Clarissa Ribeiro
Program Directorat Roy Ascott StudioDr. Clarissa Ribeiro is the Program Director of the Roy Ascott Studio's Technoetic Arts (TA) advanced degree program in Shanghai, China, a senior lecturer and researcher at the Program as the recipient of the 'Pete Townshend Endowed Senior Lecturership in Performative Technoetics' (2022-2024), serving as a member of the Editorial Board of the Technoetic Arts journal (Intellect Books) and as an ad hoc reviewer for The Leonardo Journal. Ph.D. in Arts (ECA USP Brazil, Poéticas Digitais/CAiiA hub of The Planetary Collegium, UK), Fulbright Postdoctoral Scholarship awardee (UCLA, Art|Sci Center/James Gimzewski Lab, US), M.Arch. (IA USP, Brazil), B.Arch, member of the UCLA Art|Sci Collective (2013-present), is the chair of the first Leonardo/ISAST LASER talks to be hosted in Brazil/Latin America (2017-present). Since July 2023, she has been organizing the LASER talks at Roy Ascott Studio SIVA/DeTAO in China and is the chair of the CR2024 Consciousnesses Reframed International Conference, hosted by the Roy Ascott Studio in Shanghai. As an educator, architect, media artist, and researcher, the core of her explorations is the interest in cross-scale information and communication dynamics that impact and shape macro-scale emergent phenomena. In her recent projects, she explores the metaphysics of information visualization in subversive morphogenetic strategies and the macroscale impacts of molecular, atomic, and subatomic trades in the design of a series of transobjects, welcoming the animistic to navigate ecologies as cosmologies. She is the principal of OI.SE.AU Office for Sentient Architecture and represents the University of Fortaleza in China. She has widely published in journals and conference proceedings and her work has been exhibited worldwide. She has been serving as a reviewer for the Leonardo Abstracts Service (LABS) (Peer review Panel, 2020 and 2021), and contributing as a member of international conferences and symposium international program committees, and art juries including ISEA International, Consciousness Reframed, CAA College Art Association, and SIGGRAPH.