Cristina Miranda de Almeida
University of the Basque Country / Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea
Cristina Miranda de Almeida, holds a European Doctorate in Art (UPV/EHU 2005), a Degree in Fine Arts (UPV/EHU, with a pre-doctoral stay in Florence) and a Degree in Architecture (USU, Rio de Janeiro). She holds a Master’s degree in Industrial Design (DZ-BAI, Bilbao) and a Specialisation in Territorial and Urban Planning (Fundicot Madrid/University of Valencia; IBAM, RJ, Brazil). She is currently affiliated to the University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU) where she teaches in the Bachelor’s Degree and in the Master’s Degree in Contemporary Art Research, Increarte.
Furthermore, she has had postdoctoral stays at the Digital Culture Research Programme of the Internet Interdisciplinary Institute (IN3/UOC), Barcelona; McLuhan Program of Culture and Technology, University of Toronto (2007-11) and École Nationale Supérieure de Beaux-Arts, Paris (2010). She is a Research Fellow at Mediaccions/Universidad Oberta de Catalunya and a researcher member at the Research Group Gizaartea, UPV/EHU, and a member of the group Artekom. Art for the energy transition. Communication and awareness-raising strategies on the Bizkaia campus. Energía Ekologikoaren Trantsiziorako Artea eta Komunikazioa (UPV/EHU).
Her research focuses on issues related to (1) hybrid art (impact of the Internet on experience and new materialities), (2) collaborative and interdisciplinary art and (3) the role of art in climate change and ecology.
She has participated in several research projects in competitive and commissioned calls (MINECO, UPV/EHU, BEAZ), some as principal investigator. Her publications include her PhD thesis entitled “The Tree of Art. Trans-sensory and intersubjective matrix for non-visual art and the silence of the artistic self” (UPV/EHU, 2006), the book The Point of Being (co-edited with Derrick de Kerkhove), the co-edition of an issue of Technoethics, Intellect Journals, and several articles in specialised journals, book chapters and international conference proceedings. She has been a guest speaker in Seville, Bilbao, Frankfurt, Essen and Prague among others. Founder of Universal Margin, her creative artwork (installations, performances, photography, drawing) has been exhibited internationally and locally in museums, cultural centres and public exhibition halls as well as in museums and private galleries.
