Florence Gouvrit (b. Paris, France) is a Mexico City based new media artist. She received her BFA in 2002 from the National School for Painting, Sculpture and Engraving "La Esmeralda," then studied a Master in Philosophy of Science/Technology in the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM). From 2000 to 2008 she worked on virtual reality and art theory research in the Multimedia Center in Mexico City, and lately in the University Museum for Contemporary Art (MUAC). Her work is based on artificiality, human-machine interaction, empathy, culture and technologically mediated behaviour. Florence has received the FONCA Fellowship for young creators twice (2002,2004) and has shown her work and research in Mexico, Spain and the United States. Besides receiving an Ohio State GTA award, she is sponsored for her abroad studies by the FONCA. She currently teaches digital art as a graduate teaching associate at the Ohio State University while she completes her MFA in the Art & Technology program. (Full CV)