Giselle Beiguelman is an artist and professor at FAU-USP. Her research focuses on collections and methods for preserving born-digital archives, art and activism in the networked city, and the aesthetics of memory in the 21st century. She coordinates the Fapesp Thematic Project Digital Collections and Research: Art, Architecture and Design and is the author of Políticas da imagem: vigilância e resistência na dadosfera (UBU Editora, 2021; 2nd ed. 2023) and Memória da amnésia: políticas do esquecimento (Edições Sesc, 2019), among other books. Her artworks are held in museum collections in Brazil and abroad, including ZKM (Germany), the Jewish Museum Berlin, MAC-USP and the Pinacoteca de São Paulo. Her recent projects use artificial intelligence to investigate the construction of the colonial imagination in art and science. She has received several national and international awards.
Artworks and curatorial projects
Aesthetics of memory and contemporary urban culture
Her recent artistic projects include Botannica Tirannica (2022), (De)Composite Collections (2021), Monumento Nenhum e Chacina da Luz (2019) and Odiolândia. Related projects include the solo exhibitions Cinema Lascado at Caixa Cultural (São Paulo) and Quanto Pesa Uma Nuvem? at Galpão VB (São Paulo).
She has taken part in group exhibitions including Unplace at Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian (Lisbon, 2015); the 3rd Bahia Biennial (Salvador, 2014); The Algorithmic Revolution at ZKM (Karlsruhe, Germany, 2004–2008); NET_Condition at the same institution (1999–2000); and the 25th São Paulo Biennial (2002).
She curated the award-winning project demonumenta, Arquinterface: a cidade expandida pelas redes (Sesi Digital Art Gallery, São Paulo, 2015) and Tecnofagias (3rd 3M Digital Art Exhibition, Instituto Tomie Ohtake, 2012), among other exhibitions. She lives and works in São Paulo.