Daniel Antunes Pinheiro (Beira, 1980) is a visual artist and musician. As a lecturer at the Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of Lisbon (FBA-UL) since 2010, he develops a multidisciplinary educational artistic practice around experimental photography and sound. His work interrogates the ontology of the photographic image, with a special focus on the cameraless image and the critical dismantling of the device and its material conditions, articulating with nearby limit areas, such as drawing, sound and sculpture. Daniel holds a PhD in Fine Arts (Multimedia Art) and collaborates with CIEBA (ULisboa) and CESEM (UNL-NOVA), investigating the role of the invisible infrastructures, which sustain the contemporary visual regime, shaped by constant mediation of touch screens. In this context, he analyzes how image forms a central "alphabet" in the human-machine metabolism and strategies used by attention capitalism to monitor, predict and condition the user, replacing human free will with automation. Daniel currently coordinates the Post-graduation in Sound Art: Experimental Processes at FBA-UL, promoting research and creation in performative, laboratory and exhibition contexts. In parallel, he is an exhibition programmer and offers artistic tutoring and training for associative cultural structures and informal artist-led spaces.

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