Temple University

With a broad specialty in Latin American modern and contemporary art history, Camila Damico Medina (she/they)'s research focuses on the entanglements between art and technology, embodiment discourses, projects of modernity, and abstraction. Prior to resuming her doctoral studies at Temple University, she earned an MA in Communication Technologies and Aesthetics and BA in Cultural Production. Additionally, they received professional training in Media Art Preservation at the Danube University Krems, and in Preventive Conservation for Museum Collections and Documentation at the Instituto Brasileiro de Museus (Brazilian Institute of Museums). 

Furthering their commitment to education, they recently achieved the Teaching in Higher Education certificate at the Center for the Advancement of Teaching. Recently, she has been nominated and named by her peers as co-president of the Art History Graduate Organization at Temple University. Currently, she is Instructor of Record of the course Arts of the World II: 1300s to the 21st Century at the Tyler School of Art and Architecture. In their professional career, they held appointments coordinating photography projects, assisting multi-media exhibitions and producing interactive audiovisual documentaries in Brazil.

Some of their essays can be found in Brazilian academic journals such as Revista Visuais, Revista Eletrônica de Ciências Sociais: Dossiê Ciências Sociais e as Artes em Eventos, Revista Valise, and Revista Aurora: Arte, Mídia & Política. Her research was presented at academic conferences in Brazil, Uruguay, Argentina, the United States, and France. 

MA, Communication Technologies and Aesthetics, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, 2019 
BA, Cultural Production, Universidade Federal Fluminense, 2016 

Advisor: Mariola Alvarez, PhD