Associate Professor at the UFRJ (Federal University of Rio de Janeiro) where she works in the Visual Design Communication Course, the Postgraduate Program in Visual Arts (PPGAV) and the Postgraduate Program in Design (PPGD) at the UFRJ  School of Fine Arts, where she is coordinator of the Laboratory of Visuality and Visualization - LabVis / EBA-UFRJ (labvis.eba.ufrj.br). She holds a degree in Industrial Design from the University of Calgary (1982), a master's degree (2003) and a PhD (2008) in Design from PUC Rio with an Honorable Mention for the Capes de Thesis Award 2009.  She recently completed a postdoctoral fellowship as a visiting researcher at the University of Calgary, Canada (2018).   She worked as an art editor in TV Globo's News Division. Since 2010 she has focused her research in the field of ​​data visualization through the publication of articles, courses and guidelines, and through collaboration with the development of energy data visualizations for the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) and the National Energy Board of Canada - NEB.

Networks of Us

2018

Redes de Nós

This piece discusses the place of the individual on the internet, one’s lack of control over one’s privacy, things that separate us and things that make us equal. With the emergence of fake profiles, what makes us different from the robots that inhabit the internet? The work begins with a visualization of the first names of Brazilians born since 1930, information which was obtained from an IBGE (the Brazilian Geographic and Statistics Institute) database.  The greater the frequency of a given name, the larger it is in the visualization. But what will it be like to see your name in a "river” of names?