Panel Statement

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

Keywords: Art & Technology, Education, Transculturalism, Land, NANO

Abstract

Since 2010, NANO Nucleus of Art and New Organisms, a research lab facility at the School of Fine Arts from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, has been developing a consistent body of works, theoretical and practical, on the intersection of art, science, technology and nature. These works, which encompass a twilight zone in-between organic and artificial life, including plants, bees, bacteria and robots, are inspired by nature and models of thought drawn from scientific to ancient knowledge, such as indigenous Amerindian traditions and eastern cultures. This paper aims to present NANO’s creative production and methods, focusing on aspects of art education, transculturalism, sustainability, based on the experience of the project “Land as an Educational Principle”.
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• Maria Luiza (Malu) Fragoso is an artist with a PhD in Arts and Multimedia (UNICAMP), São Paulo, Brazil, (2003) where she developed research on artistic experimentations in telematics. Post Doctorate at the School of Art and Communication of the University of São Paulo. Currently professor at the Visual Communication Design Department at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro UFRJ. Thesis supervisor since 2005. Published the title >=4D. Computer Art in Brazil (2005).Coordinator of the research group REDE Art and Technology, trans cultural nets in multimedia and telematics, and of NANO LAB – Nucleus of Art and New Organisms. Organizer of CAC.4 Computer Art Congress in Rio de Janeiro (2014). Also a farm administrator, biologic cheese producer, beekeeper, member of the Biologic Producers Association from Rio de Janeiro.

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Research is sponsored by CAPES, CNPq and FAPERJ. Developed at NANO Lab at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro.