Giselle Beiguelman

Giselle Beiguelman was born in 1962 in São Paulo, Brazil, where she currently resides. She wrote her thesis on history at the University of São Paulo, supported with a research grant from the VITAE Foundation. She works as a new media artist and a multimedia essayist, and teaches digital culture on the postgraduate Communication and Semiotics programme at the PUC-SP (São Paulo). She published the award-winning commentary »The Book after the Book« (1999), a hypertextual and visual essay that blends critique and net art in the context of the ›net_(reading/writing)_condition‹. She has developed art projects for mobile telephones, »Wop Art« (2001), for the internet, SMS, MMS and for online streaming and electronic illboards: »egoscópio« (2002), »Poétrica« (2003) and »esc for escape« (2004). Giselle Beiguelman is interested in  collections of digital objects. She is collaborating with the Priority Areas »Architectures of Knowledge«  and »Collecting & Exhibiting«.