Scientist + researcher
phd candidate: the artwork aura in the age of digital reproduction, doctoral school of cognition, behaviour and neuroscience, university of vienna / 2025–present
predoctoral researcher: ordiv, original and digital art experiences at the belvedere museum, fwf funded (p 37260), center for cultures and technologies of collecting, university for continuing education krems / 2024–present
supervisor: msc thesis on fnirs hyperscanning of artists and viewers, university of vienna / 2025–present
supervisor: visiting msc student from portugal, artis lab / 2026–present
visiting researcher: department of educational foundations, montclair state university, new jersey / september 2026
symposium organiser + talk: applications of virtual reality in empirical visual aesthetics, vsac 2026, king’s college london, uk / august 2026
talk: emotions through medialities, international association of empirical aesthetics, jena, germany / may 2026
talk: what is in an aura, cobene phd academy, university of vienna / february 2026
research coordinator: aktion austria–czech republic cooperation, university of vienna and tomas bata university in zlín / 2026
publication: is there any (emotional) difference between seeing art in the museum vs. in the lab?, frontiers in psychology / 2026
publication: analog – digital – virtuell, dhd 2026 / 2026
principal investigator: what does a monet feel like in a vr environment?, osf registries / 2026
visiting researcher: aesthetics & learning lab, leibniz institute for knowledge media, tübingen, germany / october 2025
talk: what is in an aura: emotion sharing between artists and viewers, beauty and change, turin, italy / october 2025
poster: emotion sharing in exhibition contexts, eth zurich, switzerland / september 2025
talk: from the gallery to the lab, american psychological association division 10, new haven, usa / march 2025
supervisor: ba thesis, perceived aura and aesthetic experience in a virtual museum, university of vienna / [year]
poster: art experience between original and digital surrogates, beauty and change, turin, italy / october 2024
poster: semantic context & aesthetic evaluations and valuations, international association of empirical aesthetics, mallorca, spain / may 2024
researcher: the influence of semantic context on contemporary art aesthetic evaluations and valuations, master of science dissertation, goldsmiths, london, uk / september 2023
researcher: visual science of art conference, poster presentation, nicosia, cyprus / august 2023
research assistant: priming strategies to enhance art viewing impact on well being, university of vienna at the national gallery uk / january 2023
consultant + Workshops
lab media manager + research coordination: artis lab, university of vienna / 2025–present
workshop organiser: introduction to latent class analysis in mplus, led by takuya yanagida, ecr committee, university of vienna / october 2026
workshop organiser: how to use fnirs, university of vienna / october 2026
workshop leader: eye tracking training for visiting researchers from tomas bata university in zlín / october 2026
workshop organiser: grant writing, eva lab retreat, university of vienna / april 2026
workshop leader: eye tracking 101: how to use pupil labs, early career researchers, university of vienna / november 2025
consultant: nike, nda, london / january 2024
consultant: keli ma, end of the road, pop up / november 2023
teacher + coach: ap economics, ap government, gender studies and college seminar; varsity girls’ soccer, austin achieve public schools, austin, texas / 2020–2022
director of communications: martha's contemporary, austin, texas / june 2020–june 2021
consultant: daniel wang, nui nui, martha's contemporary / february 2021
consultant + artist talk: siena smith, always moving, martha's contemporary / january 2021
consultant + artist talk: payton mcgowen, feral, martha's contemporary / december 2020
director and partner’s assistant + sales team coordinator: galería omr, mexico city, mexico / october 2018–2020
consultant + guided tour: royal jarmon, eric medel, daniel wang, alfonso gonzalez jr., christina ballantyne, siena smith, adrian armstrong, sam keller, payton mcgowen, jenaro goode, still here, martha's contemporary / september 2020
consultant: moll brau, hokey pokey, martha's contemporary / june 2020
consultant: wes thompson, what you see is what you get, martha's contemporary / june 2020
fair coordinator: zona maco 2019, art basel hong kong 2019, art basel miami 2019, premaco 2020, frieze los angeles 2020, galería omr / 2019–2020
membership associate: blue star contemporary, san antonio, texas / october 2015–june 2017
communications and engagement manager: mexican cultural institute (secretaría de relaciones exteriores), san antonio, texas / june–september 2017
fundraiser: red dot 2016, blue star contemporary / november 2016
legislative aide: office of state representative diego bernal, texas house district 123, san antonio, texas / october 2015–april 2016
fundraiser: red dot 2015, blue star contemporary / november 2015
press secretary + social media: campaign of justice patricia alvarez, fourth court of appeals, bibisi / silver fox / summer 2012
arts +
writer: essays on art, fashion and design, ava ganza substack / ongoing
text: press release on sustainability, clara chu, london fashion week / september 2026
poetry: panty spliffs, bilingual wearable poetry collection, edition of 50, otro, mexico city / may 2026
sculpture and performance: la risa en vacaciones, cromática, mexico city, mexico / may 2025
text: exhibition text, james lomax, tale of two cities, cited in artreview / september 2024
text: artist profile, amine amaharech, crush fanzine issue 21 / may 2024
text: artist profile, amine amaharech, the kurator magazine dubai / january 2024
model: chopova lowena, london fashion week / september 2023
text: mad54, pásele, pásele! group show / august 2022
text: pierre jeanneret, osvaldo borsani, zaha hadid, paul evans, american studio craft, polirock, frances thevenin, rick owens furniture, sit in l’éclaireur, paris / april 2022
text: scout zabinski, hard and fast, adhesivo / january 2022
curator: rf alvarez, tender is the heart, austin, texas / october 2021
curator + text: fermina gerdes, abzp: troubleshooting checklist, martha's contemporary / july 2021
curator + text: kalia aquino, m. gonzalez, andrea harper, lily moebes, eileen wu, tonya zal, melted paletas, martha's contemporary / july 2021
text: royal jarmon, eric medel, daniel wang, alfonso gonzalez jr., christina ballantyne, siena smith, adrian armstrong, sam keller, payton mcgowen, jenaro goode, still here, martha’s contemporary / september 2020
sculpture: the culture of materials, dockspace, san antonio, texas / november 2019
photography: 50 years of the metro, museo de archivo de fotografia, mexico city, mexico / september 2019
sculpture and workshop: pangea pop up, mexico city, mexico / september 2019
sculpture and performance: cara de niño II, squash 73, mexico city, mexico / august 2019
photographs and installation: portal, ambush, sydney, australia / august 2019
sculpture: cara de niño I, casa versalles, mexico city, mexico / august 2019
text: cuerpos de historias: las esculturas de josé dávila en not all those who wander are lost, revista capitel / february 2019
sculpture and performance: gesamtkunstwerk, blue star contemporary, san antonio, texas / october 2018
producer: opera on a bus composed by nathan felix, in partnership with san antonio via metropolitan transit, mcnay museum of art, san antonio museum of art and blue star contemporary / october 2017
text: essay, daydreams and other monsters, university of texas at san antonio / june 2017
draftswoman: ricky armendariz, artist in residency, doseum / march 2017
producer: choral performance composed by nathan felix, hotel emma / november 2016
text: linda pace’s estate going up for auction, rivard report / 2016
text: lang-lessing talks san antonio symphony, 2016–17 season, rivard report / 2016
text: interview, ruiz-healy art to welcome acclaimed mexican photographer graciela iturbide, rivard report (english and spanish) / 2016
text: dreamers and realists at ruiz-healy art, rivard report / 2016
editor: managing editor + art director, method magazine, wesleyan university / 2010–2014