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Ana Cantera

Project and Research Coordinator / Professorat Universidad Nacional de Tres de Febrero (UNTREF University)
Monte Grande,
Argentina
Focus area: Art Theory, Critical Theory, Digital Art, New Media, Ecology, Environment, Fabrication, Maker Art, Public Art, Robotics, Electronics, Site Specific, Place Making, Wearables,Connected self

Biolectronic artist, researcher and professor. She has a Master degree in Electronic Arts at Universidad Nacional de Tres de Febrero UNTREF, a Bachelor degree in Fine Arts at Universidad de las Artes (UNA) and a degree as Art Teacher at UNA.  In her artistic productions she works with the concepts of natures, territories and horizontal entanglements with non-human organisms. She is developer and creator of biomaterials, specialized in grown designs from mushroom mycelium.  Recently, she received  the Global Community Bio Fellows fellowship at MIT, the ELAP Emerging Leaders in the Americas Program (Concordia University-Montreal) and the First Prize Itaú Artes Visuales, in Robotic Arts category. She works as professor in the Master in Technology and Aesthetics of Electronic Arts at UNTREF.