Tania Fraga

       Tania Fraga

More Information: http://taniafraga.art.br/

TANIA FRAGA
Brazilian architect and computer artist with a Ph.D. in Communication and Semiotics at the Catholic University of Sao Paulo. She is vice-president of the Sao Paulo Institute of Mathematics and Art and Technology with a Senior Post Doctoral research project at School of Communication and Arts, University of Sao Paulo with a research grant from FAPESP, Sao Paulo Foundation for Research Support. In the course of 1999, Tania developed a Post Doctoral research project at the Centre for Advanced Inquiry in Interactive Arts and Science Technology and Art Research, UK, with a research grant from the Brazilian Agency for the Improvement of Higher Education Personnel, CAPES.  Until 2003 she was Professor and Coordinator of the Graduation Studies of the Art Institute at University of Brasilia, Brazil. Since 2006 she has been a member of the Zero Gravity Arts Consortium, USA. In 2003, Tania became a  member of the Advisory Research Committee of the Banff New Media Centre, Canada. She was Visiting Scholar at the Computer Science Department at The George Washington University, Washington DC, in 1991/1992, in 2010, and 2011; retired professor at the University of Brasilia.   In 1986 she was Artist-in-Residence at The Bemis Foundation, USA, with a grant from the Fulbright Commission, USA.  She has received many awards and grants and has showed ad published her work in many national and international events.  She works with computer art and has been showing and publishing her work in many national and international exhibitions, lectures, workshops, seminars and congresses. Her research is related to virtual reality and the creation of artworks looking for the integration of affection among humans, virtual and physical objects through computer technology. Recent research deals with the integration of computer based artworks with neural technologies. Such artworks weave knowledge and artistic processes with computational technologies aiming creative results integrating art, science and technology; results with poetic, aesthetic and functional qualities; results exploring emergency and agency for their construction, design and set up. https://taniafraga.aart.br.

Tania Fraga, Collaborator, Maida Withers and the Dance Construction Company

Tania Fraga MindFluctuations: Tania Fraga, interactive device worn by a dancer, live in performance

MindFluctuations

 

Joseph with NASA red sun
Above  – Photo:  Adam Peiperl
Dancer: Joseph Mills – Dance of the Auroras – Fire in the Sky

Aurora 2001-2003: Dance of the Auroras / Fire in the Sky 
Dancer manipulates projected “Auroral” images using the wireless mouse on stage
(The Sun/Virtual Sun, Solar Wind towards Magnetosphere; Magnetic Storm Seen from Above;
 Evening length work performed in Tromso, Norway and Washington, DC, USA.


Mind Fluctuations (2014) – Evening length work
Monster Within or Monster Man – Anthony Gongora (solo)
Computer visual Installation: Tania Fraga, Sao Paulo,
Maida – 4th Amazing Earthfest

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Hekuras Project: Spirits of the Rainforest (2002)
Sao Paulo, Brazil premiere with professional Brazilian dancers


Hekuras Project: Spirits of the RainForest (2010)
Note:  2010, restaged by Maida Withers with dancers at George Washington University, Washington, DC (USA)

Maida Withers – ArtOMatic program during COVID (2020)
August 13, 2020, RainForest Awakens, Washington, DC – (Snakes by Tania Fraga, Brazil)
Visionary Rainforest live and on line
Maida Withers solo – performance in front of the “living room” wall in Maida’s home, Arlington, VA
Steve Hilmy – live music from Florida, via internet
Tania Fraga – live manipulation of visual computer images, Sao Paulo, Brazil
Eric Withers and Jamille Wallick, technical production, Maida Withers’ home

 

Collaborations