I am a researcher interested in the intersections between culture, technology and mediated communication. Currently a PhD student at BAU, I hold a MA in Politics, Philosophy and Public Affairs (Science, Technology and Society track) from Università Degli Studi di Milano (Italy) and a BA in Social Communication from ESPM (Brazil), with post-graduate level courses in Culture Economics and IT Management at Fundação Getulio Vargas (Brazil). I have also been a Bachelor student in Philosophy at Pontificia Università S. Tommaso D’Aquino – Angelicum (Italy) and in Languages and Literature at Universidade de São Paulo (Brazil). Acting as a culture deputy, I have worked with performing arts, phonographic and audiovisual production, digital archives management and systems design, in partnerships with international artists, companies and institutions.
Thesis
Computational Aesthetics in the Wild: Vision Machines, Formal Ontologies and the Philosophical Requirements of Machine-Artworks Interface Design.
As media platforms growingly rely on automated methods of semantic classification, the nuances required for the proper presentation of artistic archives seem to be left aside, particularly when it comes to cultures foreign to the Western cannon. The research aims to investigate if and how computer vision and standardized digital ontologies currently at use are fit to appliance over artefacts with ontological foundations that are radically different from the mathematical and hierarchical structures of digital technologies. Such work is to culminate on a framework for the philosophical requirements for the design of machine-artworks interfaces.
