I have been working in the arts, film, subjectivity and new media fields of investigation and teaching for more than ten years to undergraduate and graduate studies in Brazil and abroad. As a professor and researcher, I was Visiting Fellow in the Department of Architecture and History of Art at Harvard University, where I developed a post-doctoral research about the Brazilian artist Arthur Bispo do Rosario, dealing with issues such as identity and post-colonialism in contemporary art. As a Visiting Scholar at the Department of Philosophy at Boston College, I developed part of my Ph.D. dissertation about time and subjectivity related to art and literature. I hold a Ph.D. and a Master Degree in Communication and Semiotics from the Catholic University of São Paulo. 

In the field of New Media, I organized seminars such as Technocreations at the Catholic University of São Paulo, along with the FILE (Electronic Language International Festival), and for this seminar, it was published a catalog with articles written by the guests, Nelson, George Landow and Paul Miller, and the foreword written by me, concerning to the deconstruction of the computer technology and culture. I have been a member of the editorial and scientific board of FILE since 2005.

In addition, I have been working as independent curator and script writer, having written in collaboration to others a script for the documentary 500 souls about the identity of Brazilian natives showed and awarded in many countries, besides the script for a fictional film based on the legendary Brazilian film Limit from the 30’s, considered the best Brazilian film in the occasion of the hundred years of cinema. This script, called The invention of Limit, was honored with the Hubert Bals Fund by the International Film Festival Rotterdam, and has not yet realized. I also collaborated with the script of A lonely man. As curator, I organized an exhibition about Bispo do Rosario’s works called Ordering and vertigo, in which participated more than 120 artists, among them musicians, performers, photographers, and intellectuals lecturing about contemporary art, philosophy and subjectivity. I also curated the shows Aisthesis: Cinema,  Image’s strategies,  Metacinemas, Dziga Vertov Group, and Alexander Kluge: The fifth act. All of these events and productions have been extensively covered and evaluated by important Brazilian newspapers and magazines (see them in the right bar under the name “media” in this webpage).

I published the book Achados chistosos (Witty founds) – 1999, and organized the books and catalogs Alexander Kluge: The fifth act (2007), Dziga Vertov Group (2005), Ordering and Vertigo (2003), among others.

Recently, I’ve been developing two research projects: one about films that have always requested other format than a single screen, called Unbearable screen, which is also a project of installation art, and other, theoretical, called How to explain to an inhabitant of Sirius what is a computer?  about distinct explanations of the computer’s functions in terms of perception and subjectivity.

In Brazil I have been teaching at Mackenzie University in São Paulo, in the Program of Graduate Studies of Education, Art and History of Culture since 2001. In California I was visiting scholar in the department of Communication at UCSD in 2007 and in the Spring term of 2008 I have an appointment as Lecturer in the Visual Arts Department, teaching for Interdisciplinary Computing in the Arts (ICAM) students.