Visual artist · Creative technologist · Educator
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I turn Brazilian memory and culture into things people can experience.
Rio de Janeiro · Brazil
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Profile
Visual artist, creative technologist and knowledge architect (Rio de Janeiro, 1987). For more than ten years, I have been turning collections, heritage and cultural legacies into experiences people can live — through extended reality (XR), volumetric capture and artificial intelligence. Founder and creative director of WeSense, a studio developing projects for brands including Intel, Ambev, Stone and Pepsico. I was innovation manager at the Laboratório de Atividades do Amanhã, at Museu do Amanhã, working with exhibitions, prototypes and experimentation. Creator of the Framework de Contexto Cultural (FCC™) and my own approach to immersive information documents. I work at the intersection of art, technology and museology — and teach people to think with technology, not to obey it.
Education
2015–21Visual Arts — EAV Parque Lage, Rio de Janeiro
2006–13Electronic and Computer Engineering — UFRJ (technical foundation, degree not completed)
in progressMuseology — UNIRIO
—Experience Design — Kaospilot (international immersion program)
Recognition
2023–26iBest — Innovation and Technology Influencer · nominated in 2023, 2024 and 2026
2022Latin American Design Awards — Silver — Gil Futurível
2019Maker of Merit — Rio Maker Faire (AR Invaders)
2018Lumen Prize — shortlisted — Xingu Ensemble
—LATAM VR SuperWoman Award — PepsiCo
—Cited in FGV public service examinations — IPHAN 2025 (Xingu) · SJC 2023 (Gil)
Selected work
2025Encontro de Gigantes / Rota do Samba XR — Vila Isabel · mixed reality · Embratur
2024Sementes do Rei do Candomblé — generative AI · Lei Paulo Gustavo
2022Gil Futurível — volumetric capture + VR of Gilberto Gil
2019RePangeia — technoshamanic VR experience · Museu do Amanhã
2019Corpos Estranhos em Espaços Infinitos — AR art
2017Xingu Ensemble — VR with the Kuikuro people
—Ressurgir — Sobre Corais — point cloud · CCBB Rio and São Paulo
Exhibitions
2022NFT.Rio · ArtSampa · SP-Arte — Gil Futurível / Back to Xingu
2022Rio Innovation Week — Xingu Ensemble
2021Criatech Festival — Aveiro, Portugal
2019RioFestiv.al — Corpos Estranhos
2018Tate Modern Exchange Week — London · Xingu Ensemble
2018Horniman Museum & Gardens — London · Xingu Village
2017Festival Multiplicidade — Oi Futuro, Rio
2016Mostra Imagem em Movimento — Casa França-Brasil
—FILE · Sonar+D · Nova Bienal Rio · NFT.Rio — festivals
Artist residencies
20182nd residency in Alto Xingu — Aldeia Ipatse
20171st residency in Alto Xingu — Aldeia Ipatse
2016EAV Parque Lage scholarship
2015–16Creative Lab — Queen Mary University of London
Talks & teaching
—Generative AI teacher — critical literacy
—Domestika instructor — +500 students
—PUC-Rio — postgraduate program in immersive storytelling
2019SXSW — Brazilian Pavilion, Austin
2018Wired Festival — Rio de Janeiro
2014TEDxLaçador — "Tecnologia Invisível"
—Rio2C · ArtRio · Rio Maker Faire
—Curator — "Mente Máquina" (Hacktudo)
Collaborators
Gilberto Gil · Kuikuro people (Takuma Kuikuro) · Gringo Cardia · Batman Zavareze · Heloísa Buarque de Hollanda · Simone Michelin · Mãe Seci Caxi.
Press
O Globo (2018, Xingu Ensemble at Tate Modern) · Canal Futura (Ancestralidade) · Ologiko documentary (Takuma Kuikuro).
Updated in June 2026 · company: WeSense Real Time Experiences Ltda · CNPJ 22.614.054/0001-80