Arrival and registration.

Welcome drinks and an opportunity to meet participants, artists and guests.

Welcome remarks by INOVA+ and CMIA.

Presentations and insights from participating artists.

Created during seven days and seven nights at Viana do Castelo’s historic tide mill, Sleeping with the Tides documents an embodied experiment in reorganising work and sleep around the movements of the tide and the cycle of the Moon. Combining moving image, journal entries and environmental observation, the film reflects on the lunar and tidal rhythms that once structured the tide miller’s labour and asks what changes when human time is guided by the Moon and water rather than the clock.
The screening will be accompanied by a live reading of journal entries recorded during the seven-day experiment, followed by an audience Q&A.

Experience See-Waves through a live demonstration and artist talk with research-artists José Teibão and Becken Filipe.
The event offers an opportunity to see how real-time ocean data is translated into sound, light, and physical patterns through cymatics, transforming invisible marine dynamics into a tangible, living experience. The artists will discuss the ideas, research, materials, and technologies behind the project, as well as its broader questions around our relationship with the ocean.
A moment to experience the work, hear the story behind it, and reflect on how data can become a form of connection.
When we feel, we begin to care. And when we care, we begin to act.

Open to the Public

How does weather become data, and how can that data become an artwork?
Led by Kerrie O’Leary, this participatory workshop introduces some of the environmental sensing tools and methods used during Syzygy of the Tides. Beginning with a walk through CMIA’s Urban Ecological Park, participants will explore how local weather and environmental conditions can be observed, measured and recorded, including data gathered through the weather station installed at the historic tide mill.
Returning indoors, Kerrie will demonstrate how measurements such as temperature, humidity, atmospheric pressure, wind and rainfall can move from sensors into datasets, code and visual forms. The session offers an accessible introduction to environmental sensing, creative coding and data visualisation, with no previous coding experience or laptop required.

On 27 September, between 9:30 a.m. and 12:00 p.m., a Sensory Walk will take place, starting at Veiga de São Simão.
The walk, covering approximately 7 km, will be facilitated by Pedro Matias and Tatiana Rosa, artists-in-residence as part of the S+T+ARTS Aqua Motion project, and will form one of the presentation moments of the project Attuning to Absence.
Developed over the past year, the project seeks to reimagine the Lima River through practices of embodied listening and ecological artistic research, exploring new ways of relating communities to river ecosystems.

Attuning to Absence emerges from sustained, place-based engagement with the Lima River: repeated walks and field visits across seasons and tides, conversations with local communities and attentive observation of the river’s changing conditions.
Our artistic intent is to reframe disappearance as an active zone of relational perception and ecological meaning where silence and absence function as a resonant site for poetic fabulation and shared vulnerability.
A perceptual ecology that foregrounds noticing differently, inviting participants to sense what was, what is being lost, and what might be.
Attuning to Absence: Screening of the short film Lodo and launch of the beta version of Attuningtoabsence.eu

What is S+T+ARTS, and how can collaboration between Science, Technology and the Arts help address the challenges facing our territories?

An experimental workshop based on storytelling and participatory artistic practices. By exploring local narratives, it aims to foster an emotional connection with water and promote environmental awareness through shared experiences among participants.

Are you using a private water source in your home such as a well, a mine, a spring, a reservoir? Come test your water and share your water experience with us!
Collaborative, hands-on creative workshop, exploring water quality and social ecologies. Each participant (from one household) is invited to bring with them a sample of their water from the well/ mine/reservoir/spring to be tested at the workshop. Instructions for sample collection will be sent to registered participants. We will test certain water qualities together and explore the results through a collaborative installation and learn about our water relationships between us, our communities and the environment.