Sara Castelo Branco is an independent curator and writer based in Portugal. Her practice centres on interdisciplinary and transhistorical intersections between media cultures, postdigitalism, social resilience and political ecology. She holds a PhD in 'Arts and Sciences of Art' (Université Paris 1 Panthéon Sorbonne/Universidade Nova de Lisboa) with a grant from the FCT - Foundation for Science and Technology; a MA in 'Art Studies – Art Theory and Criticism' (FBAUP); and a BA in 'Communication and Cultural Sciences' (ULP). She is a guest professor in the MA in Ecology and Aesthetics of Digital Media at the Escola das Artes - Universidade Católica Portuguesa. Currently, she is a collaborator researcher at the CIC.Digital - Centre for Research in Communication, Information and Digital Culture (FCSH-UNL), and a integrated researcher at CITAR - Center for Science and Technology of the Arts (Escola das Artes da Universidade Católica do Porto).

She have curated art exhibitions, artist’s/experimental film screenings and public programs in spaces such as Brotéria (2024); ICI Berlin Institute for Cultural Inquiry/Bard College (2023); ACUD Galerie (2023); Carpintarias de São Lázaro (2022); Arsenal Institut für Film und Videokunst (2019/2023); CRIPTA 747 (2021); Galeria Zé dos Bois (2021), or Galerias Municipais de Lisboa (2020). She did writer/curator-in-residency at CRIPTA747 (Turin, 2021) and Cité Internationale des Arts (2023, Paris). In the area of research and art criticism, she contributes regularly with essays for magazines, journals and art catalogues (Mousse, Contemporânea, ATLAS Projectos, Archive Books, among others).