Ilda Teresa de Castro is a musician, artist and researcher in eco-art and ecomedia. Her work assumes a cross between art and ecology, focusing on the field of Critique of Environmental and Animal Values. In her work she explores drawing, photography, sculpture, video and music. Film / video programmer, she organized exhibitions and retrospectives, catalogs, and an Oral History trilogy about Portuguese cinema. Author of the book «I Animal - Arguments for a Paradigm Shift» and co-author of the opera «Descartes Never Saw A Monkey». Founder of the platform and online magazine Animalia Vegetalia Mineralia. His eco-films and eco-installations participate in national and international gatherings. As a composer, she plays her eco-art works and participates in collective projects, namely with Vítor Rua, in Telectu and The Banksy´s.
Vítor Rua (n. 1961) began in the late 1970s with some melodic inventions that profoundly marked Portuguese art rock. In 1982, he founded with Jorge Lima Barreto, TELECTU, a group of improvised music and live electroacoustics. In his work with Telectu he met with major international figures of improvisation asserting himself as an experimentalist and polyartist. In 1987, in a willful act of self-study, he decisively considered the study of the notation of contemporary music and in this context evolved in a meteoric way. His work reflects a postmodern, preliminary, variegated work of empiricist refusal of cultural confinement, hinged on stylistic and ideoletal boundaries.
