* 1959, currently based: Brazil
Affiliated institution: independent aritist
http://www.cantoni-crescenti.com.br/
About
Rejane Cantoni is a Brazilian artist and researcher whose practice, spanning forty years, investigates the intersection of art, science, and technology. Her formative work includes a 1988 telematic transmission between São Paulo and Pittsburgh via SSTV, and early research in virtual reality and algorithmic systems. She studied Information Systems at the University of Geneva (1994–1996), holds a PhD in Communication and Semiotics from PUC-SP (2001), and completed two post-doctoral research periods at USP (2007–2009; 2014–2015). She studied under Hans-Joachim Koellreutter, a pioneer of Brazilian electronic music, and Décio Pignatari, a founder of concrete poetry.
Her interactive installations have been presented at ZKM, Ars Electronica, the National Art Museum of China, MOLAA, STRP, The Creators Project, and Itaú Cultural. Works in permanent collections include OP_ERA: Sonic Dimension (ZKM and Itaú Cultural, 2005), SPEAK/FALA (Itaú Cultural, 2008), and SWING (MOLAA, 2023; acquired for the permanent collection, 2025). She has received the VIDA 13.2 Prize, the Sergio Motta Prize, and a PRIX Ars Electronica Honorary Mention.
She served as Advisory Board Member at the Interplanetary Initiative, Arizona State University (2020–2025), and currently serves as Advisory Committee Member at MediaLab, Fundação Itaú. MUSICAS is the natural continuation of her forty-year research.
Her interactive installations have been presented at ZKM, Ars Electronica, the National Art Museum of China, MOLAA, STRP, The Creators Project, and Itaú Cultural. Works in permanent collections include OP_ERA: Sonic Dimension (ZKM and Itaú Cultural, 2005), SPEAK/FALA (Itaú Cultural, 2008), and SWING (MOLAA, 2023; acquired for the permanent collection, 2025). She has received the VIDA 13.2 Prize, the Sergio Motta Prize, and a PRIX Ars Electronica Honorary Mention.
She served as Advisory Board Member at the Interplanetary Initiative, Arizona State University (2020–2025), and currently serves as Advisory Committee Member at MediaLab, Fundação Itaú. MUSICAS is the natural continuation of her forty-year research.
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CV [EXHAUSTIVE] EDUCATION ● 2014-2015: Post-Ph.D., University of São Paulo (USP), Brazil. Fellowship: CAPES ● 2007-2009: Post-Ph.D., University of São Paulo (USP), Brazil Fellowship: FAPESP ● 1997-2001: Ph.D. in Communication and Semiotics, Catholic University of São Paulo (PUC-SP), Brazil ● 1994-1996: M.A. in Information Systems Studies, University of Geneva (UNIGE), Switzerland ● 1984-1989: M.A. in Communication and Semiotics, Catholic University of São Paulo (PUC-SP), Brazil. Fellowship: CNPq ● 1979-1982: Bachelor's in Journalism, Catholic University of São Paulo (PUC-SP), Brazil AWARDS, GRANTS & RECOGNITION ● 2014: Rumos Itaú Cultural for "VOICE | VOZ", Itaú Cultural ● 2014: ProAC Prize for Artist Book Project "BOOKWORM | TRAÇA", São Paulo State Culture Secretary ● 2012: Exhibition New Technological Art Award, Update_4 biennial, Liedts-Meesen Foundation, Belgium ● 2011: PRIX Ars Electronica Interactive Art Honorary Mention, for "TUNNEL", Prix Ars Electronica ● 2011: VIDA 13.2 Prize for "SPEAK", Fundación Telefônica ● 2009: 8th Sergio Motta Prize for Art and Technology, Instituto Sergio Motta ● 2006: Honorary Mention in Arts (research supervision), CNPq Institutional Scientific Initiation Scholarship Program ● 2005: Exhibition Grant, Beall Center for Arts and Technology, University of California, Irvine ● 2005: 1st International Festival of Electronic Arts and Video Transitio_mx, Centro Multimedia, Mexico City ● 2003: 4th Cultural Sergio Motta Prize, Instituto Sergio Motta ● 2002: Transmídia Program, Itaú Cultural ● 2000: Cultural Sergio Motta Prize, São Paulo State Culture Secretary SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS ● 2025: OP_ERA: SONIC DIMENSION, Futuros, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil ● 2024: PST Art: ARTEÔNICA, Museum of Latin American Art (MOLAA), Long Beach, CA, USA ● 2024: BO[u]SQUE , Centro Cultural Fiesp, São Paulo, Brazil ● 2023: FLORAS, Galeria Digital, Centro Cultural Fiesp, São Paulo, Brazil ● 2010: SOIL, Capela do Morumbi, São Paulo, Brazil, 2010 ● 2009: SOLAR, MIS – Museu da Imagem e do Som, Espaço Redondo, São Paulo, Brazil ● 2005: OP_ERA, The Beall Center for Art and Technology, Claris Trevor Institute, University of California, Irvine, USA SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS ● 2025: Bienal Internacional de Arte y Ciudad, BOG25 ● 2020-2019: Wavelength, in Between, Beijing, 2020, Wavelength, Made in Illusion ● Shanghai, 2019, Wavelength, Made in Illusion, Shenzhen, 2019, China. ● 2019: WONDERSPACES Elsewhere, Scottsdale, Arizona, USA ● 2019: Consciência Cibernética [?]: Quantum Horizon, Itaú Cultural, São Paulo, Brazil ● 2018: KIKK Festival, Saint Albain Cathedral, Namur, Belgium ● 2017: ACT FESTIVAL, Asia Culture Center (ACC), Gwangju, Republic of Korea ● 2017: Itaú Cultural 30 Anos, OCA, Parque Ibirapuera, São Paulo, Brazil ● 2015: Mostra Rumos, Itaú Cultural, São Paulo, Brazil ● 2014: VDNKh, Optika Pavilion Lexus Hybrid Art 2014, Moscow, Rússia ● 2014: MELT, Landschaftspark Duisburg-Nord, Ruhrtriennale + Urbane Künste Ruhr, Duisburg, Germany ● 2014: thingworld: International Triennial of New Media Art, National Art Museum of China (NAMOC), Beijing, China ● 2014: Festival De Las Luces, Museu de Antioquia, Plaza Botero, Medellin, Colombia. ● 2014: 516 Arts Digital Latin America Collaboration, Albuquerque, USA ● 2013: Espacio Fundación Telefónica, Santiago, Chile ● 2013: El Faro Festival de las artes, Valparaíso, Chile ● 2013-2012: Like A Second Nature, RoboLab, Ars Electronica, Linz, Austria ● 2013: Palácio da Justiça, Virada Cultural, São Paulo, Brazil ● 2013: Mois Multi 2013 Festival international d’arts multidisciplinaires et électroniques Québec, Canadá ● 2012: Klokgebouw Building Glow-S, Eindhoven, Holland ● 2012: Den Frie Centre of Contemporary Art, Copenhagen Art Festival: beyond good and evil, Copenhagen, Denmark ● 2012: IMPULS UND BEWEGUNG, Ars Electronica at VW Automobilforum, Berlin, Germany ● 2012: Espacio Fundación Telefonica, Buenos Aires, Argentina ● 2012: Moinho, The Creators Project São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil ● 2012: Oi Futuro, File Rio, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil ● 2012: Centro Cultural da FIESP 13 FILE - Festival Internacional de Linguagem Eletrônica São Paulo, Brazil ● 2011: MASP, FILE Pai, São Paulo, Brazil ● 2011: Museo de Arte de Caldas, Festival internacional de la imagen, Manizales, Colômbia ● 2011: The Creators Project, DUMBO, Brooklyn, New York, USA; São Paulo, Brazil ● 2011: Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art, Moscow, Russia ● 2011: Cyberarts 2011 (PRIX Ars Electronica Exhibition), OK Center for Contemporary Art, Linz, Austria ● 2011: Pavilhão da Bienal, The Creators Project São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil ● 2010: Conjunto Nacional, FILE PAI (Paulista Avenida Interativa = Arte Pública Interativa) São Paulo, Brazil ● 2010: Emoção Art.ficial 5.0, Itaú Cultural, São Paulo, Brazil ● 2010: OCA Parque Ibirapuera, Água na OCA, São Paulo, Brazil ● 2010: Capela do Morumbi, São Paulo, Brazil ● 2010: Ars Electronica en México, Laboratório Arte Alameda, dynamic (in)position / (in)posición dinámica. México D.F., México ● 2010: Estação de Metrô Republica, Arte Cibernética - Acervo Itaú Cultural. São Paulo, Brazil ● 2009: Cordoaria Nacional, INSIDE [art and science], Lisboa, Portugal ● 2009: STRP Festival, Eindhoven, Netherland ● 2008: Synthetic Times - Media Art China, National Art Museum of China (NAMOC), Beijing, China ● 2008: Fundación Telefónica, Emergentes, Lima, Peru ● 2007: Centro de Arte y Creación Industrial Laboral, Emergentes, Gijón, España, ● 2007: Laboratório Arte Alameda Sala E, México D.F., México ● 2007: Pinacoteca de São Paulo, Projeto Octógono de Arte Contemporânea, São Paulo, Brazil ● 2006: FILE RIO, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil ● 2006: ZKM | Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie, Interconnect @ between attention and immersion: Media Art from Brazil Karlsruhe, Germany ● 2006: Paseo de San Francisco, Plataforma Puebla, Ciudad de Puebla, México ● 2005: Transitio_MX Festival, Centro Nacional de las Artes, Mexico City, Mexico ● 2005: Cité internationale universitaire de Paris, TRANSMISSIONS: ICHIM 05 Digital Culture and Heritage, Paris, France ● 2004: Instituto Tomie Ohtake, Sonarama do SONARSOUND SP, São Paulo, Brazil ● 2004: Emoção Art.ficial 2.0, Itaú Cultural, São Paulo, Brazil ● 2003: Laboratório de Sistemas Integráveis-POLI, Virtual Reality (CAVE), São Paulo, Brazil ● 1997: AO VIVO, Vídeo instalação interativa, Multimídia: conceitos e crítica, Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil ● 1988: TELETRANSMISSÃO DIGITAL VIA SSTV Congonhas vira copos, Museu de Arte Contemporânea São Paulo e o Museu de Arte Contemporânea de Campinas, MAC/MACC, São Paulo-Campinas, Brazil ● 1988: TELETRANSMISSÃO DIGITAL VIA SSTV Break, Música e Dança, Instituto de Pesquisa em Arte e Tecnologia (IPAT) e o Digital Art Exchange Group (Dax Group), São Paulo-Pittsburgh, Brazil-USA ● 1988: TELETRANSMISSÃO DIGITAL VIA SSTV, Replicantes, Intercities: Telecomunicação & arte em televisão de varredura lenta, Instituto de Pesquisa em Arte e Tecnologia (IPAT) e o Digital Art Exchange Group (Dax Group) ● São Paulo-Pittsburgh, Brazil-USA ● 1987: TELECOMUNICAÇÕES INTERATIVAS, 20ª Bienal Internacional de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil PUBLIC COLLECTIONS ● ZKM | CENTER FOR ART AND MEDIA, KARLSRUHE, GERMANY ● ITAÚ CULTURAL COLLECTION, SÃO PAULO, BRAZIL ● PROAC PRIZE FOR ARTIST BOOK PROJECT, SÃO PAULO STATE CULTURE SECRETARY ACADEMIC & PROFESSIONAL APPOINTMENTS ● 2020-PRESENT: ADVISORY BOARD MEMBER, INTERPLANETARY INITIATIVE, ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY, USA ● 2023-PRESENT: ADVISORY COMMITTEE MEMBER, MEDIALAB, FUNDAÇÃO ITAÚ PARA EDUCAÇÃO E CULTURA, BRAZIL ● 2020-2021: INVITED RESEARCHER, CÁTEDRA EXTRAORDINÁRIA MAX AUB, UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUTÓNOMA DE MÉXICO (UNAM) ● 2001-2014: PROFESSOR, CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO (PUC-SP), BRAZIL ● 2009-PRESENT: VISITING PROFESSOR, PROGRAMA DE POSGRADO ONLINE EN ARTES MEDIALES (PPOAM), UNIVERSITIES OF CÓRDOBA, CHILE, AND CALDAS ● 2005-2007: VICE-DIRECTOR, FACULTY OF MATHEMATICS, PHYSICS AND TECHNOLOGY, PUC-SP, BRAZIL BIBLIOGRAPHY (SELECTED) ● Getty Foundation. PST Art: Art & Science Collide. Exhibition Catalogue. Los Angeles: The Getty Foundation, 2024. ● The Art Newspaper. "Autonomous speaking machine by Rejane Cantoni with Leonardi Crescenti – Speak/Fala (2011)." Arteônica: Art, Science, and Technology in Latin America, February 20, 2025. ● Schraffenberger, L., and U. Heide. "Inflation of Interactivity? Analyzing and Understanding..." arXiv:2409.00047 [Preprint], September 2024. ● Dasartes Magazine. Feature review of the exhibition FLORAS at CCBB RJ, 2023. ● Weibel, Peter, ed. Negative Space: Trajectories of Sculpture in the 20th and 21st Centuries. Karlsruhe/Cambridge, MA: ZKM | Center for Art and Media / MIT Press, 2021. ● Vergara-Vargas, Elvira. "I have weight: Rejane Cantoni and Leonardo Crescenti’s Tunnel." In Moving Images, Mobile Bodies: The Poetics and Practice of Corporeality in Visual and Performing Arts, edited by H. Avram, 208-244. Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2018. ● Google Arts & Culture. "Tunnel by Rejane Cantoni & Leonardo Crescenti." Institutional Feature, 2017. ● ACM Press. "Digital Art in Brazil: A look at the history of exhibitions." Proceedings of the 23rd International Symposium on Electronic Art, 2017. ● New Media Caucus. "Travel notes on mestizaje and technoscience in Latin America." Media-N, Journal of the New Media Caucus, February 2016. ● National Art Museum of China. thingworld: International Triennial of New Media Art. Exhibition Catalogue. Beijing: NAMOC, 2014. ● Ciociola, Cristiano. "Speak / Fala – Freeing Man-Machine Conversation." Neural, September 4, 2013. ● Designboom. "Rejane Cantoni + Leonardo Crescenti: TUNNEL." Feature Article, June 14, 2011. ● Hatje Cantz. Ars Electronica 2011: Cyberarts. Exhibition Catalogue. Linz: Hatje Cantz, 2011. ● Mello, Christine. "Movimento como interface." In ARTE MÁQUINA / MACHINE ART, edited by R. Barreto & P. Perissinotto, 142. São Paulo: FILE / Imprensa Oficial do Estado, 2006. ● Arantes, Priscila. "Arte e mídia no Brasil: perspectivas da estética digital." ARS (São Paulo) 3, no. 6 (2005): 82-95. ● ZKM | Center for Art and Media. "OP_ERA: Sonic Dimension (2005)." Collection Record. Karlsruhe: ZKM, 2005-present. PUBLICATIONS AS AUTHOR (SELECTED) ● Cantoni, Rejane. "Arte com (e contra) os algoritmos." Stanford Social Innovation Review Brasil, August 22, 2024. ● Cantoni, Rejane, and Daniela Kutschat. OP_ERA: el corpo como interfase. Buenos Aires: Espacio Fundación Telefónica, 2007. ● Cantoni, Rejane. "Intelligent environments: Body architecture and OP_ERA." In Semiotic Bodies, Aesthetic Embodiments, and Cyberbodies, edited by W. Nöth, 199–210. Kassel: Kassel University Press, 2006. ● Cantoni, Rejane. "Realidade Virtual: uma história de imersão interativa." Ph.D. Dissertation, Catholic University of São Paulo (PUC-SP), 2001. ● Cantoni, Rejane. "A realidade virtual de Oskar Schlemmer." M.A. Thesis, University of Geneva (UNIGE), 1996. ● Cantoni, Rejane. "Computação gráfica: ciência e ficção." M.A. Thesis, Catholic University of São Paulo (PUC-SP), 1989. SELECTED LECTURES & ARTIST TALKS ● 2025: Speaker, "Entre Algoritmos e Arquivos," Fundação Bienal de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil ● 2025: Panelist, Rio Innovation Week, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil ● 2024-2025: Panelist, 2nd International Seminar on AI in Education and Culture ● 2024: Artist Talk, MOLAA Zoom Project Series for PST Art, Museum of Latin American Art, Long Beach, USA ● 2024: Panelist, "AI for Understanding the World & Inventing Other Worlds"1st International Seminar on AI in Education and Culture ● 2022: Speaker, 1st Ethereum Conference, Museu do Amanhã, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil ● 2021-2025: Participant, ASU Space Futures Convening, Arizona State University, Interplanetary Initiative, USA ● 2018: Artist Talk (with Raquel Kogan), KIKK Festival, Namur, Belgium ● 2013: Artist Talk, Ars Electronica Festival, Linz, Austria ● 2011: Panelist, The Creators Project, New York, USA ● 2005: Artist Talk, Beall Center for Art and Technology, UC Irvine, USA COLLABORATIONS & PARTNERSHIPS ● Key Individual Collaborators: Victor Gomes, Daniela Kutschat, Leonardo Crescenti, Raquel Kogan, Byron Mendes, Lee Dawkings, Vinicius Ramos, Barbara Daniselli, MediaLab Team, Maxi Audio Team. ● Selected Institutional Partners & Support: Fundação Itaú, Ars Electronica, ZKM | Center for Art and Media, Prêmio Sérgio Motta, FAPESP, CNPq, Petrobras, SESC, SESI-SP, Fundação Telefônica, Wavelength, Wonderspaces, Itaú Cultural, IPT.
Works
- »MELT« 2014
- »SOLAR« 2009
- »MIRROR | ESPELHO« 2008
- »FLOOR | PISO« 2007
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Publications & References
Nöth, Winfried, ed. Intelligent Environments: Bodyarchitecture and OP_ERA. Kassel: Kassel University Press, 2002.
Cantoni, Rejane and Priscila Farias. »Fora do corpo.« INTERLAB: labirintos do pensamento contemporâneo. (2002): 207.
Cantoni, Rejane and Sergio Zilinsky. »Does matter really matter? From cyberspace to architecture.« International Congress: the Future of the Architect [Mind, Land, Society] (June 2000).
Paik, Nam June. »Brief an Dr. Steinecke.« In Niederschriften eines Kulturnomaden. Aphorismen. Briefe. Texte, edited by Edith Decker, 51-53. Köln: DuMont, 1992.
Nöth, Winfried, ed. Intelligent Environments: Bodyarchitecture and OP_ERA. Kassel: Kassel University Press, 2002.
Cantoni, Rejane and Priscila Farias. »Fora do corpo.« INTERLAB: labirintos do pensamento contemporâneo. (2002): 207.
Cantoni, Rejane and Sergio Zilinsky. »Does matter really matter? From cyberspace to architecture.« International Congress: the Future of the Architect [Mind, Land, Society] (June 2000).