Paula Tavares

Paula Tavares, Artist, professor and researcher. Phd in Fine Arts, with the thesis “The complex relationship between art and politics in Western culture. The political art as institutional contradiction.” Her research interests are in fine arts and design, autonomous disciplines linked by drawing. She is the Director of the Research Laboratory, Production and Perception [LIPP], and belongs to Modo Group (http://www.anamnese.pt/?projecto=az). Adjunct Professor at the Polytechnic Institute of Cávado and the Ave and Head of Department of Design. Coordinator Professor at the Superior School of Arts of Porto in Guimarães [ESAP-GMR].

Publications

Mapping Culture and Compromised Art in the Era of Globalization
Mapping Culture and Compromised Art in the Era of Globalization
Paula Tavares, Maria João Félix, Pedro Mota Teixeira. © 2012. 12 pages.
This work presents an analysis of the cultural and artistic field, positively compromised with social and political questions. The authors start with the categorization of the...
Playing with Design: The Universality of Design in Game Development
Playing with Design: The Universality of Design in Game Development
Pedro Mota Teixeira, Maria João Félix, Paula Tavares. © 2012. 15 pages.
In recent years, digital games had the capacity to join a vast set of knowledge fields that provided them the status of one of the areas that has most contributed to the...
Business, Technological, and Social Dimensions of Computer Games: Multidisciplinary Developments
Business, Technological, and Social Dimensions of Computer Games: Multidisciplinary Developments
Maria Manuela Cruz-Cunha, Vitor Hugo Varvalho, Paula Tavares. © 2011. 598 pages.
Computer and online games have emerged as a critical area of study due to their implications for business and society, as well as their increased presence in individuals’ lives....
Computer Games as Educational and Management Tools: Uses and Approaches
Computer Games as Educational and Management Tools: Uses and Approaches
Maria Manuela Cruz-Cunha, Vitor Hugo Varvalho, Paula Tavares. © 2011. 358 pages.
Though once considered purely for their entertainment value, computer and online games have applications as learning tools in learning in a variety of different environments....
Video Games as Aggregating Mediums and Resulting Products of Several Visual Communication Languages
Video Games as Aggregating Mediums and Resulting Products of Several Visual Communication Languages
Paula Tavares, Pedro Mota Teixeira, Leonardo Pereira, Maria Manuela Cruz-Cunha. © 2011. 14 pages.
Finally, we examine the importance and function of motion graphics inside the game experience and the game contexts in which this communication feature is applied.