About
UM is one of Portugal's first experimental and mixed media arts festivals.UM brings together international and national artists and practitioners interested in creating media works, which mix disciplinary techniques and different forms of technologies, to create interactive, playful and participatory media works. The 2008 programme focus is on gesture and movement.
UM Concept
Building on the successes of the N.I.P. project in Portugal, thematically the 2008 UM festival retains the focuses of the N.I.P. project by further exploring ideas of gesture and movement. This focus complements many of the today’s concerns across various subject areas from the extension and digitalisation of the human body across various networks, to virtual and physical mobility, to environmental and climatic shifts.
Addressing these concerns, the UM 2008, includes exhibitions, live music and sound performances, public art works, workshops and seminar discussions.
UM is directed by Teresa Dillon, Polar Produce in association with CADA Portugal.