Professor in Media Art at the Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of Barcelona (since 1993). Director of the Department of Design and Image (2012-2016). Vice Dean of Research, Masters and Doctorate (2016-2021). Coordinator of the Doctoral Program Advanced Studies in Artistic Productions (2022).
She combines her teaching and research experience with criticism, curation and the realization of various projects for the web environment. She has organized numerous seminars and exhibitions on art and new media. Among its curators of exhibitions are NEW (EGO). Cuerpos Conectados (2021) en ETOPIA. Centro de Arte y Tecnología de Zaragoza; CTRL + [SELF]: Intimacy, Extimacy and Control in the Age of the Self's Overexposure (2016) en Studio XX de Montreal; la serie Multiverso (2016, 2017, 2018-2019) en la Fundación BBVA de Madrid; Breaking the rules: play and ethical challenge in art (2015) at CENART in Mexico DF; Homo Ludens Ludens (2008), at Laboral Centro de Arte y Promoción Industrial de Gijón, and the exhibitions (Network of Cultural Centers of AECID and Instituto Cervantes) that has circulated in (2009: Mexico, Montevideo, Quito, Guayaquil, Buenos Aires, Córdoba and Rosario; 2010: Manizales, Lima, Cuzco, Asunción, Managua and Miami; 2011: Athens, Istanbul and Casablanca; 2012: Rio de Janeiro; 2015: Havana and Camagüey). Monographs en Metrópolis de RTVE: NEW (EGO) (2021), la serie Multiverso (2016, 2017, 2019) y Carta blanca a comisarios (2012). Last curators: (2020) Absences: Nostalgia and Duel in Mirarnos a los ojos for BIM of Buenos Aires; Anesthesia. Adrián Melis & Javier Castro for LOOP 2020 Barcelona; (2019) Franco & Eva Mattes. Intimacy and (dis) control, for FIVAC Camagüey / Havana Biennial.
He has published articles and essays on art and activism on the web, video and game art, and the books: Cuerpos conectados. Arte, identidad y autorrepresentación en la sociedad transmedia (con Pedro Ortuño, Dykinson 2021), Video in Latin America. A critical history (AECID & Brumaria, 2008); Net.art. Aesthetic and political practices on the Web, (with Lourdes Cilleruelo, UB & Brumaria, 2006) and Video. First stage: The video in the social and artistic context of the 60s/70s (Brumaria, 2004), which received the Award for the Creation and Criticism of Art 2005 from the Fundació Espais de Gerona. Also, the University Manuals Video and the historical vanguards (UB, 1997) and Digital Video of Creation (UOC, 2004). Latest publications: (2020) Video and Net.art: Art and communication in the era of technological myth in Cyborgs, Zombies and Chimeras. Cyberculture and cybervanguards (Holobionte 2019) and Stolen Identities. Art, appropriation and extimacy in online life in Arte, Individuo y Sociedad, 31 (3), 605-624.
Research: It has 4 six-year research periods (last 2020). She has directed 11 doctoral theses (2 PM) and 14 TFM (3 MH). Thesis: 'Video art. First stage: 1963-1979. The appearance of video in the social and artistic context of the 60s / 70s and its entailment to the historical avant-gardes'. 9/17/1996 Cum Laude at the Faculty of BBAA of the UB. PI of the project BODIES CONNECTED. Art and identity cartographies in transmedia society. HAR2017-84915-R (2018-2021) and PI of the project BODIES CONNECTED II. New processes of creation and diffusion of identity artistic practices in non-attendance, PID2020-116999RB-I00 (2021-2024). Grup IMARTE. Research in artistic processes and new technologies (SGR desde 2014).
Creator of the alternative information resource El transmisor (1997-2008) and the media art resources ArchID (team Cuerpos conectados, UB 2021) Arte en Red (1997-2000) and DATA.ART (2001-2008) Mediateca de CaixaForum. FotoPres'94 Grant. Photographic project Co + Media. Fundació 'La Caixa' of Barcelona.
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