AFFECTING TECHNOLOGIES - Key Persons
BERNARDO FONTES is a computer scientist with a degree from Fluminense Federal University (UFF), in Niterói. He develops an exploration into minimalistic and procedural practice on several fronts; publishes sketches of computational art created at berinhard.github.io/sketches; created the pyp5js project; signs as berin e 2bonsai in his works with music tracks; is one of the creators of the collective pessoas.cc; is a member of the live coding music duo Pietro Bapthysthe and organizes the meetups Noite de Processing in Recife. In 2018, he was responsible for programming and implementing the project Another 33rd São Paulo Biennial, by the artist Bruno Moreschi, for the 33rd São Paulo Biennial.
BRUNO MORESCHI is a multidisciplinary artist, PhD in Visual Arts at the University of Campinas (Unicamp, BR), exchange at University of Arts at Helsinki, FI, with projects related to the deconstruction of systems and the decoding of procedures and social practices in these spaces of power. Projects recognized by grants, exhibitions and institutions such as Devian Practice Van Abbemuseum, 33rd São Paulo Biennial, Rumos Prize, Funarte, IDFA Festival, Capes (Coordination for the Improvement of Higher Education Personnel), and Fapesp (São Paulo Research Foundation). Currently senior researcher at the Center for Arts, Design, and Social Research (CAD+SR) and resident artist at the University of São Paulo Innovation Center, coordinating a group of researchers from different fields in the construction of democratic, artistic, and experimental methods in the use of programming, machine learning, and artificial intelligences-always considering the specifics of the Global South context. Layers of authorship; morphology + history; expanded institutional critique; footnotes; errors; non-specialized approaches; collaborative work.
DALIDA MARÍA BENFIELD is a media artist, researcher, and writer. In Benfield's research-based artistic and collective practices, she produces video, installation, archives, artists' books, workshops, and other pedagogical and communicative actions, across online and offline platforms. She has taught at the Vermont College of Fine Arts, the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and was a Research Fellow and Faculty Associate at the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University (2011-2015). She is Research and Programs Director at the Center for Arts, Design, and Social Research (CAD+SR).
Job Titles:
- Architect
- Graphic Designer
DIDIANA PRATA is an architect, graphic designer, and image curator. Graduate and Master by the Faculty of Architecture and Urbanism of the University of São Paulo (FAUUSP). She is currently a doctoral student in the Graduate Program in Design at FAUUSP, supervised by professor Giselle Beiguelman, and resident researcher at the Artificial Intelligence Center-Inova-USP. Her investigation is focused on the design and evolution of visual narratives in contemporary times, on database aesthetics, and on the use of artificial intelligence as a creative and curatorial strategy. She is a member of the Grupo de Pesquisa Estéticas da Memória no Século 21 [Aesthetic Research Group of Memory in the Twenty-first Century] (FAUUSP-CNPq) and professor of graphic design at the Faculty of Visual Arts of Fundação Armando Álvares Penteado-FAAP, São Paulo. Didiana also works as an independent designer and curator, carrying out graphic, editorial, and exhibition projects related to visual culture, education, architecture, and urban anthropology.
GABRIEL PEREIRA is interested in building academic knowledge through methods that creatively blend science and technology theories with artistic practice. He had training in audiovisual and media arts production in Brazil before starting a MSc in Information Studies-Digital Living at Aarhus University (Denmark). In 2017, he began a PhD at the same university, to research taken-for-granted data infrastructures using practice-based research methods. He participated in the Museum of Random Memory, one of a series of collaborative experiments to "identify and foster ongoing and new creative methods of regaining control of the ‘big data' we regularly produce in our everyday lives." His collaboration with Brazilian artist Bruno Moreschi originated The History of _rt, the Recoding Art project (for the Van Abbemuseum, Netherlands) and a commissioned project for the 33rd São Paulo Biennial. His main research interests are critical and feminist perspectives on data, algorithms, digital infrastructures, and platforms.
GISELLE BEIGUELMAN is an artist, curator, and professor at Faculty of Architecture and Urbanism of the University of São Paulo (FAUUSP). She is a member of the Laboratory for OTHER Urbanisms (FAUUSP) and of the Interdisciplinary Laboratory Image Knowledge (Humboldt University of Berlin). Her works are in collections of museums such as ZKM (Germany), Jewish Museum Berlin, and Pinacoteca de São Paulo. She received several national and international awards, with emphasis on The Top 50 (International Media Art Award SWR / ZKM, 2003) and ABCA Award (Brazilian Association of Art Critics, 2016). She was curator of Nokia Trends (2007 and 2008), the 3M Digital Art Exhibition (2013) and Arquinterface: the city expanded by networks (2015). In 2014, she joined the group of 25 international artists invited by The Webby Awards for the exhibition The Web at 25, commemorating the 25th anniversary of the WWW. She is the author of more than 200 articles on digital art and culture and Nomadismos tecnológicos: Dispositivos móviles - Usos masivos y prácticas artísticas (Barcelona: Ariel / Fundación Telefónica, 2011) and Memória da amnésia: Políticas do esquecimento (Edições Sesc, 2019), among others.
Job Titles:
- Manager of the Technology & Liberty
JENNIFER LEE is the manager of the Technology & Liberty Project (TLP) at the ACLU of Washington, where she advocates for state and local legislation to regulate powerful surveillance and AI-based technologies. She leads ACLU-WA's work drafting community-focused policies related to technology, privacy, and civil liberties. A key focus of the TLP's work is organizing a community-centered tech coalition that centers the voice of historically marginalized communities. She is working with researchers and collaborators to develop community capacity-building countersurveillance and AI policy toolkits.
KATHERINE YE works on making computing more expressive and equitable. Ye is a Microsoft Research PhD Fellow at Carnegie Mellon University and co-organizes coveillance, a U.S.-based collective working to reshape the balance of power between marginalized communities and computing.
Job Titles:
- Professor of the Postgraduate Program in Communication Sciences
RAFAEL GROHMANN is a professor of the Postgraduate Program in Communication Sciences at the University of Vale do Rio dos Sinos (UNISINOS). PhD in Communication Sciences by School of Communication and Arts of University of São Paulo (ECA-USP). Creator of the DigiLabour newsletter and researcher at the Communication and Work Research Center (USP).
SILVANA BAHIA is co-director of Olabi, a social organization focused on innovation, technology, and diversity, where she coordinates Pretalab and other initiatives. Researcher at the Research Group on Information and Communication Policies and Economics of the Postgraduate Program in Communication at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ).
SYLVAIN SOUKLAYE is a New York-based French artist working at the intersection of live performance, sound art, performative installation, and research. He explores collective intimacies and epigenetic memories as a living language and the body as the last remaining proof. Souklaye questions the "safe space" while history always has been a minefield for his ancestors. His performances characteristically involve intense physical acts as well as the use of unsettling intimacy. Among his best-known pieces are la blackline, a five-year durational radio performance about socioeconomic survival and urban absurdity; le déserteur, a digital art installation dwelling on the notion of abandonment; and TME, a docudrama performance exploring self-inflicted amnesia and resilience.
TAÍS OLIVEIRA is educated in Public Relations, Master and PhD student in Humanities and Social Sciences at the Federal University of ABC (UFABC). Her dissertation-"Redes sociais na Internet e economia étnica: Um estudo sobre o afroempreendedorismo no Brasil" [Social networks on the Internet and ethnic economy: A study on Afro-entrepreneurship in Brazil]-tried to analyze, from the appropriation of communication technologies, the formation of structures and relationships of entrepreneurship as a determining phenomenon for obtaining work and income part of the Brazilian Black population. She also works as a Metrics analyst at Associação Cidade Escola Aprendiz in projects related to education, volunteering and social entrepreneurship, is a university professor, member researcher at NEAB-UFABC (Center for African and Afro-Brazilian Studies), part of the research group Desigualdades sociais no Brasil [Inequalities in Brazil] and the Grupo PARES (Pesquisa em Análise de Redes Sociais) [PARES Group (Research in Social Network Analysis)], also from UFABC.