Artist-researcher and programmer. She is the founder and director of the Ambos && studio that brings together design, art and technology for cultural and educational projects. Since 2018, Barbara Castro has been a professor in the Department of Arts & Design at PUC-Rio. She is currently a doctoral student in visual arts at the UFRJ School of Fine Arts, the same school where she defended her master's degree in 2013 in partnership with the Institute of Pure and Applied Mathematics (IMPA). In addition, she served as a data visualization designer for the UFRJ Visual and Visualization Laboratory (Labvis) for the Inter-American Development Bank. At the School of Fine Arts she also works with the Nucleus of Art and New Organisms (NANO). Her research in art and technology has been presented in France, Denmark, Portugal, Colombia and Brazil in places like the Museu de Arte Moderna (Rio de Janeiro), Museu Nacional da República (Distrito Federal), and Instituto Inhotim (Minas Gerais), among others. Her works have also been mentioned in several academic journals and

Dysrhythmia

2018

Disritmia

Dysrhythmia discusses the possibility of perception and a sense of vitality through the connections established in networks. By using data from the artist's heartbeat along with the planet's meteorological data, this work seeks to highlight the displacement  perspective necessary for us to connect one with the other. The oscillation arises as a characteristic inherent in any type of connectivity, affective or technological. The visitor can contribute to keeping this system going via interaction.