Panel Statement

Panel: Penumbra in faint light: contemporary art and technology in Latin America

Keywords: Circuito Alameda, Poeticas Digitais Group, interactive installation, art and technology, rewriting

Abstract

Transiting in the interdisciplinary domains between art, science and technology, Gilbertto Prado has been building a trajectory within the context of contemporary Brazilian art. His works have no hierarchy and are not restricted to a specific language or domain, being able to dialogue with issues that relate to network art as well as to explore the poetic potentialities offered by virtual environments. Many of recent Prado’s works are co-authored with the Poéticas Digitais Group, formed by artists and young researchers, creating collaborative networks and knowledge circuits. In this context, the purpose of this article is to analyze the work of the artist and the group as well as the Circuito Alameda exhibition presented at the Laboratorio Arte Alameda in Mexico City in 2018, based on the concept of rewriting, developed by the researcher Priscila Arantes.

• Priscila Arantes is, since 2007, director and curator of Paço das Artes, an institution affiliated to the State of São Paulo’s Culture department, Brazil. She has a degree in philosophy from the University of São Paulo (USP) and a Master’s and PhD in Communication and Semiotics from the Pontifícia Universidade Católica of São Paulo (PUC/SP) and postdoctoral degree from Penn State University and UNICAMP. A PQ scholar, professor of the Graduate Program in Design at the Anhembi Morumbi University, and vice-coordinator and lecturer of the undergraduate and postgraduate courses in Art: History, Criticism and Curatorship at PUC/SP.
• Gilbertto Prado is an artist and coordinator of the Group Poéticas Digitais. He studied Engineering and Visual Arts at the University of Campinas, Brazil and in 1994 obtained his PhD in Arts at the University Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne. Prado has participated in several art exhibitions in Brazil and abroad. Prizes include 9º Prix Möbius International des Multimédias (Beijing 2001) and 6º Prêmio Sergio Motta de Arte e Tecnologia (2006). He works with art in networks and interactive installations. Currently he is Professor at the Post-Graduate Programs of Visual Arts at the Communication and Arts School at University of São Paulo and Design at the University Anhembi Morumbi.

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Thanks to FAPESP (Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo); CNPq – Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científi- co e Tecnológico; UAM – Universidade Anhembi Morumbi; for the support they have provided.