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Title Assistant Professor, Social Design

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Assistant Professor, Social Design, Art Department

Environmental Art + Social Practice MFA 

Affiliated Faculty, Visualizing Abolition Studies

Cláudio Bueno Ph.D. (b. 1983, Brazil) is an artist, curator, professor, and designer. Bueno is a member of different platforms and groups, such as ‘Explode! Platform’, ‘Intervalo-Escola’ and 'O grupo inteiro'. Throughout these collectives, he has worked in collaborative, dialogical, and interdisciplinary political-aesthetic propositions, projects, and processes in art, design, education, activism, architecture, and technology. He has been involved with different communities, movements, struggles, biomes, and peoples – fully committed to social, cognitive, and environmental justice. He has a Ph.D. in Visual Arts from USP – University of Sao Paulo. In 2022, he was the director of Participation and Culture at Tomie Ohtake Institute, São Paulo. From 2019 – 2021, he was a visiting professor at the graduate program of the School of Arts from FAAP (Fundação Armando Álvarez Penteado). In 2018-19, he co-curated the exhibition 'Fields of Invisibility' at Sesc-SP – a reflection on the global technological infrastructures and its modes of operation regarding the dynamics of life and the Earth. As a designer, Bueno has been developing digital platforms for art and educational institutions for the last 20 years - please visit groundatlas.org (2021) as the last one. 

Bueno has been featured in many exhibitions, residencies, awards, and talks in Brazil and abroad – contributing to artistic and educational institutions such as Hessel Museum/CCS Bard, Chicago Architecture Biennial, CUNY (USA); Delfina Foundation, Central Saint Martins/UAL, Whitechapel Gallery (England); Prix Ars Electronica (Austria); Festival de Artes Electronicas Transitio_MX (Mexico); Humboldt-Universität (Germany); Rumos CyberArts Itaú Cultural, Videobrasil, MASP, MAM Rio and São Paulo Biennial (Brazil); Pro-Helvetia/Far (Switzerland); Het Nieuwe Instituut (Netherlands); U-jazdowski Castle for Contemporary Arts (Poland); University of Cape Town (South Africa); amongst others. His last articles were published by Mousse Publishing, Terremoto.mx and Fundação Bienal de São Paulo. 

For more, please download his temporary portfolio by clicking here.

Awards, Honors and Grants

2022 - Arts Research Institute for an Equity and Innovation – Explode! School 

2020 - Fellowship Regeneration: New Institutional Practices: Drought, Regeneration, Orós, Sertão, Caatinga Project, with O grupo inteiro (Carol Tonetti, Claudio Bueno, Enrico Rocha, Ligia Nobre, Vitor Cesar), Het Nieuwe Instituut, Rotterdam.

2017 - "Select" for Art & Education, CCBB-SP – Shortlisted with Tainá Azeredo; 

2016 - Sponsored by Musagetes Foundation to produce Explode! Residency, in collaboration with  Lanchonete.org and ArtsEverywhere.ca;

2015 - Rede Nacional Funarte de Artes Visuais, for the project Intervalo-Escola, with Tainá Azeredo;

2012 - Award “Videobrasil em Contexto” [Videobrasil in Context] (Brasil)

2011 - Honorable Mention at Prix Ars Electronica (Linz, Austria)

2011 - Award Transitio_MX (México) - third position with "Campo Minado" [Minefield] artwork;

2011 - Rumos Cinema and Vídeo, Itaú Cultural - category: Webdocumentary. As part of the Lat-23 group

2010 - Arte.Mov festival (Brasil) - sponsor to produce the art piece "Redes Vestíveis" [wearable networks];

2009 - Rumos CyberArts - Itaú Cultural (Brasil); sponsored to research and create new work;

2009/11 - Nominated twice for Prêmio Sergio Motta of Art and Technology.

Courses ART 210A: Practice-Based Research Group: Sites (MFA)
ART 108: Art, Design and Social Practice
ART194: Forms & Ideas
ART20K: Introduction to New Media and Digital Art Making