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Politics of the Machines Editorial Board Members
Claudio Filho
Editorial Board Member
Claudio Filho is an artist-researcher working at the intersection of art, ecology, and technology, with a particular focus on biological arts, nonhuman agencies, and artificial intelligence. His work combines theory-based research with practice-based experimentation, exploring how technological systems and living organisms co-compose artistic processes.
He is the author of publications including Decentralizing Hegemonic Knowledge in Art Practices (2025); Emerging Uncertainties: Art, Ecology and Climate Change in the Anthropocene (2023); and Helen and Newton Harrison on the Frontier between Art, Science and Nature (2024), among others.
Claudio holds a Ph.D. in Visual Arts from the University of Campinas (Brazil), where he developed the theoretical framework of the “ecosystemic turn” in artistic research. His dissertation, The Ecosystemic Turn: Cognitive Assemblages of Living and Technological Systems in Bioartworks (2026), takes the Anthropocene as a conceptual operator guiding artistic research toward an ecosystemic turn.This turn concerns not only modes of thought but also practices and forms of interaction between living and technological systems, considering other-than-human entities as constitutive parts of the structures that govern our actions within the biosphere.
He has been actively publishing academic research, participating in international residencies, and producing artworks worldwide. Recent works include Visiting Researcher at Aalto University (2024-2025), the Ars Bioarctica Residency at the Kilpisjärvi Biological Station (2025); the Bioart Society Mini Residency at SOLU Space, Helsinki (2024); the MediAsia/KAMC IAFOR Scholarship (Kyoto, 2023); and finalist recognition (with the Kodos Collective) in the Digital Art category of the FUNARTE Olympics of Visual Arts (2022). His work has also been presented at Piracemas (São Paulo, 2024); Emerging Extended Realities (Macao, China); EmMeio#14 at the National Museum of the Republic (Brasília, Brazil); and the 17th Athens Digital Arts Festival (Greece).
Personal Website
claudiofilho.net