José Mateus - Arqueologia; Ecologia da Paisagem; Paleoecologia; Palinologia; Arqueologia Ambiental; Computação Gráfica; Modelação e animação 3D; Interpretação de Música Antiga (poli-instrumentista); Guionismo
José Mateus (JM) – Arqueólogo, ecólogo e músico enveredou recentemente pela concepção e criação de videojogos para o Património Ciência e Arte, tendo dirigido a criação do 12 Pedras - videojogo de aventura e exploração que se desenvolve como uma peça de museografia virtual restituitiva do antigo paço dos Marqueses de Ponte de Lima em Mafra. Após uma longa experiência de coordenação de programas de investigação de Paleoecologia e Arqueologia Ambiental (no Ministério da Cultura e no Museu Nacional de História Natural), complementada com dedicação ao ensino no âmbito de mestrados, é actualmente director do estúdio Oldtown Gametales, ltd. (Preston, Inglaterra) onde para além de guionismo trabalha em programação, modelação 3D e animação. JM dirige desde 1998 a Camerata da Cotovia (sendo um poli-instrumentista). É doutorado em Biologia e integra o Centro Transdisciplinar das Arqueologias (CTA - IPT – Tomar). JM (actualmente o Presidente da Direcção da WR).
JOSÉ EDUARDO MATEUS (JM) - An archaeologist, palaeoecologist, videogame creator and musician with a licence degree on History / Art History (univ. Lisbon) and a PhD on Ecology and Biosystematics (Utrecht, The Netherlands); He has been active in Portugal on the creation of new research structures and disciplines after long study-stages in France and in the Netherlands. In 1982 JM created the Laboratório de Palaeoecologia (LP) in the National Museum of Archaeology (Lisbon) where he (in cooperation with Paula Queiroz (PQ)) built the bases for the development of Landscape Palaeoecology, Vegetation History, Palynology and Archaeobotany. The Laboratory moved to the Natural History Museum (Univ. Lisbon), and later-on to the Portuguese Institute of Archaeology (Ministry of Culture) where he became the coordinator of the “Research Centre of Human Palaeoecology and Archaeosciences (CIPA)”. In the context of the LP he also worked on Geobotany (GIS, vegetation physiognomy and mapping) and Plant Taxonomy (via Pollen Morphology) where he took extensive advantage of computer data gathering, treatment, analysis and simulation. Finally in the domains of Virtual Archaeology (computer graphics programming) he started the programme “Videogames for Heritage, Science and Art”, initially at CIPA and later-on on Terra Scenica (TSc) and on OLdtown Gametales (OTGT) - 2 laboratory-studios he founded with PQ. JM (born on a family with traditions in the “Beaux-Arts”), has always privileged Music & Drama as Art Expression, being involved in Ancient Music Performance (He directs the Camerata da Cotovia Early-Music Group). Together with PQ, JM is responsible for the archaeological programme of Avecasta. JM is a collaborator-researcher at the CTA (where the TSc laboratory has been reinstalled). JM main lobby is Replayable Scenic Archaeology which he will be intensively propagating at the ASC. JM is founder and president of WR.
