Upgrade! São Paulo: CTRL+ ART + DEL: Artistic experimentations and the related technological context -Fabio Oliveira Nunes :: March 29, 2008, 7:30 pm @ i-People: Av Vergueiro 727, next to the Vergueiro Subway Station.

It is suggested a reflection about the artistic production in media art where its context with its several levels - social, public, technological or economic - is fundamental part of its proposition. The objective of this presentation is to think about in which circumstances the technological art can act in questionings of the daily life and the technology itself. In this sense, it will be presented some personal artistic experimentations and also some others created by other artists - like the Freakpedia, developed with Edgar Franco and Grampo, an artwork developed with Soraya Braz - who look for discuss those questions.

Fabio FON (Fabio Oliveira Nunes) is a multimedia artist, digital designer and higher education professor, working among other areas in the studies of hypermidia, web art, media art and poetics of visual. One of his studies is the Web Art in Brazil, which has been developed since 1999 and nowadays focus on the research on critique technological art. He has developed the co-production of the digital poetry magazine Arteria 8, in co-authorship with Omar Khouri. Fabio is PhD in Arts from University of Sao Paulo, MA from UNICAMP and bacharel in Fine Arts from UNESP.