Giselle Beiguelmann

Giselle Beiguelman

Roles
Interdisciplinary Laboratory

Giselle Beiguelman was born in 1962 in São Paulo, Brazil, where she currently resides. She wrote her thesis on history at the University of São Paulo, supported with a research grant from the VITAE Foundation. She works as a new media artist and a multimedia essayist, and teaches digital culture on the postgraduate Communication and Semiotics programme at the PUC-SP (São Paulo). She published the award-winning commentary »The Book after the Book« (1999), a hypertextual and visual essay that blends critique and net art in the context of the ›net_(reading/writing)_condition‹. She has developed art projects for mobile telephones, »Wop Art« (2001), for the internet, SMS, MMS and for online streaming and electronic illboards: »egoscópio« (2002), »Poétrica« (2003) and »esc for escape« (2004). Giselle Beiguelman is interested in  collections of digital objects. She is collaborating with the Priority Areas »Architectures of Knowledge«  and »Collecting & Exhibiting«.