Cristina Miranda de Almeida

Cristina Miranda de Almeida, Curriculum Vitae/ Short, 2013

Cristina Miranda de Almeida, artist (University of the Basque Country, UPV-EHU, Spain), architect and urban planner lives and works is Spain. She holds a European PhD in Arts (UPV-EHU 2005), a Postdoctorate Degree as Advanced Research Associate at the Planetary Collegium, University of Plymouth, U.K (2006), a Master in Industrial Design (DZ-BAI Berrikuntza Agentzia – Innovaction Agency) and is specialized in Territorial Planning (Fundicot, Universidad de Valencia, Feder, Spain) and in Town Planning (IBAM, Brazilian Institute of Municipal Administration, Rio de Janeiro).

She is currently teaching at the Department of Art and Technology, Faculty of Fine Arts, University of the Basque Country, and since 2009 she is a Visiting Scholar and External collaborator in the Research Line Digital Culture, Internet Interdisciplinary Institute, University Oberta de Calalunya, Spain. Since 2007 she is a McLuhan w-Fellow in the MPCT, University of Toronto, Canada.

Her research interest is focused on the impact of Internet of Things, web 2.0/3.0, social networks, social media, augmented and diminished realities, cloud computing, quantum computing and actants networks in the shaping of new forms of experience and in the definition of the subject and society. This research focus is developed within an interdisciplinary approach dwelling in the intersection of art, technology, science, consciousness studies and social sciences to develop an analytical framework called Matter-ICT, or Material-ICT, for understanding personal and social experience in the confluence of art and media practices, taking into consideration the new features of the emerging trend. The results of this research have been disseminated in different international conferences and publications. She has been also collaborating in the Research Project Digital Persona and editing the collective book The Point of Being (both with Derrick de Kerckhove) among other individual and collective research projects and developments, like the International Conference McLuhan Galaxy (2011).