Luís Gomes da Costa has a degree in Management Sciences (1991) and since 2023 is a student of the Doctoral Program in Artistic Creation at the University of Aveiro (ID+ Research centre) and Escola Superior de Artes e Design (Caldas da Rainha) (LiDA research centre).  Since 2004, he has worked as a curator/programmer of contemporary artistic practices, as a sound and media artist and as an educator and cultural animator in rural contexts. President of the cultural organization Binaural Nodar. Coordinator of Lafões Cult Lab, a sound & media arts research and artistic platform in the rural territory of Viseu Dão Lafões which has already hosted more than 200 sound/media artists and social and environmental researchers from more than 20 countries.   Coordinator of the Binaural Nodar Digital Archive, a research, cataloguing and archiving project of the collective memory of Portuguese mountain areas that collects more than 2,000 sound and audiovisual documents, being part into the European Tramontana network, which has already achieved four funded projects from the Creative Europe program and was awarded an Europa Nostra Award in 2020: European Prize for Cultural Heritage in the research category.

He is the author/editor of twelve books dedicated to artistic creation, especially in sound and media in rural contexts, rural ethnography and ethnomusicology, notably the catalogue “Three Years in Nodar: Artistic Practices in Specific Context in Rural Portugal” which he co-edited in 2011, the book “Tales of Sonic Displacement: SoCCoS, a sound-based artist residency network” which he co-edited in 2016 and the book “Memoria Tramontana: Changes in rural Europe as seen by its inhabitants” which he co-edited in 2019.  Since 2007, he has developed an intense sound and media creation activity developed in rural contexts, through which he reflects on the natural, cultural and social specificities of places, as well as their memory and transformation processes. Of particular note are the works “Sound Villages”, a participatory project developed between 2007 and 2010 with hundreds of young people from rural areas; “Sound Memory of Cork” (2014-2015), a participatory project developed with employees and families from most cork companies in the Portuguese municipality of Santa Maria da Feira; “Perennial Bridges over Temporary Water” (2018-2019), a multidisciplinary and community artistic creation about the social memory of rivers in the region of Viseu Dão Lafões and “Sweet Water, Salted Water” (2024), a sound and audiovisual reflection that brought into dialogue the “water cultures” of three different geographical areas: the Paiva River in Portugal, the Yaguarón River in northern Uruguay and the island of Salina in Italy.  Luís Gomes da Costa is also a regular speaker at national and international conferences dedicated to sound practices in rural contexts, rural-based intangible heritage and the connections between art and ethno-anthropology.