RESEARCH
Research through practice
Her academic work runs in parallel with her practice: the history and aesthetics of live video and VJ culture, live cinema, immersive environments and the audiovisual art of the pandemic years.
Lines of inquiry
01
Live video & VJ culture
Her doctoral thesis traced live video and VJing from the avant-gardes and music culture of the twentieth century to digital art.
02
Live cinema & transmedia
Expanded and live cinema as performance, and the dissolution of fixed form.
03
Immersive environments
Translating video artworks across immersive and digital formats; experience design and UX/UI.
04
Light, object & territory
Projected light in encounter with objects, architecture and landscape.
Publications
2021
“Unpredictable Times”
Essay on audiovisual art made during the pandemic
Moving Image Review & Art Journal (MIRAJ)
2019
Immersive Pipeline
White paper, AHRC-funded research project (research associate)
Goldsmiths, University of London
2011
“New trends in VJing and visual arts”
MCD Magazine, Paris
2010
El VJ y la creación audiovisual performativa: hacia una estética radical de la postmodernidad
PhD thesis, cum laude
Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, Madrid
2009
History of new media and audiovisual arts
Online educational modules
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“Exploring Live Cinema: towards transmedia and the dissolution of the form”
Journal article (English and Spanish)
Comunicación 21, Madrid
2026
The Art of Light
Official Compendium
EDUCATION
2010 · PhD cum laude, Audiovisual Performance Art, Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, Madrid
MA in Scriptwriting and Creativity in Television (URJC and Globomedia, Madrid)
MA in the Information Society (doctoral research, URJC)
Post-doctoral Research Fellow, CCW, University of the Arts London
ACADEMIC POSTS
2023– · Senior Lecturer in Design (UX/UI), Ravensbourne University London (teaching there since 2019)
Research Associate, Goldsmiths, Immersive Pipeline (AHRC)
Guildhall School of Music & Drama, University of Greenwich, University of Kent, Rose Bruford College, Universidad Rey Juan Carlos
Peer reviewer for sound art journals
TALKS
NYU Interactive Media
St Petersburg and Moscow
LPM Live Performers Meeting, Rome
Vision’R, Paris
Maus Hábitos, Porto
AWARDS & GRANTS
2025 · British Council travel grant
2019 · Francis Chagrin Award (Sound and Music)
2017 · Composer-Curator Award, Sound and Music
2016, 2018 · Arts Council England project grants
2015 · AMEXCID excellence scholarship (Government of Mexico)
RESIDENCIES
2019 · R_i / Ruderal Interstitial, Solar, Tenerife
2015 · Audiovisuales Efímeros y Expandidos, Oaxaca
2012 · Mapping Festival, Geneva