Dr. Alicia Vela

Period active: 2000 – 2018

Professor of the Printmaking Area of the Painting Department of the Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of Barcelona. Combines teaching with the artistic production. Her experience nourishes of the thought and sensitivity surrounding the context of art, trying to make of it a shared experience. From 1979 she has participated in numerous individual and collective exhibitions in Europe, Argentina, the USA and Japan. In recent years her research has focused on studying the language of digital printing and the new media within the art form. Since the year 2000 she is main researcher for competitive projects I+D Binary Prospections, I, II (BHA2000-0734) (BHA2003-02938) and Printing Expanded (HUM2007-64757/ARTE). From these projects she has organized, along with other researchers, conferences, seminars and workshops directed to the students of doctorate and the formation of the research fellows.