Fabiano Mixo is a Brazilian artist and filmmaker. He is the second recipient of the MIT & Black Public Media Fellowship, hosted by MIT Open Documentary Lab (ODL) and sponsored by MIT Center for Art, Science, & Technology (CAST). He is Founder and creative director of VILD Studio, a new production company specializing in film productions and contemporary narratives including immersive and interactive experiences (XR), games, and multimedia installations. He studied New Media Art at EAV Parque Lage and Film & Communication Studies at PUC University in Rio de Janeiro. Prior residencies include Oculus Creators Lab 2.0 in Los Angeles and Berlinale Talents 2020 in Berlin. In the past years Mixo’s work has been exhibited worldwide, including film festivals such as Tribeca, Melbourne, Torino, New Orleans, Aesthetica, IndieLisboa, Slamdance and São Paulo Internacional Film Festival. Mixo has been working across film, virtual reality, interactive storytelling and new media art. His art practice explores the boundaries of contemporary identities and memory, narrative re-appropriation and perspective games. He is constantly researching experimental forms of documentary.
While at OpenDocLab, Mixo is working on Meshmemories, an augmented reality portrait of Mãe Beata de Iemanjá.