Cláudio Filho
Cláudio Filho is a doctoral candidate in the Postgraduate Program in Visual Arts at the Institute of Arts, University of Campinas (IA/Unicamp), supported by a FAPESP Scholarship (2022-2026) and a CAPES Scholarship (2022). Under the supervision of Prof. Dr. César Baio, he is also a Visiting Researcher at Aalto University (Finland, 2024-2025), where he explores the intersections of Art, Science, Technology, and Ecology, focusing on the collaboration between organic and digital systems.
Cláudio is the academic coordinator of ACTlab – Laboratory for Art, Science, and Deviant Technologies (Unicamp, member of the RAT Group (Aalto University), led by Prof. Laura Beloff, and Bioart Society member in Finland. He is also the Editorial Producer and editorial council member of the Coleção eXtremidades (PUC-SP), led by Prof. Dr. Christine Mello and a founding member of the Kodos Collective.
His artistic practice investigates the relationship between Art, Environment, and Technology (Human-Data-Environment) and has been featured worldwide. Some exhibitions include Piracemas 2024 in São Paulo, Exhibition Emerging Extended Realities in Macao, China, EmMeio#14 (Galeria Térreo) at the National Museum of the Republic in Brasília, Brazil, and the 17th Athens Digital Arts Festival in Athens, Greece.
Awards include the 2024 Bioart Society Mini Residency at SOLU Space, Helsinki, and the Ars Bioarctica Residency at Kilpisjärvi Biological Station (scheduled for 2025); the 2023 MediAsia/KAMC IAFOR Scholarship in Kyoto, Japan; and finalist in 2022 (with the Kodos Collective) for the FUNARTE Olympics of Visual Arts in the Digital Art category.
Cláudio holds a Master's degree from the Postgraduate Program in Art, Culture, and Languages (PPG-ACL) at the Federal University of Juiz de Fora (UFJF), where he completed a thesis titled Pierre Restany: Beyond the Real. A Study on New Realism and Its Connection with the 10th São Paulo Biennial (1969), supported by UFJF research fellowship and holds an Interdisciplinary Bachelor's degree in Arts and Design from the Institute of Arts and Design (IAD/UFJF).
Currently, Cláudio is engaged in research within an international network of laboratories that focus on the alliances between Art, Science, and Technology, with particular emphasis on the Complex Systems, Poly-crisis, and Bioart. He has also collaborated as a academic assistant with renowned scholars, philosophers, writers, psychoanalysts, and cultural critics, including Suely Rolnik and Christine Mello.
Exhibitions
2025
2024
PIRACEMAS: deslocamentos de outros mundos através da arte. Curadoria: Juliana Lewkowic e Malka Borestein. Vila Olímpia, São Paulo - 2024
2023
FESTA - Residência Caatinga e Residência-Arte Vai Passar. 29 de abril - 29 de Maio. Galeria Santídio Pereira, SP.
Festival de Artes em Rede, SESC - Campinas. Workshop
2022
Exposição EmMeio#14 (Galeria Térreo), Museu Nacional da República, Brasília, DF. Obra: "Este chá é o resultado de uma visualização de dados"
Exposição ARTeFACTo2022 - Emerging Extended Realities, Macao, China (virtual exhibition) . Obra: ///DATA-RIVER
FUNARTE Exposição Virtual do Projeto Olimpíadas das Artes Visuais, com a obra “Data-river”, premiada na categoria Arte Digital.
2021
Exposição (RE)Existencias - Associação Nacional dos Pesquisadores em Artes Visuais, ANPAP (virtual). Obra: ///Rios.Força.Fluxo
17th Athens Digital Arts festival - work: Data-river-flow
2020
Seção Arte, Revista Climacom - DOSSIÊ EPIDEMIOLOGIAS | ANO 7, N. 19. Obra: constelar
Research groups and labs
ACTLAB (2020 - Ongoing) - Laboratório de Arte, Ciências e Tecnologias Desviantes
Site: https://www.actlab.art.br
Instagram:https://www.instagram.com/actlab_/
RAT (2024 - Ongoing) - Transdisciplinary research across art + science + technology
Site:
Grupo de Pesquisa Extremidades (2021 - Ongoing): redes audiovisuais, cinema, performance e arte contemporânea
Site: https://www.extremidades.art/grupo/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/plataformaextremidades/
HAHE (2017-2020) - História da arte como história das exposições: instituições, crítica, curadoria, acervos e arquivos
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/historiadasexposicoes.ufjf/
Awards
2025
Ars Bioartica - Kilpisjärvi Biological Station. Bioart Society, Finland.
2024
Bioart Society Mini-Residency: SOLU Space - Helsinki, Bioart Society Finland.
2023
MediAsia/KAMC IAFOR Scholarship, Kyoto - Japan, IAFOR.
2022
Prêmio Funarte Olimpíadas das Artes Visuais, Categoria Arte Digital, FUNARTE.