I am architect, transmedia artist and curator on Aisthesis Studio and participated in exhibitions, festivals and biennials in Brazil and abroad. I develop transmedia art projects on the following thematic axes: technological aesthetics of hybrid spaces, networked urbanism, wearables for the body-city, studies and etnography on the mass production of network subjectivity [big data decolonization]. In 2020 I created the urbanism collective GO: a connective of urban planners dedicated to the research, produce and publish tactical, locative and emergential media to producing new ways of inhabiting a collapsing world (antropoceno).
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Barbara Castro is an artist, designer, researcher, programmer, and teacher. She holds a Ph.D. in Visual Arts from PPGAV/EBA/UFRJ and teaches at the Department of Arts & Design at PUC-Rio, in disciplines related to creative programming, new technologies, and regenerative cultures. Her theoretical and practical research in computer art deals with the survival instinct, vitality and the Anthropocene. She is a partner and creative director of the Ambos&& studio, which curates and produces exhibitions and interactive installations in museums such as Museu do Amanhã, CCBB, and Museu Nacional, among others. Highlights include the exhibition and book Existência Numérica about data art at Oi Futuro, conceived with Luiz Ludwig and Doris Kosminsky.
Has been developing web-based digital and hybrid art projects since 1995. Musician, composer and creator of self-generative and reactive visual sound structures and environments. His artistic practice investigates spheres defined by memories and evocation, alternative representation of location, urban geographies and cartographies, noise, mixtures, interference, error. His work, primarily concerned with processes and structures that traverse the digital and physical environment, explores interface design, netart, sound art, and digital archaeology. He has presented works and given workshops and lectures throughout Latin America and Europe. His work has been exhibited in major art festivals and has received recognition from numerous institutions. Curator and coordinator of projects related to art and education based on contemporary technologies.
Doris Kosminsky is an associate professor at UFRJ, where she works at the Visual Communication Design Course at the School of Fine Arts and at the Postgraduate Programs in Visual Arts (PPGAV) and Design (PPGDesign), being the current coordinator of the latter. She is founder and coordinator of LabVis-UFRJ, Laboratório da Visualidade e Visualização. (labvis.eba.ufrj.br). Her research involves data visualization, information design, and creative and artistic processes using data and information. She curated the data visualization art exhibition, Numerical Existence (Oi Futuro, 2018). She is the author and contributor of several projects in data visualization, in Brazil and abroad, as well as chapters and articles on the topic.
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Claudio Esperança is an Associate Professor at UFRJ - COPPE. PhD in Computer Science from the University of Maryland (1995), MS in Systems Engineering and Computing from UFRJ (1990). He has experience in Computer Science, with emphasis on Graphic Processing. Develops partnership with LabVis, actively participating in projects and assisting students with the development and programming of visualizations.
Born and raised in Italy in 1960, he currently lives in Roberts Creek, British Columbia - Canada. Despite all my previous activities, compositions, and sound explorations, today I am mainly interested in exploring the potential power of sonic and sound and interactive revolutions that emerge through dialogues and collaboration, self-production, self-publishing and self-dissemination by engaged, charged, transformative and irreverent communities inhabiting underground global creative territories. If there are new roles and functions for sound, audio, and any form of creative energy, I wish to engage with them now, to work towards a recombinant future where we will all finally be creators.
GISELLE BEIGUELMAN is an artist and professor at the School of Architecture and Urban University of São Paulo (FAU-USP). She is the author of Memória da
amnesia: politics of forgetting (Edições Sesc, 2019) and of several books and articles on digital culture. Her recent projects include Memória da Amnésia
(2015), Odioland (2017) and Monument None (2019). He is a member of the Lab for OTHER Urbanisms (FAUUSP) and coordinator of GAIA (Group of Art and
Artificial Intelligence of INOVA-USP). Her artistic works integrate museum collections in Brazil and abroad, such as ZKM (Germany), Jewish Museum Berlin, MAC-USP, MAR (Rio de Janeiro) and Pinacoteca de São Paulo. Among other awards, he received the ABCA 2016.
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ILÊ SARTUZI is an artist graduated from the University of São Paulo (USP). Your research involves sculptural objects, mapped video projections, installations, and theatrical pieces addressing issues related to the idealized image of the body, often fragmented or built from different parts; but also the absence of this figure in proto-architectural and virtual spaces. He has participated in exhibitions in institutions such as Videobrasil (2021); Instituto Moreira Salles (2020); SESC (Ribeirão Preto, 2019; Distrito Federal, 2018); CCSP - Centro Cultural São Paulo (2018); MAC-USP Museu de Arte Contemporânea (2017); Museu de Arte de Ribeirão Preto (2017; 2015); Centro Universitário Maria Antônia (2019); Galeria Vermelho (2017; 2018, 2019).
José Dario Vargas Parra, Currently a post-doctoral fellow in Geography (FFLCH-USP) funded by CAPES, PhD in Visual Arts at ECA-USP with Master's degree from the same university; participates in the group Urban Geography: the everyday life and the urban, under coordination of Prof. Dr. Amelia Luisa Damiani (FFLCH-USP), and the group Realities, under coordination of Prof. Dr. Silvia Laurentiz (ECA-USP). He has participated in several national and international artistic and academic events such as Híbrida, ISEA, Festival Internacional de la Imagen (Manizales-Colombia) and ALAIC, among others. He has a degree in Graphic Design from the Universidad Nacional de Colombia (2000).
Lev Manovich [Moscow-New York, 1960]
Dr. Lev Manovich is one of the leading theorists of digital culture worldwide and a pioneer in the application of data science for analysis of contemporary culture. Manovich is the author and editor of 15 books including Cultural Analytics, AI Aesthetics, Theories of Software Culture, Instagram and Contemporary Image, Software Takes Command, Soft Cinema: Navigating the Database and The Language of New Media which was described as "the most suggestive and broad-ranging media history since Marshall McLuhan." He was included in the list of "25 People Shaping the Future of Design" in 2013 and the list of "50 Most Interesting People Building the Future" in 2014. Manovich is a Presidential Professor at The Graduate Center, CUNY, and a Director of the Cultural Analytics Lab. The lab created projects for the Museum of Modern Art (NYC), New York Public Library, Google, and other clients. Manovich's latest book "Cultural Analytics" was published by The MIT Press in Fall 2020.
Site: http://manovich.net/
Damon Crockett [Simsbury, 1982]
Damon Crockett is the Principal Data Scientist at the Institute for the Preservation of Cultural Heritage at Yale University. Prior to joining the institute, he was a Postdoctoral Associate in Computer Science at Yale, working in the Digital Humanities Lab. He has also worked as a researcher at the Center for Data Science and Public Policy at the University of Chicago; the Institute for Pure and Applied Mathematics at UCLA; and the Cultural Analytics Lab at UC San Diego, where he graduated in 2015 with a Ph.D. in Philosophy and Cognitive Science.
