Maria Ercilia Galvão Bueno

E-mail: ercilia@uol.com.br
University 1984 - 1989 Universidade de S.Paulo São Paulo, Brazil
Language and literature - English and Portuguese

Professional experience
1999-2002 - Director of product development -Brasil Online
1998 -1999 - Internet coverage for weekly TV show Vitrine (TV Cultura, São Paulo, www.tvcultura.com.br/vitrine). Short interviews and comments.
1998 - 1999 - Special technology editor, "Folha de S.Paulo". Oversees Web projects, diffusion of Internet technology in the newsroom and information technology features.
1996 - 1999 - Editor, "Mundo Digital", technology site at Universo Online (information and access provider. It is the biggest site in
Latin America). Also responsible for the production of sites (ex. RadarUOL and "Web Sites Pessoais").
1995 - 2000 - Weekly column about the Internet on Folha de S.Paulo.
1994 - 1995 - Special reporter for Folha de S.Paulo, covering technology and Internet issues.
1993 - 1994 - Deputy editor, weekly culture section of Folha de S.Paulo newspaper. Responsible for the first big media story about the Internet in Brazil (four pages, on a Sunday edition) in July.
1991-1993 - Chief editor, daily entertainment section of Folha de S.Paulo.
1990 - 1991 - Reporter and assistant editor, Sunday magazine of Folha de S.Paulo.
1989 - 1990 - Writer, Sunday section of Folha de S.Paulo
newspaper. Interviews and articles on culture and entertainment."

Other activities
9/98 - Conference, Sucesu Congress on Technology and Education, in Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brasil.
9/98 - Conference-"Design and the Electronic Media", Comuna Center for the Arts, Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil.
3/98 - Juror, Internet World Brazil Web sites contest. Special
Press Prize (www.mantel.com.br).
3/23/98 - Interview, to "Gazeta Mercantil" (financial newspaper) about the profile of Brazilian Internet users.
3/25/98 - Interview, to Internet.BR magazine, about the profile
of Brazilian Internet users" 3/5/98 - Interview to teenage TV show "Turma da Cultura", about computers and daily life.
26/1/98 - Conference, graduate course (MA in Electronic Communication and Publishing, sponsored by Xerox - http://zeus.slais.ucl.ac.uk), University College of London. Theme: the experience of Universo Online in Brazil

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MILTON TERUMITSU SOGABE (1953 - São Paulo - Brasil)

Sogabe is an artist who works with various technologies, and an educator in the Art Institute at the State University of São Paulo.
His work involves image creation processes through drawing, painting, printing and new technologies such as xerox, videotext, video, computer, and other audio-visual equipment. Since 1996,
he has been working in a Interdisciplinary Group, “SCIArts”, with Interactive Multimedia Installations.

He has a Master and a Ph.D. in Communication and Semiotics from PUC-SP.

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Silvia Laurentiz is a Graphic and Multimedia Designer. Doctor from the Pontifical Catholic University (PUC) of São Paulo under the Graduate Communication and Semiotics program. Currently researching a semiotic approach to Visual Language through the
new technologies. Her interest focuses on animated images. Graduate in Arts and Master of Multimedia from the Institute of
Arts - DMM - of Campinas University (UNICAMP).
Has projects in virtual reality, multimedia and web art, and
explores the new elements for language that are specific to computer science: program logic and the actual participation of
the receiver. Professor of the undergraduate course
"Communication in Multimedia", at PUC/SP.
Has participated in various artistic events, including:

2001 - 2nd Sérgio Motta Cultural Prize - honorable mention, for a project in three stages, under development since 1997: "Percorrendo Escrituras".
2001 - Interactive Digital Poem for Web "Móbile", II Intersigno Exhibition, John Calvin Cultural Hall, Mackenzie Presbyterian University, São Paulo.
2000- Participated in the "Zoom" television program on "Art and Technology - Women's Day special ", March, presenting her own work, TV Cultura.
1999/2000- Participated in the Mercosul II Visual Arts Biennial, in the installation "Jacks in Slow Motion: Experience 2", by J. Müller
and K. Goifman, with the work " VRML corridor", Porto Alegre.
1999- Participation in the event "1.999 reticências", held by the Commercial Workers Social Service (SESC), São Paulo, in the "Rizoma" project (Kiko Goifman, Alberto Blumenschein and Jurandir Müller), with an exhibit on thematic rooms (interactive 3Ds, Vrml format). This project was chosen as the South American finalist to share in the French "Prix Moebius", in March 2000.
1998 - "VRML Corridor" - web art, in the Kiko Goifman "Jacks in Slow Motion" site, a project presented at the 24th International Biennial of São Paulo.
1998 - "ECON" - project in VRML, based on the poem "O eco e o icon" by E.M. e Castro, presented at "Intersigno Poetry", Paço das Artes, São Paulo.
1997 - "Relativamente" - video produced in graphic computation, animated in 3-D, approx. 1' 30". Video Exhibition of the "Art and Technology" event, Itaú Cultural Institute, São Paulo