Biography
Vanessa Ramos-Velasquez is an interdisciplinary artist from Brazil, who has acquired a diverse background along her various global residencies due to an Anthropophagic hunger to consume the world. She has been creating performances, installations, videoart, and videodance works since college at UFRJ (Rio de Janeiro), and subsequently as a Fulbright Scholar at University of Kansas, USA, where she pioneered a special program in Interdisciplinary Studies in Art, Design, Film and Choreography. Her intermedia experiments led her to cameraless direct animation films. Following Stan Brakhages’s footsteps, she also moved from Kansas (where she was a neighbor of beat poet and writer William S. Burroughs), to New York, and now lives in Berlin.
Her films, videoart and VJ shows have been presented at various events and venues including The Chelsea Art Museum (NY), Barcelona’s Off Loop Festival, and the Museum of Contemporary Art of Rome.
Recently, she has won the prestigious Flusser Award Distinction of Transmediale’s Vilém Flusser Theory Award 2011 with her theoretical and performative work Digital Anthropophagy and the Anthropophagic Re-Manifesto for the Digital Age, about cultural cannibalism in the age of digital culture. This work was introduced at ISEA2010/RUHR during the conference on Electronic Culture: Cyborgs and Transhumans in Dortmund, Germany. It has been recently performed at Emergeandsee Media Arts Festival - Berlin, and at the Brazilian art event Perpendicular - Berlin. The work will be presented next at: ISEA2011/Istanbul (Paper Session: Art and Activism in Digital Age I); the Moscow Biennale (curated by Peter Weibel) at Media Art Lab in their program Pro&Contra Symposium:Media Activism; the International Congress Image, Imagination, Fantasy. Twenty years without Vilém Flusser organized by Associação Brasileira de Estética (ABRE) in Ouro Preto - Brazil; the ABCiber Conference in Florianópolis - Brazil.
