About anaventura

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Ana Boa-Ventura lectured in Sweden, Spain, Portugal, Czechoslovakia, the US, Canada, Venezuela, Mexico, and Brazil on various aspects of digital media. She led numerous workshops aimed at professionals in Education, Journalism, and the Film and Publishing Industries in France, Spain, Luxembourg, Portugal and the US. Ana has also been involved, sometimes as a project manager, in international projects with Brazil, Spain, Canada and Mexico. She has worked with both the corporate and academic worlds in branding (and refreshing...) web presence. Her newest passion is the incorporation of open source tools in virtual communities. In her dissertation she is looking at the impact of social features in websites for smoking cessation. Ana taught ‘Interactive Narratives’ for many years at a the University of Aveiro, Portugal, ‘Writing for New Media’ for an MA at the University of Santiago de Compostela, Spain and at the prestigious Escuela de Imagen y Sonido de La Coruna. She teaches ‘Digital Storytelling’ at the National University in L.A. She has always maintained her interest in digital art contributing with articles for online journals and participating in panels and workshops in Venezuela, Spain, Luxembourg, Germany, and Canada. She is interested in the relationship between the gendered body and the machine. To the extent that her practice informs her models and curator practices, she performed in interactive installations that she designed, mostly involving physical interfaces and found objects. In one of these she reflects on “auto-biography” by juxtaposing her body to video - projected on a human-sized screen - created from archival photos of Isadora Duncan. In another the audience scans bar codes that she tattoed in her body following a "body map" - each scan triggers a movie sequence that plays with the ambiguous meaning of words in the Anglo-Saxon and Romanic languages. She is a Fulbright scholar and a fellow with HASTAC (Humanities, Arts, Science and Technology Advanced Collaboratory).

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http://www.boa-ventura.com

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