Lisbon PT, 1992
Filipe Baptista is a polymath, artist and senior game designer whose work encompasses installation/performance art, sound design, experimental music, videogame design, software programming and the defying space in between all these.
He started his artisic career as a performer and dancer, while simultaneously studying Computer Science at the Lisbon University Institute, from which he graduated with an MSc in Multimedia, in 2015.
This hybrid relationship between the expression of the physical body and the polymorphism of digital media held the hints for the rest of his path, developing interest in different artistic and technicial fields.
Around 2016 he began simultaneously his long-running career as a game designer and programmer in parallel to his work as an independent artist and creator. In his first creations, he decided to also experiment with sculpting sound and composing soundscapes, embracing a multidisciplinary approach to his creative process.
His sound work ultimately led to several commissions to score music and design sound for several theater and dance stage productions in Portugal. His work as a game deisgner and programmer led to several titles in the games and XR industry as well as colaborations in projects that blend performative and computational arts.
In his creations he has always expressed narratives with several layers of thematic and technical depth, which has led him to collaborate with several national and international artists as a visual artist, sound designer, interaction designer or assistant director.
From his authorial work, he highlights the videogame/interactive art piece ‘The Place in Between’ (2018), the installation+performance ‘Zenith x Nadir’ (2020-21) the transmedia project ‘A.T.M.A.’ (2021-pres.) the installation ‘VESSEL’, (2023) and the music record+installation ‘Remnant’ (2024).
His creations often express themes such as memory, liminality and the modulation of counsciousness, infusing several techniques of interaction mechanics, spatial design, sonic alchemy and data polimorphism.
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