Artur Lescher at Estação Pinacoteca
Today I highlight Suspensão, a retrospective of São Paulo artist Artur Lescher, on view at Estação Pinacoteca.Curated by Camila Bechelany, the exhibition occupies the building’s fourth…
Writing
Essays, criticism, lectures, news and activity records, organized by publication date.
MySpace loses files and erases network memory
The social network MySpace, which we had not heard much about for a long time, lost many files last week. With them, part of the memory of networks is erased. As MySpace was a fundamental…
The Marielle Investigation Took Place in Informational Space
Ouvir Imagens, Rádio USP, March 18, 2019The investigation that led to the suspects in the murders of councilwoman Marielle Franco and her driver Anderson Gomes took place in informational…
Burle Marx at MuBE: a lesson in art and ecology
Exhibition bringing together the many facets of the brilliant Brazilian landscape architect extended through May 25Ouvir Imagens, Rádio USP, March 11, 2019There are excellent exhibitions on…
A Cerebral Carnival Reveler
Ouvir Imagens, Rádio USP, March 4, 2019I am not much of a Carnival reveler, but I feel a complete affinity with the Carnival moment. I am the type you might call a “cerebral reveler.”On the…
Historic Magazine Collections Are Online
Ouvir Imagens, Rádio USP, February 25, 2019Complete collections of historic magazines are online. The internet offers access to collections of old magazines on a wide range of subjects,…
Rejecting antisemitism
Ouvir Imagens. Rádio USP, February 18, 2019Antisemitism is growing and making itself felt again. The latest survey by the European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights on antisemitism…
Artists Make Critical Use of Artificial Intelligence
Ouvir Imagens, Rádio USP, February 11, 2019I have just returned from Berlin, where I visited an Ars Electronica exhibition devoted entirely to artists' critical use of artificial…
What Do the President’s Images Say?
In my first column of the year for Revista ZUM, I analyze the construction of President Bolsonaro’s image, from the amateur aesthetic of his campaign to his governmental image. I discuss…
Brumadinho: An Environmental and Cultural Tragedy
Watch the video ↗︎ Column broadcast on February 4, 2019The dam collapse in Brumadinho shocked Brazil and the world because of its tragic scale, but also because it is an event that leaves…
National Historical Museum makes its collection available online
Ouvir Imagens column, Rádio USP, December 17, 2018The National Historical Museum has made 500 paintings from its collection available online.The website is an online repository open to the…
Exhibition echoes 1968 in 2013 (and vice versa)
Ouvir Imagens, Rádio USP, December 10, 2018.This week marks fifty years since the enactment of AI-5, and I want to draw attention to an exhibition at Centro Universitário Maria Antonia in…
The Ballad of Buster Scruggs brings the best of the Coens to Netflix
The Ballad of Buster Scruggs, the Coen brothers’ new film, reveals the impact of digital technology and tells six Western storiesI watched The Ballad of Buster Scruggs, the Coen brothers’…
The Rouanet Law and Culture’s Impasses
Debate over the Rouanet Law and the impasses facing culture in Brazil is nothing new, but since the elections the issue has taken on different contours. Following the climate of…
Aesthetics of memory in the 21st century
Aesthetics of memory in the 21st century: politics of forgetting in public and media spacesIn this masterclass, I present a group of works developed over the preceding five years in the…
Digital Preservation in Museums
Digital preservation in museums: net art between computing clouds and clouds of oblivion This paper discusses digital preservation in contemporary art museums by analyzing works of net art…
1968: Art, Politics, and Political Purges
To speak of 1968 is to speak of art, politics, and also political purges. For us Brazilians, 1968 became directly associated with the enactment of AI-5. Institutional Act No. 5 suspended a…
Surveillance in the Age of Big Data
View the reference ↗︎ Forthcoming from Boitempo is the book Tecnopolíticas da vigilância, which reflects on surveillance in the age of big data. Edited by Bruno Cardoso, Fernanda Bruno,…
Images of Sameness: From the Banal to the Radical
In my column for Revista Zum, I highlight radical artistic projects emerging from the sameness and banality of the overproduction of images on Instagram and social networks. I discuss…
The memory of the 2018 elections is online
The history of the 2018 elections will be told on the internet and through the internet. We urgently need methods to capture the incalculable amount of material generated in the candidates’…