Elena Robles Mateo is researcher and cultural manager with expertise in all-women networks in new media arts. She is in the final stages of obtaining her PhD from Universitat Politècnica de València within the Art and Society program. Her dissertation is a mapping of all-women’s initiatives in arts and technology worldwide since 1986 to 2020. She has been a guest researcher at  the Interface Cultures Department, Kunstuniversität Linz, Austria and at the Computer Science Department in Carnegie Mellon University, USA. She has international experience as project manager and curator, having worked at festivals and events related to new media arts and creative industries such as Ars Electronica, Transmediale, the Leonardo 50^th Anniversary, Sónar+D, KIKK and currently for Sensorium. She is co-founder and program coordinator of Atenea, a mentoring and networking project for women in Arts and women in STEM, designing an annual international conference and exhibition, and with a special educational program focused on girls and people with disabilities. Elena Robles Mateo conducted extensive research in the Women in Media Arts archive at Ars Electronica.

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/342216050_Notes_on_women_digital_artists’_archives

https://www.linkedin.com/in/elenaroblesmateo

Atenea: www.atenea.in

https://www.facebook.com/atenea.women.art.tech

https://www.flickr.com/photos/162895497@N08/albums

Visualization of the mapping: https://bit.ly/38KiYC9

https://ars.electronica.art/aeblog/en/2019/10/18/netzwerke-von-frauen-in-kunst-und-technologie/