Education

Ph.D., University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada

MFA, OCAD University, Toronto, Canada

MS, University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada

BFA, UNC Charlotte, NC

BS, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada

Biography

Ana Jofre obtained her PhD in Physics from the University of Toronto, did Post-doctoral work at NIST (National Institute of Standards and Technology) in Gaithersburg Maryland, and taught -and did research - at the University of North Carolina in Charlotte for six years before transitioning her career towards the arts. She then completed her MFA at OCAD University in Toronto, then worked as a research fellow in the Visual Analytics Lab at OCAD University, and at the Institute for Pure and Applied Mathematics Culture Analytics program at UCLA in Los Angeles, California. Her publications and conference presentations cover a wide range of intellectual interests, from physics to critical theory, and she has exhibited her artwork internationally. Her creative and research interests include figurative sculpture, interactive new media, the uncanny, public pedagogy, human-computer interaction, and data visualization.