augurusto, known as zofi au gore, is a Brazilian artist working with GIFs and HTML-based interactive pieces rooted in pixel art and glitch aesthetics. Her practice uses front-end and game development techniques to build browser-native, animated works that treat low resolution, noise, and system errors as expressive material.
She began making art online as a child, running an amateur comic blog around 2011 and sharing hand-drawn banners with other young bloggers before the scene moved first to MSN and then to Facebook. For some years afterward she mostly stopped drawing outside of game development projects with friends. She returned to illustration after a partner reconnected her with that art scene, and was drawn into NFTs when the partner's friends began making money from them. She began minting on Tezos and has continued since. Her work draws on early indie and RPG Maker-era games, including Yume Nikki, its fan games, and OFF, which she names as major influences that drew her into game development roughly a decade ago.
