We are saddened by the loss of Diana Domingues, Brazilian artist, theoretician, and educator, who passed away on June 5. Diana Domingues (1947-2025) forged works that sought the naturalization of technology, hybridizing daily rituals, mixed reality, and the bio-cybrid body. She was interested in developing hermeneutic and metaphorical proposals of interactive complex systems that addressed the conditions, limits, and possibilities of human-machine symbiosis in the 21st century. Recognized internationally for her contributions and collaborations, she played an influential role in shaping the interactive and digital art field in South America, particularly in Brazil, commingling elements from Latin America and Brazilian cultural heritage with contemporary technoscience.

In 1998, French theoretician Edmond Couchot wrote:  When we feared that new technologies could take us apart from our origins and separate us from our past – and this remains possible – Diana Domingues shows us the opposite, that they are not forcefully incompatible with the deepest forms of our imagination. A new paradoxical hybridization is still there, in the work, between body and calculation, between trance and algorithm. (Diana Domingues, Exhibition catalogue. Caxias do Sul: Lorigraf, 1998).

As a theoretician, she published articles and anthologies, which focused on the creative process, the brain's processing of videos and images, and the functioning of the mind, mathematics, computing, organic systems, and artificial intelligence. As an academic, Diana Domingues was Founder and Director of LART, CNPq; Researcher A1, Senior Collaborator at the PostGraduate Program in Biomedical Engineering-FGA UnB, and at the Science and Technologies in Health PostGraduate Program - Ceilândia UnB, and Research Collaborator at IC/UNICAMP.

We bid farewell to this luminous mind whose experimental art/science legacy lives on in the minds and spirits of the many women and men she encountered and encouraged.

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https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diana_Domingues