Born 1956 in Sao Paulo, Brazil
Married, 2 children

1980 : "Spaces". Pinacoteca do Estado, Sao Paulo, Brazil

1982 : "Holograms". Southampton, England

1982 : "Art on Air". Museu de Arte Contemporanea .Sao Paulo, Brazil

1983 : "Clones : TV, Radio and Videotext as artistic media. Museu da Imagem e do Som. Sao Paulo, Brazil

1983 : "Videotext", XVI Bienal de Sao Paulo, Brazil

1984 : " Level 5: Computer Graphics ". Museu de Arte de Sao Paulo, Brazil

1984 : "PTYX" . Galeria Paulo Figueiredo & Centro Cultural Sao Paulo, Brazil

1985 : " The medium of Media ". XVII Bienal de Sao Paulo, Brazil

1986 : "Triluz" (Holograms) . Museu da Imagem e do Som Sao Paulo, Brazil

1987 : "Ideohologia (holograms). Museu de Arte Contemporanea de Sao Paulo

1988 : "Holograms". Galeria Diferença, Lisbon, Portugal

1989 : "Sky Trilogy". Sao Paulo, Brazil

1986 : "Sky Art 86". Museu de arte Contemporanea. Teleconference CAVS.MIT/ USP Sao Paulo

1989 : "Holographic movie". Museu de Arte Contemporanea

1992 : "Space Art". Museu da Imagem e do Som

1993 : "Di·logo Cine- Video. Museu da Imagem e do Som

1993 : " Festival um Minuto " . Museu da Imagem e do Som

1992 - : Genetic Algorithm (work in progress supported by INPE Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais (Laboratorio de Sistemas Solo) in collaboration with Rubens Gatto

1992- : Instituto de Quimica USP- Research on Luciferase Protein Bioluminescence

COURSES TAKEN AT THE MIT

"Settling the Asteroids" (Prof. Ranko Bon), Space Habitat Design Workshop - Fall 1989

"Synthetic Holography" (Prof. Steve Benton) - Spring 1990

"Holography as an Artistic Medium" (Prof. Betsy Connors) - Spring 1990

"Elastic Movie Workshop" (Prof. Glorianna Davenport) - Fall 1990

Garcia, J.W. & A.C.A. Lajes - "Light Automata: Bioluminescece, Holography and Computer Graphics as an Artistic Medium". American Chemical Society National Meeting, Washington, DC, August 1990.

Garcia, J.W. & H. Higuchi - "Light Automata, Bioluminescence and Artificial Life Systems". ARTTRANSITION '90, CAVS-MIT, Cambridge, MA, November 1990.

Garcia,J.W - "Computer graphics as an artistic and Scientific Medium, SIBGRAF , July 1991

Garcia,J.W - Seminario M·rio Schenberg ECA-USP , September 1991

Garcia,J.W & Eddie Elliot- " Interactive Systems as a Medium", School of Future ECA/USP 1991

"Insight and Heuristic in the Architecture Invention" School of Architecture and Urbanism of Braz Cubas May 1992

1995 : Arquitetura da Faap Arquitetura como Arte

1998 : ONU manifesto Arte geologica, NY USA

1998 : Space Art. Faculdade de Belas Artes

1999 : As relacoes entre arte e ciencia . ECAUSP

* "Frankensculpture", Earth Watch Radio, based at Sea Grant Institute, Madison, WI. Broadcast 3 October 1990.

* "Glow at Work", Boston Business Magazine, October/November 1990, p. 63.

* "Is it Art, or ist it ScienceÖ or Both?", Tufts Journal, November 1990, p. 11.

* "Chemical engineer collaborates on 'living sculpture'", Chemical Engineering Progress, January 1991, p. 8.

"Art and Technology:Recent Efforts in Materials and Media" MRS Bulletin,January 1992 p.18

" Art and Technology-Sky Art" by Pam Houk, Sculpture Magazine, May- June 1991

"Inventando as MÌdias do Futuro" Jornal da Tarde 1991

"Automatos de Luz" Jornal da Tarde 1991

" Casa Eletronica" O Estado de Sao Paulo 1991

"Sky Art" Folha de Sao Paulo 1991

ExperimentaÁ„o como Caminho- Arquitetura em AÁo" AU - Magazine 1991

"As Artes do Céu e do EspaÁo". Revista ICARO, 1992

"Art Satellite". Sculpture Magazine USA (capa da revista)

SPACE ART . Museu de Arte Contemporanea, 1992

JORNAL DA GLOBO. ARTES DO C…U 1992

Cinema interativo. Caderno 2 Estado de Sao Paulo, 1997

Arte e vida Artificial. Caderno mais Folha de Sao Paulo, 1997

Amazing Amazon . Caderno mais Folha de Sao Paulo, 1998

Arquietura do AÁo. Revista da ABCEM,1999

Sarcofagos para homeless. Caderno 2 Estado de Sao Paulo, 1999

1990-93 : Project Art and Living Systems, to be presented in an interactive CD ROM CAVS/Media Lab

1990-: Project Light Automata - CAVS

1992 - : Project Light Automata supported by LSI (Laboratorio de Sistemas Integr·veis-POLI / USP) "Space Art" Galeria Magazine December 1991

1993 - : AMAZING AMAZON. NHK TV JAPAN. Document·rio

1993- : DISTURBIO RESEARCH ON ART END GENETICS

1994- : ARTE CIDADE . Cinema Digital interativo CDROM lanÁado em 1996

1995 : CDROM. Casa Virtual. Editora ABRIL lanÁamento MUBE

1997 : Instalacao WETWARE utilizando algas bioluminescentes PaÁo das Artes SP

1999 : InvenÁ„o Ita˙ Cultural

PROJETOS FUTUROS

Lançamento do projeto AMAZING AMAZON e o Livro EVOLUTIONARY AESTHETICS

Media metragem intitulado "VELCIDADE DE ESCAPE 11,23M/S" para os formatos de cinema linear, interativo e DVD CDROM

Longa metragem intitulado "Paisagens Mentais"

Brasmitte Rythm's Thief

Arte e cosmologia

Clothing Earth with a mind experimento artistico em gravidade zero a bordo nave espacial Space Shuttle suporte INPE e NaSA

CYBERHOUSE projeto arquitetonico experimental que utiliza as tecnologias de ponta da construÁ„o civil e da domÛtica.

AS AN ARCHITECT

I conceived and designed about 250 projects, mostly of residential and institutional buildings, 120 of which were executed. (Material available on request.)

Os projetos arquitetÙnicos realizados entre 1992 e 1999 envolvem em sua grande maioria estruturas met·licas e as tecnologias de ponta para a criaÁ„o e construtibilidade.

EDUCATION

1978 : Universidade de Sao Paulo. School of Architecture and Urbanism

1980 : Faculdade Armando lvares Penteado School of Arts and Design

1981 : PontifÌcia Universidade Catolica. Semiotics and Communication

1987-1992 : Master of Sciences Program. Universidade de Sao Paulo. School of Arts and Communication

1985-88 : Fellowship CNPq-Brazil

1988-91 : Fellow, Center for Advanced Visual Studies, MIT

1991-93 : Fellow Media Laboratories, MIT

1994 1999 : doutorado Semiotica PUCSP Estetica Evoluciona.