Dr. Lucía Ayala (Spain) has a Bachelor degree in Art History (University of Granada, Spain, 1998-2003). She has accomplished a binational PhD at the Humboldt University of Berlin under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Horst Bredekamp and the University of Granada (Spain) under the supervision of Dr. D. Ignacio Henares Cuellar. Her PhD thesis was granted by the Gerda Henkel Foundation (2010-2011), DAAD-German Academic Exchange Service and laCaixa Foundation (2008-2010).
She was also granted by the Ministry of Education and Culture in Spain from 2004 to 2007 in order to take part of the FPU Program - Training of Professors. She has worked as intern professor in the Art History & Music Institute of the University of Granada (Spain) during the academic years 2005-2008, teaching several subjects, such as contemporary art, new media, museology and history of aesthetic ideas, among others.
Ayala obtained in 2005 a Master degree on Curatorial and Cultural Practices in Art and New Media given by MECAD-Media Center of Art & Design and Ramon Llull University, Barcelona (Spain). She has worked as assistant of direction at MECAD, Barcelona, collaborating on diverse international projects of cultural management between 2005 and 2006. In this period it is noteworthy her collaboration in the organization of the "Course of Specialization in Artistic Heritage Conservation and the Use of New Technologies" and in the events that took place in Spain within the framework of "Enseigner/ Produire. Le salon des prototypes", a project organized by Le Fresnoy, Centre Pompidou, MECAD and ZKM-Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie Karlsruhe and supported by Cultura2000.
She was an active member of the curatorial team of the international video-exhibition "Multimedia Images for a Complex World. Proposals from both Sides of the Atlantic", that took place simultaneously in Spain, Mexico, Argentina and Cuba (May, 2008). She was a collaborator member of the international symposium "New Media and Socio-cultural Reality in Contemporary Audiovisual Creation" (Granada, Spain, May 19-21, 2008). During 2006 and 2007 she obtained a research stay at the KHM-Kunsthochschule für Medien Köln (Academy of Media Arts Cologne, Germany).
Her interests are focused on astronomy, astrophysics, history of science, arts that use media of an electronic or digital nature, the methodological influence between art and science, and on curatorial practices.
She usually gives lectures and publishes texts in diverse international contexts and media. Ayala collaborates with artists and scientists to develop theoretical and curatorial projects and is an associate member of "Das Technische Bild" (Hermann von Helmholtz-Zentrum für Kulturtechnik, Humboldt Univeristy of Berlin).