Corrosive Beauty in the media
Beleza Corrosiva at FGV Arte (RJ). Curated by Ailton Krenak and Paulo Herkenhoff Launched in April 2025 as part of the exhibition Movimentos Miméticos (CCBB – São Paulo), Beleza Corrosiva…
Writing
Essays, criticism, lectures, news and activity records, organized by publication date.
Carnivores
Marianne North (1839-1890) was an English botanical artist, who was born a day before my sister's birthday (October 24) and died a day after mine (August 30) 💚. With a very particular…
Mandrakes and Belladonnas
Mandrakes and Belladonnas are relatives, cousins of eggplants and tomatoes, bound by shared prejudices and powers within the vast Solanaceae family. Bearing the cure in the etymology of…
The Pandemic of Images: Visual and Biopolitical Rhetorics of a World Marked by COVID-19
Abstract:The coronavirus pandemic is also a pandemic of images proliferating through thermal cameras, intimacy turned outward in videoconferences, projections on façades, and countless…
Smart Cities, Smart Virus: Technoutopias of the New Normal
Another version of this textAbstractThis article analyzes the impact of COVID-19 on urban culture, emphasizing biopolitics, and new forms of body control that have spread worldwide due to…
Smart Cities, Smart Virus: Techno-utopias of the New Normal
EnglishAbstract:This article analyzes the impact of COVID-19 on urban culture, focusing on the biopolitics and new forms of bodily control that spread worldwide with the pandemic. At this…
The Truths of Deepfakes
The Truths of Deepfakes: The use of artificial intelligence has been blurring the boundaries between reality and fiction, making it increasingly difficult to verify the authenticity of…
Experimental Preservation to Uninvent Tradition
This article presents works developed over the past five years in the field of the aesthetics of memory, operating at the interface between art and historical heritage. They are: Memória da…
Memento Mori: The National Museum and the Archive Without a Museum
An analysis of the Instagram hashtag #museunacionalvive as a collective memorialGiselle Beiguelman and Natalia LavigneAbstract:This article examines visual content shared on Instagram about…
Aesthetics of Coronasurveillance: Heat Maps and the Biopolitics of the Painless
This essay addresses the aesthetics of surveillance in the context of the coronavirus (coronasurveillance), focusing on heat maps and their biopolitics. Below are excerpts published in the…
Corona-Life: The Post-Pandemic Is Now
COVID-19 brings a new biopolitics onto the agenda, turning surveillance into a porous procedure that enters bodies without touching them. Its engine—the mechanism that sets this…
Coronavida: pandemia, cidade e cultura urbana
Coronavida: pandemia, cidade e cultura urbana examines the impact of the coronavirus on culture and everyday urban life. The suppression of public space, new forms of activism, the pandemic…
Algorithmic racism
The new James Bond was recommended by Artificial Intelligence (AI). The choice was Henry Cavill, the British actor who became famous for playing Superman in Batman v Superman: Dawn of…
Smile, You’re Being Scanned: Thermal Cameras and the New Normal
COVID-19 transformed urban culture, introducing unprecedented elements into everyday city life. The image of the crowd, always associated with the emergence and life of metropolises, was…
Coronary: net art, coronavirus, and the aesthetics of surveillance
PortugueseCoronary is a net art project in the form of a hypertextual essay on the cultural experience of the coronavirus, with an emphasis on everyday life in Brazil. President Bolsonaro’s…
It’s Written All over Your Face! Big Brother Has Become Big Data
The global facial recognition technology market is expected to double over the coming years, from US$3.2 billion to US$7 billion in 2024. Its main applications are security, healthcare and…
O cinema e seus outros
Rádio USP, Ouvir Imagens, October 14, 2019Editora Equador, in co-publication with AVXLab, has just released O Cinema e seus outros, edited by Lucas Bambozzi and Demétrio Portugal. The book…
Conversas na praça: The Urbanism of Jorge Wilheim
Rádio USP, Ouvir Imagens, September 30, 2019Gone are the days when architecture exhibitions were displays of plans and models. Increasingly inventive, exhibitions about architecture combine…
We Are at War
Rádio USP, Ouvir Imagens, September 23, 2019I watched Bacurau and recommend it. The film takes an X-ray of Brazil's future, but bases it on our present. It is a dystopia that reveals the…
Brazilians at the Chicago Architecture Biennial
Rádio USP, Ouvir Imagens, September 16, 2019This week's excellent news is the Brazilian participation in the Chicago Architecture Biennial, opening this Thursday, the 19th. Participants…