ANTAGONISTS: ALGORITHMIC RESISTANCE

Curated by Bruno Moreschi, Gabriel Pereira, and Heloísa Espada



Eduardo Kac, Outrossim, 2013, two different anamorphic QR codes, user’s cell phone, Internet, 4 x 40ft (1.20 x 12m). Collection Museum of Contemporary Art of São Paulo.


The exhibition Antagonists: Algorithmic Resistances, opening to the public at MAC USP in 2025, offers a historical analysis of artistic productions that present critical perspectives on informational technologies. The show primarily features works from the MAC USP collection, with an emphasis on pieces from Brazil—many created before the advent of the Internet. The curatorial team—Bruno Moreschi, Gabriel Pereira, and Heloisa Espada—aims to understand and contextualize the pioneering efforts of artists and activists who, despite limited resources, explored alternative approaches to making and conceptualizing technology.

Beyond the dominant technological paradigm, artists such as Waldemar Cordeiro, Paulo Bruscky, Regina Silveira, Isidoro Valcárcel Medina, Mariana Manhães, Gilbertto Prado, Eduardo Kac, and Regina Vater employed technologies of varying complexity to imagine and build marginal technological experiences, alternative and free networks, social and economic critiques, and other forms of dissident questioning.