Tiago Assis has a degree in Communication Design from ESAD - College of Art and Design, a Master's in Multimedia Production and Design from the University of Barcelona (UB), a PhD from the Polytechnic University of Valencia (UPV), and is a professor and researcher at the Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of Porto (FBAUP). He had a highly privileged path, due to social structures and conditions, which also correlated with access to a very exclusive technological education. The fact that he had such an education led him to research the inherent processes of exclusion and to analyze his own actions critically. This reflection brought him closer to a critical theory of communication, drawing on post-structuralist and post-colonial frameworks. It is in this dynamic that he works in Arts Education, teaching and researching, increasingly focused on environmental, technology, and identity issues.

Projects

2024 - 2026 Breaking the Code: Algorithmic Non-Normativity in Creative Digital Humanities (Researcher)

2022 - 2023 Black/White/Green: Bioimages Residencies (BWG) (Principal investigator)

2022 - 2023 CREAT_ED: The Historicization of the Creative Child in Education (Researcher)

Book chapters

Tiago Assis. "O Jardim como uma Heterotopia Distópica". In Extreme Sites: Bibliografia operativa para a investigação em práticas artísticas e espaciais. Portugal: Lab2PT, 2025.

Assis, Tiago; Martins, Cat; Boavista, Raquel; Gustavo Magalhães; Aguiar, Ademar. "The construction of the CREAT_ED online Platform: Archiving, Unarchiving, Interpolating in a Timeline". In The Historicization of the Creative Child in Education, edited by Martins, Cat. Porto, Portugal: i2ADS Edições, 2023.

Assis, Tiago; Ferreira, Pedro Daniel. "The Child's Mind and Creativity Machines". In The Historicization of the Creative Child in Education, edited by Martins, Cat. Porto, Portugal: i2ADS Edições, 2023.

Assis, Tiago. "Fundos sobre mundos: distâncias e desaparecimentos no ensino artístico durante a pandemia covid-19". In Processos de Criação em Artes Visuais e Audiovisuais: entre Poéticas e Arte/Educação, edited by Josélia Salomé; Maria C. Mendes; Renato Torres; Sidiney Peterson, 170-183. Curitiba, Brazil: Universidade Tuiuti do Paraná, 2022.

Assis, Tiago. "Síndrome de Porthos: da crítica à paralisia e a paragem como crítica e descolonização do dever-ser professor [Porthos Syndrome: from criticism to paralysis and the stop as criticism and decolonization of the teacher's duty to be.]". In O ensino artístico que temos e o que queremos: posturas, histórias e experiências no Brasil e em Portugal, edited by Sidiney Peterson; Midori, Amanda. i2ADS, 2021.

Conference Papers

Tiago Assis; Diogo Marques; Luis Trigo; Vera Moitinho; André Barbosa. "Decyclopeding: provoking the error in arts education through a wikimedia-based platform". 2025. 10.21125/edulearn.2025.0786

Tiago Assis; Tiago Pinho; Luis Trigo; Hugo Reis; Alexandre Valle. "From the image of the molecule to the molecule of the image: exploring Dianne Iverglynne's methods with an online platform for the production of ecological images". 2025. 10.21125/edulearn.2025.0794

Assis, Tiago; Martins, Cat; Valle, Alexandre; Santos, António; Castro, José; Osório, Luís; Silva, Pedro. "Beyond Front and Back Office: Visualizations, Representations and Access Through Postcolonial Lenses Between a Research Platform and an Arts Education Archive". Paper presented in ICERI2023: 6th annual International Conference of Education, Research and Innovation, Sevilha, 2023.

Current positions

  • Professor Auxiliar FBAUP

Research Groups