Curriculum Vitae:
Bárbara Baron, b. Florianópolis, Brazil, 1995.EDUCATION
Master of Fine Arts, Film Video New Media and Animation, School of the Art Institute of Chicago (2020–2023)
Thesis:‘Ultratactics’, ‘Perpetual Motion Machine’, ‘Spirit Finger/Halcyon Bootleggin’’
Advisor: Prof. Eduardo Kac
Bachelor of Arts, Universidade do Estado de Santa Catarina (2014–2018)
Thesis:‘On Its Way; It Was Here Yesterday’
Advisor: Prof. Regina Melim
SOLO
EXHIBITIONS
2019
CASA DE CULTURA VACA PROFANA (Passo Fundo, Brazil)
“On Its Way; It Was Here Yesterday”
GALERIA PREGO (Porto Alegre, Brazil)
“On Its Way; It Was Here Yesterday”
MUSEU DA ESCOLA CATARINENSE (Florianópolis, Brazil)
Undergraduate Thesis Show: “On Its Way; It Was Here Yesterday”
GROUP PROJECTS AND EXHIBITIONS
2023
AND THE HOME OF THE [PLACEHOLDER] (//sense, Comfort Station, Chicago, IL)
GREEN NOISE (G-CADD, Granite City, IL)
GRADUATE EXHIBITION TWO (SAIC Galleries, Chicago, IL)
2021
ARS ELECTRONICA: A NEW DIGITAL DEAL FESTIVAL UNIVERSITY: “TRANSFORM YOUR WORLD” (Ars Electronica and Johannes Kepler University; Linz, Austria)
PANDEMIC PROJECTIONS: VISIONS FOR A NEW Normal (Wavelength + Gardenship, Kearny, NJ)
REAR-VIEW MIRROR PT. 1 (Graduate Open Studio Night, School of The Art Institute of Chicago)
REAR-VIEW MIRROR PT. 2 (Graduate Open Studio Night, School of The Art Institute of Chicago)
2020
DIGITAL DECOLONIZATION: ARTISTS ON THE RUN (Homeostasis Lab, The Wrong Biennale)
19 IN 2021: A DRONE'S EYE VIEW (Chuquimarca)
2019
MEGALITH (Metamer Labs, The Wrong Biennale, Svalbard, Norway)
BOTAPERNA: Festival de Vídeos de Música (Baderna, São Paulo, Brazil)
FISH JELL-O (Gluon Gallery, Milwaukee, WI)
JUKEBOX: MUSIC VIDEO EXPO (Comfort Station, Chicago, IL)
BOCABOCA (Universidade do Federal de Santa Catarina, Florianópolis, Brazil)
2018
ESPECTRO (Festival Internacional de Arte e Cultura José Luiz Kinceler, Brazil)
MIRADA VIDEO ART FESTIVAL (Boiler Gallery, Curitiba, Brazil)
CURTOS CIRCUITOS (Ceart Aberto, Florianópolis, Brazil)
http:// (Cruz e Sousa Museum, Florianópolis, Brazil)
O QUE CABE NO ESPAÇO (OPEN CEART Fair, Universidade do Estado de Santa Catarina, Florianópolis, Brazil)
SALA INTERDITADA EXPO (Festival Internacional de Arte e Cultura José Luiz Kinceler, Florianópolis, Brazil)
2017
HOMEOSTASIS LAB (The Wrong Biennale, São Paulo, Brazil)
CICLO MIS (Santa Catarina’s Museum of Image and Sound, Florianópolis, Brazil)
TIJUANA PRINTED ART FAIR (Galeria Vermelho, São Paulo, Brazil)
OTHER
PROJECTS
2023
Video Director, Producer and Editor: Music Video, Seriously’s “Darkroom” (Earth Libraries, Chicago IL)
2022
Video Director, Producer and Editor: Music Video, Spread Joy’s “OW” (Feel It Records, Cincinnati OH)
Video Director, Producer and Editor: Fashion Film, Petrichor’s “PETRICHOR: LIFE EXPLODED” (Marissa Virginia Macias of Petrichor, Chicago IL)
Video Director, Producer and Editor: Music Video, Spread Joy’s “Repetition” (Feel It Records, Cincinnati OH)
2021
Video Director, Producer and Editor: Music Video, Chayse Porter’s “Purpling Dawn” (Earth Libraries, Chicago IL)
Artist Talk: 19 IN 2021: A DRONE’S EYE VIEW (Chuquimarca, Chicago IL)
Video Director, Producer and Editor: Music Video, Spread Joy’s “St. Tropez / Semantics” (Feel It Records, Cincinnati, Oh)
Video Director, Producer and Editor: Fashion Film, Petrichor’s “OPHELIA” (Marissa Virginia Macias of Petrichor, Chicago IL)
2020
Featured Artist, Werks Magazine: Issue #3. (Chicago Artists Survey Special)
Artist Talk: EXTV PRESENTS: MONTHLY STUDENT ARTIST SPOTLIGHT (School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago IL)
Video Director, Producer and Editor: Music Video, Wray’s “JOGGING / NEON FORMING” (Earth Libraries, Chicago IL)
2019
Video Director, Producer and Editor: Music Video, Human Beat’s “CONTACT” (Earth Libraries, Chicago IL)
SERVICE
2021
Studio Assistant and Faculty Support (Art & Technology Studies, School of the Art Institute of Chicago), Prof. Eduardo Kac
2020
Co-Curator, Contributor and Assembler, HTTP://HYPERTRANSFER-PROTOCOL (Artist-run New Media Exhibition https://httphypertransfer.network)
Production Assistant, ExTV (School of the Art Institute of Chicago)
2019
Translator, CLOSE TO THERE – PERTO DE LÁ (Comfort Station, Chicago, IL), Comfort Society: Walter Smetak and his legacy in experimental music of Bahia, with artist Edbrass Brasil
Production Assistance, PETRICHOR_333 (New Works Chicago, Chicago, IL), Garment Show by artists Marissa Virginia Macias and Olivia Rehm.
2018
Co-Curator, Contributor and Assembler, HTTP://HYPERTRANSFER-PROTOCOL (Artist-run New Media Exhibition https://httphypertransfer.network)
JOSÉ LUIZ KINCELER INTERNATIONAL ART & CULTURE FAIR (Universidade do Estado de Santa Catarina, Florianópolis, Brazil), Contributor and Assembler.
SALA INTERDITADA EXPO (Festival Internacional de Arte e Cultura José Luiz Kinceler, Florianópolis, Brazil), Contributor and Assembler.
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
2023
Graduate Teaching Assistant to Art and Technology: 1900 to Now (School of the Art Institute of Chicago), Prof. Eduardo Kac
2022
Graduate Teaching Assistant to Realtime (School of the Art Institute of Chicago), Prof. James Connolly
Graduate Teaching Assistant to Legacies of Punk and DIY Methods in Production (School of the Art Institute of Chicago), Prof. Sid Branca
Graduate Teaching Assistant to Art & Technology Seminar: Art & Biotechnology (School of the Art Institute of Chicago), Prof. Eduardo Kac
Graduate Teaching Assistant to Art and Technology: 1900 to Now (School of the Art Institute of Chicago), Prof. Eduardo Kac
2021
Graduate Teaching Assistant to Art and Technology: 1900 to Now (School of the Art Institute of Chicago), Prof. Eduardo Kac
Graduate Teaching Assistant to Presenting and Preserving Moving-Image Media (School of the Art Institute of Chicago), Prof. Bruce Jenkins
Graduate Teaching Assistant to Art & Technology Seminar: Art & Biotechnology (School of the Art Institute of Chicago), Prof. Eduardo Kac
2020
Graduate Teaching Assistant to Art and Technology: 1900 to Now (School of the Art Institute of Chicago), Prof. Eduardo Kac
2018
Undergraduate Teaching Assistant to Multimedia, Installation, Media Arts, and Introduction to Video Art (Universidade do Estado de Santa Catarina, Brazil), Prof. Raquel Stolf