<div dir="ltr">Hello empireans<div><br></div><div>Not easy to present myself with few words. After you're 50, there's too much territory explored. </div><div><br></div><div>Below follows an attempt to foreground some aspects of my trajectory. </div><div><br></div><div><br clear="all"><div><div>Sérgio R. Basbaum</div><div><br></div><div>Born in São Paulo, Brazil, 1964. Lives and works in São Paulo. Artist, researcher and teacher at Pontificia Universidade Católica de São Paulo, in under-graduate and post graduate courses, specially at TIDD -- Program for Post-Graduate studies in Technologies of Inteligence and Digital Design. </div><div><br></div><div>My first professional practice has been as a musician; two albums issued ans several other works [<a href="http://www.soundcloud.com/sergiobasbaum">http://www.soundcloud.com/sergiobasbaum</a>]. Later, I've got a bachelor degree in Cinema, made Master and Phd in Communication and Semiothics and also a Post-Doc degree in Philosophy. </div><div><br></div><div>As a researcher [some papers can be found in <a href="https://pucsp.academia.edu/SergioBasbaum">https://pucsp.academia.edu/SergioBasbaum</a>], most of my work gravitates different aspects of perception, art and technology, specially concerning senses and sense. My Master dissertation was focused on Synesthesia, and I have small book issued on this, as also as some articles around, but my PhD -- which will be released as a book this year -- expanded my approach in an attempt to understand the way ubiquitous digital apparatuses are changing the way we feel, perceive, think and perform, as individuals and collectives, in our highly technologically mediated societies. Since 2007, I started to include cognitive sciences in my thinking, due to my responsabilities in our program. Through all this interdisciplinar trajectory, I feel closer to authors and philosophers somehow connected to Phenomenological tradition. I often get back to Merleau-Ponty, and keep on studying his inspiring legacy, trying to bring it into contemporary problems. A group of other basic authors and philosophers have made a mark in my thinking, and I often read and quote Marshall McLuhan, Vilém Flusser, Heidegger, Walter Benjamin, and many others. In cognitive sciences I usually refer to Maturana and Varela, embodiment, and recently I've been following the works of Andy Clark, and I really appreciate his expanded-mind concept.</div><div><br></div><div>As an artist, I have works in music, sound-art, video, texts, poems, web-art -- a large scope of creative directions, in small but regular dosis. In the last years, I developed a whole new set-up of analog and digital guitar gear, controled through a fretless guitar, and I've been involved in different audiovisual performance groups. Presently, we're working as a trio -- [a.cinema]: me, synthesist Dino Vicente, video-artist Rodrigo Gontijo -- exploring the boundaries of audiovisual improvisation. This a work I'm very excited with, and which, I think, connects most of the large scope of topics I've been involved with in my creative and investigative life. Also, an ongoing project with Clayton Policarpo, [<a href="http://globalstrike.net">globalstrike.net</a>], which debates the sick productive pression we're under these years, seems to be evolving to auspicious results.</div><div><br></div><div>Best vibes for all </div></div><div><br></div>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr">-- Prof. Dr. Sérgio Roclaw Basbaum<br>-- Pós-Graduação Tec.da Inteligência e Design Digital - TIDD (PUC-SP)<br><div><br></div><div>-- <a href="http://www.sergiobasbaum.net" target="_blank">www.sergiobasbaum.net</a></div><div>-- <a href="http://soundcloud.com/sergiobasbaum" target="_blank">http://soundcloud.com/sergiobasbaum</a></div><div><a href="https://soundcloud.com/pantharei" target="_blank">-- http://soundcloud.com/pantharei</a></div><div><a href="http://soundcloud.com/sergiobasbaum/choror-bye-bye" target="_blank">...sai dessa fila, vem pra roda festejar..</a><br></div><div>-- <a href="http://acinemaperformance.blogspot.com" target="_blank">a.cinema</a></div><div>-- <a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCXlPdYtxV5bj5uAQwXC-M_Q" target="_blank">pantharei_tube</a></div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div></div></div></div>
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