Mini-Bio

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Matheus Montanari was born in Caxias do Sul, Brazil, he graduated in digital technologies in 2018 at the University of Caxias do Sul. Between 2016 and 2017 he carried out a period of his studies at the Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of Lisbon in Portugal, where he began his artistic production in art and technology. In 2020 he received a master’s degree in visual arts from the University of São Paulo, institution in which he is currently developing his doctoral research, with a research period at the Universidad Politénica de Valencia, Spain. He is a member of the Digital Poetics group, and the Multimedia Anthropology Lab at the University of London.
He works at the intersection of art, science and philosophy, investigating ways to rethink technology after art. He is interested in cosmotechnical diversities, and in combining decolonial ecological thinking with technical activities. Recently he has been developing his practice in collaboration with indigenous Guarani and Kaiowá communities in Brazil. He has exhibited his work in Brazil and abroad, in countries such as: Argentina, Portugal, Austria, China and Italy. He was awarded the web art category prize of the 67th Contemporary Art Salon of Paraná.