Doctor of Philosophy - Animated Installations
Nanyang Technological University Singapore - 2017
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Christine Veras, Ph.D.
Director of experimental.l.
Assistant Professor
Professional Preparation
M.F.A. - Visual Arts / Cinema
Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais - Brazil - 2005
Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais - Brazil - 2005
B.F.A. - Animation
Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais - Brazil - 2003
Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais - Brazil - 2003
Research Areas
Experimental Animation
Experimental Media Archeology
Optical Toys
History of Animation
Animation Studies
Maker Culture
Publications
Feminist Animation as Documentary: Ways of Confronting Violence Against Women / Women and Global Documentary: Practices and Perspectives in the 21st Century - upcoming 2025 - book chapter
Introduction: Optical Toys in German Handbook Animation Studies / Handbuch Animation Studies - upcoming 2025 - book chapter
Human+? 2017 - exhibition review
Awards
President’s Teaching Excellence Awards - University of Texas at Dallas [2024]
United States Patent - USPTO [2016]
Best Illusion of the Year Contest - Neural Correlate Society [2016]
Science Without Borders Scholarship - National Council of Technological and Scientific Development (CNPq), Brazil [2014]
Research Scholarship - Nanyang Technological University Singapore [2013]
Travel Research Grant for Exchange and Cultural Diffusion Program - Brazilian Ministry of Culture [2009]
Appointments
Assistant Professor
University of Texas at Dallas [2020–Present]
School of Arts, Humanities, and Technology
University of Texas at Dallas [2020–Present]
School of Arts, Humanities, and Technology
Senior Lecturer
University of Texas at Dallas [2018–2020]
School of Arts, Technology and Emerging Communication
University of Texas at Dallas [2018–2020]
School of Arts, Technology and Emerging Communication
Instructor of Record
Nanyang Technological University Singapore [2015–2016]
School of Art, Design and Media
Nanyang Technological University Singapore [2015–2016]
School of Art, Design and Media
Lecturer
UNI-BH - Brazil [2006–2007]
School of Communication - Editorial Production
UNI-BH - Brazil [2006–2007]
School of Communication - Editorial Production
Projects
Kinderdoll stop-motion animation (working title)
2023/05–2025/12 This stop-motion animation project is being developed as an interdisciplinary collaboration with the Ackerman Center for Holocaust Studies and other disciplines within the Bass School. It will showcase an original story about the Kindertransport—a historical event that helped to evacuate Jewish children from Nazi-occupied areas to the United Kingdom from 1938 to 1940.Animation as Art: A Multi-Sensory Exhibition
2022/09–2024/06 The experimenta.l. lab was invited to showcase the work of its student-collaborators at the Museum of Texas Tech University in Lubbock in an exhibition titled “Animation as Art: A Multisensory Experience” in Spring 2024. Drs. Jorgelina Orfila, Francisco Ortega (Associate Professors at Texas Tech), and Christine Veras, (UT Dallas Assistant Professor), co-curated the exhibition. Five UTD students worked on the project for over a year and built special exhibits under Dr. Veras' supervision, especially for the show.Wintry Mix
2022/12–2023/06 The jazz guitarist and Associate Professor of Jazz Studies at UNT, Davy Mooney, reached out to Dr. Veras to collaborate on a unique experimental animation of the song Wintry Mix from his latest album, Way Back. Dr. Christine Veras and Philip Martin collaborated to create unique hands-on frame-by-frame animations for Wintry Mix in the experimental animation lab.New Poetic Horizon: Project "Voyelles" Arthur Rimbaud (2022)
2022/04–2022/10 Dr. Rainer Schulte, Director of the Center for Translation Studies, conceived the project as a multidisciplinary collaboration featuring new poetic visions for Arthur Rimbaud’s sonnet “Voyelles,” written in 1871. Dr. Christine Veras created the animations for the project in the Experimental Animation Lab. For her, this collaboration “extends my research into a sensorial collaboration using poetry, sound, dance, and animation."News Articles
Teaching with Impact
See page 31/32: Article highlighting Dr. Veras' achievement award in Teaching Excellence for Undergraduate Education (tenure-track) in 2024. The President’s Teaching Excellence Award in Undergraduate Instruction recognizes sustained excellence in undergraduate instruction, including innovation in approaches to teaching and the overall impact on student learning. UT Dallas Animators and Musicians Shine in First-of-its-Kind Showcase
See page 15 - Article presenting Drs. Katrina Rushing and Christine Veras who joined forces with Associate Professor of Practice Hal Gupta-Fitzgerald in a collaborative project inviting their students to work together. Students from the upper-level experimental animation and music theory courses collaborated and combined their creativity to create a project that included original animation with an original musical score.
Animated Experimentations: From Idea to Exhibition
Announcement of a talk given at the Texas Tech Museum about the curation and creation process of exclusive pieces for the exhibition "Animation as ARt: A Multi-Sensory Experience"
Exploring Immersive Media: Texas
Digital Education in TexasFor the purpose of this article, we interviewed Christine Veras, assistant professor of Animation at The University of Texas at Dallas and director of experimenta.l. – a collaborative lab that specializes in creative research and critical practices in animation.
Lab’s Holocaust Film Moves Audiences, Draws Upon Unique Collaboration
Written for the UTDallas Magazine this article is about the collaborative project that led to the creation of the animation "A Lasting Image." A collaborative project supervised by Dr. Veras and produced by the experimenta.l. lab and the Ackerman Center for Holocaust Studies.