1985, São Paulo.
I am a sound artist and researcher exploring how machine listening structures and distributes the right to belong in contexts of migration. My practice spans live performance, Dub improvisation, installation, and poetic-theoretical writing. Currently I am part of the Guest Faculty in Sound Studies and Sonic Arts at the Universität der Künste Berlin.
Previously I have been a Research and Arts Fellow at the Leuphana Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture in Society; a Postdoctoral fellow at the Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies; a lecturer in Musicology and Media Studies at the Humboldt-University Berlin; as well as a teaching and research associate in Media and Cultural Studies at the Heinrich-Heine Universität Düsseldorf. I have also done a number of artistic residencies, including the tekhnē residency at Q-O2 Brussels; the AI Anarchies program of the Junge Akademie der Künste Berlin in partnership with ZK/U; the Max-Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics in Frankfurt; IASPIS and the Elektronmusikstudion (EMS), both in Stockholm. I am a founding member of the research platform Decolonising Design, and I hold a PhD from the Universität der Künste Berlin.
In February 2020 I was awarded the second prize of the HASH Award by Akademie Schloss Solitude and ZKM Karlsruhe.
My research employs a media-archeological, artistic and practice-oriented cultural analysis of technical and machinic listening, focused on how technological infrastructures shape understandings of subjectivity and belonging within regimes of migration and diaspora. From 2017 until 2024 I explored the long histories of technical and machinic listening in Germany, and in particular the historical, aesthetic, and material articulations of the so-called “dialect recognition software,” a bespoke solution in use since 2017 for cases of undocumented asylum seekers in the country. This project was partially funded by the Goethe-Institut Brussels, Senatsverwaltung für Kultur und Europa Berlin, Deutschlandfunk Kultur in collaboration with the CTM Festival, Konstnärsnämnden Sweden, ZKM Karlsruhe in partnership with Akademie Solitude, the Max-Planck Gesellschaft, KONE Foundation Finland, and the Junge Akademie der Künste Berlin.
I also act as a co-curator for the Soy&Synth concert series in collaboration with Soydivision Berlin.
An incomplete archive of public Talks and Lectures is available here.
Find me also on Instagram, ORCID, or per E-mail.
CV and references upon request.