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Brazilian performer, researcher and plastic artist. After completing her studies in classical ballet through RAD, Vaganova and Cuban methods, she took a Technical Course in International Trade Management, then completed a Bachelor’s Degree in Theatre in São Paulo, Brazil, followed by a Post-Graduation in Human Sciences: History, Philosophy and Sociology. She is currently based both in Berlin and London, and is completing a Masters degree in Computational Arts at Goldsmiths University of London.
Her artistic practice develops from her belief in hybrid spaces. For her, transdisciplinary settings can have their own sensitivity and even if those are artificial environments, they are made by humans, with real feelings and desires. Ana Sofia is an advocate for artworks that use technology as a tool for connection and affection, and help erase the stereotype of it being something vile and cold as it is often portrayed.
That belief comes from her professional background, with dissolved boundaries between research areas. She is an LGBTQ+ Brazilian artist, coming from a multi-layered Latin American cultural background. This combination of characteristics sparkled her interest in exploring non verbal communication, and the expansion of the five senses in hybrid settings.
Ana Sofia has worked in research and the artistic field for about a decade, combined with performing and sculpting. For the past four years, her work has been developing into a seamless combination of performance and tech, developing interactive installations using code and robotics, as well as working with hybrid artistic settings – using a variety of sensors, prompting and prototyping with AI, motion capture, among others. Her practice holds a playful approach to recent research, findings and tools in the scientific and sociological realm, translating the poetics of science into an artistic experience, and localising those contents to various cultural and political settings – a vital part for establishing an emotional relationship between artwork and participants.
In the long run, her work aims to help abolish the hierarchy between people and machines, sharing the sense of partnership between tech and humans. For her, creativity comes from sharing artistic practices of different cultural and political backgrounds, and adapting to each other to build utopias for the post-digital performative world.