Silvia Laurentiz is an Associate Professor in the Department of Fine Arts and in the Post-Graduate Program in Visual Arts at the School of Communication and Arts of the University of São Paulo. PhD in Communication and Semiotics (PUC-SP, 1999), "Livre-docência” (postdoc writing) in Arts (ECA/USP, 2011). She is also Coordinator and founder of the Research Group Realidades (2010 – current, website at http://www2.eca.usp.br/realidades/en/ ). Researcher and Multimedia artist interested in virtual and augmented reality, interactive environments, multimedia installations, AI, and web art. Among her most recent publications are: “Sensoriality and conformed thought” (2015), in International Conference on Universal Access in Human-Computer Interaction (pp. 217-225). Springer; “Videogames and the development of cognitive skills” (2017), DAT Journal, 2(1), 80-90; “Conformed Thought: Consolidating Traces of Memories” (2018), in International Conference of Design, User Experience, and Usability (pp. 28-40). Springer; Conformed Thought and the Art of Algorithms, ARTECH 2019: Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Digital and Interactive Arts - October 2019 - Article No.: 39 Pages 1–8 https://doi.org/10.1145/3359852.3359871; “R Scuti: Creative Star Data Visualization”(2021), S. Laurentiz, LP Bergantini, S Venancio, et. al., in International Journal of Creative Interfaces and Computer Graphics (IJCICG), p. 13-26. Editor of the Dossier Membranes: intersections of art, science, and technology., in Ars Journal, v. 17 n. 35 (2019), in http://www.revistas.usp.br/ars/issue/view/10897