Art Work Description: This image was obtained by a snapshot on the computer screen, and is the result of a failure on the video were I photographed it. The name given to this failures in the new digital technologies is glitch, in this particular case once that that relates to a natural and not artificial failure true glitch. The image was not reworked digitally after taken.
Biography:
António Canau
Born in Gavião, Portugal in 1963.
Email: a.canau@sapo.pt Site: www.antoniocanau.com

Lisbon School of Architecture of the Lisbon University:
2015 - Post PhD in in Digital Drawing.
2011 - PhD on the Work of Bartolomeu Cid dos Santos
Slade School of Fine Art of the University College London:
1997 – Master of Arts in Fine Art – Printmaking
Awarded Scholarship from the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation
Lisbon School of Fine Arts of the Lisbon University:
1993 – Sculpture Degree with Distinction
College Professor and Researcher at the Lisbon University:
Teaches Drawing and Photography in the Lisbon School of Architecture, and Culture of the Contemporary Edition in the Lisbon School of Fine Arts of the Lisbon University.
Member of the Technical Council of the Portuguese National Fine Arts Society, 2015/17
Effective member of CIAUD and collaborator member of the Centro de Filosofia das Ciências CFCUL.
Works in Sculpture, Public Art, Drawing, Photography, Printmaking, Object Medal, Artists Books, Ex-Libris, and as an Exhibitions Curator
He is Curator on the International Douro Printmaking Biennial, and Global Print since 2013.
27 Solo Exhibitions, 70 Group Exhibitions, and 18 Biennials in Portugal. 164 International Exhibitions.
Awarded several Honourable Mentions and Prices in Sculpture, Art Medal, Printmaking and Drawing.
Represented in private and public collections, namely: British Museum, Prints and Drawings Department – Prints Collection. Coins and medals Department– Medals Collection, and Calouste Gulbenkian Modern Art Centre.