Vanessa Sonia Santos




Most Recent Affiliation(s):


  • Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Digital Media Artist

ISEA Bio(s) Available:


  • ISEA 2018

    • Vanessa Santos is a digital media artist and researcher. She holds a Ph.D. in Social Communication (2017), from Pompeu Fabra University (Spain). Her expertise is in audiovisual production, digital storytelling, interactive systems, locative and mobile media.
      She has collaborated with research groups involved in the study of the following topics: technology inclusion, sociotech networks, open source software for multimedia production, virtual and augmented reality based systems to experience complex data sets. The artist is interested in the creative use of technology and in the stimulus that it entails in the formulation of new narrative genres. In 2014, she integrated the research line on Locative Media of Hangar Center for Visual Arts. Her last work is “Chronica Mobilis”, an interactive and geolocated performance with gameplay, which happens in a public space. Currently, she investigates the audience experience in response to different modes of engagement.

Last Known Location:


  • Saint Barthelemy


Role(s) at the symposia over the years: