Águeda Simó, artista e investigadora, apresenta a conferência “Corpos Conectados: Projeto de investigação e prática artística sobre a construção identitária e o seu impacto social” aos alunos do doutoramento em Design, no âmbito da disciplina de Seminários. O encontro terá lugar no dia 11 de outubro, sexta-feira, às 14h, no Auditório da Biblioteca da UBI.
Nota biográfica
Águeda Simó is an artist and researcher who works at the confluence of art and science applying concepts and technologies drawn from mathematics, biology, neuroscience and engineering. Her interdisciplinary background in art, humanities and computer graphics has led her to develop artistic and research projects in the area of virtual reality and interactive installations using narratives and languages that reflect multicultural, ecological and bioethical issues. Her artwork has exhibited internationally at venues including ZKM, Laboral Art Center, SIGGRAPH, IMAGINA, USC Fisher Museum of Art, and resides in collections that include the Queen Sofia National Center of Art Museum and the Museum of Science of San Sebastian, Spain. She has received grants, awards and fellowships from numerous institutions including Annenberg Center for Communication, ACM VRCAI-SIGGRAPH, Phonos Foundation, German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) and Fulbright. She publishes and talks internationally about interdisciplinary research and new media and has taught at the University of Southern California, the California Institute of the Arts (CalArts), the University of the Basque Country and the University of Beira Interior where she is currently Associate Professor. She holds a PhD in Fine Arts from the University of the Basque Country, and a MA in Image Synthesis and Computer Animation from Middlesex University.