Prosthetic Feedback
Daniel Martins e Ema Ferreira
07/Feb/2026
- 10/Mar/2026
Prosthetic Feedback is an interactive installation that reflects on the transu-manist human-technology relation as an inherent extension of the collective and individual being, where the guest-participant is expanded in space and time, using the present elements as a token for conscientization of the technological and interactive matter.
By creating an environment manipulated through real-time visual and sonic amplification, the device generates a continuous feedback loop system between spectators and exhibition space, as an extrapolation and exten-sion of the individual—the subject produces consequences in the space, and the space produces consequences in the subject.
Without visitors, Prosthetic Feedback remains as a generative entity, being experienced only when the subject frees themselves from their performative condition within the installation.
Biography of the artists
Daniel Martins
(1992, Porto) Artist and designer, holding a degree in Communication Design from the Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of Porto (2015), a postgraduate diploma in Digital Design from the School of Arts of the Portuguese Catholic University in Porto (2016), and a Master’s in Interactive Systems and Media from the School of Media Arts and Design (2024).
In 2015, he consolidated his artistic practice by founding the studio SVÄR – a multidisciplinary art and design duo – through which he took part in exhibitions such as [y]why (Porto City Hall, CMP, 2015) and Louro e Bambú (CAAA Guimarães, 2015).
Under his own name, he participated in the exhibitions Fantasy Direct (LARP: for The Wrong New Digital Art Biennale, Hong Kong and Seoul, 2017), Everything is Fine at CAVE, Solar Art Gallery (Vila do Conde, 2019), Scrolling the Arcane with the work Wandering On Prediction (online, 2020), and, more recently, at the Semibreve Festival (gnration, Braga) with the project Artificial Traces (2023), winner of the Edigma Scholar award.
In 2018, he founded AALTAR, a creative system/studio where he explores his multidisciplinary practice with a collaborative drive. AALTAR operates across diverse platforms and design subgenres, adopting an experimental approach to developing new visual solutions, and has collaborated with various artists and institutions (e.g., Jonathan Uliel Saldanha, Gabriel Abrantes, Duarte Sequeira Gallery, and the University of Minho).
Ema Ferreira
(1999) (1999) Portuguese composer and multimedia artist, born in Covilhã and currently living in Porto. She has a particular interest in electroacoustic music, sound art, and the relationship between image, sound, and interactivity within audio and audiovisual contexts.
She holds a bachelor’s and a master’s degree in Composition from ESMAE–IPP, and a master’s degree in Interactive Systems and Media from ESMAD–IPP. Alongside her artistic practice, she has been a production assistant at Sekoia – Performing Arts since 2023, and since October 2024 she has been collaborating with Digitópia – Casa da Música.
Between 2021 and 2022, she was an artist-in-residence in the European project IMPROVISA – Life in Motion, and in 2024 she was an artist-in-residence at the 2nd edition of ANIMAIS (CADA). She is currently part of the project Ecos do Funchal, in collaboration with the Funchal Guitar Quartet and supported by the Funchal Artistic Creation Grant; and she is co-creating Prosthetic Feedback, in collaboration with Daniel Martins and with support from the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation.
To date, her works have also been programmed in venues and festivals such as: Decomposição (2022), Projeções 2022, Mostra de Jovens Criadores 2021, Centro de Memória de Vila do Conde, Lisboa Incomum, DME, Casa das Artes (PT); Radiophrenia, University of Glasgow (GB-SCT); ljudOljud Festival (SE); Supersonique (FR); Gaudeamus (NL); Festival Expresiones Contemporáneas (MX); and the New York City Electroacoustic Music Festival (USA).
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