Born 1962 in São Paulo, Giselle Beiguelman is an artist, researcher, curator, and professor. She creates works in connection to the urban space, and uses the Internet and mobile applications as a means of critically examining digital media and the information technology systems they employ. Beiguelman is a professor at the School of Architecture and Urban Planning of the University of São Paulo (FAU-USP), where she specialises in digital art, non-material heritage, and interface design. She is also a doctor of sociology at the University of São Paulo. She organises exhibitions, such as the Memória da Amnesia at the Municipal Archive of São Paulo (2015). In 2016, she had a solo exhibition entitled Cinema Lascado at the Caixa Cultural of São Paulo. She also takes part in group shows, such as Unplace of the Fundação Calouste Gulbekian in Lisbon (2015); the second editions of the Bahia Biennale at the Arquivo Histórico do Estado da Bahia in Salvador (2014); The Algorithmic Revolution at the ZKM in Karlsruhe (2004-2008) and the NET_Condition, held earlier also at the ZKM (1999-2000). Giselle Beiguelman lives and works in São Paulo.
Quanto pesa uma nuvem? (How Heavy is a Cloud) is a film and photographic installation that documents the artist’s journey from Kraków to Oświęcim in thick fog. Perturbadoramente familiar (Disturbingly Familiar) is a sound installation with 16 postcards, in the form of a travel-diary from her trips across Poland. The works created by Beiguelman during her visit to Poland were first exhibited as part of an exhibition at the Galpão VB in São Paulo.