Bruno Caldas Vianna lives in Barcelona. In 2024, he obtained a PhD in Fine Arts from the University of the Arts in Helsinki, Finland, investigating visual arts and artificial intelligence. Bruno is a professor at the Centre for Image and Multimedia Technology, Polytechnic University of Catalonia (CITM-UPC) and also teaches at Elisava University in Barcelona. He has a degree in film, and a master’s degree from NYU’s Interactive Telecommunications Program. His artist practice traverses poetical affordances of technology, by creating visual narratives in innovative and traditional supports, short and feature films, live cinema, augmented reality, mobile apps, installations. Between 2011 and 2016, he ran Nuvem, a rural space dedicated to art and technology in Brazil. From 2012 and 2018 he taught at Oi Kabum, a school for art in technology in Rio de Janeiro. He is a founder of the autonomous technology collective Coolab, which was awarded a Mozilla grant in 2017, with a project to finance community networks.