about
Dr. Clarissa Ribeiro is an Assistant Professor in the Visual Arts Department at the University of São Paulo and a former Program Director of the Roy Ascott Studio’s Technoetic Arts (TA) advanced degree program in Shanghai, China—a program she conceptualized and implemented in collaboration with Roy Ascott from 2014 to 2015. She also served as a senior lecturer and researcher in the program, holding the prestigious ‘Pete Townshend Endowed Senior Lectureship in Performative Technoetics’ (2022-2024). She is a member of the Editorial Board of the Technoetic Arts journal (Intellect Books) and an ad hoc reviewer for The Leonardo Journal.
Dr. Ribeiro holds a Ph.D. in Arts (ECA USP Brazil, Poéticas Digitais/CAiiA hub of The Planetary Collegium, UK), a Fulbright Postdoctoral Scholarship (UCLA, Art|Sci Center/James Gimzewski Lab, US), an M.Arch. (IA USP, Brazil), and a B.Arch. Since 2013, she has been a member of the UCLA Art|Sci Collective and chaired the first Leonardo/ISAST LASER talks hosted in Brazil/Latin America (2017-present). Since July 2023, she has been organizing LASER talks at the Roy Ascott Studio SIVA/DeTAO in China and chaired the CR2024 Consciousness Reframed International Conference, hosted by the Roy Ascott Studio in Shanghai.
As an educator, architect, media artist, and researcher, her work explores cross-scale information and communication dynamics that shape macro-scale emergent phenomena. Her recent projects delve into the metaphysics of information visualization through subversive morphogenetic strategies and the macro-scale impacts of molecular, atomic, and subatomic exchanges in designing transobjects and relational systems, embracing animism to navigate ecologies as cosmologies.
Dr. Ribeiro’s work has been widely published in journals and conference proceedings, and her projects have been exhibited globally. She has served as a reviewer for the Leonardo Abstracts Service (LABS) (Peer Review Panel, 2020 and 2021) and contributed to international conferences, symposium program committees, and art juries, including ISEA International, Consciousness Reframed, the CAA College Art Association, and SIGGRAPH.
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Here, you can explore a range of artworks created since 2007, including solo projects and collaborations with artists and scientists worldwide.
This section features publications from 2004 to the present, covering topics such as architecture and the principles of complex adaptive systems, as well as the conceptualization of media arts collectives as systems. More recent works delve into animist perspectives on framing, presenting, and discussing artworks, contributing to the exploration of Technoetic Arts aesthetics. These publications are available in both English and Brazilian Portuguese.
Here you can find an updated version of my curriculum vitae in English, along with a portfolio showcasing featured works developed from 2009 to the present.