EDUCATION

PhD in Social Communication
2011 – 2017  [Barcelona, Spain / Salvador, Bahia]
Universitat Pompeu Fabra in joint supervision with Universidade Federal da Bahia.
Thesis: “Designing Mobile Narratives: Discursive Strategies and Participation Modes in Locative Media Art” (qualified with a cum laude).
Key words: ubiquitous computing, geolocalized narratives, embodied interaction, user experience.

Interdisciplinary Master in Cognitive Systems and Interactive Media
2011 – 2013 [Barcelona, Spain]
Universitat Pompeu Fabra
Thesis: “Navigation mechanisms and recollection of historical data”.
Key words: ubiquitous computing, handheld devices, navigation, memory, embodied interaction.

Master in Communication – Image and Sound
2004 – 2006 [Brasília, Brazil]
Universidade de Brasília
Thesis: “Narradores da Cidade: táticas de renovação da linguagem cinematográfica documental” Key words: cinema, documentary, representation, urban space, aesthetic.

Social Communication – Journalism
1998 – 2002 [Belo Horizonte, Brazil]
Centro Universitário de Belo Horizonte
Bachelor’s degree in Journalism.

EXPERIENCE

Professor
Centro Universitário UNA
May 2015 [Belo Horizonte, Brazil]
Activities: Teaching the signatures “Webdocumentary” and “Transmedia Documentary” in the Postgraduate in Documentary.

Research Assistent
SPECS – Synthetic Perceptive, Emotive and Cognitive Systems
September 2011 – April 2013 [Barcelona, Spain]
Activities: Collaboration on CEEDS (Collective Experience of Empathic Data Systems), an European Commission FP7 funded project, modeling a 3D environment for a augmented reality based system, development of the interactive narrative.

Project Management
July 2007 – August 2008 [Belo Horizonte, Brazil]
AIC – Associação Imagem Comunitária
Activities: Coordination of an audiovisual project “Rede Juventude de Atitude”, facilitating workshops for young people and minority groups to produce a series of documentaries, developing new methods for teaching and sharing skills in audiovisual production.

Research Assistent
July 2005 – December 2006 [São Paulo, Brazil]
IPT – Instituto de Pesquisas em Tecnologia e Inovação
Activities: Implementation of the project BRA/04/051 – United Nations Development Program and Government of Brazil/Ministry of Culture, “Projeto Cultura Viva/Pontos de Cultura”, facilitating workshops and the creation of media labs for multimedia production with open source softwares, encouraging the technology appropriation and socio-technical networks between social projects.

Chronica Mobilis | interactive performance and artistic residence
Barcelona/ Spain 2014
Geolocated and interactive narrative experience with gameplay.
Presented in: “Hangar”.

Here: Space of Memory | audiovisual installation
Bergen-Belsen/Germany 2013
Audiovisual narrative and 3D virtual reality environment.
Exhibited in: “Bergen-Belsen Memorial”.

Mostra Artes Midia em Código Aberto | artistic residence and collective exhibition
Uberlândia/ Brazil 2009
Creation of an immersive and interactive audiovisual environment.
Exhibited in: “Museu Universitário de Uberlândia”.

Meta-Mídia: Ações em Tecnologia de Baixo Custo | workshop
Belo Horizonte/ Brasil 2009
Practices about media, technology, free platforms and new mobilization forms.
Realized in: “Festival Latino Americano da Classe Obrera”.

Web TV Preto Velho | WebTV
São Paulo/ Brazil 2007
A mobile studio and interactive interface to broadcast aTV on Internet.
Presented in: “Virada Cultural. Sesc Pompéia”.

Conserto | multimedia installation
Curitiba/ Brazil 2007
Immersive environment with jams, performances and multimedia installations. Realized with: “Companhia de Informática do Paraná – Celepar”.

Toscolão – Novas Bases Instrumentais | audiovisual production
Curitiba/ Brazil 2007
Video art, 12’13”.
Exhibited on: “Cinemateca” (03/08, Curitiba); “SESC Avenida Paulista” (12/08, São Paulo); “Museu de Arte Moderna da Bahia” (03/09, Salvador).

Mosaico Festisesi | audiovisual production
Brasília/ Brazil 2007
TV Programs, 30′.
Broadcasted on: “TV Nacional”, “Canal Integración” and “NBR”.

Aqui Estaremos Bem | audiovisual production
Belo Horizonte/ Brazil 2002
Documentary, 31′.
Exhibited on: “Cine Humberto Mauro” (05/02, BH);
Broadcasted on: “Rede Minas TV” (2002/03) y “Canal Brasil” (2008/2010).