From October to December 2003 the Portuguese sound artist, lecturer and performer Adriana Sá will be Artist in Residence at the Digital Research Unit. Adriana will create a new performance work during her residency.

Adriana Sá is a trans-disciplinary artist, performer, improviser, composer and lecturer whose background is in the fields of visual arts and music [Mendelsohm Hochschule fuer Musik, Atelier Livre, FBA-UL].

Adriana has been investigating the reciprocal contamination of creative means and sensibilities. She has been developing and presenting her work in Europe, USA and Japan, frequently within the frame of artistic residencies. She has been using varied electronic sound instrumentation, concrete sounds, voice, light gradients [sensors], space and performative movement in connection to architecture, weather, geometry, notation systems, philosophy and other fields.

Adriana Sá has built an instrument for controlling sound through light according to MIDI programming and real-time light changes, which works as an organic structure in some site specific performance-installations. The physical presence of her body and her technological set-up also unfold as elements of architectural signification.