Dr Marina Velez Vago

Dr Marina Velez Vago is a multidisciplinary artist and researcher based in Cambridge, UK.

Marina’s research is informed by feminist theories and art practice enquiries, focusing on how art can create spaces to map out cartographies of experiences to cognise the self and the environment. She employs photography, video, and working-with strategies, to make values visible, which she considers as an indicator of human behaviour towards other humans, non-human animals, and the environment.

Marina is a course leader and tutor at ICE, University of Cambridge, where she leads the Diploma in Creativity Theory, History and Philosophy. Marina is also an undergrad and postgrad lecturer and Ph.D. supervisor at Norwich University of the Arts. She has co-edited books about art and sustainability, she is a member of the Swiss Artistic Research Network and the British Art Network. She is also the coordinator of communities of practices Circle 7 at the Nordic Summer University, where she leads investigations of the experiential in art, artistic research, methodologies, processes, and theories. 

Her Doctoral research title is ‘Exploring value, meaning and worth through five art projects in rural Spain’.