Pedro Atã is a postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Linguistics and Language Practice, Free State University, South Africa. Atã earned a Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from Linnaeus University, Sweden. His work focuses on modelling surprise, creativity and semiotic complexity in distributed cognitive processes, in fields such as Philosophy of Cognitive Science, Semiotics, Intermediality Studies, and Process Philosophy. He has published on topics such as intersemiotic translation between music and poetry, oral poetry improvisation, cognitive artifacts in dance, artwork authorship, situated problem solving, and cognitive niche construction.
João Queiroz is a professor at the Institute of Arts and the Graduate Program in Linguistics at the Federal University of Juiz de Fora (Brazil), where he coordinates the Iconicity Research Group (IRG). Queiroz earned a Ph.D. in Communication and Semiotics from the Catholic University of São Paulo (PUC-SP), received a post-doctoral fellowship in Intelligent Systems and Artificial Life at the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering (FEEC-DCA), State University of Campinas (UNICAMP), and in Philosophy of Biology at the Institute of Biology, Federal University of Bahia (UFBA). He has been teaching courses on Cognitive Semiotics, Peirce’s Philosophy, and Intermediality Studies, and has supervised Ph.D. and Master’s students in the fields of Semiotics, Art & Technology, and Cognitive Semiotics. He has several publications in international journals, books, and conferences. Queiroz is a member of the International Association for Cognitive Semiotics (IACS), a member (expert panel) of the Linnaeus University Centre for Intermedial and Multimodal Studies, Växjö (Sweden), a member of the Group for Research in Artificial Cognition (UEFS, Brazil), and an associate researcher of the Linguistics and Language Practice Department, University of the Free State (South Africa). Personal homepage: https://joaoqueirozsemiotics.wordpress.com/