User:Lorenpb/sandbox/Paloma Oliveira

Paloma Andrade de Oliveira is a brazilian transdisciplinary artist, curator, researcher, exhibition designer, aoftware engineer and enthusiast of open source ideology based in Berlin/Germany. She addresses the topics of autonomy, sustainability and ableism (critical disability studies, human rights). One of her main exploration topic is about the dialogue between bodies (physical, social and digital) from an undisciplined perspective, based on critical disability studies. Paloma Oliveira acts in the organization, preservation, curation and dissemination of media art and net culture, through the participation in the production of cultural events, the creation of artworks, and the teaching of lectures and workshops related to this universe.

Formation

Paloma has a Master's in Visual Arts (2014) from the University of São Paulo, Brazil, a specialization on Image and Sound Creation with Electronic Media (2008) from SENAC University Center, São Paulo, and a Fine Art's Degree from the FPA Paulista Arts College. She has also a certificate in Critical Disability Studies (2018) from 17 Institute for Critical Studies, Mexico City.

During her formation, she have also engaged in on-line courses  and workshops worldwide: Coyotiv School of Software Engineer, Online (2020), Escape Room Design - School of Machines Believe & Make Believe, Berlin and Full Stack Web Developer - FrauenLoop, Berlin (2019), Diagnosing  (dis)ability - professor Jhonnathan Maldonado - 17 Institute for Critical Studies, Mexico City (2017), Art - Machinery - Medium "Aesthetics properties are always only dependent variables of technological feasibility" - professor Karla Jasso - Institute of Aesthetics Investigation, UNAM, Mexico City (2017), New material dimension: fashion y biomaterials - professor Edith Medina - CCBorder (2016) and Python for Everybody Specialization from the EADUniversity of Michigan (2016).

Career

(2020) Zentrum für NetzKunst. Currently a member of the Centre for Net Art that aims to reconstruct, preserve and exhibit net art and net culture. The initiative explores possibilities of archiving and scientific contextualization. We aim to make works of art and discourses on net art and net culture accessible to a broad public through exhibitions and event formats. In doing so, new positions and tendencies in art and science are made comprehensible with reference to pasts and possible futures.

(2020) PyLadies Kunst Edition. What happens when code meets art? And when art meets code?

Creative coding is a type of programming in which the goal is to create something expressive and critical instead of something purely functional. It is used to create live visuals, netart, installation, sound, wearables - anything our creativity can produce with algorithms. PyLadies Berlin, Zentrum für Netzkunst and Panke.gallery got together on February 29th to create an special event that aimed to expand our understanding of technology, code and art, and inspire women and underrepresented people to use code in a creative way.

(2019) Algorave. Organizer.

(April 2016 - December 2018) Laboratorio Arte Alameda. Production and Museography - physical and digital.

My museology contribution, both theoretical and practical, focused on balancing historical heritage, sustainability and inclusion, based on critical disability, gender, race and decolonialism studies.  

I was responsible for digital and physical spaces. My personal research reflected on deep changes in the structure and workflow of the space that exhibits contemporary art intersected with science and technology. I accomplished to create structural accessibility within regular institutional budget; reduction of waste produced by each exhibition; increased audience diversity as a reflection of the "Committee for a Friendlier Museum" committee foundation, where people from different backgrounds and with different perceptions could interfere on museum's; created special educational content in different languages (sign language, English, among others); creation of free audio guide with extra information about exhibitions; increased safety of museum technicians and staff; implemented welfare activities for employees of the museum and public; achieved several experiments in museography, including making alliances to build a professional educational program to promote universal design for exhibitions; created alliances with institutions to improve museum resources, diversity and accessibility. This work was recognized with an award by INBA, the Mexican Ministry of Culture , Mexico CIty, Mexico.

(2015) kaaobi. Curator, social media and production. Entertainment-lecture events inspired on TED X focusing on young public sponsored by kolor rio.

I researched interesting diverse topics aiming to develop entertainment alternatives for youth. I worked together with speakers to transform their research into a notable topic such as: humanized economy; anatomy of passion; generating small brains from urine; recovery justice; the beauty of the favela. Also responsible for documenting and creating audiovisual slides to support the talks. Creating a comfortable chill space and planning content to social media were also part of my tasks. This was a significant project that built a loyal youthful community eager to learn while amusing themselves.

My role included: researching interesting diverse topics; finding excellent speakers on broad topics from social justice to biotechnology; working closely with speakers and train them to present an interesting entertaining talk; creating audiovisual slides to support the talks; organizing the environment (a comfortable chill space, nice music before and in between talks, providing food and beverage to be consumed in the event); documenting and editing the material; planning social media. Rio de janeiro, Brazil.

(2009) PDCON 3rd International Convention PureData. Production. The symposium brought 63 international guests for a week of intensive programming including: academic seminar, hacklab, workshops, installations and performances. Sponsored by the SESC-SP and MIS-SP, with supported by CAPES. São Paulo Brazil.

Artworks (selection)

(2020) Small fragments of a suspension machine, with interstices. Pink Umbrellas Artistic Residency, Online, Brazil. Part of the artistic occupation where artists gather to create from a distance and immerse themselves in an experience of language displaced from each artist's "common place", in addition to thinking the Internet itself as a creative and amplified possibility.

(2016) Love in the Times Code: a telematic marriage.  Paloma and Mateus propose a reading of the mediated affectivity and bureaucracies around the realization of this ceremony. The promise of “total connectivity” of devices and networks, in practice, contrasts with the noises and limitations of their functionings. In parallel, in a world of many displacements and telepresence, on which bureaucratic structures remain outdated, they require certificates and presences that are no longer appropriate. Starting from a real distance situation, the couple Mateus and Paloma proposes a caricature of this scenario, where their civil marriage is realized between their images and other people give their bodies as “support” for these images, to comply with the requirements of a notary From Rio. Paloma and Mateus rewrite their intimacy mediated by electronic devices.:

(2015/2016) Rádioplanta - Device for communicating with plants and listening to their history version. Custom signal amplifiers and radio transmitter applied to plants in order to transmit the bioelectric activity through radio. Developed for rural.scapes residence, the work was part of the exhibition Alternating fields in MAC USP Contemporary Art Museum of São Paulo, Brazil.

(2015) Bicilumen - Intelligent light platform, self sustainable communication between bicycles based on fireflies. Developed during the residency Red Bull Basement, sponsored by Red Bull Station in São Paulo, Brazil.

(2015) Memorabilia Ludens - Interactive installation where the public presence triggers videos projected in masks of faces of people who have different views of the same story. Based on the Rashomon effect, a term coined by American anthropologist Karl G. Heider, referring to the film of Japanese filmmaker Akira Kurosawa. It is an expression used to describe a situation where you can not know what really happened as each one interprets the facts from different points of view. The work was exhibited at the 1st Festival of Art and Technology Atibaia, Brazil.

(2013/2015) Monomyth - Multimedia Performance in which the performer "steals" the faces of people and projects them on your his own face and the facade of a building simultaneously. Presented at SP Urban Digital Festival (2013); and the International Festival of Electronic Language (FILE), 2015 São Paulo - Brazil.

(2012) H3O - Live Performance with biofeedback sensors developed with Caio Bonvenuto & Mateus Knelsen. Presentations: Arte.Mov Circuit, Sao Paulo and Festival cineme up, Santos - Brazil. (2011, 2013) La Grand Pelea - Audio-visual performance with interactive wearable and biofeedback sensors, developed with James Lobato. Presented at the Laboratory Arte Alameda (Mexico City), PDCON11 (Berlin), SESC Ipiranga (SP).

(2011, 2013) La Grand Pelea - Audio-visual performance with interactive wearable and biofeedback sensors, developed with James Lobato. Presented at the Laboratory Arte Alameda (Mexico City), PDCON11 (Berlin), SESC Ipiranga (SP).

(2011) adAMachine Experiment # 1 machine to create presence - Multimedia telematic performance. Presented at Centro de Ars Santa Mônica, in Barcelona, part of residencies in Hangar/ Barcelona and MediaLabPrado/ Madrid. Resulting from meetings among women from different professional fields involved in the interaction between multimedia languages and plasticity applied to the multimedia scene and to claim the presence of women in society, the arts, the development of digital technologies and scientific research. Collaborative project developed with: Cinthia Mendonça, Maira Sala, Lisa Kory Chung (Hawaii), Laura Malinverni (Italy) and Andrea Melissa Salvador (Buenos Aires). Virtually participated: Luciana Fleischman (Argentina), Virginia Maria (Rio de Janeiro) and Thiago Hersan (São Paulo).

(2010, 2012) IntranspoRníveis - Audio-visual performance with Aécio de Souza, Lucas Gervilla, Paulo Gallian and Thais Almeida Prado. Fragments of pornographic films from the beginning of the century are manipulated and projected onto a three-dimensional scenario built with simple cheap material such as paper boxes and fabric.

The ‘intransponibildade’/ ‘impassable’ between different medias manipulated in real time (video-mapped images on the stage, images manipulated by a performer with Super8 projector and soundscapes) creates a dialogue that seeks contrasted tangent representations by an audio-visual metaphor of human relationships. Intransporníveis is a project on human invisible boundaries with which we face every day. Presented at Cineme-se Festival (Santos, São Paulo), Live Cinema (Rio de Janeiro) and Studio Lamina (São Paulo).

Exhibitions (curator)

(2021) Calculating Control, Zentrum für Netzkunst, Berlin, Germany. Located at the Haus der Statistik in Berlin, the project explores the connections between (net)art and the history of cybernetics, as well as its impact on today's network society. The project is divided into different formats in order to outline the complex relationships between these historical and contemporary topics. An on-site group exhibition at the Haus der Statistik addresses the connection between socialism and cybernetics while also engaging with concepts of transmission and networking. A symposium opens a room for discussion about different utopias and critiques of cybernetics, today's 'network society' as well as concrete forms of data storing and processing. An unConference takes on a different angle, encompassing bodily experiences of cybernetics in an experimental mode. The program will also be available online.

(2021) Free Radio Takes Down Airplane. HomeostasisLab, Online, Brazil. Homeostasis Lab is a democratic database for digital art running independently since 2013. In 2021 I was invited to do a curatorship, sponsored by the Brazilian culture funds.  The curatorship focused on online community radios as democratic platforms. Name relates to allegations against the existence of independent radio stations, where the idea spread that they would be a threat to air traffic and emergency communication. Understanding such allegations as a metaphor to democratic communication platforms as a threat not to airplanes, but to authoritarian and anti-democratic systems, to homogeneous discourses, and to patriarchy.

(2020) Co-curator. Stick.T.Me. Zentrum für Netzkunst, Berlin, Germany. Exhibition presented stickers and sticker sets that have been produced by 19 different artists and collectives who have participated in the online artist-in-residency program on the Telegram messenger app.

(2018) Exhibition Arqueología de la Autonomía. The exhibition, co-curated with Josy Panão and Tania Aedo under research supervision of Beatriz Miranda is part of a larger ongoing investigation on critical disability studies applied on museology. The proposal tries to locate us in the complexity that forms a rigorously normative social system, under which we operate and are operated in the everyday. In other words, try to make us aware of how our decisions, desires and perceptions are conditioned by the ideal of a perfect and independent body. Vast curatorial program gathered Independencia BioLab, 17 Institute for Critical Studies, and MedHackers to deconstruct the notions of health and education. Artists participants in the exhibition and activities: Carolina Esparragoza, Colectivo Independencia BioLab, Cybelle Oliveira, Hugo Solis, Lauren Klein, Ramiro Chaves & Manimas, Seña y Verbo. For more information visit <http://www.discombobulate.me/en/projetos/autonomia/>

(2018) Exhibition De la Norma al Nombre. Part of the Art & Disability Colloquium from 17, Institute for Critical Studies, the curatorial program was developed in partnership with Laboratorio Arte Alameda. The program intended to reveal an approach to disability as another form of existence, as a "possible" utopia. The exhibition gathered Mexican and Brazilian artists with disability presented as a panorama of art history: from engraving to multimedia passing through installation, photograph and video art. Program included: cineclub curated by Jorge Grajales and a series of workshops including inclusive museography for contemporary art. Exhibition took part in Centro Cultural Brasil-Mexico and curatorial program at Laboratorio Arte Alameda. For more information please visit: <https://17edu.org/coloquio-xxv-arte-y-discapacidad-de-la-norma-al-nombre/> <http://www.discombobulate.me/en/projetos/normanombre/>

(2017-2018) Exhibition Transmutation: space alchemies, a dialogue with the artist Jaime Lobato. The curatorial project intends, in a subtle way, to break power structures that are maintained because they are not visible in contemporary everyday life, such as, the act of perceiving. In assuming that our senses are likely to be categorized within fields such as vision, hearing - by to mention some - we lose all possibilities to make us aware of what we feel but not we named, for example, that through the hearing and acoustic reverberation in the skin is possible to understand a space in relation to our body (echolocation). For this reason, the curatorial affirmation is: to perceive is a political act. A policy that reverberates in art and its academic and hierarchical structures levels that validate an excludent  normative system. The museography of the exposure was developed based on suggestions of the Committee for a Museum More Friendly to All, composed of people with different perceptions, that since 2017 are questioning together with the museum: What does to include means? The museographic decisions radically transformed the museum space. Laboratorio Arte Alameda, Mexico City. For more information, visit: <http://www.discombobulate.me/en/projetos/transmutacion/>

(2016) II Atibaia Art & Technology Festival. How does technology affect us and can make us more sensitive in our daily relationships? What place does it occupy in our lives? And what does art have to do with all this? In addition to occupying a concrete place in reality, technology populates and often tumultuates our imaginary, directly affecting our bodies, which appear muffled in the face of so many variations and fast transformations, restlessness and creative fabacies. Devices increasingly offer possibilities for reinventing and re-creating relationships with others and with the world around us. The course proposed by the curators Josy Panão and Paloma Oliveira is an invitation to an affective immersion in the world of technology, a reflection on how these inventions have modified our way of acting, communicating and feeling the other and ourselves. The artists gathered in this exhibition establish a very close (and why not say intimate?) connection between their creative processes and technology, emerging their poetics and works appear after this intimate process. The works assembled at this festival have emerged from questions about technological tools and their limits, which involve not only the artists’ poetic processes, but also how public can sum into this ephemeral, fluid and hybrid atmosphere of creation. Atibaia, SP Brazil. More information: http://atibaia.flab.space/

(2014) Hybrid Project: experimental prototyping perception magnifiers. Indisciplinary investigation on body & technology. A curiosity over biofeedback sensors and its possibilities as an artistic and medical tool that became an open source community - for at present serves as a network between Brazil and Mexico - fed by the passion for transdisciplinarity.

The expansion of human perception, such as vision, hearing and touch and exploration techniques to generate connections between body and technology acquire a level of technological experimental and artistic reflection on ”Hybrid : experimental prototyping on augmented perception”.

Interdisciplinary investigation on body & technology. This project promoted connections between: prototyping in experimental electronic laboratory; conversations about art, science and (bio)technology and its critical implications in body and society.

Hybrid became an open source community that up to date works as a network between Brazil and Mexico.

Supported as a research project by USP University of São Paulo and  UNAM National Autonomous Mexican University, is was only possible for a sum of individual volunteers, public and private organizations and academic institutions. Conceptualized by Paloma Oliveira (Brazil) and Jaime Lobato (Mexico), over a period of 5 months between both countries, a complex program was unfolded: 9 artistic workshops; development of several prototypes for augmented perception which were presented as part of the exhibition "Zonas de Compensação" in the city of São Paulo; 4 artistic works using biofeedback sensors; 5 creative programming & electronics workshops, reverse engineering projects and research about body and devices integration; 2 interdisciplinary laboratories and collective research; 3 talks about the project; 8 conferences about physiology, art, media subversion and biotechnology in São Paulo; 6 conferences on art, science and biotechnology Mexico City.

Impacts over the project include: 4 Master thesis publications, 3 exhibitions, institutions alliances For more information visit: http://www2.eca.usp.br/hibrida/