Binaural trail in Bom Retiro, Casa do Povo, São Paulo

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What technology and content strategies can help tell the rich narratives of a derelict neighbourhood?

I produced and directed this binaural (spatialized-audio) walking tour. We released it both as a podcast and on basic mp3 players provided by the institution. The goal was to keep people off their smartphones and create a truly immersive experience in a neighbourhood that is very culturally rich but can also be a bit edgy at times.

My role: producer, director, creative technologist

Ni foot ni samba, Radio France, Rio de Janeiro & São Paulo

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What’s happening on the Brazilian cultural scene?

In April 2014, two months before the start of Brazil’s World Cup, I worked as a fixer, translator and photographer for Radio France, helping to produce a series of interviews discussing contemporary Brazilian culture beyond football and samba.

Working alongside one of the station’s journalists, first in Rio and then in São Paulo, over a period of 10 days I met more than 40 Brazilians – artists, musicians, cultural producers, hackers, activists, entrepreneurs…

The report, a web-doc, can be found on the Radio France website at http://nvx.lemouv.fr/bresil/

My role: co-author of a webdoc, fixer: location and character scout, researcher, photographer, translator

The Museum Magazine

The first ipad-based multimedia magazine about museums.

As an associate editor, I edited a number of stories for the first issue of this electronic magazine. Then I traveled and accumulated a lot of material for a second issue that was never released ; visiting different museums, interviewing curators and architects in and about Naoshima, Kanazawa, Aomori, Tokyo, Kitakyushu (CCA), Hobart Tasmania (Mona), Sydney (MCA, Kaldor Public Art), Melbourne, Hong-Kong (West Kowloon Cultural District Authority, Para Site), Buenos Aires, São Paulo, Rio de Janeiro, Inhotim…
http://edition29.com/index_e29_the_museum.html

I have continued to gather interesting articles and blog posts about mobile technology in museums in my flipboard magazine “the mobile museum“, and about the museum of the 21st century in “the museum“.