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Alberto Harres (b. 1994), originally from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, and now based in Bremen, Germany, is a media designer, software developer and artistic researcher working at the intersections of art, technology and language. In recent years his work has focused on the creation of archives that operate both as artistic practice and as research methodology, combining digital systems, data visualization and collaborative processes to explore the poetic and political dimensions they can take.

email
alberto.harres@gmail.com
based in
Bremen, Germany
code
github.com/mneunomne

Education

  1. 2020–2024 Master in Digital Media, Hochschule für Künste Bremen & Universität Bremen, Germany
  2. 2015 Exchange semester in Bildende Kunst, Universität der Künste Berlin (UdK), Germany
  3. 2012–2017 Bachelor in Visual Arts, Escola de Belas Artes, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), Brazil

Work Experience

  1. 2024–2025 Freelance Creative Developer for InfraNodus, a data-visualization toolkit for research and ideation
  2. 2021–2025 Main Software Developer for the browser extension AdNauseam and for TrackMeNot, as an independent contractor for Cornell University (Daniel Howe & Helen Nissenbaum). Remote from Bremen
  3. 2019–2020 Lead Creative Developer at Venosa Design, creating interactive solutions for museums and showrooms
  4. 2018–2019 Front-end Developer at SuperViz, a WebVR platform with real-time collaboration features
  5. 2018 Full-stack Developer at Fundação Getúlio Vargas (FGV), integrating productivity tools for their online MBA course
  6. 2016–2018 Junior Creative Developer at SuperUber, Rio de Janeiro, developing interactive experiences for museums (OpenFrameworks, C++)

Research & Grants

  1. 2022–2023 Creative Developer & Data Scientist for Edit Wars, funded by the EU Horizon 2020 programme MediaFutures (Artist for Media). Integrated the data visualization with the Vue.js interface and built and managed the CMS. Team: Antonio Hofmeister Ribeiro, Lucy Saribegyan, Maiia Guseva, Slava Romanov and Sofya Ozga
  2. 2016–2017 Research & Technical Assistant for the artistic research project Art, History and the Museum in Process, led by Prof. Beatriz Pimenta, UFRJ, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Exhibitions & Residencies

  1. 2025 Arche-Scriptures, art residency Tijolo, Oficinas do Convento, Montemor-o-Novo, Portugal
  2. 2025 Solo exhibition Arche-Scriptures, Parameter – Generative Arts Fair, Adela Festival, Ljudmila Lab, Ljubljana, Slovenia
  3. 2025 Terra Inscrita: Topographic Scars \ Sedimenting Memories, group exhibition BBK Jahresausstellung 2025 – Fließender Übergang, Bremen, Germany
  4. 2025 AdNauseam, exhibition Choose your filter!, ZKM | Center for Art and Media, Karlsruhe, Germany
  5. 2024 Master thesis exhibition Terra Inscrita: Topographic Scars \ Sedimenting Memories, Hochschule für Künste Bremen, Germany
  6. 2024 Solo exhibition Terra Inscrita: Reflexões sobre a Bacia do Rio Cuiabá, Galeria Estação Jaqueira, Petrópolis, Brazil (link)
  7. 2024 Arche-Scriptures: Border Lines, PixxelPoint Festival, Carinarnica, Nova Gorica, Slovenia (link)
  8. 2024 Studies of Change, Alte Pathologie, Bremen, Germany (link)
  9. 2023 Arche-Scriptures, Ars Electronica Festival, HfK Bremen student exhibition Matter Matters, Linz, Austria (link)
  10. 2023 Arche-Scriptures: Reflection Between Earth and Sky, Voltaje Festival, Bogotá, Colombia (link)
  11. 2023 Propaganda Narrative Soundscapes, part of the Edit Wars project, Tor40 Gallery, Bremen, Germany
  12. 2022 EIGHT PERMS FOR A DIGITAL AGE, Dauerwelle Ship, Bremen, Germany
  13. 2022 Group exhibition Gedankenexperimente, Galerie Flut, Hochschule für Künste Bremen, Germany
  14. 2022 Future pass archaeology of now, exhibition Learning to draw, Hochschule für Künste Bremen, Germany
  15. 2021 Installation The living body is the central object of all politics, with Chi Him Chik, Hochschule für Künste Bremen & Güterbahnhof, Bremen, Germany
  16. 2019 Vozes da Terra, British Academy Summer Showcase, London, UK
  17. 2018 Vozes da Terra, residency outcome of the Arte Eletrônica Indígena program, Museum of Modern Art (MAM), Salvador, Brazil
  18. 2018 Co-curator and exhibiting artist, Multiverso Generative Art Festival, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
  19. 2017 Sound installation Itinerário Etimológico, group exhibition Histórias fora de Ordem, National Historic Museum, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
  20. 2017 Duo exhibition When Speaking of Tongues, with Lotus Lien, Cooper Union Senior Show, New York City, USA
  21. 2016 Generative video installation Recombining Memories, Lampa Gallery, The Wrong Biennale (online), Saint Petersburg, Russia
  22. 2016 Interactive video installation XYZ, exhibition Capte-me, Museum of Tomorrow, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
  23. 2016 Estudo sobre Uruçumirim, intervention with print and Portuguese stones, exhibition Intervenções entre XIX e XXI, Museu Nacional de Belas Artes, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
  24. 2013 Interactive sound installation Simbinoise, with the Biônicos collective, festival Circo Digital, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Workshops & Talks

  1. 2025 Talk at the Clay+nology event, part of the BIO-TECHNO Lab, together with Olesya Ilenok, Glasgow, UK
  2. 2023 Introduction to Web Development, workshop for students of the Digital Media master program, HfK Bremen, Germany (HTML, CSS, JavaScript, GitHub Pages)
  3. 2022 Organizer of the Digital Media Juicy Workshops and facilitator of API & Databases in the Artistic Context using Node.js, Hochschule für Künste Bremen, Germany (link)
  4. 2017 Assistant to Carlos Oliveira in the Processing programming course, Istituto Europeo di Design, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
  5. 2013 Glitch workshop with Caio Chacal, NANO Lab, UFRJ, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Awards

  1. 2025 First Prize, Parameter – Generative Arts Fair, Adela Festival, Ljudmila Lab, Ljubljana, Slovenia
  2. 2023 1st place, Interdisciplinary Hochschulpreis, for the project WeCookit and WeEatit, HfK Bremen, Germany
  3. 2022 Best artistic project, Edit Wars, MediaFutures grant, with Antonio Hofmeister Ribeiro, Lucy Saribegyan, Maiia Guseva, Slava Romanov and Sofya Ozga
  4. 2022 1st place, Hochschulpreis Digitale Medien 2022, Hochschule für Künste Bremen, Germany
  5. 2019 Honorary Mention, STARTS Prize '19, Prix Ars Electronica CyberArts 2019, for Arte Eletrônica Indígena

Press

  1. Neural Arche-Scriptures, tangible records
  2. CAN Creative Applications Network: Arche-Scriptures – our digital traces in the future past
  3. INC Institute of Network Cultures: Distorting the Brink – The Void × PixxelPoint Festival
  4. HfK Bremen Studies of Change: transformative dialogues between art, design and technology
  5. idw Informationsdienst Wissenschaft: news item
  6. Lampa The Noise of Cities: Recombining Memories

Skills

  1. Front-end HTML, CSS, JavaScript, React, Next.js, Vue, Nuxt (SSR), jQuery
  2. Back-end Node.js, Laravel (PHP), Flask (Python)
  3. CMS Netlify CMS, Kirby, WordPress
  4. Databases SQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB
  5. Data science Dagster, Jupyter Notebook, Tableau
  6. Data viz D3.js, Three.js, Chart.js, Matplotlib
  7. AI / ML LLM APIs, MCP, n8n, crawl4ai, PyTorch, OpenCV
  8. Creative coding Processing (Java), openFrameworks (C++), p5.js, TouchDesigner
  9. Design Figma, Photoshop, Eraser, OBS
  10. Fabrication Laser cutting, laser engraving, 3D printing, ceramics

Languages

  1. Portuguese Native
  2. English Fluent
  3. German Advanced (C1)
  4. Spanish Advanced
  5. Russian Basic (A2)
  6. Chinese Basic (A2)