Arthur Xavier is an artist and composer based in Belo Horizonte and Brasília, Brazil. A former Software Engineer and bachelor in Computer Science, nowadays Arthur studies Composition at the Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil and has a major interest on interactive arts, sound art and electroacoustic music. They believe in art as a tool for subjective and political liberation, and on its power of mobilizing attention, reflection and action through sensible experiences. Arthur mainly investigates the questions of subjective relations with work, technology, time and memory.
Portuguese, English, French, German, Spanish, Italian.
Studies on electroacoustic and instrumental composition, and live electronics.
Advised by professors Ajítẹnà Marco Scarassatti and José Henrique Padovani.
Portfolio
Bachelor thesis written with Phil Freeman on theoretical and functional programming models for user interfaces:
Online classes associated with the 24º Encontro Internacional de Arte e Tecnologia, in Brasília, Brazil, where artists, thinkers, scientists and designers investigate the collapse of anthropocentrism and the emergence of new alliances between species, languages and intelligences.
Jornadas de formação para DJs e produtores musicais conduzidas pelo produtor baiano Felipe Pomar, pela DJ anglo-nigeriana Kem Kem e pelo antropólogo Dennis Novaes, que buscou aproximar a linguagem dos afrobeats da música eletrônica e popular do Brasil.
Curso ministrado por Anti Ribeiro, em que se discutiu o som em seus aspectos físicos e poéticos relacionados ao conceito cunhado pelo pesquisador Kodwo Eshun.
Curso de aperfeiçoamento do Conservatório de Tatuí ministrado pelos professores Ajítẹnà Marco Scarassatti, Marcos Balter e Michelle Agnès Magalhães, perfazendo um total de 48 horas de atividades.
Colóquio internacional mediado por Fabrício Fernandino na programação do 56º Festival de Inverno da UFMG.
Featured as guitarist in the Cefart Big Band, an extension project of Palácio das Artes. Presented in many shows with the band, including venues such as Clube de Jazz do Café com Letras and the Great Theather of Palácio das Artes, in Belo Horizonte, Brazil.
Worked with a remote team on an internal ad-tech platform written in PureScript, and on the refactoring and improvements of the codebase.
Worked with a distributed and remote team on internal administration tools and from conception to release and maintenance on a marketplace for custom-manufactured packaging.
Lead developer of a successful CRM and point of sale web platform built with React and Firebase from prototype to production.
Lead front-end developer of the blip.ai portal, a platform for creation and management of chatbots written in JavaScript with Angular.
Development of web applications with the MEAN Stack and design of static web pages.
Research on Rendering and Simulation of Underwater Environments
in the Computer Graphics area with a paper accepted to the ICPR 2014
conference:
Generalized Optical Flow Model for Scattering Media.
Development of an Android prototype application for the generation
of 3D models from 2D sketches:
github.com/arthurxavierx/modelr.