João Queiroz is a professor at Federal University of Juiz de Fora (Institute of Arts/ Faculty of Communication Studies), and the coordinator of this group (IRG). He is a member of the International Association for Cognitive Semiotics (IACS), member of Group for Research in Artificial Cognition (UEFS, Brazil), and associate researcher of the Linguistics and Language Practice Department, University of the Free State (South Africa). His research interests include Cognitive Semiotics, Peirce’s Semiotics and Pragmatism, Brazilian and South-American Arts and Literature. Orcid: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6978-4446. Lattes: http://lattes.cnpq.br/4794107935753176. Email: queirozj@gmail.com.
Ana Fernandes is a post-doc researcher (CNPq). Topics of research: artistic books, graphic design, photobook of literature, photography, intermediality, Peirce’s semiotic. Orcid: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3598-2916. Lattes: http://lattes.cnpq.br/8636560417144308. Email: analuizadagama@gmail.com
Lílian Moreira is an independent researcher. Topics of research: intersemiotic translation, intermediality, games, graph network analysis.
Henrique Perissinotto is a PhD student at the Communication Studies Dept., Federal University of Juiz de Fora (UFJF). He researches cognitive externalism, Peircean semiotics and cognitive poetics. Ongoing research focuses on how the manipulation of embodied diagrams are used in artistic improvisational tasks as a way to facilitate – or even enable – real-time monitoring, control and evaluation of the improvisation.
Tamires Yukie is a graduate student at the Institute of Arts and Design, Federal University of Juiz de Fora (UFJF). Topics of research: distributed cognition, creativity, intersemiotic translation and intermediality.
Vitor Furtado is a master degree student at the Institute of Arts and Design, Federal University of Juiz de Fora (UFJF). Topics of research: brazilian and south american literature and intersemiotic translation.
Diogo Cadedos is a graduate student at the Institute of Arts and Design, Federal University of Juiz de Fora (UFJF). Topics of research: distributed cognition, multimodality and intermediality.
Sophia Coelho is a graduate student at the Institute of Arts and Design, Federal University of Juiz de Fora (UFJF). Topics of research: distributed cognition, multimodality and intermediality.
collaborators
Angelo Loula is a professor in Computer Science and Engineering at the State University of Feira de Santana (UEFS). He is also involved in entrepreneurial education, startups and innovation. His research interests include Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Data Mining, Artificial Cognition and Applied Computing.
Marta Castello Branco is a professor at the Dept. of Music, Institute of Arts, Federal University of Juiz de Fora (UFJF). Her research interests include the relation between music and philosophy, contemporary music, philosophy of art, music interpretation, ethnomusicology. Orcid: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2926-0215. Lattes: http://lattes.cnpq.br/6806662091806312.
Luiz Castelões is a composer and a professor at the Dept. of Music, Institute of Arts, Federal University of Juiz de Fora (UFJF). His research interests include Musical Onomatopoeia, Algorithmic Composition, Image-to-Music Conversion, and Popular Music.
Edson Zampronha is a composer and a PhD. Professor at the University of Oviedo, Department of Art History and Musicology, Spain. As a researcher, his interests include semiotics of music, music composition and theory, intertextuality, music and meaning, multimedia creation in the context of new technologies, and new music contexts and practices.
former group members
Adriano Mattos Correia (2013-2018) is a professor at the School of Architecture, Federal University of Minas Gerais (UFMG). His research interests include philosophy-architecture relationship, intermedial and multimodal processes.
Letícia Vitral is an independent researcher. Topics of research: diagrammatic cognition, creativity, intermediality, Peirce’s aesthetics and semiotics.
Pedro Atã is a post-doctoral researcher at Free State University. Topics of research: creativity, abductive inference, cognitive niche construction, distributed cognition, aesthetic information.
Daniella Aguiar (2013-2017) is a professor at the Institute of Arts, Federal University of Uberlândia (UFU), Minas Gerais. Her research include Dance, Semiotics, and Intermediality.
Mariana Salimena (2013-2018) is a graphic illustrator and graphic artist.
Thales Estefani (2014-2016) is Ph.D. student in Materialities of Literature at University of Coimbra, and Executive Editor of MATLIT: Materialidades da Literatura.
Ana Paula Vitorio (2014-2020) is a post-doctoral researcher at Free State University (South Africa). Topics of research: photobook, intersemiotic translation, intermediality, multimodality, Peirce’s semiotic.
Augusto Saúde is a graduate student at the Institute of Arts and Design, Federal University of Juiz de Fora (UFJF). Topics of research: intersemiotic translation and intermediality.
Ruy Silva is a graduate student at the Institute of Arts and Design, Federal University of Juiz de Fora (UFJF). Topics of research: brazilian music, latin-american modernism.
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