In April 2015, in partnership with the Faculty of Fine Arts of the
University of Porto, the festival promoted the lecture “Laser Technology in Building an Audiovisual Performance” presented by
Robert Henke, composer, performer and researcher with work oriented in the field of technical innovation in contemporary electronic music. In the context of the Lumière II laser show, performed outdoors for the first time at Festival Forte, Henke presented the most contemporary issues of the relationship between musical composition, audiovisual installations and computer applications. He addressed the complexity of the conceptualization of an audiovisual performance show built with use of
laser technology activated and synchronized by sound stimuli.
Glitch and
Generative Art are also objects of study and extensively used in the festival's conceptualization. In April 2017 Festival Forte, together with the Department of Design and Multimedia of the
University of Coimbra, organized a lecture about
Generative Art with Jaygo Bloom, teacher at the
Winchester School of Art. In 2018, Malo Lacroix from the Visuaal art collective presented his views at the same university, regarding the visual breakthrough planned for that year's edition of the festival. ==Performances==