Department: DIBUJO

Faculty: FACULTAD DE BELLAS ARTES

Area: Didactics of Plastic Expression

Research group: Sinestesia y Creatividad. Investigación Interdisciplinar Aplicada

Email: mjdecordoba@ugr.es

Personal web: http://www.artecitta.es/MARIAJOSEDECORDOBA.html

Doctor by the Universidad de Granada with the thesis Los grupos en la renovación artística granadina (decadas de los 60 y 70). Importancia de los grupos o colectivos dentro de la renovación granadina 1994. Supervised by Dr. Pedro Antonio Galera Andreu.

Doctor of Fine Arts (1994), has been researching on the synaesthesia field since the 80ths. In addition, she also researches in other topics such as engraving and new materials and engraving systems on synthetic polymers (piece of work published by the Institute of Science and Polymer Technology, CSIC, in the year 2005). Forerunner of the study and promotion of synaesthesia in Spain, she has managed to organize seven International Congresses on Synaesthesia, Science and Arts, unique in Europe due to their multidisciplinary character and bringing together the highest level of researchers among more than universities from 40 different countries. Likewise, Summer courses, international contests on Visual Music, etc. and the establishment of an international and multidisciplinary research group. whose members are all of them of the International Foundation artecittà(http://www.artecitta.es). A fruitful outcome of her responsibilities has been signing collaboration agreements with Granada University, Complutense de Madrid, UCLA (Venezuela), KFS (Egipt)... University, and Music Conservatories. Nevertheless, she is committed to keep on hard working to obtain further supports to develop all the projects in mind. Her first project was on painting and sound in 1988, and it was funded by the regional Government of Castilla-la Mancha and Albacete Provincial Council. Fine examples of her evolutions are: in 1993 her piece of art ¨Painting and sound¨. ¨Hermetic Confines¨, sponsored by the social and cultural department of the savings bank Caja General de Ahorros de Granada; 1996, ¨Impressions of the sound¨(Synaesthesia - natural and city sounds-), or Zafra Nazari House (Centre for Historic Studies on Granada and its Kingdom). She has in their artistic journey more than 200 exhibitions between national and international. Several engraving prizes and painting. Have medal to the merit of the Fine Art in the year 2009. And her work is in museums like: Museum of the Hermitage; Sto Domingo, Rp Dominicana; Spanish Chalcography National, museum of the Spanish Engraving, among others.