Diego Mac is a Brazilian dance director, choreographer and 3D artist based in Porto Alegre who creates dance works using 3D animation and simulation software. He has worked with dance and media technology since 2006, and since the early 2020s has extended that practice into 3D simulation, the metaverse and NFTs.
Mac graduated in dance from ULBRA and later completed a master's degree in Visual Poetics at the Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS), with further specialization in the same field at Feevale. His master's research, advised by Sandra Rey and supported by Brazil's CAPES funding agency, became O Colecionador de Movimentos, translating 48 movements from his memory into a video-based collection organized around ideas of movement, collection and hypertext. The project drew on appropriated references including Julio Le Parc's Continuel Mobile, Alexander Calder's O Circo de Calder, Hélio Oiticica's Parangolés and Tchaikovsky's Swan Lake ballet. Around 2006 he began working with video and media technologies in dance, creating Pas de Corn, a videodance work in which a corps of dancers formed from popcorn satirizes the dancer's body. He directs the dance company Macarenando Dance Concept.
