Dr. Elena Fraj

PhD assistant professor in the Department of Visual Arts and Design of the Faculty of Fine Arts (Universitat de Barcelona). Bachelor of Fine Arts (UB 2001), PhD in Audiovisual Communication (UAB 2015) with the thesis Políticas del Fake: la ficción mediática como modo de resistencia y emancipación. She works in the field of visual studies in relation to activist art, media culture, humor, and representations of gender and class. Member of pioneering activist art projects in Spain such as Yomango or Enmedio, she is currently part of the platform Rodillo. Project IP Discursive visualizations of responses to gender violence in the Spanish media (UB, Áreas Emergentes de la UB, 2022-2023). How the curator makes the exhibition La violencia machista como tema en el arte contemporáneo del estado español, (Sala Juana francés, Zaragoza, 2018). She participates in the project Historias del Punto (2018-actualidad), Fundación Tecnocampus, an interactive archive that collects the memory of working women in the textile manufacturing sector. As an audiovisual producer and editor, she has received various commissions, among others from the ICUB Barcelona City Council. He has received the DPZ Scholarship (2008), the DPZ Plastic Arts Scholarship (2004) or the Fundació Espais d’Art Contemporani de Girona (2006) for his audiovisual work Mèmoires de unas serveuses. As transfer projects, she has participated in the preparation of the guide Situation of teaching and research staff with disabilities in the Spanish university system (2022). She has been part of the  x.net platform that participates internationally in the movement in favor of free licenses and Open Source, promoting meetings such as the oXcars (2008-2009) and the Free Culture Forum (2009). https://elenafraj.com/