Associação Cultural Videobrasil

Curator Clarissa Diniz presents an original critical analysis of BUGs (2023), a work by Vitória Cribb featured in the new Curatorial Cycle. 

In BUGs, we follow a cybernetic creature that constantly watches and listens to us, its body covered in eyes and ears. The avatar encounters other inhabitants of the virtual space where it lives: a giant bug and a Volkswagen Beetle. The narration gives the viewer instructions for survival in this fictional world: keep moving, flee from danger, and follow the “bugs”—a play on words that refers both to the creatures of this universe and to system errors and the notion of failure. The work is part of the Vigilante_00 series, developed by Cribb since 2019, and is part of the Videobrasil Archive. 

Clarissa Diniz is an educator, curator, and writer in the visual arts. Professor in the Department of Art History and Theory at the School of Fine Arts of the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (EBA/UFRJ), Diniz holds a Master’s degree in the Arts from UERJ and a Ph.D. in Cultural Anthropology from UFRJ. She served as Content Manager at the Museu de Arte do Rio – MAR (2013–2018), assistant curator of the Programa Rumos Artes Visuais 2008/2009 (Instituto Itaú Cultural), a researcher for Documents of 20th-century Latin American and Latino Art (MFAH, USA), a guest curator at the Centre for Curatorial Leadership 2014 (MoMA, USA), and for the ARA History of Art Residency 2022 program (Witwatersrand University, Johannesburg, South Africa). Between 2006 and 2015, she was editor of Tatuí, an art review journal. Diniz has published numerous articles, catalogs, and books and participated in the 17th and 21st editions of the Videobrasil Biennial as a panelist. Among her recent curatorial projects, the following stand out: MEME: no Br@sil da memeficação (CCBB, 2025–2026), Montez Magno: Algúria (Pinacoteca de São Paulo, 2023), and Histórias Brasileiras (MASP, 2022). 

*This video is an episode of the Commented Archive series, which invites curators and researchers to reflect on the works in the Videobrasil Archive. With original critical analyses, the project expands information about the works in light of contemporary issues and offers new angles for research, activating the Videobrasil Cultural Association’s collection and expanding knowledge about artists from the Global South.