Ana Garcia-Lopez earned a PhD in Fine Arts in 2002 with a doctoral thesis on Stage Design and its relation to Visual Arts that was graded with Summa Cum Laude. Her doctoral thesis was awarded with the Doctoral Thesis Extraordinary Award at the University of Granada (UGR) in 2003. She studied Fine Arts as a major with a two-year specialization in Environmental Design. She has taken part in three different Fine Art Research Groups (R.G.) belonging to the Spanish National System for Research Groups: R.G. HUM 480 "Interpretation and Constitution of the artistic image", R.G. HUM 850 "Art and Society", and R.I. HUM 654 "Image Creation, Edition and Conservation". Within these Research Groups she has taken part and lead several major projects and publications in art-based research. She belongs to the steering committee of Paradox Fine Art European Forum and she is representative of the Fine Arts Faculty at ELIA (European League of Institutes of the Arts). She has lectured on various postgraduate courses and Doctoral Programs and has wide experience in organizing Research Conferences at her institution and abroad. She is now involved in the Research Project "Communication of Cultural Heritage through Contemporary Art" and also in a European project for the creation of the Institute for the Study of Islamic Design (in progress).
She has been Associate Editor at the International Journal for the Arts in Society and has refereed papers of the 2nd and 4th International Conference on the Arts in Society and for the 2nd International Conference on Design Principles and Practices. She directed the 2008 and 2009 editions of the International Exhibition on Ephemeral Art in Granada (www.sporaarteefimero.com) in which artists use the cultural, architectural and natural heritage of Granada to produce site-specific art works. She will also direct its third edition, that in November and December 2011 will partecipate to the celebration of the one thousandth anniversary of the foundation of the Arab kingdom in Granada (www.bienaldegranada.com).
In 1999 she founded the multimedia design and animation company ALDEAVISUAL for the production of online newspapers, E-learning projects for companies and presentation for industry and scientific disclosure. It was active until 2005. She is president of the Cultural Association "ARt, TEchnology and Society. ARTES" with which she has produced several courses and workshops (Sound Art Workshop in 2007, Art and Environment in 2008, VJing applied to contemporary art work), conferences on Augmented Stage and some exhibitions. Some of her drawings belong to the University of Granada Collection of Contemporary Art. She also has an art practice in audiovisual media, participating in exhibitions and solo projects.

Other selected works and productions
2009. Using dynamic geometry for teaching-learning perspective shadows. INTED 2009, International Technology, Education and Development Conference. Valencia, Spain 9-11 March.
2009. Tradition and Modernity through ephemeral art. In: Third International Conference on the Arts in Society. Birmingham Institute of Art and Design, Birmingham, United Kingdom 28-31 July.
2008. New technologies in learning drawing. A reflexive exploration through practice. INTED 2008, International Technology, Education and Development Conference. Valencia, Spain 3-5 March.
2007. Use of colour in ephemeral space intervention projects: stage design, environmental design and visual arts. AIC 2007, Color Science for Industry, Proceedings of the Midterm Meeting of the International Color Association. Hangzhou, China 12-14 July.
2007. Drawing through the senses: new strategies in Art Education Methodology. Second International Conference on the Arts in Society. Documenta 12, Kassel, Germany 21-24 August.

In ancient times, Art, science and technology were developed as indivisible areas of knowledge. In Granada, where I live, the rich Andalusian culture of the Islamic kingdoms made no distinction between these. With the illustration and the academic institutions, learning was separated into different areas of knowledge, destroying the rich bridges between them. I believe we should go back to that ancient philosophy and build the bridges where blurring the limits will enrich art, science and technology processes, while facilitating the connection of that knowledge to society. It is now, more than ever before, a time for disciplines to cross borders in research, creation and dissemination processes.