Rudolfo Quintas

Rudolfo Quintas is Portuguese visual artist whose work critically examines the expanding and multilayered relationship between culture and technology. His artistic investigations address the impact of technology on social, political, and psychological spheres, proposing artworks as interfaces that scrutinize and explore this complex interplay.

In a continuum dialogue between the physical and the digital, Quintas has extensively investigated the body and behavior as interfaces, the impact of information and communication overload on mental health, and the implications of autonomous systems of power and control in democracy. These artistic investigations have led him to formulate human-centric, transdisciplinary creative process methodologies such as the ‘Augmented Body’, ‘Sensitive-contexts’, ‘Blind Sounds’, ‘Post Inclusion’, ‘Eco-Acoustic Embodiments’, and the ‘Sciensible’. These hybrid systems merge human expressions with code, creating a medium where art, science, and philosophy intersect to propose more inclusive, participative, and diverse relationships with artificial intelligence and technology. His commitment to exploring these concepts has also led him to give talks at prestigious academic and scientific institutions, including the Faculty of Fine Arts in Porto, Fundação Champalimaud, Harvard University in Boston, or the New Interfaces For Musical Expression organization.

Through a dynamic range of mediums—from live computational data paintings and immersive installations to performances, as well as immutable drawings, paintings, and sculptures—Quintas has received numerous distinctions. Notable among these are the Inter.faces Award for the work ‘Swap’ (2005) – a visually augmented dance piece, the Transmediale Distinction Award in Berlin for ‘Burning The Sound’ (2009) where Quintas performs with lighters and matches to amplify and control digital sound, the Sonae Nomination Award for ‘Keystones’ (2019) an AI generative language installation and recently in 2024 won the Norberto Fernandes Award by Altice Foundation recognizing significant contributions to the field of Art and Technology by Portuguese artists with ‘Sentiment Data Paintings’.

Featured internationally at venues such as Kiasma Museum in Finland, Fundació “La Caixa” and Casa Encendida in Spain, CTM Transmediale in Berlin, or Santralistanbul in Istanbul, Quintas has also exhibited widely in his home country. His Portuguese exhibitions include the ARCO Art Fair, National Museum of Contemporary Art, Foco Gallery, the Index of Art and Technology festival, Sónar, Convento de São Francisco, and Carpintarias De São Lázaro, among others. His work is published in editions such as “Younger Than Jesus: Artist Directory” co-edited by New Museum New York and Phaidon Press or the Leonardo by MIT Press.
The artist runs his studio in Lisbon, Portugal.