Laymert Garcia dos Santos is an essayist and was university lecturer in the field of the sociology of technology at the University of Campinas, São Paulo (now retired).

He lived in Paris in the 1970s and gained a PhD in information technology at the University of Paris 7. Between 1992 and 1993, he was a Visiting Professor at St. Antony’s College, Oxford University.

He has published on the topics of art, culture and technology and has written a number of books. He organized Drucksache N.F.6, a German-Portuguese volume on Heiner Müller and Brazil, for the International Heiner Müller Gesellchaft and Richter Verlag, in 2001, and published several essays on contemporary art in magazines and catalogues.

He was artistic co-director of the multimedia opera Amazonas – Theatre Music in Three Parts for the Biennial of Theatre Music in Munich, in 2010. And also, co-director of Xapiri, an experimental film on Yanomami shamanism, in 2012.