Off the Axis, Away from Home, Among Pirates
I am taking part in the 2nd Latin American Photography Forum, which begins at Itaú Cultural (São Paulo) on the 20th. The event, titled Fora do Eixo, Fora de Casa, is coordinated by Iatã…
Writing
Technophagic Emergence
Today I presented my paper at the Latin American Forum at ISEA 2010 about Creative and Critical Trends of Digital Culture in Brazil. Here are the paper, the slides, and the PDF.…
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…
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…
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…
No Plata
In what context do critics and creators become hostages to cultural institutions, legitimizing the exchange of free labor for media crumbs? What does the country of the Jeffersons, the…
Egoscope
Egoscópio (Egoscope) was a teleintervention that happened in August 2002 and allowed anyone to send, through the egoscope website, other sites to two commercial electronic billboards…