Associate Professor - Institute of Arts and Design at UFJF (Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora, Brazil). Digital art researcher at CNPQ (Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico, Brazil) in arts, science and technology, member of the International Society for Biosemiotics Studies, Institut Català D´Antropologia (ICA, Barcelona) and the International Center for Info Ethics (ICIE, ZKM, Karlsruhe). Holds a PhD in Communication and Semiotics and was a postdoctoral research fellow in the Photonics Dept. at Mackenzie University, Brazil . Has been working since 2001 in digital art projects with artists from Spain and Finland. Has presented papers and projects at UCSD (University of California, San Diego), Plymouth University, Universidad de Buenos Aires and Sussex University. Currently is part of ZZZINC, a cultural association for cultural innovation and research in Barcelona, Spain and is a consultant for online courses in art, science and technologies at Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC, Spain).