Margarida Mendes

Margarida Mendes (lives and works in Lisbon) has directed the project

space The Barber Shop in Lisbon, where she hosts a programme of seminars and

residencies dedicated to artistic and philosophical research, since 2009. Her

research – which focus on the overlap between cybernetics, the sciences and

experimental film – explores the dynamic transformations of materialism and

their impact on societal structures and cultural production. She has curated

projects in various European institutions, among them CAC Vilnius, Flat Time

House, KIM? Contemporary Art Center, Spike Island Centre of Contemporary Art

& Design, Museu de Serralves. She is co-programmer at WATERFALLS.