[-empyre-] Marcus Bastos BIO

Tue Jun 11 01:17:36 EST 2013

Marcus Bastos is an artist, curator and researcher on the areas of
convergence between audiovisual, design and new media. He is PhD in
Communication and Semiotics at the Pontificial Catholic University of São
Paulo, where he works since 2003. Bastos is the author of the e-book *Recycling
Culture* (NOEMA Gallery, 2007) and one of the editors of the e-book
*Appopriations
of the (Un)common: public and private space in times of mobility* (Sergio
Motta Institute, 2009). He edited, with Lucas Bambozzi and Rodrigo Minelli,
the book *Mediation, Technology, Public Space – A Critical Panorama of Art
in Mobile Media* (Conrad, 2010). He was curator of *Noise on Video* (Itaú
Cultural Institute, 2005) and of the exhibition *Cellular
Geographies*(Telefonica Foundation, 2010). He is curator of VIVO
Arte.Mov –
International Festival of Art in Mobile Media, since 2007. Among his most
recent projects are the multimedia opera *HO: city lights* (ProAC, 2012),
the audiovisual composition *she, lonely, thinks of that* (Circuito SESC de
Artes, 2010) and a videoessay about the *Operation´s Field*, project by
Nelson Brissac, José Resende and Heloísa Maringoni (2012). He was director
of experimental documentaries such as *Giuseppe, etc* (2011) and *Free
Radicals* (2006). He developed, with LAT-23, the webdocumentary *Visible
Cities* (2010, Rumos Itaú Cultural Expanded Languages Program) and the
mapping and QR-CODE narratives about Augusta Street *2346* (2009, São Paulo
School)

*_Main Curatorships*

2005

Noise on Video, Itaú Cultural Institute (Belo Horizonte and Belém).

2007

What a situation, huh, Debord?, at Bank of Brasil Culture Centre (São Paulo
and Rio de Janeiro).

2007-2011

VIVO arte.mov – International Festival Internacional of Art in Mobile Media
(that happens in Belo Horizonte with itinerancy in São Paulo, Porto Alegre,
Salvador, Goiânia e Belém).

2010

Cellular Geographies, at Telefonica Foundation Institute (Buenos Aires and
Lima).

*_Main Works*

2002 – *Weblandscape0*, with Giselle Beiguelman and Rafael Marchetti
(nominated for the ://international/media/art/award at the ZKM, Germany).

2004 – *mobil_izing*, with Feverish Laziness (comissioned for the
exhibition SONARAMA, at Tomie Othake Institute).

2005 – *No Plata dot Us*, with Feverish Laziness (launched at Occupation,
in Paço das Artes, and exhibited at FILE – International Festival of
Electronic Languages).

2006 – *Shapeless Interface* (awarded at FIAT Mostra Brasil and exhibited
at CTRL+C CRTL+V, at Sesc-Pompéia).

2006 – *Free Radicals* (exhibited in several festivals in Brasil and the
world, including VideoBrasil Electronic Arts Biennial, Cinema and Human
Rights, and Between Documentary and Experimentation, at Centre
Georges-Pompidou).

2008 – *absences*, with Telemusik (presented at the Mercosul Biennial, at
LIVE CINEMA Festival and several galleries and cultural institutions).

2009 – *coexistences*, with LAT-23 (nominated for the "Autonomias del
Desarollo", at the Transitio_MX Festival, in Mexico).

2009 – *fluxes*, with Telemusik (comissioned for the Listen, Dance
exhibition / 40th anniversary of Paço das Artes).

2010 – *she, lonely, thinks of that* (launched at SESC Arts Circuit).

2010 – *Visible Cities*, with LAT-23 (Rumos Itaú Cultural Expanded
Languages Program).

2011 – *Giuseppe, etc* (launched at SESC Arts Show).

2012 – *HO: city lights* (commissioned by ProAC for itinerancy in Botucatu,
Santos and Salto).

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