Tania Fraga
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TANIA FRAGA
Brazilian architect and artist. She holds a Ph.D. on the Communication and Semiotics Program at the Catholic University of Sao Paulo. She is vice-president of the Sao Paulo Institute of Mathematics and Arts. Ms. Fragia developed a Senior Post Doctoral research project at School of Communication and Arts of the 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. 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. In 1986 she was Artist-in-Residence at The Bemis Foundation, USA, with a grant from the Fulbright Commission. 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.
Photo: Tania Fraga wearing interactive device worn by a dancer, live in performance: MindFluctuations
Tania Fraga Collaborations with MWDCCO:
view on https://maidadance.com/works/ (title)
Virtual Worlds: Tania Fraga collaborations with MWDCCo
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)
Naked Truth (2010) – Tzveta Kassabova
Installation performance (Involuntary Encounters)
Projected “BOTS” by Tania Fraga (bots photo not available)
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Hekuras Project: Spirits of the Rainforest (2002; Brazil and 2010, USA)
RainForest Awakens
(Snakes by Tania Fraga, Brazil)
Visionary Rainforest live and on line August 13, 2020
ArtOMatic program during COVID
Maida Withers solo – performance at wall of home “living room”
Steve Hilmy – live from Florida via internet
Tania Fraga – live manipulation of images, Sao Paulo, Brazil
Collaborations
- Hekuras - Spirits of the Rainforest (USA)
- Data to Dance: Dance of the Auroras-Fire in the Sky
- Hekuras - Spirits of the Rainforest (Brazil)
- Dance of the Auroras - Fire in the Sky, DC
- MindFluctuations
- MindFluctuations Numeric Variations Residency Brazil
- Naked Truth
- Hekuras (Visual Installation)
- Monster Man
- Offering
- Rainforest Awakens
- Rainforest Awakens
- LEGACY: 50 Years Dance on the Edge
Tania Fraga