Katia Maciel (Rio de Janeiro, 1963). Lives and works in Rio de Janeiro.
Katia Maciel is a faculty member of Escola de Comunicação da Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro since 1994 and coordenates with André Parente the Nucleous of Image Technology of EC-UFRJ. Her works on video, video-installations and interactive videos have received several prizes, such as Rumos Itaúcultural (Experimental Cinema) in 2009 and Prêmio Sérgio Motta in 2005. Besides publishing several books, she writes often to journals and magazines on cinema and new media.
Katia Maciel holds a Master´s degree from the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales and a PhD from Escola de Comunicação da Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro. In 2002, she worked as a post-doc researcher at University of Wales College Newport.
www.katiamaciel.eco.ufrj.br