Alexandre Villares
New Media Art, Research & Education
São Paulo, Brazil
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Top SchoolAlexandre Villares is a New Media Art researcher, educator and visual artist with 25 years of experience blending architecture, creative coding and computational design. He teaches across undergraduate and graduate programs in São Paulo and abroad, and has shaped public-facing technology-and-arts education at Sesc-SP while co-founding the long-running Noite de Processing meetup. His practice spans generative design, creative coding and open didactic materials, and he contributes practical examples to open-source projects like processing.py, showcasing integrations with 3D, hardware and export workflows. Alexandre holds advanced degrees from Unicamp and a background in architecture, which informs his work at the intersection of algorithmic aesthetics and built environments. He publishes a daily code-drawing project since 2018 and builds learning resources that make programming tangible for artists and architects. Colleagues value him for translating complex computational ideas into approachable studio and classroom practices.
25 years of coding experience
Arquitetura Ensino e Sociedade, Arquitetura Ensino e Sociedade at Escola da CidadeArquitetura e Urbanismo, Arquitetura e Urbanismo at USP - Universidade de São PauloDoutorado, Doutorado at Universidade Estadual de CampinasExternato Ofélia Fonseca
French, English
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (25)
preprocessing10
python10
pdf10
exporter10
language-processing10
post-processing10
parallel-processing10
document-processing10
data-processing10
file-processing10
pdfa10
multiprocessing10
3d-graphics9
fileio9
file-access9
Programming languages (21)
Github contributions (5)
jdf/processing.py
Mar 2017 - Apr 2020
Write Processing sketches in Python
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:75 commits, 31 PRs, 52 comments in 3 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Alexandre primarily contributed to example Processing sketches written in Python, focusing on integrating and utilizing various Processing libraries. Contributions included creating new example sketches for PeasyCam, Arduino-Firmata, and PDF and DXF export functionality, showcasing skills in 3D graphics, network communication, and file I/O. The user also updated existing examples by correcting and adding features to enhance functionality. Their work spanned diverse areas of Processing development.
python
lugaralgum/thonny-portable-with-py5
Jul 2024 - Mar 2026
Contributions:7 releases, 26 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 8 months
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