Theme: Noisy Artificial
Monday, December 1st, 2025
Location: Room C6 – Computer Graphics Classroom
Department of Fine Arts, Building 5
School of Communications and Arts (ECA), University of São Paulo, Brazil
Chaired by:
Prof. Dr. Clarissa Ribeiro
Department of Fine Arts, School of Communications and Arts, University of São Paulo
This edition of LASER Talks São Paulo, titled “Nosy Artificial”, gathers international voices from media theory, digital culture, and experimental art to explore the affective, political, and perceptual tensions at the interface between humans and machines.
Rooted in the conceptual terrain of The Wrong Biennale's noisyPOPcorner – Frictious Self Embassy, the talk welcomes noise not as error but as excess: a zone of encounter where human subjectivity diffracts through code, gesture, and synthetic systems. Inspired by Roy Ascott’s notion of the self as mutable, porous, and incomplete, this edition invites artists and researchers to engage with noise as a technoetic medium of becoming, where perception, identity, and data entangle.
From AI-driven generation to wearable devices, from performance studies to generative design, the dialogue centers on frictions—those dissonances where art, motion, and intelligence co-evolve. Participants are invited to reflect on and inhabit the frictious distributed self, navigating between machinic agency, ecological instability, and emergent sensoria.
Invited Speakers:
• Leonardo Foletto
Researcher and Assistant Professor of Digital Culture and Artificial Intelligence at the Department of Communications and Arts (CCA), ECA/USP, Brazil
• Andrea Sick
Professor of Media and Cultural History and Theory at the University of the Arts Bremen (HfK), Germany. Her work focuses on the interrelations between technological media and artistic production, the crossings between art, biology, and information technology, and the cultural-scientific interfaces of queer and performance studies.
• Bruno Moreschi
Visual artist and Assistant Professor of New Media at Aalto University, Finland
• Gabriel Pereira
Researcher and Assistant Professor of Artificial Intelligence and Digital Culture at the University of Amsterdam, Netherlands
This event is part of the Leonardo/ISAST LASER Talks global network—fostering conversations across art, science, and technology.
Building 5
São Paulo, 05508010-05508010
Brazil