Luís Fernandes

Luís Fernandes (1981) is a musician, sound artist and curator based in Braga, Portugal. His work is developed within the domains of musical composition, performance and art curating.Luis Fernandes is also the artistic director of Semibreve Festival, since 2011, and gnration, since 2014. He was part of the application committee of the Braga UNESCO Creative City for the Media Arts (2015-2017) and is the responsible for the artistic coordination of the project. He’s part of the ENCAC (European Network for Contemporary Audiovisual Creation) curator’s committee alongside representants of Ars Electronica (Linz), LABoral (Gijón), CDN Montpellier (Montpellier), Club Transmediale (Berlim) or Onassis Cultural Centre (Atenas). He has commissioned works to artists including Phill Niblock, Mark Fell, Stephan Mathieu, Ryoichi Kurokawa, Tarik Barri, Hans- Joachim Roedelius, Joanie Lemercier, Keith Fullerton Whitman, Sarah Davachi, AGF e Zimoun.