is a Brazilian artist and researcher working at the intersection of art, science, and technology. She came to interactive installation through journalism, semiotics, computer graphics, and virtual reality, developing early experiments in telematics and interactive video in Brazil in the late 1980s. After studies at PUC-SP and DESSI-MIRALab, Université de Genève, she completed a doctorate at PUC-SP in 2001, on the history of interactive immersion in virtual reality.

OP\_ERA, co-created with Daniela Kutschat, helped establish a language of custom interfaces, embodied interaction, and perception as medium. Across her practice, her work has been shown in over 120 exhibitions across 19 countries, in institutions including Ars Electronica, ZKM | Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe, the National Art Museum of China, and the Asia Culture Center. She taught at PUC-SP from 2001 to 2014 and later held visiting and advisory roles with institutions including UNAM, Arizona State University's Interplanetary Initiative, and Fundação Itaú's MediaLab.

Born in São Paulo (1964), Daniela is an artist and researcher. Obtaining grants for her academic research in interactive arts and digital interfaces, she also earned the artist-in-residency UNESCO-ASCHBERG grant (1998) for a stay at CAiiA-STAR, UK, where she was mentored by artist Roy Ascott at the Centre of Advanced Studies in Interactive Art, University of Wales, Carleon-Newport and co-mentored by engineers Mike Phillips and Paul Roberts at the Centre for in Computing, Cognition and Creativity and Centre of Robotics, University of Plymouth. Artist Carmela Gross was her advisor at the Escola de Comunicações e Artes da Universidade de São Paulo, from where she holds a PhD. in Visual Arts (2002).

Pioneering work OP\_ERA (1999-2007), co-created with Rejane Cantoni, is featured in art exhibitions and retrospectives and has partly been awarded with prizes and acquired by ItaúCultural, São Paulo, Brazil and ZKM, Karlsruhe, Germany. Daniela also was an advisor at the Design Graduate Program of Faculdade de Arquitetura e Urbanismo, Universidade de São Paulo (2010-2019). Her focus on errors, human handicaps, skills and social processes motivated her to enroll and finish a bachelor in psychology (2026) and to apply performance (in memory of Renato Cohen) and psychodrama in her work.