Departament: Diseño e Imagen

Facultat: Bellas Artes

Àrea: Dibuix

Grup d'investigació: Prácticas artísticas y formas de conocimiento contemporáneas

Correu: larasanc@ucm.es

Web personal: http://www.laracoteron.com/

Doctora per la Universidad Complutense de Madrid amb la tesi Arte y videojuegos mecánicas, estéticas y diseño de juegos en prácticas de creación contemporánea 2012. Dirigida per Dr. Jaime Munárriz Ortiz.

Madrid-based researcher and lecturer on art, interactive systems and play culture. She holds a PhD in Interactive Art and Game Design from Universidad Complutense de Madrid (2012). She earned a B.A. in Fine Arts by Basque Country University. She is founding member and play designer at artistic collective YOCTOBIT. She teaches interactive design & new media art at Universidad Complutense de Madrid’s Fine Arts School. She is also curator on interactive arts and experimental game design (Ubik 2016, Not Games 2015, Playful & Playable 2010). Research areas: *New media art and design practices in confluence with critical thinking and/or speculative approaches. *Interactive Art, New Media Design, Experimental Game Design, Interactive Narratives, Speculative Design, Critical Practices, (Systems Theory, Game Studies, Critical Design, Performance Studies) *Practice-based research on experimental interaction design (games, computational and digital toys, speculative apps, interactive fiction, alternative controllers...) both from the software and hardware interfaces.