About Isabela Açu

Her practice examines how social and more-than-human relations are constituted through technological, linguistic, territorial, and infrastructural conditions. Working across play, public art, digital narrative, creative computation, and participatory systems, she approaches technology as a situated material and political practice.

Her research is concerned with collective authorship, technological sovereignty, Indigenous data sovereignty, universal design, and questions of access and agency within computational cultures. She is particularly interested in how underrepresented communities can reclaim authorship and agency in digital systems that mediate knowledge, representation, and public life.

Works such as Hopscotch: A Game of Borders presented in Shanghai, use play to investigate borders, territory spatial rules, and proximity, while Meanderings of a Dying River employs the web as a public counter-archive responding to political and extractive pressures on Amazonian rivers. Her curatorial practice includes Festival dos Povos da Floresta, bringing Amazonian arts and knowledge systems into future dialogues across five Brazilian capitals. She holds an MA in Interactive Media Arts from New York University.