LUIZA PRADO aka
HIFA CYBE
Trandisciplinary artist, Researcher, Scientst, Technologist
(Guaratinguetá, Brasil, 1988)
Luiza Prado uses the pseudonym Hifa Cybe and in her academic life she is Luiza Jesus do Prado. She is a transdisciplinary artist, researcher, scientist and technologist, born in the rural peripheral context of the city of Guaratinguetá, in the interior of São Paulo, Brazil, in 1988. She has worked in arts and technology since 2008 and science since 2021. She was diagnosed with autism and high abilities and her pronouns are she, her, they, their and she is genderqueer.
She mainly researches memory and, consequently, mental health and its consequences, which come from a multifactorial nature, including environmental issues, death, trauma, gender and sexuality, the anthropological aspects of pain and violence, as well as the evidence that vulgar concepts of madness persist throughout human evolution, such as the decolonization of mental health and the feelings and spirituality surrounding it.
Since 2010, she has been working on reprocessing traumas through photography and since then her research has evolved, which now uses physical-chemical structures in dialogue with art, as a suggestion for mental treatments, a form of democratization and possibilities in public health. Such as her research; Camera Obscura - Decompilation of Memories of Trauma and Violence and Visual Therapy with Psilocybin. She also develops research in Butoh, in which she evokes affective memories of the Brazilian countryside, dealing with ecology and issues that synthesize the figure of the caipira, with indigenous and African influences, and Appropriation, which runs through memories of gender and sexuality violence and their signs. His main artistic platforms are: Photography, heavily influenced by alternative and expanded processes, Sound and Body Arts, in which he has a degree in Butoh from the Nucleo Experimental de Butoh and Performative Theater from Cia Satyros. He also has training in Tribal Fusion, Contemporary Dance, Pole Dance, Aerial Metal Dance and is also a Rope Bunny (someone who is tied up in Shibari). In performance art, he develops a mixture of all his experience in body arts that have a physical, ritualistic and animalistic aspect.
In addition, he uses as a base: Object, Video Art, Writing, Painting, Drawing, Food, Gases and smells, Sculpture and Technological Bases such as VR and AR.
In art, he has participated in Exhibitions and Biennials such as PST LA/LA, Carrousel du Louvre, ABC Contemporary (Germany), Morocco Biennial and Shanghai Biennial of Photography and Video (China). His works are in important public collections, such as MAC Bogotá (Colombia), EAF (Germany) and the Municipal Museum of Contemporary Art of Cusco (Peru).
Academically, Prado is a Multimedia Technician, graduated in Photography and currently studying Biomedical Sciences, with interests in the areas of Molecular Biology, Genetics, Biophysics, Psychobiology, Pharmacology, Imaging, Transoperative Neurological Monitoring, Public Health and Toxicology. At the same time, I am a postgraduate student in the Psychopathology and Public Health course at the Faculty of Medical Sciences of Santa Casa. I have certifications in Data Analysis for Genome from Harvard, Genetics Applied to Neurology from the School of Continuing Education, Neurology and Neurogenetics Service of the Central Institute - HCFMUSP (Hospital das Clínicas), Biomaterials and Biofabrication: Design, Engineering and Innovation from Bayreuth, Neuroscience and Neuroimaging - fMRI, Neurohacking in R and other topics from Johns Hopkins. In science, I am interested in studies related to Neuroscience, Psychobiology, Genetics, Biophysics and Biochemistry aimed at the study of Psychopathologies, and I am also interested in transdisciplinary and experimental methods that use Science and Art. I believe in an inclusive and unbureaucratic science to develop direct and accessible methods for mental treatments or harm reduction methods. Other areas of study that interest me: Psychology, Psychiatry, Mycology, Neurology, Nuclear Physics, Acoustics, Optics, Wave Physics, Thermodynamics, Semiotics, Anthropology and Philosophy.
PERSONAL STATEMENT
I define my work as transdisciplinary through integration and seeking solutions through the intersection between art and science. Despite an indefinite horizon, they integrate, organize and merge, maintaining the body as the character that moves between macro and micro, public and private.
The body becomes essential in an aesthetic full of ancestral rituals and signs, keeping it close to the material it recorded, or even material that stimulates denial and repulsion. Consider this composition of a mechanism for the development of an aesthetic considered alternative, visceral, marginalized, expanded and, often, organic, processing platforms in traditional and technical times; fluids, blood, debris, oxidation, putrefaction and recycling.
The feminine, decolonization, peripheral issues, deconstruction of privileges, sexuality,
syncretism, indigenous ancestry, gender, politics, memories and psychosis - these issues,
among others, are common in my work , triggered by my biography. Research that started
with self-knowledge and expanded the need to be useful. An issue in which to make my body available in a political state. Like madness, an art was not a choice, it was a necessity. Choose
a type of resistance and liberation, a method of reprocessing and various perspectives without
limits of development, questioning and especially inclusiv
POETIC
He begins his scientific research talking about the consolidation or recovery of memory through photographic reprocessing, the decompilation of the image and the sound generated by it.
Her artistic work merges with her scientific research, becoming a laboratory in which art makes it possible to materialize and illustrate scientific concepts, also suggesting a democratization of resources used in psychological treatments and the discussion around this subject and science. Her research is about neurophysiological responses to sensory stimuli, mainly sound and image, emphasizing their construction and physicochemical reaction in the human brain.
These studies range from photographic reprocessing, communication decoding and image
decompilation, visual effects induced by chemicals such as psilocybin and reproduced in art,
to performance used as the main focus of trauma desensitization. The development of her
research is transdisciplinary, and proposes a complement to her academic research of the same nature. This environment serves as a laboratory for concepts studied in the area of Semiotics, Neuroscience and Psychobiology, having as sub-areas Biochemistry, Physics, Genetics, Pharmacology and Data Science.
Her artistic work merges with her scientific research, becoming a laboratory in which art makes it possible to materialize and illustrate scientific concepts, also suggesting a democratization of resources used in psychological treatments and the discussion around this subject and science. Her research is about neurophysiological responses to sensory stimuli, mainly sound and image, emphasizing their construction and physicochemical reaction in the human brain.
These studies range from photographic reprocessing, communication decoding and image
decompilation, visual effects induced by chemicals such as psilocybin and reproduced in art,
to performance used as the main focus of trauma desensitization. The development of her
research is transdisciplinary, and proposes a complement to her academic research of the same nature. This environment serves as a laboratory for concepts studied in the area of Semiotics, Neuroscience and Psychobiology, having as sub-areas Biochemistry, Physics, Genetics, Pharmacology and Data Science.