TEACHING

2021

Workshop: online “Contemporary Art and Life Science - Microbiology and Art”, Faculdade de Belas Artes, Universidade de Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal. (2 days, 40 participants)
Workshop: “ELEMENTS OF CARE”, Summer School 2021, Cultivamos Cultura, S. Luis, Portugal. (three weeks, 15 participants) Other faculty included Regine Rapp, Christian de Lutz, Kira O’Reilly, Christina Gruber.

2019-20

Year long residency at the Communication department of the Fundação Eugénio de Almeida - Centro de Arte e Cultura. Monthly Lectures and activities with young students between 6 and 15 years old and sessions for adults. Évora, Portugal.
“Genetic Manipulation Workshop” Workshop at Peking University co-organized by the Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing. (5 days, 23 participants)
Workshop: “Contemporary Art and Life Science - CRISPR-cas9”, Incubator Lab, Windsor University, Windsor, Ontario, Canada. (2 days, 20 participants).
Workshop: “DIY CRISPR Workshop with bioartist Marta de Menezes”, The Sanctuary for Independent Media, Troy, New York, USA. (3 days, 25 participants).
Workshop: “Contemporary Art and Life Science - Microbiology and Art”, Faculdade de Belas Artes, Universidade de Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal. (1 days, 30 participants)
Workshop: “The seventh sense”, Spring School 2019 for the University of Massachusetts students, Lowell Campus, Cultivamos Cultura, S. Luis, Portugal. (one week, 4 participants). Other faculty includes Dalila Honorato, Mark Lipton, Luis Graca, Crystal Kershaw, Hege Tapio, Byron Rich.

2018

“Merry CRISPR II” Workshop at Aalto University co-organized by the Finnish Bioart Society. (5 days, 23 participants)
Workshop: “Contemporary Art and Life Science - Microbiology and Art”, Faculdade de Belas Artes, Universidade de Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal. (2 days, 50 participants).
Workshop: “Contemporary Art and Life Science”, Spring School 2018 for the University of Massachusetts students, Lowell Campus, Cultivamos Cultura, S. Luis, Portugal. (one weeks, 10 participants). Other faculty includes Dalila Honorato, Alan Tod and Luis Graca.
Workshop: “Colision”, Summer School 2018, Cultivamos Cultura, S. Luis, Portugal. (three weeks, 16 participants). Other faculty includes Dalila Honorato, Andrew Carnie, Ana Baleia, Maya Kempe and Antonio Caramelo.

2017

“Merry CRISPR” Workshop at Aalto University co-organized by the Finnish Bioart Society. (5 days, 23 participants)
Teaching within the Diplomado "Arte, Ciencia y Filosofía. Medios y Mediaciones" in Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico.
Workshop: “Contemporary Art and Life Science - CRISPR-cas9”, Art and Design Department, Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, USA. (2 days, 20 participants).
Workshop: “Contemporary Art and Life Science - CRISPR-cas9”, Art and Design Department, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA. (3 days, 10 participants).
Workshop: “Contemporary Art and Life Science - Microbiology and Art”, Faculdade de Belas Artes, Universidade de Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal. (2 days, 50 participants).
Workshop: “Life in vitro” part of the TTT conference (Taboo, Transgression and Trancendence), Summer School 2017, Ionian University, Corfu, Greece. (1 day, 30 participants).
Workshop: “Contemporary Art and Life Science”, Summer School 2017 for the University of Massachusetts students, Lowell Campus, Cultivamos Cultura, S. Luis, Portugal. (one weeks, 10 participants). Other faculty includes Manuel Furtado dos Santos, Alan Tod and Luis Graca. Workshop: “Labor”, Summer School 2017, Cultivamos Cultura, S. Luis, Portugal. (three weeks, 16 participants). Other faculty includes Luis Quintais, Andrew Carnie, Paul Vanouse, Joan Linder and Nigel Helyer.

2016

Workshop: Microbiology and Art, photosensitive growth medium, Arte+Ciencia, Department of Philosophy, UNAM, Mexico City, Mexico. (three days, 20 participants). Other faculty includes Maria Antonia Valerio.
Island, Split, Croatia. (one week, ten participants). Other faculty includes Marie Pier Boucher and Nigel Llwyd William Helyer).
Workshop: Entanglement, Summer School 2016, Cultivamos Cultura, S. Luis, Portugal. (three weeks, sixteen participants). Other faculty includes Luis Graça and Marie Pier Boucher. Workshop: TransJohn, I’m only dancing, Design Fiction, Media Lab Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, USA. (one day, nine participants). Other faculty includes Adam Zaretsky.
Workshop: Microbiology and art, textile dying, Art and Design Department, University of Massachusetts, Lowell, USA. (one day, 30 participants).
Workshop: Tissue Culture and Art, Speculative Life Laboratory at the Milieux Institute for Arts, Culture and Technology at Concordia University, Montreal, Canada. (two days, eight participants). Other faculty includes Tagny Duff.
Workshop: Microbiology and art, textile dying, AMPED, York University, Toronto, Canada. (two days, 25 participants).
Workshop: Microbiology and Art, photosensitive growth medium, Video Pool, Winnipeg, Canada. (three days, nine participants).

2015

Workshop: Care and Enchantment, Summer School 2015, Cultivamos Cultura, S. Luis, Portugal. (three weeks, twelve participants). Other faculty includes Luis Graça and Marie Pier Boucher.

2014

Workshop: Science & Art: So different, so similar!, Course for Teachers: Comenius / Grundtvig ES-2011-284-001, Santiago de Compostela, Spain. (one week, 20 participants). Workshop: Origin and Limit, Summer School 2014, Cultivamos Cultura, S. Luis, Portugal. (three weeks, eight participants). Other faculty includes Luis Graça and Maria Antonia Valerio.
M. de Menezes. Biologia como um novo media para a arte: um trabalho de investigação em arte. MIDAS Magazine, online @ http://revistamidas.hypotheses.org/ (In Portuguese)
M. de Menezes. Biology as a new media for art: an art research endeavour. Technoetics Arts Journal, Intellect Books, volume 13, numbers 1 & 2. Editor Roy Ascott. pp: 115-123. (In English)

2013

Workshop: Art, Biology and Ecology workshop, Summer School, Cultivamos Cultura, S. Luis, Portugal. (one week, seven participants). Other faculty includes Luis Graça and Marie Pier Boucher.
Workshop: Science & Art: So different, so similar!, Course for Teachers: Comenius / 17 Grundtvig ES-2011-284-001, Santiago de Compostela, Spain. (one week, twenty participants).
Workshop: Biology as an art medium, eConsciousness Conference, ART MOSCOW: 17th International Art Fair and the Fifth Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art, Moscow, Russia. (two days, sixteen participants).

2012

Workshop: Plant tissue culture, Nature Lab, School of Visual Arts, New York, USA. (two days, twenty five participants).
Workshop: Science & Art: So different, so similar!, Course for Teachers: Comenius / Grundtvig ES-2011-284-001, Santiago de Compostela, Spain. (one week, twenty participants).
Art and Biology Course, Second Term, Centro de Estudos de Comunicação e Linguagem, Nova University of Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal. (three weeks, fifteen participants).
Workshop on art and biology, in the conference “Encuentro Internacional de Arte y Nuevas Ciencias”. Centro Nacional de las Artes, Mexico City, Mexico. (one week, sixteen participants).

2010

Workshop on microbiology in art. Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Department of Communication Studies, Concordia University, Montreal, Canada. (one day, twenty participants).
Invited Professor, University of Leiden, Leiden, The Netherlands. (Spring term) (one term, 20 participants)

2008

Invited Professor, Grinnell College, Grinnell, Iowa, USA. (Fall term) (one term, twenty participants).