Research approach
Imagining for a world of many worlds
Isabela Açu is a caboca Indigenous interactive media
artist and researcher from Porto Velho, in the Brazilian Amazon. Her work explores how
social and more-than-human relations are constituted through technological,
linguistic, territorial, and political conditions.
Across play, public
art, digital narrative, and participatory systems, she centers her practice around
decolonization, accessibility and the reclaiming of agency within technological
infrastructures with people from underrepresented
communitiesChildren, Indigenous communities, non-urban communities, neurodivergent
people..
She holds an MA in Interactive Media Arts from New York University.