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Researcher and professor of new media art and digital communication. Cicero coordinates the Software Studies Group in Brazil. His latest projects on locative media are the GPSface website and the GPSart (GPSarte) at www.gpsart.net. The aim of these projects is investigate new forms of social participation using Global Position System (GPS) and also develop an online wireless community using cell phones with GPS. The GPSface is a social networking online community and a Midlet (software) developed in Java that connects people around the world and shows on the Google Maps the position of the user’s contact list, and also the distance of the people listed in the “contacts”. The GPSart is a Midlet designed to draw lines on Google Maps using GPS location and it is available for unlocked cell phones that support Java. As a researcher in Art & Technology Cicero developed in the end of 90s softwares to create online texts on a project called “Plato online: nothing, science and technology”, which is completely documented on a book with the same name. The project was commented worlwide due its provocative target, e.g. the algortihms were baptized with the name of important philosophers, most of them related to the end of the authorship in the digital era creating a huge confusion in the www since Google exhibited the websites of the project when users searched for “Michel Foucault”, or “Gilles Deleuze”, for example. In 2004 he started a project to develop more participation of the audience on the web and the result was exhibited in 2006 with the project “magnetopoetry”, a website programmed in Ajax, using a model developed by Garrison Locke. Cicero’s work has been analyzed by theoriticians and curators, such as George P. Landow in his book Hypertext 3.0 (John Hopkins UP, 2006), among others.
Currently he is Associate Researcher in the Center for Research in Computing and the Arts (CRCA) at University of California, San Diego (UCSD) and director of the studio witz, a new media studio based in São Paulo/Brazil. He was a Visiting Scholar at University of California, San Diego (2006-2007/Fellowship from CAPES/State Department of Education/Brazil) and at Brown University (2005/Scholarship supported by CAPES/MEC). Cicero holds a Master degree and a Ph.D. in Communication and Semiotics, is author of Plato online: nothing, science and technology book (All Print), member of the Jury and Scientific Board of FILE SYMPOSIUM (chair), and has been organizing Seminars such as Tecnocriações and Estética e Novas Tecnologias.

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Atualmente é pesquisador e professor na área de tecnologias digitais, mídias e coordenador do Grupo de Software Studies no Brasil. É Pesquisador Associado ao Center for Research in Computing and the Arts (CRCA) na Universidade da Califórnia, San Diego (UCSD). Foi Visiting Scholar na Universidade da Califórnia, San Diego (2006-2007/apoio CAPES), onde desenvolveu sua pesquisa de pós-doutorado sob orientação de Ted Nelson e Noah Wardrip-Fruin e na Brown University (2005/apoio CAPES/MEC), local onde realizou parte de sua pesquisa de doutorado junto a pesquisadores como George Landow, Noah Wardrip-Fruin e Roberto Simanowski. É autor do livro Plato online: nothing, science and technology (All Print), coordenador do Comitê Científico do FILE e do comitê Científico do FILE Labo (Qualis A Internacional/2008). Cicero tem organizado congressos e seminários nacionais e internacionais na área de tecnologias digitais, novas mídias e software studies, tais como os seminários Computing in the Arts na UCSD, Tecnocriações e Estética e Novas Tecnologias, entre outros. Seus últimos projetos na area de mídias locativas dialogam com os processos de geolocalização (www.GPSart.net) e comunidades virtuais e redes sociais via GPS (GPSface em www.GPSface.net). Seu mais recente trabalho artístico dialoga com os processos de espacialização e localização. Desenvolvido em parceria com Brett Stalbaum, o sistema walkingtools.net e o software HiperGps são ferramentas de produção em software livre de arte tecnológica para celulares. Atualmente coordena no Brasil a pesquisa Culturevis (http://culturevis.com), em parceria com o grupo de Software Studies da UCSD, sobre novos formatos de visualização com grandes datasets de informação através do sistema Highly Interactive Parallelized Display Space (HIPerSpace), que alcança a definição de milhões de pixels. Desenvolve também a pesquisa Explorers, que estuda as novas definições e formatos de utilização de sistemas Open Source e Software livre no Brasil. É autor do livro The Explorers: Open Source and Free Software in Brazil, no prelo pela MIT Press (co-autoria de Jane de Almeida) e do capítulo HyperTed, a ser publicado na reedição do livro Computer Lib/Dream Machines de Ted Nelson, pela MIT Press em 2009/2010, sob a organização de Noah Wardrip-Fruin, com textos de vários colaboradores sobre a influência do inventor do Hipertexto e da Hipermídia.