Prof. Dr. Diana Domingues is the founder and the Director of LART (Art and TechnoScience Research Laboratory, Brazil). She is a CNPq researcher PQ1 A at the National Research Board, Ministry of Science Technology and Innovation, She actuates as a senior Professor at the PostGraduate Program in Biomedical. Engineering at UnB FGA Gama and at the PostGraduate Program in Science and Technologies in Health at UnB Ceilândia. She also is a Researcher Collaborator at the Computig Institut – UNICAMP at the Socioenactive Group UNICAMP FAPESP (2019-2023). She received the Grant of the National Program of Visiting Professors (PVNS/CAPES of the Ministry of Education, (2010-2014), Brazil. She holds a postdoctoral degree from ATI – Art & Technologies de l’Image, Université Paris VIII, and a PhD in Communication and Semiotics from PUC São Paulo. She traced the plan of ‘New Leonardos’ in Brazil at the University of Brasilia and UNICAMP, based on the creative minds of artists and scientists to redefine the boundaries of Art and TechnoScience, investigating innovative practices for contributions to contemporary forms of Art. Her actions are related to international collaborations such as at MIT – Camera Culture/CNPq,Advisory Board of the Program MediaAC, Department for Image Science (Danube University Krems), and CEAVVE DD OCADU in Toronto, editorial Board of Digital Creativity, consultant and advisory member in events of Societies ISEA, Leonardo and others. Publications of high impact at IEEE, ISEA, Leonardo, SPIE, SIGGRAPH Editorial results including around 15 books in Anthologies, Journals, special issues and the landmark books at EDUNESP book: Arte, ciência e tecnologia: passado, presente e desafios (2009); Arte e vida no século XXI: tecnologia, ciência e criatividade (2003); A arte no século XXI: a humanização das tecnologias (1997); Criação e Interatividade na Ciberarte, Experimento (2002).
She is the author of approximately 100 chapters in books and articles in journals of Harmattan, Presses UQAM, LAVAL, and other publishers in Mexico, Spain, Italy, France, the UK, China, Japan, and the US, including Leonardo and Digital Creativity. She is a reference in Latin American Contemporary Arts with over 50 individual exhibits, and over 130 collective exhibitions in São Paulo Biennials, Bienal de la Habana, Bienal do Mercosul, HKW (Berlin), Maison Européenne de la Photographie Paris 2005, Museum MN Belas Artes (Rio de Janeiro), Buenos Aires, UNAM Mexico, MAM Buenos Aires, São Paulo MAC (São Paulo), Museum Arto f Rio Grande do Sul and in galleries and museums in France, Italy, Sweden, the US, Greece, China, Mexico, Peru, Argentina and Colombia. She has curated international events such as Ciberarte Zonas de Interação (II Bienal do Mercosul), engaging with over 300 scientists and artists.
Awards include, e-Culture Awards - 3rd Edition, The 2000 UNESCO PRIZE – 7th Biennial la Habana; The First LEONARDO Global Crossing Prize; 2004 Rockefeller Foundation; Personality of the XX Century (Caxias do Sul, Brazil); and SERGIO MOTTA PRIZE 2011, Celebrated Artist, SAD, UEMG, 2018, Her work is published in seminal books of Edmond Couchot, Louise Poissant, Sara Diamond and others. She is in the selected list of artists of the book Latin American Art in the 20th Century, by Edward-Lucie Smith,Thames and Hudson, 2003; Bruce Wands; Digital Art, 2004, Stephen Wilson, Information Arts, MIT Press 2002 Art + Science Now, by Thames and Hudson, 2009; Digital Creativity, 2016, vol 27, n. 4.