João Vasco Paiva is a portuguese artist currently living in Hong Kong.
His work is based on the exploration of sound and visuals produced through the isolation of physical patterns.
He uses digital and analog systems to depict scores in everyday life situations and re arranges them as sound and visual compositions.
He presents his work as live performances, single channel videos and audio visual installations.
Joao graduated from a Fine Arts Degree in Porto Art School with a special focus in painting.In 2006 he was awarded with a 2 years scholarship from Fundaçao Oriente a Portuguese Foundation that supports young artists in Asia, He obtained a Master of Fine Arts in Creative Media in the School of Creative Media City University of Hong Kong where he currently teaches.
His work has been showed in festivals such as : FILE Hypersonica International Festival of Electronic Language, London Exploratory Music Festival,Athens Video Art Festival ,CityTransit,2pi Festival ,Hong Kong and Shenzen Architecture and Urbanism Biennial and other venues and locations in Beijing Hong Kong ,London, Porto ,Hangzhou, Sao Paulo and Vienna among others.
Selected Exhibitions
----------2010 July, Para Site Central, Hanart Gallery, Hong Kong, China
49990 2010 May, Hong Kong Biennial Awards, Hong Kong Museum of Art, Hong Kong, China
0400902010 May, "A Story of Siamese Cities", Double Happiness Studio, Hong Kong, China
0000002010 May, Art Beijing, Beijing, China
9499992010 March, Solo exhibition, "Experiments on notation of shapes", Input/Output gallery , Hong Kong, China
2010 Jan, Fuse Artist Residence, Videotage, Hong Kong, China
2009 Nov, Microwave International Ne Media Festival , Hong Kong, China
2009 Nov, London International Festival of Exploratory Music, London, UK
2009 Nov, "Se numa noite de Inverno um viajante...", Coimbra B, Coimbra, Portugal
2009 Sep, CityTransit, Hong Kong Museum of Art, Hong Kong, China
2009 Jul-Aug, FILE Hypersonica International Festival of Electronic Language , Sao Paulo ,Brazil
2009 May, Experimenta , Hong Kong, China
2009 May, Athens Video Art Festival, Athens , Greece
2008 Sep, CityTransit, Vienna, Austria
2008 Apr, "Micro Narratives" China Art Academy, Hangzhou, China
2005 Aug, Biennal Internacional DE Cerveira, V.N. de Cerveira, Portugal
2005 Jul, C.E.F. Porto, Portugal
2005 Jun, Forum da Maia, Maia, Portugal
2004 Jan, Maus Habitos, Porto, Portugal
Audio Visual Performance
----------2010, July, "Listening Room 6: Seeing the Sound", Osage(Soho) Gallery, Hong Kong, China
2009 Oct,"Architecture is Discourse with Music" Hong Kong Cultural Center, Hong Kong, China
2008 Nov, Swire East Island Jazz Festival, Hong Kong, China
2008 Dec,RTHK "The Works", Hong Kong, China
2008 Oct, Videotage, Hong Kong, China
2008 May, Waterland Kwanying, Beijing
2008 May, "what" art center, Beijing, China
2008 Mar, Hong Kong and Shenzen Architecture and Urbanism Biennal, Hong Kong, China
2008 Mar, Hong Kong and Shenzen Architecture and Urbanism Biennal (with Edwin Lo), Hong Kong, China
2007 Nov, 2 Pi festival, HangZhou, China
2007 Sep, K.L.U.U.B.B, Hong Kong, China
2007 May, "Nofeaux Riche", Hong Kong, China
2007 Mar, Shanghai Street Artspace (with Yasonubu Zaizen), Hong Kong, China
2006 Nov, Videotage, Hong Kong, China
2006 Apr, N.F.Y.E. st. Clara Gallery, Coimbra, Portugal