Paz Tornero

Paz Tornero is a Ph.D. in Art, Science and Technocreativity at Complutense University of Madrid. Her thesis The Technologies of Creativity: Connections between Art and Science in Contemporaneity, is about the relationship between art, science and creativity from 20th century to present and it explores new art forms that incorporate technological and scientific aspects.

She has an MA in Fine Arts and Digital Arts from Pompeu Fabra University and a MA in Fine Arts from Polytechnic University of Valencia. She also studied at Carnegie Mellon University. Paz was a visiting fellow at Harvard University as well as MIT Media Lab.
She teaches seminars and writes about science, digital art-dance-theatre-humanities, and transdisciplinarity research-learning. Her projects have been showed in international festivals and galleries. She has been artist-in-residence in important programs.

She has taught as a professor and researcher at University San Francisco de Quito (USFQ), she is a visiting professor at University of Caldas, Colombia. She was recently a visiting researcher at Institute of Microbiology at the USFQ where she was researching on the digital artists’ role in the age of climate change and the economic crisis by developing research on new aesthetics and matters regarding the meaning of Bio Art and connections between science, arts, and technology. She is also very much interested in ecology and sustainability, connectivity and Intelligent Environments (IE), and biomarkers from an artistic perspective. Paz Tornero is currently based in Spain where she is professor at the Faculty of Fine Arts, University of Granada.

Paz Tornero i openbiolab: ciencia para generar conciencia