Paula grew in Lisbon and is currently based in London where she works as a new media artist and lecturer. She is currently teaching at the London South Bank University, Arts Media and English Dept (Senior Lecturer BA Digital Photography) and at the University of Westminster, Media Art & Design Dept (Module Leader Theory and Project Supervisor MA Media Art Practice).

Her teaching and research interests intersect new media studies, critical spatial practice and the implications of emerging technologies for redifinitons of public space. Currently she is researching: photo-sharing environments and online visual cultures. Additional topics include: IP (intellectual property), photography and the city; experiments in free culture, and open source; cultural memory and post-tourism; civic performance and performative installation. She has been commissioned to work with emerging locative technologies such as gps (global positioning system) and arphid (radio frequency identification).

Paula's work has been exhibited internationally including (forthcoming) Kunsthalle Exerngrass Vienna, and K3 Zurich, Sparwasser HQ Berlin, Prague Biennale, P74 Ljubljana, and is part of the South London Gallery collection.

She has written on locative media for online journal LEA and contributed essays to several books, including Event City. She curated ‘Re-Programme -Time Space and (Low) Technology’, a publication about Access Space’s open source media lab.

recent projects include:

daniel rubinstein:aiming with your ear- Photographic book based on the online found photo work of daniel rubinstein with an insight into the world of photo-sharing and his cameraphone photographic technique.

www.lulu.com/msdm

Arphield recordings - a project collecting images and sound produced by London tube users. The ‘arphield’ are recordings of sound produced by people scanning their arphid (radio frequency id chip) oyster cards in the daily routine of access to tube stations. Exploring performativity and space, sousveillance (engagement with the rfid from the perspective of the one under surveillance), the participatory podcast can be accessed at: www.odeo.com/channel/85358

Sos:ok (save our souls zero killings) emergency biscuit - A kit produced with the workers of the former Biscuit Town, as a new product for the Bermondsey connecting the area to the global circuit of relief operations. Taking as its departure point both personal and found photo archives, this open source project examines the value of urban memory through a public service which is documented at

www.msdm.org.uk/sos_ok/