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…
Writing
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…