Jane de Almeida works belong in the following categories: experimental film, video art, contemporary art and computer art.
Jane de Almeida has published several articles and book chapters such as "On Elephants, Telescopes, Microscopes, Cartography, Aliens, and Computers: Notes on Scalability in Alexander Kluge's Works" In: Stichwort: Kooperation. Keiner ist alleine schlau genug (Alexander Kluge-Jahrbuch, Verlag, 2017), "The dot and the line" for A companion to Contemporary Drawing (forthcoming, Wiley Blackwell, 2018) and organized the books CineGrid: cinematic futures (Cinusp, 2017) and Harun Farocki: Programming the Visible (bilingual, Cinusp, 2018) with articles by Thomas Elsaesser, Erika Balsom, Alfredo Suppia, Harun Farocki, Patricia Moran among others. She curated the first 4K films exhibition in Brazil at the FILE (Electronic Language International Festival) and organized the first transmission from Latin America to the US (UCSD) and Japan (Keio University) of a 4k film over a 10 Gbps photonic network at FILE 2009 Transcontinental. Currently she coordinates the Advanced Visualization Working Group (Content) for the Brazilian National Education and Research Network (RNP). Jane is the director of the short films 2014k (4k 3D, 2010, 10 mins) screened at Casa Brasil during the FIFA Soccer World Cup in Johannesburg and San Diego), StereoEssays: Five or Six Essays in Search of a Narrative (4k 3D, 2011, 16 min), which has been exhibited in venues such as the Maison de L'Amérique Latine in Paris, CineGrid in San Diego, the Sesc Film Festival of Arts in São Paulo and the Tecnofagias Art Exhibition (in loop for 2 months) at the Tomie Ohtake Institute for Contemporary Art. She has also directed the short films Openmouthed (4k, 2014, 3 mins), The Diving (4k, 2014, 2 mins) and Pixel Race (4k, 2015, 9 mins), which were screened at CineGrid in San Diego and Tokyo. She was co-scriptwriter for the films 500 Souls (2004, with several national and international awards) and Invenção de Limite (awarded with the Hubert Bals Fund). She is currently at work on a film-essay on the planet Mars called Mars Projections, or Loga and finished in 2018 a 3D film symphony called Stereo Essays São Paulo. Jane holds Master and Ph.D. degrees in Communication and Semiotics.
Jane de Almeida followed her artistic career using a large variety of film materials, forms and techniques: installation, film and video.
Jane has taught at numerous universities, among others at the University of California, San Diego in San Diego and at the Pontifical Catholic University of São Paulo (PUC-SP), Brazil. She was artist in residence at the Arthur C. Clarke Center for Human Imagination, Visiting Fellow in the Department of History of Art and Architecture at Harvard University (2005), visiting scholar in the Department of Philosophy at Boston College (1999), guest researcher at Medialab-Prado (2006), visiting scholar in the Department of Communication and lecturer in the Visual Arts Department at University of California, San Diego (2007/2008/2018) .
She curated art exhibitions and film festivals for art spaces, galleries and museums such as Off the Radar at University of California, San Diego Visual Arts Gallery, Harun Farocki: Programming the Visible at Paço das Artes, Ulla, Ulla, Martians! at Casanova Gallery, the Dziga Vertov Group, Alexander Kluge: the fifth act, Metacinemas and Aisthesis at Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil, accompanied with catalogs or comprehensive books.
Coordination of the project estereoensaios, supported by the RNP Agency. The project is part of the Working Group (GT) that works with new visualization systems.
Coordination of the 2014k project, presented in the Casa Brasil in Johannesburg during the Football World Cup 2010
Text about the 4K technology for the FILE Cinema Digital 2008 catalog (Portuguese version)
Interview with Yve-Alain Bois. Recognized for reviving the polemic about Formalism, art critic and historian Yve-Alain Bois discusses in this interview important issues related to contemporary art, puts into question the concept of post-modern and remembers his relationship with the Brazilian artist Lygia Clark.
Interview with Jean-Pierre Gorin. The filmmaker Jean-Pierre Gorin talks about how the director of Land in Trance, Glauber Rocha, became an actor in Vent d Est
Film Festival Alexander
Kluge: the fifth act. Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil (Brasília and São
Paulo), Museum of Modern Art (Rio de Janeiro), Sala P.F. Gastal (Porto Alegre),
Brazil
Tecnocriações.
Seminar about New Media, Hypermedia and Hypertext with Ted Nelson, George
Landow and Zachary Lieberman (with The National Council for Scientific and
Technological Development (CNPq)/State Department of Science and Technology
support) – FIESP/Catholic University of São Paulo, São
Paulo, Brazil video
Image’s
politics: Seminar with Margarethe Von Trotta – Catholic University
of São Paulo
The Dziga
Vertov Group Film Festival. Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil: São
Paulo, Rio de Janeiro and Brasília (with The State Department of
Culture - MINC support)
Metacinemas
- Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil, São Paulo, Brazil
Ordering and vertigo
- Arthur Bispo do Rosário – interdisciplinary exhibition with
120 visual artists and musicians, including performance, film show and photography
– Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil, São Paulo, Brazil video