Arthur Xavier is a transdisciplinary artist, composer and developer based in Belo Horizonte, Brazil. A former Software Engineer and bachelor in Computer Science, nowadays Arthur studies Composition at the Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil and has a major interest in sound art, multimedia arts, and experimental and electroacoustic music. They believe in art as a tool for subjective and political liberation, and on its power of mobilizing attention, reflection and action through sensible experiences. Arthur mainly investigates the themes of interactivity, dialogue, and subjective relations with work, technology, time and memory.
Studies on electroacoustic and instrumental composition, and live electronics. Advised by professors Ajítẹnà Marco Scarassatti and José Henrique Padovani.
Bachelor thesis written with Phil Freeman on theoretical and functional programming models for user interfaces:
Online classes associated with the 24th Encontro Internacional de Arte e Tecnologia, in Brasília, Brazil, where artists, thinkers, scientists and designers investigate the collapse of anthropocentrism and the emergence of new alliances between species, languages and intelligences.
Course for DJs and musical producers conducted by brazilian producer Felipe Pomar, british-nigerian DJ Kem Kem, and anthropologist Dennis Novaes, that related the language of afrobeats to the popular electronic music of Brazil.
Course by Anti Ribeiro, which discussed the sound in its physical and poetical aspects, relating it to the sonic fiction concept created by Kodwo Eshun.
48-hour long course by the Tatuí Conservatory of Music by professors Ajítẹnà Marco Scarassatti, Marcos Balter, and Michelle Agnès Magalhães.
Written at the Research-creation atelier on interactive music of the Federal University of Minas Gerais.
Debut on December 2025 at the 7th Imaginários Sonoros concert, at Conservatório UFMG.
Performed at the 11th International Art, Science and Technology Congress and Digital Arts Seminar 2026, in Belo Horizonte, Brazil.
Debut on December 2025 at the 7th Imaginários Sonoros concert, at Conservatório UFMG.
Performed at the 11th International Art, Science and Technology Congress and Digital Arts Seminar 2026, in Belo Horizonte, Brazil.
Presented on IV SOMARUMOR: Encontro Latino Americano de Arte Sonora, September 2025, at Universidade Federal Fluminense, in Niterói, Brazil.
Featured in Festival Irradia on October 2025, broadcast by Universitária FM 107.9 in Fortaleza, Brazil, and by Rádio UFES FM 87.1 in Vitória, Brazil.
Featured as a guitarist for the Cefart Big Band, an extension project of Palácio das Artes. Played in many shows with the band, at venues such as Clube de Jazz do Café com Letras and the Great Theather of Palácio das Artes, in Belo Horizonte, Brazil.
Worked with a remote team on an internal ad-tech platform written in PureScript, and on the refactoring and improvements of the codebase.
Worked with a distributed and remote team on internal administration tools and from conception to release and maintenance on a marketplace for custom-manufactured packaging.
Lead developer of a successful CRM and point of sale platform built with React and Firebase from prototype to production.
Lead front-end developer of the blip.ai portal, a platform for creation and management of chatbots written in JavaScript with Angular.
Research on Rendering and Simulation of Underwater Environments
in the Computer Graphics area with a paper accepted to the ICPR 2014
conference:
Generalized Optical Flow Model for Scattering Media.
Development of an Android prototype application for the generation
of 3D models from 2D sketches:
github.com/arthurxavierx/modelr.