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Veruscka Girio, also known as ASTRONAUTA MECANICO, is a multimedia artist working with live image and sound performance specializing in the computer as artistic medium. She is one of women vjs pioneer in Brazil. Girio has a degree in Social Communication and her work as a designer encompasses several domains including graphic, publishing and video scenario design and multi-platform creation.
From 1999 to 2006, Girio worked in some of São Paulo’s most renowned editorial offices including arts and culture journal BRAVO! as Art Editor, and for political monthly CAROS AMIGOS as Art Director. (+++ Playboy, República and Claudia).
Veruscka is also founder and curator of AVAV — audiovisual aovivo. Since 2011, AVAV has been the only monthly Brazilian salon championing live cinema, sound manipulation, performance and real time technology, produced throughout Brazil and internationally in cities including Tokyo, Paris and Lisbon. In 2015, AVAV was invited to Cuba to participate in the 12th Bienal de la Habana representing five of today’s most experimental artists in Brazil.
Most recently, during her residency ARTE OCUPA Project 2015 (Japan), she occupied and video-mapped an abandoned school library in Furyori, Okayama, offering public daily interactive exhibits provoking visitors to construct their own narrative. In the same period, she created Sólidos Platônicos, a video installation exhibited at the Shoyu Museum in Takahashi, and exhibited her own work and curated an international group show at BASECAMP / Roppongi in Tokyo.
Born in Brazil and raised in the states of Maranhão, Pará, Sergipe and Alagoas, she received her professional and academic training in Brasília, Rio de Janeiro and Lisbon.
The city of Belo Horizonte holds one of Veruscka’s design on a sidewalk rebuilt in 2005 according to the traditional Portuguese pavement technique. She lives between São Paulo and Lisbon.
