, Catarina. "Fabulating With Medusa: Towards a Tentacular Methodology for More-Than-Human World-Making". 2025. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15648520.
    10.5281/zenodo.15648520
  2. REIS, Catarina. "Towards a Phytophilic Gaze". 2025. https://zenodo.org/records/15659926.
  3. REIS, Catarina. "Vibrant Media: Shimmering Ecologies of Artistic Co-Creation". 2025. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15694069.
Thesis / Dissertation
  1. REIS, CATARINA. "Revitalização do Miradouro da Senhora do Monte - Uma História de Limites, Entre o Muro e a Encosta". Master, Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Arquitectura, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10400.5/12601.

Artistic / Performance

Artistic exhibition
  1. Vibrant Matter - Studies for Unstill Life. 2025.
  2. Still Life Ecologies: Co-Creating the Representation of Plants. 2025.
  3. Witch Ecologies. Paradise Lost, Flora Found.. 2024.
  4. Interstitial Alchemy. 2023.
  5. Ecologias Tentaculares / Tentacular Ecologies. 2022.
Artistic performance
  1. Wolfgang Dorninger. 2013. Lisbon sounds - Texto2Field Recordings (2013) MIDI Interface, computer, video projection, soundspkears. SoundDevelopment City - Lisbon Architecture Trienal.
Visual artwork
  1. REIS, CATARINA. Female Artist Index Vienna (2021 - 2024) Website - Concept, webdesign and coding.
  2. REIS, CATARINA. Third Landscapes - An exercise of dérive during the lockdown (2020) Digital photography.
Activities

Oral presentation

Presentation title Event name
Host (Event location)
2023/09/08 Interstitial Alchemies Leonardo LASER Linz - Danube Songs Vol. III
Ars Electronica (Linz, Austria)
2023/07/17 Unproductive Ecologies. A Transmedia Art Experiment on Urban Weeds Larsys Annual Meetings
(Lisbon, Portugal)
2022/11/24 Weed Ecologies - A Hybrid Media Experiment on Interstitial Spaces ARTeFACTo 2022 MACAO's - Emerging Extended Realities
University of Saint Joseph, in Macau (Macau, China)
2020/11/20 Tentacular Ecologies. Interspecies co-creation in the Chthulucene - a series of Multimedia Installations Corpo a Corpo, Art Talks
Faculdade de Belas-Artes da Universidade de Lisboa (Lisboa, Spain)
2018/11 Ecology and Architecture in a Post-Human Territory: The Wall as an Architectural Element of Ecological Mediation Prova Pública de Defesa de Projecto de Tese de Doutoramento
ISCTE - Instituto Universitário de Lisboa (Lisboa, Portugal)
2018/07/14 "Ligações Híbridas" - Hybrid Connections - Requalification Project on the grounds of the old Feira Popular in Lisbon ISCTE Summer School - Sustainable Design Open Spaces in Lisboa
CIUL - Centro de Informação Urbana de Lisboa (Lisboa, Portugal)
2018/05/25 Ecology and Architecture in a Post-Human Territory: The Wall as an Architectural Element of Ecological Mediation ENIA II - 2.º Encontro Nacional de Investigação em Arquitetura
Faculdade de Arquitetura da Universidade do Porto (Lisboa, Portugal)
2018/05/25 Presentation of research project "Para uma ecologia da cidade pós-humana. O muro como instrumento de ecodiversidade em Lisboa" ENIA II - 2.º Encontro Nacional de Investigação em Arquitetura
2015/02 Rehabilitation of "Miradouro da Srª do Monte" - a Story of Limits Between the Wall and the Hillside Prova Pública de Defesa de Dissertação de Mestrado
Faculdade de Arquitectura da Universidade de Lisboa (Portugal, Portugal)

Event organisation

Event name
Type of event (Role) 		Institution / Organization
2023/05/01 - 2023/05/14 Workshop "Thinking Weed - Interstitial Ecologies" (2023/05/10 - 2023/05/10)
Workshop (Co-organisor)
 Universität für künstlerische und industrielle Gestaltung Linz, Austria

Event participation

Activity description
Type of event 		Event name
Institution / Organization
2022/05/27 - Current Bioinspiration@ MUHNAC Event Presentation of the art installation "Tentacular Ecologies" and participation in the round table - Architecture section.
Round table
 Bioinspiration Workshop
Museu Nacional de História Natural e Ciência, Portugal
2020/03 - Current Criatech - Artistic residencies in a collaborative context, aimed at developing STEAM skills. «https://www.aveirotechcity.pt/pt/atividades/Aveiro-Criatech-Residences
Other
 CRIATECH RESIDENCES 2020 - Aveiro Tech City
Câmara Municipal de Aveiro, Portugal
2021/07 - 2021/07 Biofriction Summer Program
Other
 Biofriction
Hangar | Centre de producció i recerca d'arts visuals, Spain
2020/12/03 - 2020/12/03 Olga Kisseleva artist talk - Debate e discussão
Conference
 Olga Kisseleva artist talk
Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Belas-Artes, Portugal

Association member

Society Organization name Role
2020 - Current National Architectural Association - Ordem dos Arquitectos Efective member
2019/07 - Current Mz Baltazar's Lab - https://www.mzbaltazarslaboratory.org/ Colaboradora no desenvolvimento, organização e execução de projectos e eventos

Mentoring / Tutoring

Topic Student name
2018/07/02 - 2018/07/14 ISCTE Summer School - Sustainable Design: Open Spaces in Lisbon. Catarina Esteves, Duncan Crowley, Sofia Vilalva
Distinctions

Other distinction

2020 Dcotoral Grant
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, Portugal