Welcome.
I'm Cristóbal, a programmer and researcher interested in documenting and expanding ways we build material, technical, and social structures to dwell in. I'm from the Americas, broadly, but based in São Paulo.
I build and maintain software for video archives at Reduct. I'm politically active with ECO and am part of the art collective AVENTURA. I write about art and philosophy both here on my blog and with TIS, which has lead to a master's thesis I'm pursuing at FAU-USP.
I explore gambiarra, improvisational construction based on the materials at hand, to articulate a new theory of construction that emphasizes the contestation of infrastructure towards technical autonomy, particularly in the context of periferization, and the transmission of contingency through malleable forms of representation.
I'm looking to collaborate on projects relating to:
○ Technical autonomy and self-construction; ○ Archives, compression, and transmission; ○ New techniques in digital representation; ○ Portable situatedness, lightweight structures; ○ Psychogeography and leisure in the city; ○ São Paulo as imagined and constructed space.
Before then, I studied computer science, among other liberal arts, at Stanford University.
Here, I share letters and notes (RSS):
Some indices I maintain:
~ A personal library of books
~ Github with software studies
~ My Are.na channels with references
~ Some photography on Instagram
~ An Entitled Opinions archive
Some friends you should visit:
↗ Chris Beiser on institutions and culture
↗ Chapman Caddell on literature and translation
↗ Rob Ochshorn on interfaces and politics
↗ Luca Parise on self-construction and the plastic arts
↗ Suspended Reason on frames and ecologies
↗ Omar Rizwan on new computer interfaces
This website is hosted on Arquipelago, a small experiment in sysadmin for media-intensive websites.