SHORT BIOGRAPHY
Born in Funchal in 1971, Carlos Sena Caires is a renowned academic and digital artist. He received his bachelor’s degree in Design from the University of Madeira in Portugal in 1994, followed by a Master’s degree in Digital Arts from the Catholic University of Portugal in 2001, and a doctorate in Aesthetics, Sciences, and Technology of the Arts from the University of Paris 8 in France in 2010. Prof. Sena Caires has been teaching at the Catholic University of Portugal since 1999 and became an Assistant Professor at the School of Arts in 2009. He has also served as the Coordinator of the Master of Sound and Image and the Post-graduate degree in Digital Design since 2011. From 2010 to 2013, he was the chief editor of the CITAR Journal, the Journal of Science and Technology of the Arts. As a senior researcher, he also served as the Digital Creativity Research Group Coordinator at the CITAR Research Centre from 2010 to 2016.
Currently, Prof. Sena Caires is an Associate Professor in Design and the Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Humanities at the University of Saint Joseph in Macao, China.
His research interests focus on Digital Design, Interactive Arts, and New Media Design. He has produced numerous artistic projects and performed worldwide, including in Portugal, Spain, France, Brazil, Canada, and China. His creative art projects revolve around interactive-video installations, cinema, and digital art/video art installations.
PROFESSIONAL CAREER
ACADEMIC POSITIONS
2018 – 2025 Associate Professor of Design, Faculty of Arts and Humanities, USJ
2016 – 2018 Assistant Professor, Faculty of Creative Industries, USJ
2014 – 2016 Assistant Professor, School of Arts, Catholic University of Portugal
2009 – 2014 Senior Lecturer, School of Arts, Catholic University of Portugal
1999 – 2014 Lecturer, School of Arts, Catholic University of Portugal
ACADEMIC LEARDSHIPS at USJ
2020 – 2025 Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Humanities
2020 – 2025 Chair of the Scientific Council of the Faculty of Arts and Humanities
2020 – 2025 Acting-Coordinator for the USJ Liberal Arts Modules
2024 – 2025 Chair of the Pedagogical Council of the Faculty of Arts and Humanities
2023 – 2025 Research Coordinator for the Faculty of Arts and Humanities
2022 – 2025 Programme Coordinator for the Master of Design
2018 – 2020 Dean of the Faculty of Creative Industries
2018 – 2020 Chair of the Scientific Council of the Faculty of Creative Industries
2016 – 2018 Head of the Design Department of the Faculty of Creative Industries
2016 – 2018 Programme Coordinator for the Bachelor of Design
2016 – 2020 Programme Coordinator for the Bachelor of Fashion Design
2013 – 2016 Visiting Academic for the Faculty of Creative Industries
ACADEMIC LEADERSHIPS at the School of Arts, UCP
2014 – 2015 Coordinator of the Digital Creativity Research Group, CITAR
2011 – 2015 Programme Coordinator for the Master of Sound and Image
2011 – 2015 Programme Coordinator for the Post-graduation in Digital Design
2011 – 2015 Head of the Executive Internship Committee, Department Sound and Image
2011 – 2013 Chief-Editor for the CITAR Journal (Indexed Scopus, WoS), CITAR
2010 – 2013 Coordinator of the Visual and Interactive Art Research Group, CITAR
2010 – 2013 Coordinator of the Digital Creativity Advanced Training Department
2010 – 2012 President of the Pedagogical Council for the School of Arts
2009 – 2010 Vice-President of the Pedagogical Council for the School of Arts
2024 – General Chair for the ART(e)FACT(o)_2022_MACAO, 4th International Conference on Digital Creation in Arts, Media and Technology – Creative Digital Intelligence
2022 – General Chair ART(e)FACT(o)_2022_MACAO, 3rd International Conference on Digital Creation in Arts, Media and Technology – Emerging Extended Reality
2019 – Chairman of the Macau Winter Doctoral Seminar 2018 Research in Contemporary Cinema and Culture
2017 – Conference Chair for the ARTECH MACAU 2017, 8th International Conference on Digital Arts – Interfaces of Tomorrow.
EDITORIAL BOARD MEMBERSHIP
2017 – 20025 – Member of the International Scientific and Art Committee for the ARTECH International Conference on Digital Arts
2021 – 2025 Member of the Programme Committee for the IFIP-ICEC International Conference on Entertainment Computing
2021 – 2023 Member of the Editorial Review Board of the International Journal of Creative Interfaces and Computer Graphics (IJCICG).
2019 – 2022 Member of the Scientific Committee for the Scientific Journal Diacrítica – Centre for the Humanities Studies, CEHUM, UMinho University, Portugal
2019 – 2020 Member of the Scientific Committee for the 21st International Conference “Consciousness Reframed – Sentient States: Bio-mind and Techno-nature, UCP, Portugal
2018 – 2019 Member of the Editorial Board for the Cluster Computing Journal, Springer Nature.
2011 – 2016 Member of the Editorial Board of the CITARJournal of Science and Technology of the Arts, School of Arts, UCP, Portugal
OTHER CAREER PATHS
1995 – 2025 Designer Freelance
1997 – 1998 Secondary School Teacher for Live Drawing and Geometry at the Pires de Lima Secondary School (EB-2S), Porto.
1995 – 1996 Head of the Art Department of the daily newspaper Diário de Notícias da Madeira, Funchal, Portugal. Work as a Graphic Designer and Cartoonist.
1994 – 1995 Graphic Designer at the Atelier Zen, Venice, Italy.
1992 – 1994 Graphic Designer and Tracer at the Architecture Studio Bugio-Architects, Funchal, Portugal.