Clarissa Ribeiro
Dr.at Roy Ascott Studio
architect, media artist and researcher, 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, nomads.usp), 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). The core of her explorations is the interest in cross-scale information and communication dynamics and evolutionary emergence. She is the principal of OI.SE.AU Office for Sentient Architecture and directs the CrossLab art collective and the LIP – Lab for Innovation and Prototyping at the University of Fortaleza, in Brazil.