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Letícia Ferreira

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I aim to create meaningful experiences to users, students, visitors, participants, or whoever will experience what I create. I focus on experiences in public spaces, interactive or participatory, through all range of analog and digital media.

Immersive spaces, interactive installations, kiosks, Augmented Reality exhibitions, participatory art projects, interactive objects, public space interventions, are some examples of experiences I create and study.

I love to use familiar elements to create absurd experiences that make people stop to think, and use speculation to look at the future and the past, reimagining what they can be.

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Education

2022 Ph.D. in Arts, Technology and Emerging Communication, Harry W. Bass Jr. School of Arts, Humanities, and Technology, University of Texas at Dallas, Dallas, TX.
Dissertation Title: A Transdisciplinary Framework to Analyze Interactive and Participatory Experiences in Public Settings. Ph.D Supervisor: Dr. Anne Balsamo.

2016 M.A. in Media Studies, School of Media Studies, The New School, New York, NY.

2012 B.A. in Media Studies and Production, Department of Arts and Communication, Federal University of São Carlos, São Carlos, Brazil.

Exhibitions

Juried Exhibitions

LabSynthE (as contributor). “You Will Heal.” Education as Experimentation: Possibilities Beyond Outcome-Based Learning, organized by The Onstead Institute's Studio D at The University of North Texas, Dallas, TX, Fall 2019, online. Participatory protocol.

LabSynthE (as contributor). “One Breath Poem: Telephone Edition.” RE:SOUND, the 8th International Conference on the Histories of Media Arts 2019 - Aalborg, Denmark, organized by The Platform for the Histories of Media Art, Science and Technology, 26-28 September 2019, at University of Aalborg, Denmark. Interactive audio installation.

LabSynthE (as student leader). “Syntonic Refuge.” Digital Frontiers, hosted by The University of Texas at Austin, 20-23 August 2019, at the University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX. Interactive shawl installation.

Ferreira, Letícia and xtine burrough.“The Radium Girls: Make Their Exit.” Patterns Exhibition, curated by Jeremy Swartz and Dean Walton, part of the conference What is Technology?, organized by the University of Oregon Portland, 11 April – 9 May 2019, at Light Court Commons, Portland, OR. Interactive audio sculpture installation.

LabSynthE (as contributor). “One Breath Poem.” Grey Matter, curated by Lianne Thompson Mueller, 12 January 2019, at A Ship in the Woods, Escondido, CA. Interactive audio installation.

Ferreira, Letícia and xtine burrough.“The Radium Girls: A Radically Advancing Tour of Exit Signs.” xCoAx 2018, 12-13 July 2018, at C ARTE C gallery in Museo Del Traje, Madrid, Spain. Interactive audio installation.

Ferreira, Letícia and Murilo de Paiva Homsi.“Streams From the Past.” xCoAx 2018, 12-13 July 2018, at C ARTE C gallery in Museo Del Traje, Madrid, Spain. Interactive projection installation.

Ferreira, Letícia and Nupur Yadav. “The Hoop.” Honorable mention at the 2018 Pop-Up Locker Exhibition, 22 March – 12 April 2018, at the Harry W. Bass Jr. School of Arts, Humanities, and Technology, the University of Texas at Dallas, Dallas, TX. Interactive embroidery VR piece.

Ferreira, Letícia and xtine burrough. “The Radium Girls: A Radically Advancing Tour of the Exit Signs.” The 16th Biennial Symposium on Arts & Technology of the Ammerman Center for Arts & Technology, 15-17 February 2018, at the Ammerman Center, Connecticut College, New London, CT. Interactive audio tour.

Ferreira, Letícia and xtine burrough. “The Radium Girls: A Radically Advancing Tour of the Exit Signs.” HASTAC 2017, 3-4 November 2017, at the Central Florida University, Orland, FL. Interactive audio installation.

Ferreira, Letícia and Murilo de Paiva Homsi. “Streams From the Past.” HASTAC 2017, 3-4 November 2017, at the Central Florida University, Orland, FL. Interactive projection installation.

Ferreira, Letícia, xtine burrough, and Frank DuFour. “The Radium Girls.” Finalist at the HearSay International Audio Arts Festival, May 2017, Kilfinane, Ireland.

Ferreira, Letícia. “A Final’s Knitting Week.” 2017 Pop-Up Locker Exhibition, 21 April – 5 May 2017, at the Harry W. Bass Jr. School of Arts, Humanities, and Technology, the University of Texas at Dallas, Dallas, TX. Analog data visualization piece.

Public Interactives Research Team (as creative research assistant). “AIDS Quilt Touch Suite” Making @SIGGRAPH 2015, organized by ACM SIGGRAPH, 9-13 August 2015, at the Los Angeles Convention Center, Los Angeles, CA. Suite of interactive pieces and applications.

Public Interactives Research Team (as contributor). “Let’s see the trash!” IdeasCity Festival, organized by the New Museum, 28-30 May 2015, at the New Museum, New York, NY. Interactive application.

Fragmentos. Edited by Letícia Ferreira and Natália Takekoshi, 2011. Winner of the Luís Espinoza Award at the 7th Cinework Festival, 2012, Marília, Brazil. Documentary series about women sugar cane cutters in the countryside of São Paulo State, Brazil.

Invited Installations, Exhibitions, and Talks

Ferreira, Letícia.“Grant Writing and Funding for Creative Practitioners.” ART4620: Grant Writing and Arts Funding, Interdisciplinary Arts and Design Studies, College of Visual Arts and Design, University of Nort Texas, 04 November 2025, Denton, TX. Remote talk.

Ferreira, Letícia.“Grant Writing for Artists.” ART4620: Grant Writing and Arts Funding, Interdisciplinary Arts and Design Studies, College of Visual Arts and Design, University of Nort Texas, 15 April 2025, Denton, TX. Remote talk.

Ferreira, Letícia, mediator.“Who Cares About Memory? Conversations About Archives and AI.” Largest public innovation event of Latin America - Innovation Week of the National School of Public Administration (ENAP), 30 October 2024, Brasilia, Brazil. Remote panel mediation.

Ferreira, Letícia. “Interaction, Participation, and Technologies: Notes About Creative Practice Research.” Thesis and Portfolio Seminar, Graduate Program of Multiplatform Content Production, Department of Art and Communication, Federal University of São Carlos, 26 October 2024, São Carlos, Brazil. Remote talk.

Ferreira, Letícia and Alyssa Yates, with LabSynthE. “An Imagined Memorial for Unrecorded People.” Edith O’Donnell Arts and Technology building lobby, The University of Texas at Dallas, June 2022 – 1 December 2023, Dallas, TX. Interactive quilt installation.

Ferreira, Letícia and Alyssa Yates, with LabSynthE. “An Imagined Genealogy for Michel Foucault.” Exhibited in burrough and Starnaman, Ceremonial Techne, 19 October 2021 – 31 May 2022, atBobst Library Atrium Gallery, New York University NY. Participatory performance and interactive quilt installation.

Ferreira, Letícia (in collaboration with LabSynthE). “Syntonic Refuge.” Exhibited in burrough and Starnaman, Ceremonial Techne, 19 October 2021 – 31 May 2022, atBobst Library Atrium Gallery, New York University, New York, NY. Interactive piece installation.

Ferreira, Letícia (in collaboration with LabSynthE). “One Breath Poem: Message for a Revolution.” Exhibited in burrough and Starnaman, Ceremonial Techne, 19 October 2021 – 31 May 2022, atBobst Library Atrium Gallery, New York University, New York, NY. Telephonic Interactive piece installation.

Ferreira, Letícia (in collaboration with LabSynthE). “Your Last Breath’s Desire.” French Ministry of Culture’s Spring of Poets, May 2021, Grotte du Lazaret, Nice, France. Immersive audio and video installation.

Ferreira, Letícia, and Dale MacDonald. Exhibition of the AIDS Quilt Touch Table. Crow Museum of Asian Art, Dallas, Texas. June 2021. Exhibition of the touch table of AQT and of Quilt panels.

Ferreira, Letícia (in collaboration with LabSynthE). “Gush.” One-Off Moving Image Festival, 10 – 16 February 2020, Public Spaces in Valencia (Spain), Copenhagen (Denmark) and Gol (Norway). Short video exhibition.

Ferreira, Letícia (creative direction in collaboration with LabSynthE). “Syntonic Refuge.” BRIGHT Ideas Symposium, 5-7 December 2019, Comerica Center, Frisco, TX. Interactive shawl installation.

Ferreira, Letícia (in collaboration with LabSynthE). “One Breath Poem: Telephone Edition.” BRIGHT Ideas Symposium, 5-7 December 2019, Comerica Center, Frisco, TX. Interactive audio piece installation.

Ferreira, Letícia and Alyssa Yates, with LabSynthE. “An Imagined Genealogy of Michel Foucault.” HIV/AIDS Awareness Day, 2 December 2019, at the Lobby of the Harry W. Bass Jr. School of Arts, Humanities, and Technology at the University of Texas at Dallas, Dallas, TX. Parts of the quilt on display

Ferreira, Letícia (creative direction in collaboration with LabSynthE). “Let’s do the Time Warp Again!” preluding Rocky Horror Picture Show production by the Arts and Humanities Department of UT Dallas, 1-2 November and 7-9 November 2019, at the University of Texas at Dallas Theater Lobby, Dallas TX. Interactive installation

Ferreira, Letícia (creative direction in collaboration with LabSynthE). “Syntonic Refuge.” Holocaust Remembrance Day, organized by the Ackerman Center for Holocaust Studies, 2 May 2019, at the Lobby of the Harry W. Bass Jr. School of Arts, Humanities, and Technology at the University of Texas at Dallas, Dallas, TX. Interactive shawl installation.

Ferreira, Letícia (in collaboration with the Public Interactives Research Lab). “AIDS Quilt Touch.” Plano ArtFest, 27-28 April 2018, Plano, TX. Interactive touch table and AIDS Memorial Quilt blocks

Ferreira, Letícia (creative direction in collaboration with LabSynthE). “One Breath Poem: Sea Chanties.” Plano ArtFest, 27-28 April 2018, Plano, TX. Participatory audio piece installation.

Ferreira, Letícia and Murilo de Paiva Homsi. “Streams from the Past.” Plano ArtFest, 27-28 April 2018, Plano, TX. Participatory projection piece installation.

Ferreira, Letícia and xtine borough. “The Radium Girls: A Radically Advancing Tour of the Exit Signs.” Plano ArtFest, 27-28 April 2018, Plano, TX. Interactive audio tour installation.

Ferreira, Letícia (creative direction in collaboration with LabSynthE). “An Audio Quilt of a Thousand Names.” First installed for HIV/AIDS Awareness Week, on display from 29 November 2017 – Summer 2019, at the Lobby of the Harry W. Bass Jr. School of Arts, Humanities, and Technology at the University of Texas at Dallas, Dallas, TX. Participatory and interactive audio piece installation.

Ferreira, Letícia (in collaboration with the Public Interactives Research Lab). “Narrative Threads: The AIDS Memorial Quilt”, organized by PIRL and UT Dallas in partnership with the Greater Denton Arts Council, 7 October – 9 November 2017, Meadows Gallery, Patterson-Appleton Arts Center, Denton, TX. Exhibition of AIDS Memorial Quilt blocks, interactive touch table and quilt-making workshops

Ferreira, Letícia and xtine burrough. “The Radium Girls: A Radically Advancing Tour of the Exit Signs.” Your Neighbor’s Weed, organized by LabSynthE, 22-29 April 2017, at CentralTrak, Dallas, TX. Interactive audio tour installation.

Ferreira, Letícia and Murilo de Paiva Homsi. “Streams from the Past.” Your Neighbor’s Weed, organized by LabSynthE, 22-29 April 2017, at CentralTrak, Dallas, TX. Interactive projection installation

Ferreira, Letícia (in collaboration with LabSynthE). “Lion’s Breath.” Your Neighbor’s Weed, organized by LabSynthE, 22-29 April 2017, at CentralTrak, Dallas, TX. Interactive audio and video installation

Ferreira, Letícia (co-producing with LabSynthE). Your Neighbor’s Weed, 22-29 April 2017, at CentralTrak, Dallas, TX. Group art show installation.

Ferreira, Letícia (co-performing with LabSynthE). “Green and Black Party Launch: A Black Dye Event.” Your Neighbor’s Weed, organized by LabSynthE, 22-29 April 2017, at CentralTrak, Dallas, TX. Participatory performance

Ferreira, Letícia and xtine burrough. “The Radium Girls: A Radically Advancing Tour of the Exit Signs.” Big Dada Replay, organized by LabSynthE, 21 March 2017, at the Harry W. Bass Jr. School of Arts, Humanities, and Technology, University of Texas at Dallas, Dallas, TX. Interactive audio tour installation.

Ferreira, Letícia and Murilo de Paiva Homsi. “Streams from the Past.” Big Dada Replay, organized by LabSynthE, 21 March 2017, at the Harry W. Bass Jr. School of Arts, Humanities, and Technology, University of Texas at Dallas, Dallas, TX. Interactive projection installation

Ferreira, Letícia (as co-producer with LabSynthE). Big Dada Replay, organized by LabSynthE, 21 March 2017, at the Harry W. Bass Jr. School of Arts, Humanities, and Technology, University of Texas at Dallas, Dallas, TX. Group art show and performance

Ferreira, Letícia and xtine burrough. “The Radium Girls: A Radically Advancing Tour of the Exit Signs.” Big Dada, organized by LabSynthE, 18 November 2016, at the Center for Creative Connections, Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, TX. Interactive performance.

Ferreira, Letícia and Murilo de Paiva Homsi. “Streams from the Past.” Big Dada, organized by LabSynthE, 18 November 2016, at the Center for Creative Connections, Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, TX. Interactive projection installation.

Ferreira, Letícia (as co-producer with LabSynthE). Big Dada, 18 November 2016, at the Center for Creative Connections, Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, TX. Group art show and performance.

Fragmentos. Edited by Letícia Ferreira and Natália Takekoshi, 2011. Selected for Festival Globale Rio, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 2012.

Teaching

Fall 2026 Adjunct faculty, ART 4660: Design Management Integrative Seminar, College of Visual Arts and Design, University of North Texas, Denton, TX. Online.

Adjunct faculty, ART 4614: Art and Business, College of Visual Arts and Design, University of North Texas, Denton, TX. Online

Summer 2026 Adjunct faculty, ART 4660: Design Management Seminar, College of Visual Arts and Design, University of North Texas, Denton, TX. Online.

Adjunct faculty, ART 4662: Design Management Integrative Capstone, College of Visual Arts and Design, University of North Texas, Denton, TX. Online.

Spring 2026 Invited Faculty, XR in Multiplatform Production, Graduate Program of Multiplatform Content Production, Department of Art and Communication, Federal University of São Carlos, Brazil. Hybrid.

Adjunct faculty, ART 4662: Design Management Integrative Capstone, College of Visual Arts and Design, University of North Texas, Denton, TX. Online.

Adjunct faculty, ART 4614: Art and Business, College of Visual Arts and Design, University of North Texas, Denton, TX. Online.

Fall 2025 Adjunct faculty, FILM104: Introduction to Film Art and Style. School of Media, Culture, Design. Woodbury University, Burbank, CA.

Adjunct faculty, ART 4660: Design Management Seminar, College of Visual Arts and Design, University of North Texas, Denton, TX. Online.

Adjunct faculty, ART 4614: Art and Business, College of Visual Arts and Design, University of North Texas, Denton, TX. Online.

Private tutor, AP Art History. American Straight A Academy, online.

Summer 2025 Adjunct faculty, ART 4660: Design Management Seminar, College of Visual Arts and Design, University of North Texas, Denton, TX. Online.

Adjunct faculty, ART 4662: Design Management Integrative Capstone, College of Visual Arts and Design, University of North Texas, Denton, TX. Online.

Spring 2025 Invited Faculty, Data Mining and Multiplatform Content Production, Graduate Program of Multiplatform Content Production, Department of Art and Communication, Federal University of São Carlos, Brazil. Online.

Adjunct faculty, ART 4662: Design Management Integrative Capstone, College of Visual Arts and Design, University of North Texas, Denton, TX. Online.

Adjunct faculty, ART 4614: Art and Business, College of Visual Arts and Design, University of North Texas, Denton, TX. Online.

Fall 2024   Adjunct faculty, CSMA212: Media Environments. School of Architecture, Woodbury University, Burbank, CA.

Adjunct faculty, ART 4662: Design Management Integrative Capstone, College of Visual Arts and Design, University of North Texas, Denton, TX. Online.

Adjunct faculty, ART 4660: Seminar in Design Management, College of Visual Arts and Design, University of North Texas, Denton, TX. Online.

Spring 2024   Adjunct faculty, CSMA112: Interactive Prototyping. School of Architecture, Woodbury University, Burbank, CA.

Adjunct faculty, ART 3030: Digital Communication for Art and Creative Entrepreneurship, College of Visual Arts and Design, University of North Texas, Denton, TX. Online.

Adjunct faculty, ADES 4662: Design Management Integrative Capstone, College of Visual Arts and Design, University of North Texas, Denton, TX. Online.

Adjunct faculty, ART 4614: Art and Business, College of Visual Arts and Design, University of North Texas, Denton, TX. Online.

Fall 2023   Visiting Assistant Professor, ATCM 2301: Digital Art and Design Foundations. Harry W. Bass Jr. School of Arts, Humanities, and Technology, The University of Texas at Dallas, Dallas, TX.

Visiting Assistant Professor, ATCM 3321: Networked Identities. Harry W. Bass Jr. School of Arts, Humanities, and Technology, The University of Texas at Dallas, Dallas, TX.

Spring 2023   Lecturer, ATCM 2301: Digital Art and Design Foundations. Harry W. Bass Jr. School of Arts, Humanities, and Technology, The University of Texas at Dallas, Dallas, TX.

Lecturer, FILM 1303: Transnational Cinema. Harry W. Bass Jr. School of Arts, Humanities, and Technology, The University of Texas at Dallas, Dallas, TX.

2019 – 2020 Teaching Associate, ATCM 3301: Writing for ATEC. Harry W. Bass Jr. School of Arts, Humanities, and Technology, The University of Texas at Dallas, Dallas, TX.

Teaching Associate, ATCM 3301: Digital Content Design. Harry W. Bass Jr. School of Arts, Humanities, and Technology, The University of Texas at Dallas, Dallas, TX.

2017 – 2019 Teaching Assistant, ATCM 2300: Introduction to TechnoCulture. Harry W. Bass Jr. School of Arts, Humanities, and Technology, The University of Texas at Dallas, Dallas, TX.

Curriculum Development

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