Seven Pieces of Advice for a Young Designer
The second issue of Tecnologias Cognitivas is devoted to Digital Design and Networks. The issue is edited by Lucia Leão, who interviewed me about my professional path, concepts and…
Writing
Essays, criticism, lectures, news and activity records, organized by publication date.
From Readymade to Ready Media
From Readymade to Ready Media: Opening lecture for the MIS-SP open course in Art History (January 30, 2010).The lecture presents methodological parameters for situating media art within art…
From Ready-Made to Ready-Media (Inaugural Lecture)
MIS-SP invited me to give the inaugural lecture for the open art history course the institution will run over the next year and a half. I took the opportunity to consider methodological…
Video After the Tube
Gary Hill, 58, is a leading figure in contemporary art. His work is a touchstone in the history of media art. Born in California, he has been developing video projects since the 1970s.In…
New Book: Urban Screens
The Urban Screens Reader is the fifth book published by the Institute of Network Cultures in Amsterdam, directed by the masterful Geert Lovink. The books can be ordered by mail and…
Just What Is It that Makes Today’s Delusions So Different, So Appealing? (Factoría)
¿QUÉ ES LO QUE HACE A LOS ESPEJISMOS DE HOY TAN DIFERENTES, TAN ATRACTIVOS? is the title of the inaugural exhibition at Factoría (Santiago de Compostela, Spain). I am participating with…
Spaces of contemporary art
Spaces of contemporary art was the topic I was invited to speak about at Red Bull House of Art, at the invitation of the curators, Lucas Bambozzi e Maria Monteiro. I was there at a…
We Must De-template
“Interface Design for Reprogramming Uses: We Must De-template” is the workshop I am running today at IxDA 09 - South America. In the workshop, I discuss projects proposing critical and…
Art & Photography
Last week, on the 13th, I took part in the Fourth Art & Photography Seminar organized by Tadeu Chiarelli’s research group at ECA-USP. In addition to lectures and papers, this fourth edition…
From a critique of use to the critical use of media
Yesterday, at the Digital Culture Forum, I presented some ideas about what I consider the conditions for digital art’s existence. Daniel Hora published such a good summary of my talk that I…
Territory and Agency in Networks
Opaque Cartographies: Territory and Agency in Networks* The undeniable popularization and welcome improvement and falling cost of software and technological devices have been accompanied…
Toward Technophagy
Toward Technophagy: Trends in Digital Art Creation in Brazil * Giselle Beiguelman, 2009PDF The results of the eighth edition of the Sergio Motta Award reveal interesting ambivalences in…
Suite para Mobile Tags: Now in Portunholês!
Suite Para Mobile Tags arrives in Buenos Aires. It is part of Geografias Celulares, curated by Marcus Bastos at Espacio Fundación Telefonica. More about Suite Para Mobile TagsImages and…
Technophagy in the age of cuddly capitalism
One of the merits of the artists honored in the eighth edition of the Sergio Motta Art & Technology Award is their ability to resist the charms of techno-Parnassianism—technology for…
A 2.0 Tribute to Mr. Turing
In the same week that Andrew Keen came to Brazil to launch his "The Cult of the Amateur", a book discussing how Web 2.0 has been destroying Western culture and values, distributed…
SP Photo Fest: Portfolios on Flickr and at MIS
After the surprise of being selected for the Porto Seguro Photography Award, an even greater surprise: a nomination for the portfolio review at SP Photo Fest. The SPF selection process…
Technological Aesthetics
A recurring question in debates on digital art: the role of technology in the creative process and in the work itself.Some say technology is merely a tool, a means of achieving the desired…
Plantimal challenges: Eduardo Kac
Yesterday I had dinner with Eduardo Kac (pronounced Katz), and inevitably we talked about his latest project, "Natural History of the Enigma." New in a relative sense, since the project has…
Suite For Mobile Tags Comes to São Paulo
Suite For Mobile Tags. FILE SP 2009 A very short run. Suite For Mobile Tags will be at FILE-SP from July 27 to 31.Suite For Mobile Tags proposes an exercise in collective, anonymous, and…
Suite For Mobile Tags at The Dissonant Place
Suite For Mobile Tags is at The Dissonant Place, Torre Malakoff, Recife. Jun 3rd - July 26th. Suite For Mobile Tags is a project based on QR-Code. It proposes a random and anonymous…