Russ Rive and Liana Brazil
Liana Brazil and Russ Rive work with the convergence between art, technology, and design, doing curatorships, creation, and interactive design of content – video and animation – for multimedia installations. Together they created the Beco das Palavras installation, a ludic space at the Language Museum in São Paulo. They recently participated in festivals and exhibits such as PeléStation at the 2006 World Cup in Germany / Spring Dance at the Netherlands / Open Air in Portugal / CCBB, Paço Imperial and Instituto Tomie Ohtake in Brazil.
Russ Rive dedicates itself to techonological innovatiosn applied to arte; he researchers high end technology, creating and reinventing forms of interactions with artistic content of each installation. In the USA, Russ founded Everdream, market leader in systems administration. Everdream runs over 140,000 sistems in 60+ countries, and it was recently purchased by Dell. Russ is also a part of the beginning team of Zip2, leader in software for the media industry, with investments in the New York Times Co., KnightRider, MDV, SoftBank, and Hearst Corp. Russ is an electronic engineer and has three patents in the área of automatization and technological services in the USA.
Liana Brasil worked in New York, at companies such as HBOKids, Eyebeam Atelier, Ehollywood, Pixel Press and Picture Projects, and got her masters in Art and Multimedia at NYC, as well as participating in festivals such as the NY International Children’s Film Festival and the NY Film Festival. She is editor, animator and a designer. Back to Brazil since 2003, she creates and develops installations and international exhibits and national exhibits in the main cultural centers of the country. She is the Interface editor, weekly column about Art and Technology at JB Online.
