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Bio
Researcher and professor of new media art and digital communication. Cicero coordinates the Software Studies Group in Brazil. His latest projects on locative media are the GPSface website and the GPSart (GPSarte) at www.gpsart.net. The aim of these projects is investigate new forms of social participation using Global Position System (GPS) and also develop an online wireless community using cell phones with GPS.
The GPSface is a social networking online community and a Midlet (software) developed in Java that connects people around the world and shows on the Google Maps the position of the user's contact list, and also the distance of the people listed in the “contacts”. The GPSart is a Midlet designed to draw lines on Google Maps using GPS location and it is available for unlocked cell phones that support Java. As a researcher in Art & Technology Cicero developed in the end of 90s softwares to create online texts on a project called “Plato online: nothing, science and technology”, which is completely documented on a book with the same name.
The project was commented worlwide due its provocative target, e.g. the algortihms were baptized with the name of important philosophers, most of them related to the end of the authorship in the digital era creating a huge confusion in the www since Google exhibited the websites of the project when users searched for “Michel Foucault”, or “Gilles Deleuze”, for example.
In 2004 he started a project to develop more participation of the audience on the web and the result was exhibited in 2006 with the project “magnetopoetry”, a website programmed in Ajax, using a model developed by Garrison Locke. Cicero's work has been analyzed by theoriticians and curators, such as George P. Landow in his book Hypertext 3.0 (John Hopkins UP, 2006), among others.
Currently he is Associate Researcher in the Center for Research in Computing and the Arts (CRCA) at University of California, San Diego (UCSD) and director of the studio witz, a new media studio based in São Paulo/Brazil. He was a Visiting Scholar at University of California, San Diego (2006-2007/Fellowship from CAPES/State Department of Education/Brazil) and at Brown University (2005/Scholarship supported by CAPES/MEC). Cicero holds a Master degree and a Ph.D. in Communication and Semiotics, is author of Plato online: nothing, science and technology book (All Print), member of the Jury
and Scientific Board of FILE SYMPOSIUM (chair), and
has been organizing Seminars such as Tecnocriações and Estética e Novas Tecnologias.
Bio
Cicero Silva é pesquisador e professor de mídia, arte e comunicação digital e coordenador do Grupo de Software Studies no Brasil.
Atualmente Cicero é Pesquisador Associado ao Center for Research in Computing and the Arts (CRCA) na Universidade da Califórnia, San Diego (UCSD). Cicero foi Visiting Scholar na Universidade da Califórnia, San Diego (2006-2007/apoio CAPES), onde desenvolveu sua pesquisa de pós-doutorado sob orientação de Ted Nelson e Noah Wardrip-Fruin e na Brown University (2005/apoio CAPES/MEC), local onde realizou parte de sua pesquisa de doutorado junto a pesquisadores como George Landow, Noah Wardrip-Fruin e Roberto Simanowski. Cicero é mestre e doutor em Comunicação e Semiótica, autor do livro The Explorers: Open Source and Free Software in Brazil (com Jane de Almeida, no prelo, MIT Press) e do catálogo-livro Plato online: nothing, science and technology (All Print), coordenador dos Comitês Científicos do FILE e do FILE Labo. Cicero tem organizado congressos e seminários na área de arte e tecnologia, novas mídias e softwarestudies, tais como os seminários Tecnocriações e Estética e Novas Tecnologias, entre outros.
Coordena o studio witz, uma produtora de conteúdo digital especializada na área de produção cultural e novas mídias
Seus últimos projetos na area de mídias locativas dialogam com os processos de geolocalização (www.GPSart.net) e comunidades virtuais e redes sociais via GPS (GPSface em www.GPSface.net).
CV
Education
2006 – Ph.D. Communication and Semiotics - Catholic University of Sao Paulo (Fellowship from the Foundation for the Coordination of Higher Education and Graduate Training -CAPES/State Department of Education), São Paulo, Brazil.
Dissertation: The proper name in Hypermedia studies.
2001 – Master Degree in Communication and Semiotics - Catholic University of Sao Paulo (Scholarship from the Catholic University of São Paulo), São Paulo, Brazil.
Dissertation: Hypermedia and the reticular play of signs.
2000 - Psychology - FAPA/SP
Academic Positions and Teaching Experience
2008 - Coordinator of the Software Studies Initiative at FILE Labo, Brazil.
2008 - Visiting Scholar in the Center for Research in Computing and the Arts (CRCA) at University of California, San Diego (UCSD)
2006-2007 – Visiting Scholar in the Communication Department at University of California, San Diego (UCSD) (Grant from the Foundation for the Coordination of Higher Education and Graduate Training -CAPES/State Department of Education, Brazil)
Research: from Browzing to ZigZag: on Ted Nelson ZigZag system.
2005 – Visiting Scholar – Brown University (Grant from the Foundation for the Coordination of Higher Education and Graduate Training -CAPES/State Department of Education, Brazil)
2001-2006 – Assistant Professor – Catholic University of São Paulo
2003 – Visiting Professor – University of São Paulo
2003 – Professor – Graduate Studies in Design, Art & Technology and Contemporary Art at the Fine Arts School in São Paulo.
Artistic and Cultural Experience
2008 – Organization of Zachary Lieberman's performance at the Visual Arts Dept. at UCSD.
2008 – Organization of the 4K projection at the FILE São Paulo along with CRCA/UCSD.
2008 – Organization of Gonzalo Frasca's lecture about games and activism at FILE São Paulo
2006 – Organization of Noah Wardrip-Fruin's lectures in São Paulo, Brazil.
2007/2008 – Production of the film exhibition Alexander Kluge: the fifth act at CCBB (São Paulo and Brasília, Set/Oct/Mar)
2005 – Organization of Tecnocriações. Seminar about New Media, Hypermedia and Hypertext with Ted Nelson, George Landow and Zachary Lieberman (with The National Council for Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq)/State Department of Science and Technology support) – FIESP/Catholic University of São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
2005 – Organization of the The Dziga Vertov Group Film Festival. Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil: São Paulo, Rio de Janeiro and Brasília (with The State Department of Culture - MINC support)
2004 – Organization of the The Metacinemas Film Festival. Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil São Paulo
2003 – Organization of the The Image's strategies Film Festival. Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil São Paulo
2002 – Chair of the Scientific Board of FILE Symposium and Director of FILE Labo
Works
2008 – Social Visual mobile tool. Developed for the Visualizar symposium at MediaLab Prado, Spain (with Brett Stalbaum)
2008 - HiperGps. With Brett Stalbaum
2008 – GPSart. Mobile art. Exhibited in São Paulo, Rio de Janeiro, Porto Alegre, Santiago, Quebec and Madrid
2007 – GPSface Mobile art. Exhibited and developed for the Nokia Trends Festival in São Paulo and San Diego.
2006 – Magnetic Poetry. Exhibited in Rio de Janeiro, São Paulo, Santiago and Buenos Aires.
2005 – assinaturas do nome. Net-art website. Exhibited in Rio de Janeiro, São Paulo, Tokio, Santiago, Lisbon and Porto, Madrid, Paris and Buenos Aires.
2004 – Plato online. Net-art exhibition at the Art.ficial Emotion Festival Biennial at Itaú Cultural, São Paulo.
2003 – Assina. Net-art exhibition at FILE São Paulo
2002 – Olhar desdobrado. Exhibited in Belém, Buenos Aires, Santiago, Rome and Caracas.
Publications
Books
2009 – The Explorers: Open Source and Free Software in Brazil. Cambridge, MIT Press (forthcoming)
2004 – Plato on-line: nothing, science and technology. São Paulo, All Print
2004 - As mulheres de Derrida. São Paulo, witz
Articles and catalogs
2008 – There is nothing outside of software. FILE São Paulo catalog.
2008 – GPSart and mobility. FILE Porto Alegre catalog.
2008 – Art by GPS. FILE Rio de Janeiro catalog.
2007 – Infoestética. Entrevista com Lev Manovich. Revista Trópico, São Paulo.
2006 - Morel Thresholds. Some notes about influenza's work. Aminima, Madri
2005 - Games-Language: An Interview with Noah Wardrip-Fruin. Rhizome, New York
2005 – Primeiros passos de uma nova arte. Revista Trópico, São Paulo
2005 – After Hyper. FILE São Paulo catalog
2006 – Linguagens do Jogo em Design contemporâneo: o futuro das novas mídias, games e narrativas digitais. São Paulo, Nojosa edições
2005 - The form of technique in Hypermedia. São Paulo, IMESP
2005 - Hypercinemactivity in Hypermedia. São Paulo, IMESP
2004 - O arquivo do nome e o nome do arquivo em Estranhas Travessias. Osasco, EDIFIEO
2004 - Os fins dos meios em FILE. São Paulo, FILE Editorial
2003 - Signs: from text to context em Novas Mídias/New Medias. São Paulo, IMESP