Research
I am interested in how interfaces make computation believable.
Projects
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2026–
Adaptive Operational Images
Work in progress
Generative interfaces change while we use them. How do they present themselves, and how can communities learn to read them?
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2019–21
Ritual Geographies / Cultural Infrastructures
Chancellor’s Interdisciplinary Collaboratories grant · UC San Diego
How rituals and protocols make creative labour feel natural at Maker Faire and Burning Man.
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2013–17
Documentary photography methodology
UNICAMP · FAPESP grant
Before interfaces, images: how documentary photographs earn our belief.
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Identity, semiotics and social media profiles
UNICAMP · CAPES grant
A project applying Peirce to the analysis of the avatarization of self-profiles in social media activity.
Published papers
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2024
Letters to the Landscape (or an Alphabet in Ruins)
Marina Guzzo, Mateus Guzzo · Journal of Embodied Research 7 (2)
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2020
MFA thesis · UC San Diego
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2017
Considering Apparitions: Towards a Conceptual Documentary Photography Methodology
M. Guzzo, C. Noordenbos · Revista Trama Interdisciplinar 8 (1)
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2017
Ao olhar, aprender a ver: sobre a prática de fotografia documental
M. Guzzo, C. Noordenbos · FIF Universidade: mundo imagem mundo, 231–245
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2015
Engagement and estrangement: contribution to documentary photography methodology
Anais do Congresso de Iniciação Científica da Unicamp
Past affiliations
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Member, Latin American Network of Surveillance, Technology and Society Studies
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LABCINE, Universidade Presbiteriana Mackenzie
Collaborating researcher, Laboratory of Cinematic Arts and Visualization
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Edgelands Institute
Research Associate