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Education
2000 – Ph.D. Communication and Semiotics - Catholic University of Sao Paulo (Scholarship from the Foundation for the Coordination of Higher Education and Graduate Training -CAPES/State Department of Education), São Paulo, Brazil
Dissertation: The fourth time: signs and time in Lacan

1995 - Master Degree in Communication and Semiotics - Catholic University of Sao Paulo (Scholarship from the National Council for Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq)/State Department of Science and Technology), São Paulo, Brazil
Thesis: Witty Found. Witz and psychoanalysis in José Simão writings

1989 - Psychology - Catholic University of Minas Gerais

Honors
1998 - Hubert Bals Fund, Rotterdam International Film Festival – Script writing for The invention of Limit

2005 – Ordering and Vertigo: One of the Hundred Best Exhibitions in the last 10 years in Brazil according to Bravo Magazine

Artistic and Cultural Experience
Curatorships

2008 – Film festival Alexander Kluge: the fifth act. March/April, Brasília, Brazil

2007 – Film Festival Alexander Kluge: the fifth act. September, São Paulo, Brazil

2005 - 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

2006 – Image’s politics: Seminar with Margarethe Von Trotta – Catholic University of São Paulo

2005 - 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)

2004 - Metacinemas - Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil, São Paulo, Brazil

2003 - Image's strategies - Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil, São Paulo, Brazil

2003 - 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

2002 - Aisthesis - aesthetics and cinema - Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil, São Paulo, Brazil

Movie scripts (co-authorship)
2004 - 500 souls – Prize of Best Photography, Editing and Soundtrack in the International Film Festival of Brasília (2005) and Prize of Best Latin American Documentary in the 21st Mar Del Plata Film Festival (2006)

2000 – The lonely man – For Canal Brasil (Brazil Chanel)

1996 - The invention of Limit

Publications
2006 – Interactive Clark - Interview with Yve-Alain Bois about Lygia Clark – Folha de São Paulo newspaper, São Paulo

2006 – Drawn in Machine Art catalog - IMESP/FILE editorial, São Paulo

2005 - What Technology do we want? in File Symposium catalog. IMESP/FILE Editorial, São Paulo

2005 - The Dziga Vertov Group (org.) - Witz Edições, São Paulo.

2004 - Metacinemas - São Paulo, Witz/CCBB, São Paulo

2004 – Hipercine: experiencia de deconstruccíon fílmica. Miradas Journal, La Habana, Cuba.

2004 – El amigo de Glauber [y de Godard]. Miradas Journal, La Habana, Cuba.

2003 - Ordering and vertigo (org.) - 2 vols - São Paulo, Takano/CCBB, São Paulo

2003 - Image's strategies (catalog) – Witz Edições, São Paulo

2002 - Aisthesis - aesthetics and cinema (catalog) – Witz/CCBB, São Paulo

1998 - Witty Found. Witz and psychoanalysis in José Simão writings - EDUC/FAPESP, São Paulo

Lectures (selection)
2007 – 100 Years of animation: On Zachary Lieberman’s installation “Drawn”. University of California, San Diego (UCSD)

2006 – Hypercine: deconstruction and subjectivity. MediaLabMadrid, Spain

2006 – Contemporary Art and Cinema. School of Fine Arts (Belas Artes), Brazil

2006 – Arthur Bispo do Rosario’s art. Federal University of Parana (UFPR), Brazil

2005 – A conversation on Brazilian Art. Harvard University (abstract)

2002 – Identity and reaction. Estados Generales del Psicoanálisis. Argentina

2001 – New Media and Film. University of Porto. Portugal

1999 – Wit is not just a wit. Harvard University

Academic Positions and Teaching Experience
Lecturer - Department of Visual Arts, University of California, San Diego (UCSD), 2008 - present

Visiting Scholar – University of California, San Diego (UCSD), Dept. of Communication, La Jolla, 2007

Visiting Fellow – Harvard University, Dept. of Architecture and History of Art, Cambridge, 2005 (Grant from the Foundation for the Coordination of Higher Education and Graduate Training -CAPES/State Department of Education, Brazil)

Assistant Professor - Catholic University of Sao Paulo (PUC-SP), Dept. of Technology and Digital Media, Brazil, 2001-present
Courses:
Aesthetics and History of Art I, II
History of Technique I, II
Medium Technologies I, II

Associate Professor - Mackenzie University, Graduate Studies in Art and History of Culture, Brazil, 2002 – present
Course:
Image’s Strategies

Associate Professor - FAAP (Fundação Armando Álvares Penteado), Brazil, Graduate Studies in History of Art, 2001 – 2004
Course:
History of Art

Visiting Scholar - Boston College, Philosophy Dept., Chestnut Hill, 1999-2000 (Grant from the Foundation for the Coordination of Higher Education and Graduate Training -CAPES/State Department of Education, Brazil)