Mateus Guzzo

Mateus, also known as 'Gonzo', has a love/hate relationship with institutions. For this reason, his practice oscillates between the design of sociotechnical collaboration systems and tactical media production oriented towards social organizing. Future Number 2 (working title) is a newspaper-format media apparatus that gives context to the production, interpretation and archival of the MFA 2020 Thesis Group Show. Organized text and images as metacommentary renders the conditions of production inside academia and the 'art world' visible, focusing on the distance between the fetish of the artist and the actuality of art as labor. Working as a hand-out and as public posting, the news-grid addresses the past as a question posed from the present towards a collectively imagined future. 

Other works like B.A.R. (Bureau of Artistic Research) and LACES(D) - conference for a Latin American Centered Speculative Design - challenge the site-specific protocols of University of California San Diego, while fostering diffusion of science and public space occupation. Third World Manager, concomitantly, is a narrative non-fiction film about innovation cultures in the Amazon.