Clarissa Ribeiro
Professor @ Roy Ascott Studio
Dr. Clarissa Ribeiro (BR) is the Program Director of the Roy Ascott Studio’s Technoetic Arts (TA) advanced degree program in Shanghai, China, a senior lecturer and researcher at the Program as the recipient of the ‘Pete Townshend Endowed Senior Lectureship in Performative Technoetics’ (2022-2024), serving as a member of the Editorial Board of the *Technoetic Arts* journal (Intellect Books) and as an ad hoc reviewer for *The Leonardo Journal*. She holds a Ph.D. in Arts (ECA USP Brazil, Poéticas Digitais/CAiiA hub of The Planetary Collegium, UK), was awarded a Fulbright Postdoctoral Scholarship (UCLA, Art|Sci Center/James Gimzewski Lab, US), M.Arch. (IA USP, Brazil), and B.Arch. She is a member of the UCLA Art|Sci Collective (2013-present) and has chaired the first Leonardo/ISAST LASER talks in Brazil/Latin America (2017-present). Since July 2023, she has organized the LASER talks at Roy Ascott Studio SIVA/DeTAO in China and is the chair of the CR2024 Consciousness Reframed International Conference in Shanghai. As an educator, architect, media artist, and researcher, her work focuses on cross-scale information and communication dynamics that shape macro-scale emergent phenomena. Her recent projects explore the metaphysics of information visualization in subversive morphogenetic strategies and the macro impacts of molecular, atomic, and subatomic trades in designing transobjects (relational systems i.e. mote than relational objects) embracing animism to navigate ecologies as cosmologies. Dr. Ribeiro has widely published in journals and conference proceedings, with her work exhibited worldwide. She serves as a reviewer for the Leonardo Abstracts Service (LABS) (Peer review Panel, 2020 and 2021) and contributes to international conferences, symposium program committees, and art juries, including ISEA International, Consciousness Reframed, CAA College Art Association, and SIGGRAPH.