Mari Nagem is an artist-curator interested in the artificiality of the contemporary world, in the plastic transformations of natural landscapes, and in existential questions between humans and machines. She has a master's degree in Visual Arts from the Haute École d'Art et Design de Genève and a postgraduate degree from the School of Fine Arts at UFMG. Participated in exhibitions in Brazil and abroad, with emphasis on Strategies of the Feminine (Farol Santander, Porto Alegre), Homestase @ The Wrong Digital Art Biennale (Centro Cultural São Paulo) and Paralell Screens (USA, Brazil, and Germany). She was resident at SomoS Arts House (Berlin), Vatelón (Uruguay) and Casa das Caldeiras (São Paulo). Mari has participated in festivals such as File, Artemov, CineOP, Athens Video Art Festival, among others.
Akhacio Amawáka is an LGBTQI+ multi-artist from the interior of Pará who produces in both analog and digital media, through painting, photography, audiovisual, 3D art, poetry, and fashion expose their Amazonian experiences mixing futurism with ancestry, social and environmental problems with the projection of a dreamlike and possible future. In the arts, searches in nature the power to intervene, mixing with technology to create universes that speak of spirituality, Amazonian enchantments, childhood, identity, and the importance of the Amazon for this rescue.
Cibelle Cavalli Bastos (1978, São Paulo), is a non-binary artist (They/Them pronouns), musician, activist, and independent researcher with four recorded albums. Cibelle's practice as research engages with the changing conceptualization of identity, performativity, pictorial communication, and the propagation of behavioral patterns in the digital age. Observing the interplay between patriarchal psyche and platform capitalism that dominate global sociopolitical narratives, they create forms of resistance through cross-platform practice, ready-mades, and digital material. Lives and works in Berlin.
Dejumatos is a director, screenwriter, 3D modeler, futurist and researcher of human-computer interaction processes. She investigates immersive narratives, which propose audiovisual experiences of physical, energetic, emotional and mental connection. Focused on ways to expand human consciousness through new models of interactivity - always interdisciplinary.
Rudá Cabral is an artist and works in the expanded audiovisual: film, immersive narratives, hypertext, and transmedia. His artistic practice revolves around the virtuality of reality, models of cognition, and information flows. During the last year, he has done the digital exhibition design of a series of independent exhibitions and projects for Brazilian galleries.
Digital artist and art director living in Berlin, Germany. Since 2017 he has been part of exhibitions in art galleries, fairs, institutions, and festivals. Through digital sculpture, animation, video art, and augmented reality, Massan constructs narratives that work on the relationship of dependency between fictional existences and virtual environments, signifying representations of color, raciality, identity, and time.
Visual artist and graphic designer. In his work, he mixes the aesthetics of the internet, resignifying images through interactions on social networks, seeking a new interpretation of the existing digital imaginary. He uses printmaking as a way to translate the performance and physicality of ideas, understanding artistic making as a daily and empirical process, seeking connection through locomotion in the city, and visually shaping a new version of the fabric and surface. Co-founder of the collective INSERTO that unites art, fashion, and design.
Mari Nagem is an artist-curator from Minas Gerais, interested in the artificiality of the contemporary world, in the plastic transformations of natural landscapes, and in existential questions between humans and machines. Lina Lopes is from the Amazon, Diana's mother and founder of Lilo.Zone, a technology and innovation space in São Paulo. Currently, she is interested in artificial intelligence systems and machine learning. As an artist and tutor, she believes that teaching machines "ancestry" is a way to contribute to cultural diversity. Since 2013 they develop together art, technology, and mapping projects that address issues of body, architecture and gender, questioning the various possibilities of the digital.
Paula works in collaboration with film and visual arts projects. Works with editing, production, art, costumes, research, and scriptwriting. Interested in proposals that touch on the relationships between image, sound and sensibility, permeating ideas of the breakdown of time with the past, present and future; elaborating sexual and gender dissidence and racialization processes in the backlands of Brazil. Student of Digital Design at UFC - Quixadá where participates in a research group on art, technology, free software and hardware.
Renata Torralba (São Paulo, 1992) is a Visual Anthropologist, Digital Storyteller, and Multimedia Artist. In an investigation between the analog and digital body, her works invite viewers to step out of their comfort zone with images that evoke attraction and repulsion over deformation, violence, and pain. In constant exploration of the digital medium, her works merge knowledge of photography, video, and script in transmedia projects. In 2020 he participated in the online residencies Cold Bench (Italy) and Cel de Nord (Spain) with his interactive work "Butcheries". Currently, Torralba resides in Lisbon where he is doing his master's degree in Art and Multimedia at ULisboa, developing research on the permanence of material bodies in a period of transition to digital.
Thiago Hersan has been an integrated circuit designer and web programmer. He has worked as a technical advisor in cultural institutions such as the Museum of Image and Sound in São Paulo and Silo - Art and Rural Latitude in Rio de Janeiro.
Today he works with digital art and culture. He is interested in digital, biological, political and social technologies that we use to communicate, and in "hacking" as a process of re-signification of the techniques necessary to change, intervene and subvert dominant structures.
He is part of the Astrovandalists collective. he received the VIDA 15.0 award in 2014, and in 2015 he was resident at FACT in Liverpool where, together with Radamés Ajna, he created FACTLab.