WACD welcomes 2022-23 Visiting Graduate Researcher Rodolfo Ward
Rodolfo Ward is an artist researcher with a trajectory in documentary and artistic photography. Working in Brazil, his research has focused on Indigenous art and culture, with a focus on the Xerente peoples based in the Amazonian State of Tocantins. For his doctoral project, he studies and experiments with aesthetic techniques and theories in conjunction with approaches from the digital humanities, working precisely at the intersection that unites them with the fields of social sciences and humanities. From a Latin American perspective, he has sought new types of relationship between art, technology, innovation, society and nature that overcome the current polarization between progress versus preservation and technology versus nature. Part of an ongoing movement within Brazilian academia, Rodolfo’s work seeks to defend and promote decolonial art produced in the countries of the South.
Rodolfo is based in Brasília, the capital of Brazil, where he is a PhD candidate at the Institute of Arts of the University of Brasília. For academic year 2022-23, Rodolfo will be a Visiting Graduate Researcher at UCLA’s Department of World Arts and Cultures/Dance supervised by Prof Alex Ungprateeb Flynn, with funding from the National Council for Scientific and Technological Research (CNPq), a part of the Brazilian Federal Government’s Ministry of Science and Technology.
WACD Welcomes Rodolfo Ward
22-23 Visiting Graduate Researcher
