Mirian Nogueira Tavares holds a PhD in Contemporary Communication and Culture from the Federal University of Bahia. She is the coordinator of the Arts and Communication Research Centre (CIAC) and Associate Professor at the Faculty of Human and Social Sciences, University of the Algarve (UAlg). She is also Director of the Doctorate in Digital Media-Art, taught in partnership between the University of Algarve and the Open University. At the international level, she is Vice-President of the International Association for Computational Art - ARTECH-Int, which she articulates with other relevant functions at the national level. She is a member of the team of curators of the Portuguese Contemporary Art Network and Director of Rotura - Communication, Culture and Arts Magazine. She has been involved in more than 25 scientific projects, exercising, in many of them, a general coordination role and/or institutional coordination. She has participated, by invitation, in more than 100 national and international conferences, accounting for more than 60 articles published in leading national and international journals. As a result of her intense scientific activity, she has already published 17 books and 56 chapters in highly recognized works in her area of study. In total, more than 50 masters, doctors, and post-doctors have defended their titles under her guidance. Her most recent areas of research are Communication, Digital Media-Art, Film, Visual Arts, and Culture and Arts.