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

 

 

Tania Fraga Collaborations with MWDCCo view:

MindFluctuations

Virtual Worlds: Tania Fraga collaborations with MWDCCo

Joseph with NASA red sun
Photo:  Adam Peiperl

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


Mind Fluctuations (2014) – Evening length work
Monster Man – Anthony Gongora (solo)
Computer visual Installation: Tania Fraga, Sao Paulo,Maida 2 – 4th Amazing Earthfest Brazil

Naked Truth (2010), USA – Tzveta Kassabova
and Installation performance (Involuntary Encounters)
Projected “BOTS” by Tania Fraga (bots photo not available)

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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, restaged by Maida Withers with dancers at George Washington University, Washington, DC (USA)


ArtOMatic program during COVID
RainForest Awakens, Washington, DC – (Snakes by Tania Fraga, Brazil)
Visionary Rainforest live and on line August 13, 2020

Maida Withers solo – performance at wall or “living room” – Maida Withers, 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