Milena Szafir

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• ISEA2015

  Milena Szafir received in 2011 the most important Brazilian Prize – “Sérgio Motta Art and Technology Award” – by the body of her work, performed during the last ten years as an emerging artist. In the same year, her online interactive video “YouToRe-mix”(2011) was awarded in the “International Digital Art 3M Exhibition”. She has been regarded as one of the pioneers in Brazilian live cinema/ vj’ing scene (1990-2000’s). At present she is a professor at Institute of Art & Culture, Federal University of Ceara, Brazil, and a Ph.D. candidate at the University of São Paulo, School of Communications and Arts. She was a co-chair in the “EuroITV Grand Challenge Competition” (2010-2013) and her research main interests are on the audiovisual apparatus, remix video montage [editing], low & high technologies, live streaming [web] television, surveillance situations, spectacle media and communication as art (& vice-versa).