Short biography
Researcher and professor of new media art and digital communication. Cicero coordinates the Software Studies Group in Brazil. Currently he is on the Faculty of the Art and Graduate studies in Communication departments at the Federal University of Juiz de Fora (UFJF). He was a visiting scholar at Brown University (2005) and a visiting researcher at University of California, San Diego (UCSD) from 2006 to 2010. He is author of The Explorers: Open Source and Free Software in Brazil book (with Jane de Almeida, forthcoming from the MIT Press). Cicero was Digital Art curator for the Brazilian Forum of Digital Culture, Digital Communities honorary mention at the Prix Ars Electronica in 2010.
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