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Sofia Catarina Mota

FCSH/UNL

PhD student, Digital Media

 

Catarina holds a BA in Communication Sciences, with a major in Film, from the New University of Lisbon, and a master's degree from New York University's Interactive Telecommunications Program (ITP), where she was also a research fellow (fellowship sponsored by ITP and Interval Research Corporation). At ITP she specialized in physical computing and interactive installations. Her installations include a storytelling eye-tracking system, an immersive narrative environment, and a few sets of interactive portraits. Additionally, Catarina has studied film at the New York Film Academy, photography at New York's School of Visual Arts, and received training in video, documentary, and digital animation.
As a multimedia consultant she has 10 years of experience in interaction and interface design, information architecture, and rich media content for both the web and physical environments. She has served as creative director, lead information architect and designer on numerous projects for museums, companies, schools, and governmental institutions based in Portugal, New York and Los Angeles.
Catarina is also a founding member of the hackerspace altLab and co-founder of openMaterials.

 

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