Over the past 15 years I have researched and authored numerous digital art projects. I’ve realized that some of my works have been useful to peers, and I decided to publish some of them here.
As an academic, my works on art and digital culture have been presented in Barcelona, the UK, and at MIT.
Artistic works have been curated by festivals such as VideoKILLS Berlin, Rhizome Artbase New York, the blog of SF MoMA, and many others.
I play with the intersections of society, culture, art and technology—what is it like to inhabit today’s technological thriller world?
SELECTED WORKS
- ✖Capricórnia
- ✖Protester
- ✖Conjuring spirits
- ✖ Novel
- ✖ What Did Yoko Ono Have for Breakfast?
- ✖ The Singularity She Lives In
- ✖ Artificial Destiny
- ✖ Marketing (heart) Us
- TV 5 MIN.
- ✖ Images of the Digital Unconscious
- ✖ Ergodic Fiction
- ✖ Grotesk Mord
FICTION / NOVEL
✖Capricórnia
A psychological thriller on the edge of the map and the mind
After surviving a violent accident, a woman feels something irreparable: she is no longer the person everyone thinks she is. Stricken by a deep, inescapable fracture, she leaves her home, her husband, and her child behind.
Sun-soaked, dust-bathed, and deeply unsettling, Capricornia is a descent into disappearance, identity, transformation, and what remains when we lose everything we were supposed to be.
This was my first novel, published in São Paulo in 2015 (Editora Patuá), and released in English in 2025.
“(...) An epiphany that closes by degrees—the hallucinatory thriller of Capricornia falls perfectly into place”
Helena Machado, award-winner author of Memória de Mim.
FICTION / SHORT STORY
✖Protester
The Brazilian writer Sérgio Tavares invited authors for an exchange of postcards and short stories inspired by these correspondences.
My short story "Manifestante" is inspired by a postcard sent from China by the writer and diplomat Mário Araújo.
At the height of the pandemic, a political protester wakes up in what seems to be Wuhan. Is it mental confusion, a collective hallucination, or a conspiracy?
“Protester.” Antologia Postais por Sérgio Tavares. The Quarentena. Brasília, 2020.
FICTION / SHORT STORY ANTOLOGY
✖Conjuring spirits
The editor Paulo Sandrini brought together ten authors from Paraná for a literary collection.
My twelve short stories explore the horror of displacement: figures adrift in absurd, hostile, and inexplicable worlds.The flirtation is between horror and existential thriller—an alien invasion in a slum, an infinite supermarket, a ghost ship lost at sea, and the broadcast of a space mission on TV.
In collaboration with the artist André Kitagawa (illustrator of graphic novels and director of the play Gravidade Zero), twelve demons emerge, along with an interactive project featuring some of the stories available for free reading: lutav.com/Invocar.
The project is interactive, and users can summon spirits for their foes—from Tinder crushes to the Bolsonaro family.
Illustrations by André Kitagawa.
Como Invocar o Diabo e Conjurar Espíritos Baixos. Geração PR10. Edited by Paulo Sandrini, Kafka Edições. Curitiba, 2019.
SHORT FICTION
Sagrado
Portal Stalker. Short stories collection, org. Nelson de Oliveira.
São Paulo, 2009.
Project featured at Le Monde Diplomatique Brasil
CONCEPTUAL ART / DIGITAL NOVEL
✖ Novel
An investigative novel where the protagonist deciphers messages in large volumes of text, published on a single page—putting the reader in the same position as the detective.
Featured on the San Francisco MoMA blog
THEORY / ARTICLE
✖ What Did Yoko Ono Have for Breakfast?
This provocative essay explores the elements found in celebrity Twitter accounts in contrast to those of the “ordinary” user. On social media, authorship is a concept that shifts depending on how each poster perceives their own “work.”
This piece is part of my doctoral research in Culture and Technology, but its implications go beyond academia—raising questions that are deeply relevant to the evolving relationship between art, digital platforms, and contemporary notions of authorship.
Presented at Media in Transition, one of the world’s leading conferences on media and technology, held at MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), Cambridge, MA, USA, 2013.
SHORT FILM
✖ The Singularity She Lives In
Short fiction film, monologue.
Siru Kovala (performance), Juha Mehtäläinen (cinematography).
Screened at Arkadia Book Shop: Helsinki, 2013.
DIGITAL LITERATURE
✖ Artificial Destiny
Interactive fiction. Flash installation.
Web, 2009.
POSTER DESIGN
✖ Marketing (heart) Us
Poster design for A3Format.org. Belgrade, 2009.
VIDEO ART
TV 5 MIN.
Five minutes of television zapping, juxtaposing Umberto Eco, a Catholic priest’s sermon, news broadcasting, JaRule on MTV and a Tekpix camera salesman.
DIGITAL ART
✖ Images of the Digital Unconscious
A new media art installation developed using Macromedia Flash, this piece invites viewers to engage with abstract words displayed in full screen. Upon clicking any term, users are presented with a series of Google Image search results, creating an evolving dialogue between language, technology, and collective perception.
The work challenges the traditional boundaries of meaning and interpretation. For instance, clicking "God" may reveal an image of a motorcycle, while "Human" presents a distorted figure adapted for car accidents. The installation's dynamic, collective nature prompts a deeper inquiry into how our search history, the sequence of interactions, and the ever-shifting digital landscape shape the images we encounter.
With each interaction, new visual panels emerge, reflecting the fluidity of collective imagination. The work raises critical questions about the impact of digital culture on meaning-making, and the ways in which shared concepts are influenced, reshaped, and understood in an increasingly fragmented world.
Presented at the Keski-Suomen Museum of Contemporary Art. Curated by Soile Ollikainen.
DIGITAL ART
✖ Ergodic Fiction
Narratives Activated by Tags
This innovative work presents two literary narratives that unfold through interactive markers, defining a new paradigm in ergodic literature. In this form, the reader's engagement is essential: the narrative is activated and reshaped by the selection of "tags," creating a dynamic and participatory storytelling experience.
Featured in the Rhizome Artbase collection (New York) and acclaimed by Folha de S. Paulo as a pioneering example in the genre, this project challenges traditional boundaries of authorship and reader interaction.
By decentralizing the linear structure of storytelling, it invites exploration of how meaning is generated, manipulated, and co-created by both the text and its audience, reflecting the evolving nature of digital and interactive literature.
Featured in Rhizome Artbase and Folha de S. Paulo
Featured at Infinity's Kitchen Issue #6, Brooklyn, NY, 2013
VIDEO ART
✖ Grotesk Mord
Video and collaborative digital text extracted from blogs.
Glitchcore soundscape by Manovski.
Featured at VideoKILLS. Berlin, 2008.
New York International Independent Film Festival: New York, 2008.
Rhizome NY Artbase.