PortuguêsKarla Brunet is an artist and researcher. She holds a PhD in Audiovisual Communication from Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, supported by a CAPES fellowship, and a master’s degree in Visual Arts from the Academy of Art University in San Francisco, also with a CAPES fellowship.
She has participated in photography and art exhibitions in Brazil, Europe, the Middle East, and North and South America. From 2009 to 2011, she coordinated Labdebug.net, a media lab focused on women and free technologies. In 2012, she curated FACMIL/LabMAM, a media art laboratory at the Museum of Modern Art of Bahia. In 2014 and 2015, she conducted postdoctoral research at the Berlin University of the Arts. In 2020 and 2021, she was a visiting researcher at LaboLuz at the Universitat Politècnica de València, Spain, and at Medialab at the Federal University of Goiás, with support from a CAPES Print fellowship.
She is currently a professor at the Institute of Humanities, Arts and Sciences, ProfArtes, and the Graduate Program in Visual Arts at the Federal University of Bahia, where she coordinates Ecoarte, an interdisciplinary group dedicated to art, technology, and environmental issues.
Her artistic practice encompasses photography, video art, data visualization, sensory environments, hybrid art, audiovisual performance, web art, artistic mapping, science communication, and games, with a focus on experiences in nature.