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Info AisthesisLab

Aisthesis Lab

​A Studio for Critical Interfaces

At the intersection of architecture, art, and technology, Aisthesis Lab designs critical interfaces—spaces, exhibitions, and platforms that interrogate the logics of our hybrid world. Our practice is not limited to building or curating; we instrumentalize design to open new fields of debate and materialize urgent questions.

Our Practice Unfolds Into:

  • Critical Spaces: From the architectural scale to media installations, we create environments that materialize issues of technodiversity, connected cities, and network ecologies. Projects that are, in themselves, a spatial investigation.

  • Curatorship as a Device: Our exhibitions function as ecosystems of ideas. They deconstruct dominant narratives and bring together artists and audiences to co-create meaning, positioning institutions at the forefront of thought.

  • Articulation of Communities: Through publications, seminars, and projects like Metatopia, we cultivate an open space for intellectual cross-pollination. Here, curatorship expands to foster networks of conversation and collective thinking.​

For Partners with Inquiries:
We work with institutions, collectors, curators and cultural agents who understand a project as an act of collective investigation. Our partners seek an authorial voice and frontier thinking to translate their concerns into bold, well-founded, and poetically relevant initiatives.

Info Metatopia

Metatopia

 

Metatopia - Hybrid Spaces is a collaborative exhibition dedicated to the creation, criticism and show hybrid architecture, eletronical arts, mixed realities and locative media. In partnership with The Wrong Biennale, Metatopia will promote weekly conversations and publications with artists and guests, throughout the period of the biennale, which runs from 2023 November, 1st to 2024 May, 1st.

Artists, critics, architects, curatorship, researchers in general are welcome to propose and collaborate with: digital art, texts, curators, prototypes, humor, talks, post irony, performances, actions, lives, virtual parties, 3D models, games , Ar and Vr, locative media, codes, programs, applications, experimental prototypes, image technologies, hyperfictions, audiovisual experiences, nanosatellites, poems, cubesats, cyberspace utopias and metatopias and all kinds of applied intelligence for the autonomy and freedom of collective intelligence in networks, in order to think of new ways of occupying and creatively inhabiting these collective networks.

Creative

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Luciana de Paula Santos is an architect, researcher, and independent curator. Her work engages critical spatial theory and tactical media studies, with an emphasis on network ecologies. Her PhD research, Images of Immanence (FAU-USP), investigates the ontology of informational images and the modulation of regimes of visibility within architectural and urban practices. At the University of São Paulo, she is a CNPq-funded researcher and a PAE assistant professor, and she is affiliated with the Contemporary Aesthetics group (FFLCH-USP) and the José Bonifácio Chair. She holds a Bachelor’s degree in Architecture and Urbanism from UNESP, postgraduate studies in Technological Aesthetics at TIDD (PUC-SP), and a Master of Science (M.Sc.) at FAU-USP.

As Creative Director of Aisthesis Lab, she develops projects, research, and curatorial practices, taking part in exhibitions, festivals, and biennials in Latin America and abroad.

Recent work: linktr.ee/bioplug
Contact: aisthesislab@gmail.com

Where we Are

Where we are

Contact

aisthesislab @ gmail.com

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