Claudio Filho is an artist–researcher working at the intersections of art, ecology, and technology, with a particular focus on the entanglements of biological arts, nonhuman agencies, and artificial intelligence. His work combines theory-based research with practice-based experimentation, seeking to inquiry how artistic practices engage with ecological and technological systems.

He authored publications including Decentralizing Hegemonic Knowledge in Art Practices (2025); Emerging uncertainties: art, ecology and climate change in the Anthropocene (2023); Helen and Newton Harrison on the frontier between art, science and nature (2024); Constructing Ruins: relationships between image, data, and ecology through environmental crises (2023); Vegetable writing: use of entheogenic plants in the expansion of perception (2022).

Claudio's PhD dissertation, titled "Art with the Living/Non-Living: Bioartworks and the Agencies of the Other-Than-Humans Facing the Anthropocene," is set to be published by the University of Campinas in 2026. The doctoral research explored the concept of agency within current bioartworks. It makes a distinction between two categories: first-order bioartworks, which are characterized by their basis in laboratory aesthetics and technoscientific control, and second-order bioartworks, which extend beyond sterile laboratory environments to actively engage with living and artificial systems as co-performers. The dissertation illustrates how, in the context of the Anthropocene, bioartworks are transitioning from traditional representational or object-centered frameworks to relational and ecosystemic practices. This shift emphasizes the interactions among organisms, technologies, and humans within dynamic assemblages.

Ph.D candidate at Postgraduate Program in Visual Arts at the Institute of Arts, University of Campinas (IA/Unicamp) - supported by a FAPESP Scholarship (2022-2025) and a CAPES Scholarship (2022) and was a Visiting Researcher at Aalto University (Finland, 2024/2025). He is the Academic Coordinator of ACTlab – Laboratory for Art, Science, and Deviant Technologies (2021-2025, Unicamp) and a member of the r.A.t. Research Group (Aalto University), the Bioart Society, and the editorial council of Coleção eXtremidades (PUC-SP), where he also works as Editorial Producer.

He holds a Master's degree in Art Theory from the Postgraduate Program in Art, Culture, and Languages (PPG-ACL) at the Federal University of Juiz de Fora (UFJF, Brazil), where he completed a dissertation titled Pierre Restany: Beyond the Real. A Study on New Realism and Its Connection with the 10th São Paulo Biennial (1969). He also earned a Bachelor's degree in Arts and Design from the Institute of Arts and Design (IAD/UFJF).

Cláudio's awards and residencies include the Ars Bioarctica Residency at the Kilpisjärvi Biological Station (2025); Bioart Society Mini Residency at SOLU Space, Helsinki (2024); the 2023 MediAsia/KAMC IAFOR Scholarship in Kyoto, Japan; and being a 2022 finalist (with the Kodos Collective) for the FUNARTE Olympics of Visual Arts in the Digital Art category. His works have been exhibited in museums, galleries and festivals such  Piracemas 2024 in São Paulo, Exhibition Emerging Extended Realities in Macao, China, EmMeio#14 (Galeria Térreo) at the National Museum of the Republic in Brasília, Brazil, and the 17th Athens Digital Arts Festival in Athens, Greece.