Former Visiting Scholar and Brazilian artist/professor Cândida Borges was just recognized as the top authors of 2022 in the fields of Art, Science and Technology by Leonardo LABS MIT Press, with her Ph.D. thesis “Transeuntis Mundi: a nomadic creative practice”. Borges did her Ph.D. at Plymouth University (UK) and developed her research in New York while being a visiting scholar at the CMc from 2019-2021.
The thesis explores emerging technologies as new media for composition of contemporary works, specially in the use of virtual reality. Her final composition, the Transeuntis Mundi Derive 01 VR work, was presented at the Library of the Department of Music in 2020, and was just recently presented as a major exhibition at the Contemporary Art Museum in Niteroi, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil, reaching the great numbers of over 15.000 visitors.
Currently, the work can be watched till Oct 23rd at the Consulate General of Brazil, in New York, and online. More information at their website www.transeuntismundi.com
Check the MIT announcement: https://direct.mit.edu/leon/article-abstract/doi/10.1162/leon_a_02435/117100/Top-Rated-LABS-Abstracts-2022?redirectedFrom=fulltext&fbclid=IwAR1OcDDq4988pTtx8rnyJwt6QCcmqg6OveeSNg7WEr4xAwWI5LYrGNIb5bc
The thesis: https://pearl.plymouth.ac.uk/handle/10026.1/20485
