Russ Rive & Liana Brazil

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Russ Rive and Liana Brazil founded the company SuperUber, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. They work where art, technology and design converge, acting as curators, interactive designers, art and technology directors. They have participated in exhibitions and events throughout the world such as: PeléStation at World Cup 2006 Germany / Spring Dance in Holland / Open Air in Portugal / CCBB, Paço Imperial, Portuguese Language Museum and Tomie Ohtake Institute in Brazil. Their interactive and multimedia installations have different goals. They make installations for culture, education, entertainment and advertising.

Liana Brazil worked in New York, in companies like HBOKids, Eyebeam Atelier, Ehollywood, Pixel Press and Picture Projects, graduated in Interactive Telecommunications from NYU and participated in festivals like NY International Children’s Film Festival and NY Film Festival. She's an editor, animator and designer. Back in Brasil, she creates and develops installations for exhibitions and events in major culture venues. She is the editor of Interface, weekly column about Art and Technology at JB Online newspaper.

Russ Rive focuses on creative ways to merge art and technology. He researches the latest technologies, creating and reinventing ways of interacting with the artistic content of each installation. Before SuperUber, Russ founded Everdream, the market leader in on-demand Desktop Management services. Everdream manages over 140,000 systems throughout 60+ countries. Before Everdream Russ was part of the initial team at Zip2, a leading provider of enterprise software and services to the media industry, with investments from the New York Times Co., KnightRider, MDV, SoftBank, and the Hearst Corp. Zip2 was later acquired by Compaq. Russ holds three technology patents and an Electrical Engineering degree from Tshwane University of Technology, South Africa.