Tania Fraga is a Brazilian architect and artist. She holds a Ph.D. in the Communication and Semiotics Program, Catholic University of Sao Paulo. Until 2003, Dr. Fraga was Professor and Coordinator of the Graduation Studies of the Art Institute at University of Brasilia, Brazil. She has been a member of the Zero Gravity Arts Consortium, USA, and the Advisory Research Committee of the Banff New Media Centre, Canada; a Visiting Scholar at the Computer Science Department at The George Washington University, Washington DC, and an Artist-in-Residence at The Bemis Foundation, USA, with a grant from the Fulbright Commission. She works with computer art and has been showing and publishing her work in national and international exhibitions, lectures, workshops, seminars and conferences. Her research is related to virtual reality and the creation of artworks looking for the integration of affection among humans, virtual and physical objects through computer technology. Recent research deals with the integration of computer based artworks with neural technologies. Such artworks weave knowledge and artistic processes with computational technologies aiming creative results at integrating art, science and technology; results with poetic, aesthetic and functional qualities; results exploring emergency and agency for their construction, design and set up.
