Marcela Vieira
Marcela Vieira is cofounder and curator of the art website aarea (www.aarea.co), a curatorial platform founded in 2017 that commissions and exhibits artworks designed especially for the internet. aarea’s activities also extend into a public program of curatorial projects, courses and seminars.
The first internet native art institution in Brazil, aarea has been developing projects in collaboration with other institutions such as Jeu de Paume, São Paulo Biennial, CCA Wattis Institute, Pivô, Macba, Sesc, Pro Helvetia, Salón Nacional de Bogotá, NT2, among others. aarea has held courses, lectures, and educational activities in universities and art school.
With multidisciplinary interests, Marcela is also one of the editors of Revista Rosa and a literary translator (French-Portuguese). She has a PhD in semiotics at the University of Paris 8, in partnership with the University of São Paulo. She has been living in Los Angeles since early 2022.