Cesar Augusto Baio Santos

Associate Professor in the Department of Multimedia, Media, and Communication and the Graduate Program in Visual Arts at the Institute of Arts at UNICAMP. He holds a Master's and a PhD in Communication and Semiotics from Pontifical Catholic University of São Paulo, with research in the areas of cinema, video, digital media, and visual arts, awarded with CAPES and CNPq scholarships. Has a research internship at the Vilém Flusser Archive, at the Universität der Künste Berlin (UDK). Between 2017 and 2018, he developed his postdoctoral research as a visiting artist-researcher at i-DAT - Institute of Digital Art Technology, at Plymouth University - UK, with a CAPES scholarship. He was a professor of the Cinema and Audiovisual course at the Federal University of Ceará - UFC (2013-2018), co-founder of the Graduate Program in Arts at UFC (2013), and coordinator of this program (2016-2018). In 2018, he joined the Institute of Arts at UNICAMP, where he works as an associate professor in the area of Art and Technology and coordinates the Postgraduate Program in Visual Arts. He is the leader of actLAB Interdisciplinary Research Group in Art, Science, and Deviant Technologies, registered in the Directory of Research Groups of CNPq. He collaborates with the research groups Photography, Image and Thinking (UFRJ) and BrisaLAB - Biorizoma de Intervenção e Sensibilidades Artísticas (UFF). He works as a member of the editorial board and ad hoc consultant for academic journals, scientific events, and funding agencies (e-Compós, Intexto journal, ECO-Pós journal, Compós, Socine, ANPAP, ARTECH, Fapesp). He regularly participates in the main events in his field, such as Socine, Compós, ISEA - International Symposium on Electronic Art, #.ART - International Meeting of Art and Technology, and ANPAP - National Association of Researchers in Visual Arts. His research focuses on the aesthetic, ethical, and political aspects of the relationships between art, science, technology, and society. His doctoral thesis discusses experimental artistic works based on computational algorithms, pointing to a post-virtual image theory, resulting in the book "Machines of Image: Art, Technology and Post-virtuality". In his artistic work, he is interested in investigating the logic of functioning of systems of power and technological control, through intervention procedures in autonomous systems of surveillance and social control. Through the collective Cesar Lois, he has worked on the creation of works that integrate living microorganisms, digital networks, and artificial intelligence. Her artistic work has been presented in installations, urban interventions, photographs, and videos exhibited in cultural centers, galleries, and festivals, having received national and international awards, such as The Lumen Prize British Computer Society Artificial Intelligence (2018); CoMciência: Ocupação em Arte, Ciência e Tecnologia (2019); 13th Mercosul Biennial (2021); Getty Research Institute and Beall Center for Art + Technology Residency (2023). (Source: Lattes Curriculum)