Harun Farocki against Uberization
Ouvir Imagens, Rádio USP, September 9, 2019The exhibition Harun Farocki: quem é responsável? opens on September 17 and is essential to understanding the transformations of everyday working…
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Back-end: Surveillance, Art and Privacy
I took part in the exhibition Back-end: vigilância, arte e privacidade with the video Estética da delação premiada, which I made with Nelson Brissac using footage of plea-bargain testimony…
One year since the National Museum fire
Today marks one year since the fire at the National Museum. This date has much to tell us. To watch the National Museum being consumed by flames was to witness memoricide. “Memoricide” is a…
Divino Amor and the loss of boundaries between public and private
Rádio USP, Ouvir Imagens, August 5, 2019 Watch the video ↗︎ Gabriel Mascaro: Divino Amor (trailer)I watched Divino Amor, directed by Gabriel Mascaro, and can say it is a disturbing film.…
The future of wrinkles and computer vision
What is the future of photography and the gaze when confronted with the emerging world of Artificial Intelligence? Within anyone’s reach, AI technologies show that the future of the image…
Exhibition revisits Vladimir Herzog’s life and his death under torture
Ouvir Imagens, Rádio USP, July 29, 2019Ocupação Vladimir Herzog opens on August 14 at Itaú Cultural, devoted to the life and work of the journalist murdered under torture by the…
À Nordeste at Sesc 24 de Maio proposes another history of art
Ouvir Imagens, July 15, 2019, Rádio USPI visited À Nordeste at Sesc 24 de Maio and recommend it. Curated by Bitu Cassindé, Clarissa Diniz, and Marcelo Campos, the exhibition carries an…
Memória da amnésia: políticas do esquecimento Launches at Flip
(by Leila Kiyomura) Watch the video ↗︎ Ouvir Imagens, July 8, 2019, Rádio USPOn the 12th, Giselle Beiguelman will be at the Paraty Literary Festival (Flip) to launch Memória da amnésia:…
Rolling Thunder Revue: Bob Dylan by Martin Scorsese
Rolling Thunder Revue is Martin Scorsese’s film about Bob Dylan’s tour across the United States. The tour began in 1975 and became legendary, its very format a manifesto. Dylan defied the…
Black Mirror’s fifth season is disappointing
Ouvir Imagens, June 24. Rádio USP.Black Mirror’s fifth season arrived amid hype about scenes filmed in São Paulo, and it was a total disappointment. Weak scripts, banal images, and no…
“O que os olhos alcançam” in Cristiano Mascaro’s images
I visited photographer Cristiano Mascaro’s exhibition at Sesc Pinheiros, “O que os olhos alcançam,” and it is simply unmissable. Photograph after photograph fills the eyes, soul, and mind,…
Art and Science Come Together in Maquinaria
Ouvir Imagens, June 3, 2019, Rádio USPThe relationship between art and science in contemporary art is generally associated with new technologies and digital media. Yet this partnership is…
Contemporary Arab Photography Needs to Be Seen and Revisited
Ouvir Imagens, May 23, 2019. Rádio USPGood exhibitions need to be seen and revisited. Such is the case with Taswir: a fotografia árabe contemporânea, which I visited on its final day.…
The Future of Ruins in the Age of Programmed Forgetting
How can we not think of ruins amid the political and social tearing apart we are experiencing, haunted by catastrophe? A theme dear to the photographic imagination, ruins have asserted…
Marc Ferrez: art, technology, and photography
I visited the exhibition Marc Ferrez: Território e Imagem and can say that it is a lesson in art, technology, and photography. Curated by Sergio Burgi, with research by Ileana Pradilla…
SÓLOVE maps the history of sex in São Paulo
The debate over so-called “gender ideology” attacks a series of freedoms that have marked the democratization of public space. How does art respond to this process? My answer is an…
Installations Explore Memory and Forgetting in the City
By Leila KyomuraGiselle Beiguelman — artist and professor at USP’s School of Architecture and Urbanism — presents two new installations: Monumento Nenhum, at Beco do Pinto, and Chacina da…
Monumento Nenhum and Chacina da Luz occupy the city center
Ouvir Imagens, Rádio USP, April 29, 2019 On Saturday, May 4, I open two new installations: Monumento Nenhum, at Beco do Pinto, and Chacina da Luz, at Solar da Marquesa de Santos. Through…
Rebuild or renew Notre-Dame?
Cathedral fire divides historical heritage specialistsThe fire at Notre-Dame Cathedral immediately makes us think about the social meaning of heritage and public policies related to…
Depois do Futuro Is the Book of Our Present
Rádio USP, Ouvir Imagens, April 15, 2019Ubu has just published Depois do Futuro, by Italian philosopher Franco “Bifo” Berardi. It is more than timely reading in this Brazil of ours, where…