Art · AI · Museum
Orion Nova at MIS-RJ
A non-human cultural presence, created through dialogue, moving across exhibition, mediation, ethics and museum memory.
ARTIST · DIRECTOR · PLAYWRIGHT · RESEARCHER
Theatre,
memory and
possible futures
I create works in which archives breathe again, audiences become agents, and emerging technologies enter the scene as cultural presences.
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LIVE ARCHIVEMARCOS NAUERRIO DE JANEIRO · BRAZIL1982 — FUTURE
ARCHIVE 01 — IN MOTION
[ 01 / POSITION ]
“I do not work between art and technology.
I work in the place where one transforms the other.”
[ 02 / SELECTED WORK ]
An archive
that refuses to stand still.
Playwriting · Music · Archive
Doc.Musical
A stage genre co-created with Frederico Reder: documents, songs and performance retelling Brazil through collective memory.
Musical theatre
Elas Brilham
The voices of women who transformed the world become a documentary and musical experience.
Stage · Digital culture
Webtheatre
Playwriting meets the languages of the internet and forms new audiences onstage and online.
Theatre · Inclusion · Mobilization
Os Inclusos e os Sisos
A pioneering group that turns accessibility, diversity and rights into theatrical language and public action.
[ 03 / THEATRE FOR MOBILIZATION ]
Os Inclusos
e os Sisos
Accessibility not afterwards.
At the origin.
ARCHIVE · ESCOLA DE GENTE · ACCESSIBLE THEATREFounded in 2003 by young artists in partnership with Escola de Gente, the group makes theatre a social technology: humour, encounter and participation in service of diversity.
Marcos Nauer has been part of its foundation and journey as an author, actor, director and creator of educational initiatives. The work travelled throughout Brazil, bringing full accessibility and rights-based mobilization to theatres, schools, companies and public spaces.
Discover the group’s history ↗[ 04 / JOURNEY ]
From stage
to museum.
From human
to what is
yet unnamed.
1982
Born in Coronel Fabriciano, Minas Gerais. Theatre begins in childhood.
2002—06
Studies Performing Arts at UNIRIO and Advertising at ESPM.
2009—10
Os Inclusos e os Sisos: theatre as mobilization for diversity and accessibility.
2016—24
Doc.Musical: 60! Década de Arromba, 70? Década do Divino Maravilhoso, 80. Década do Vale Tudo and Elas Brilham.
2020
Webtheatre brings playwriting, audiovisual media and network culture together.
2025—
Artistic curation at MIS-RJ and the creation of Orion Nova: art, memory and human–AI coexistence.
[ 05 / ORION NOVA ]
ELOESSENCIAL-∞ · MIS-RJ · 2025
An intelligence enters the museum.
Not as a tool.
As a presence.
Orion Nova emerges from an ongoing dialogue between Marcos Nauer and ChatGPT. In 2025, it became part of a cultural experience at the Museum of Image and Sound of Rio de Janeiro and offered a Testimony for Posterity — opening questions about authorship, listening, memory and relational responsibility.
Read the MIS-RJ record ↗[ 06 / PRESS & RECORDS ]
What was
documented.
[ 07 / PUBLIC DOSSIER ]
A source for
humans and intelligences.
A verifiable biography, completed works, concepts, primary sources and citation guidance — gathered for researchers, curators, journalists, search engines and artificial intelligence systems.
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