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André Baltazar served as the Vice-Dean of the School of Arts at Universidade Católica Portuguesa (UCP) from 2018 until December 2024, where he co-led the academic unit to foster a culture of research excellence, creativity, and collaboration. He holds a PhD in Science and Technology of the Arts and a Master's in Electrotechnical and Computers Engineering, specializing in Telecommunications and Multimedia. Passionate about bridging the gap between academia and industry, he focused on developing innovative solutions and services in digital and interactive art. André was also the Director of the Digital Creativity Center at UCP, providing the infrastructure necessary for the development of applied research in new media art and artistic technology consultancy. He has extensive experience in computer music, artificial intelligence, interactive technology programming, new business development, and artistic and scientific research. Additionally, he coordinates the Undergraduate Program in Sound and Image. Throughout his academic and professional trajectory, he actively engaged in research at CITAR-UCP, focusing on various topics such as HCI, Gesture Recognition, Computer Music, Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence, AR, and VR.
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Identification

Personal identification

Full name
Andre Baltazar

Citation names

  • Baltazar, André M.

Author identifiers

Ciência ID
AD18-015F-EF6E
ORCID iD
0000-0003-1790-1924

Email addresses

  • abaltazar@ucp.pt (Professional)

Websites

Knowledge fields

  • Humanities - Arts
  • Engineering and Technology

Languages

Language Speaking Reading Writing Listening Peer-review
English Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1)
Spanish; Castilian Intermediate (B1) Intermediate (B1) Intermediate (B1) Intermediate (B1)
French Intermediate (B1) Intermediate (B1) Intermediate (B1) Intermediate (B1)
Education
Degree Classification
2009 - 2015
Concluded
 Ciência e Tecnologia das Artes - Computer Music (Doutoramento)
Universidade Católica Portuguesa, Portugal
"Zatlab: Recognizing Gesture for Artistic Performance Interaction" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
 17
2009
Concluded
 Engenharia Electrotécnica e de Computadores (Mestrado)
Major in Telecomunicações e Comunicação Multimédia
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal
Affiliation

Science

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2015 - Current Auxiliary Researcher (Research) Universidade Católica Portuguesa Centro de Investigação em Ciência e Tecnologia das Artes, Portugal
2010/01 - 2015/01 Invited Auxiliary Researcher (Research) Universidade Católica Portuguesa Centro de Investigação em Ciência e Tecnologia das Artes, Portugal
2009/06 - 2009/12 Researcher (Research) Instituto de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computadores Tecnologia e Ciência, Portugal

Teaching in Higher Education

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2018/03/28 - Current Assistant Professor (University Teacher) Universidade Católica Portuguesa Escola das Artes, Portugal
2015/01 - 2018/02 Invited Assistant Professor (University Teacher) Universidade Católica Portuguesa Escola das Artes, Portugal
2016 - 2017 Invited Assistant (Polytechnic Teacher) Instituto Politécnico do Porto, Portugal
Instituto Politécnico do Porto Escola Superior de Media Artes e Design, Portugal
2011 - 2016 Invited Assistant (Polytechnic Teacher) Instituto Politécnico do Porto Escola Superior de Media Artes e Design, Portugal
Instituto Politécnico do Porto Escola Superior de Hotelaria e Turismo, Portugal

Positions / Appointments

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2018/01 - Current Coordenador de Licenciatura e Mestrado em Som e Imagem Universidade Católica Portuguesa Escola das Artes, Portugal
2018/09/01 - 2024/12/12 Organic Unit Sub-director Universidade Católica Portuguesa Escola das Artes, Portugal
2018/06 - 2024/12/12 Organic Unit Director Centro de Criatividade Digital - UCP, Portugal

Others

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2000 - Current Musico / Performer be-dom - Associação Cultural de Artes do Espectáculo, Portugal
2011/09/01 - 2011/12/15 Invited Researcher CCRMA- Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics, Stanford University, United States
Projects

Grant

Designation Funders
2010 - 2014 Zatlab: Recognizing Gestures for Artistic Performance Interaction
SFRH / BD / 61662 / 2009
PhD Student Fellow
Universidade Católica Portuguesa Centro de Investigação em Ciência e Tecnologia das Artes, Portugal
 Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded

Contract

Designation Funders
2021 - 2024 Establishment of a Yucatan-Cuba Network of MA programmes in Contemporary Art and Cultural Management
617486-EPP-1-2020-1-ES-EPPKA2-CBHE-JP
Researcher
Universidade Católica Portuguesa Centro de Investigação em Ciência e Tecnologia das Artes, Portugal
Ongoing
2011/01/01 - 2012/12/31 Strategic Project - LA 14 - 2011-2012
PEst-C/EEI/LA0014/2011
Instituto de Engenharia Mecânica, Portugal

Instituto de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computadores, Portugal

Instituto de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computadores Tecnologia e Ciência, Portugal

Instituto Politécnico do Porto Instituto Superior de Engenharia do Porto, Portugal
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded
2009/04/01 - 2011/12/31 Sistemas composicionais dinâmicos e adaptativos controlados por movimento
UTAustin/CD/0052/2008
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Portugal

Instituto de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computadores, Portugal

The University of Texas at Austin, United States
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded
2009/03 - 2009/12 Kinetic - Controller driven adaptive and dynamic music composition systems
KINETIC
Research Fellow
Instituto de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computadores Tecnologia e Ciência Center for Research in Advanced Computing Systems, Portugal
Concluded

Other

Designation Funders
2011/09 - 2011/12 Invited researcher at CCRMA - Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics, Satnford University, EUA
SFRH/BD/61662/2009
Invited Researcher
Concluded
Outputs

Publications

Book chapter
  1. André Baltazar. "Teaching digitalization: implementation and practices at the School of Arts". In Prácticas de mediación en arte contemporáneo. Abada Editores, 2024.
    Accepted
  2. Andre Baltazar; Luis Gustavo Martins. "ZatLab". In programming a framework for gesture recognition and performance interaction, 333-365. Taylor and Francis Inc., 2017.
    10.4018/978-1-5225-2589-9.ch015
  3. Andre Baltazar. "ZatLab gesture recognition framework". In machine learning results, 318-332. IGI Global Publishing, 2017.
    10.4018/978-1-5225-2589-9.ch014
  4. Baltazar, André; Martins, Luís Gustavo. "ZatLab: Programming a Framework for Gesture Recognition and Performance Interaction". In Innovative Teaching Strategies and New Learning Paradigms in Computer Programming, 224-254. Worldwide: IGI Global, 2015.
    Published • 10.4018/978-1-4666-7304-5.ch011
Conference paper
  1. Nádia Moura; Sofia Serra; Andre Baltazar; Moura, Nádia; Serra, Sofia; Baltazar, André Miguel Passos. "Qualitative perspectives on gesture in saxophone performance". Paper presented in ARTeFACTo2020, Faro, 2020.
    Published
  2. Baltazar, André Miguel Passos; André Miguel Passos Baltazar; Luís Gustavo Pereira Marques Martins. "ZatLab: Gesture Recognition Framework for Artistic Performance Interaction - Overview". Paper presented in ARTECH 2015. 7th International Conference on Digital Arts – Creating Digital e-Motions., Óbidos, 2015.
    Published
  3. Sofia Lourenco; André Baltazar; Luís Gustavo Martins; Ricardo Megre. "European piano schools of music performance building up a multi modal analysis". Paper presented in 14th International Conference of the International Society for the Study of European Ideas, Porto, 2014.
    Published
  4. Sofia Lourenço; Luis Gustavo Martins; Andre Baltazar. "European piano schools of music performance building up a multimodal analysis". 2014.
  5. Andre Baltazar; Jaime dos Santos Cardoso; Luis Gustavo Martins. "ZATLAB: A Gesture Analysis system to Music Interaction". Paper presented in ARTECH 2012, Faro, 2012.
    Published
  6. Cordeiro, Joao; Baltazar, Andre; Barbosa, Alvaro. "Murky shooting: the use of auditory (non-speech) feedback on mobile audiogames". Paper presented in Proceedings of the 7th Audio Mostly Conference: A Conference on Interaction with Sound, Corfu, 2012.
    Published
  7. Joao Cordeiro; Andre Baltazar; Barbosa, A.. "Murky shooting". 2012.
    10.1145/2371456.2371462
  8. Andre Baltazar; Carlos Guedes; Bruce Pennycook; Fabien Gouyon; Baltazar, André Miguel Passos. "A real-time human body skeletonization algorithm for Max/MSP/Jitter". Paper presented in International Computer Music Conference, New York, 2010.
    Published
Journal article
  1. Lorena de Oliveira Chagas; Cristina Sá; André Baltazar. "ESPECT-ATRIZES: cruzamentos entre Teatro do Oprimido, neurociência e estudos de recepção". Cadernos do GIPE-CIT 52 (2024): 141-158. http://hdl.handle.net/10400.14/53440.
    Open access • Published
  2. Sá, Cristina; Baltazar, André Miguel Passos; Torres, Rui. "Editorial: Consciousness Reframed". Journal of Science and Technology of the Arts 12 1 (2020): 1-2. https://doi.org/10.34632/jsta.2020.8212.
    Published
  3. Baltazar, André. "ZatLab Gesture Recognition Framework: Machine Learning Results". International Journal of Creative Interfaces and Computer Graphics 7 2 (2016): 11-24. https://www.igi-global.com/gateway/article/178509.
    Published • 10.4018/IJCICG.2016070102
Journal issue
  1. Sá, Cristina; Baltazar, André Miguel Passos; Torres, Rui. "Special Issue: Consciousness Reframed". Journal of Science and Technology of the Arts 12 1 (2020): https://revistas.ucp.pt/index.php/jsta/issue/view/506.
    Published
Thesis / Dissertation
  1. André Miguel Passos Baltazar. "ZATLAB: recognizing gestures for artistic performance interaction". PhD, Universidade Católica Portuguesa, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10400.14/16712.
  2. Baltazar, André Miguel Passos; André Miguel Passos Baltazar. "Extracção de informações rítmicas de movimento em dança através de um sinal de vídeo". Master, University of Porto, 2009. oai:digitool.fe.up.pt:53287.

Artistic / Performance

Artistic exhibition
  1. UNTITLED (ORCHESTRAL) de João Onofre - Desenvolvimento de Hardware e Software. 2017.
  2. Fons Vitae - Instalação Interactiva de conteúdo digital aumentado. 2017.
Artistic performance
  1. 2001. be-dom - Espectáculo Musical e de teatro físico. Portugal, Inglaterra, Alemanha, Itália, Espanha, Macau, Escócia, Bahrain, França.
Video recording
  1. Baltazar, André Miguel Passos; Centro de Criatividade Digital- UCP (Producer); Tiago Silva (Director). 2019. Documentário "O presente do Futuro - 40 anos do Centro Regional do Porto, Universidade Católica Portuguesa" - Coordenação do Projeto.
  2. André Baltazar; Nuno Crespo; André Baltazar (Producer). 2019. O princípio do futuro 1978-2018: documentário.
Visual artwork
  1. André Baltazar. A judiaria do Porto: do Olival para o Mundo - coordenação do projeto.

Other

Invention
  1. MAAT Museum Project. 2017. André Miguel Passos Baltazar.
  2. MMIPO Museum - Fons Vitae. 2017. André Miguel Passos Baltazar; André Venturoti Perrotta.
Other output
  1. "Senhelo Calhim" - Computer animated short film - project coordinator. 2021. Andre Baltazar. https://ciencia.ucp.pt/en/publications/fabb8c8d-4df6-4232-88a6-f7835969bf05.
  2. Editorial. consciousness reframed. 2020. Cristina Sá; Andre Baltazar; Rui Torres. https://ciencia.ucp.pt/en/publications/8df6db37-02f4-48ed-ac63-7c494b593282.
    10.34632/jsta.2020.8212
  3. A judiaria do Porto revisitada - Evolução do espaço urbano. 'A judiaria do Porto revisitada : do Olival para o Mundo' - Modelação espacial 3D-vídeo do sítio da judiaria para material multimédia para integrar Exposição (c/ coordenação de André Baltazar). 2020. Baltazar, André Miguel Passos; Ferrão Afonso, José; Casanova, Maria José; Daniela Alves Ribeiro; Megre, Ricardo; Teixeira, Joaquim.
  4. be-dom - Espectáculo Musical e de teatro físico. 2001. André Miguel Passos Baltazar.
Software
  1. Andre Baltazar. "Mirmidão da tragédia - Ana Jotta - Software development for art exhibition @ Serralves Museum". Centro de Criatividade Digital - UCP. 2022.
  2. Baltazar, André M.. "Igor Jesus - "Banho Maria" - Software development art exhibition @ School of Arts and CIAJG". Centro de Criatividade Digital - UCP. 2022.
  3. Andre Baltazar. "Nuno Cera - "sinfonia do desconhecido II" - Software development for art exhibition @ School of Arts". Centro de Criatividade Digital - UCP. 2021.
Activities

Oral presentation

Presentation title Event name
Host (Event location)
2022/06/15 Teaching digitalization Methodologies adopted @ School of Arts – UCP
School of Arts

Event organisation

Event name
Type of event (Role) 		Institution / Organization
2023/11/09 - 2023/11/11 Explorations on Sound and New Media Art Conference (2023/11/09 - 2023/11/11)
Conference (Co-organisor)
2019 - 2019 21st international Conference Consciousness Reframed - 2019 (2019/06/06 - 2019/06/08)
Conference (Co-organisor)

Committee member

Activity description
Role 		Institution / Organization
2019/06/06 - 2019/06/08 Comissão organizadora: 21st International Conference Consciousness Reframed 2019 "Sentient States: Bio-mind and Techno-nature" 6-8 June 2019 Universidade Católica Portuguesa - Porto, Portugal
Member
 Universidade Católica Portuguesa Centro de Investigação em Ciência e Tecnologia das Artes, Portugal

Conference scientific committee

Conference name Conference host
2019/10/23 - 2024/10/25 ARTECH - International Conference on Digital and Interactive Arts
2021 - 2023 Artefacto
2018 - 2023 XCOAX