 In 1996 Intra was awarded a Fulbright scholarship and travelled to Los Angeles to study at the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena.He completed a master's degree in Critical Studies in 2001.His thesis was based on Daniel Paul Schreber's 1903 book "Memoirs of My Nervous Illness "(1903), and used texts by artists including Salvador Dalí and Robert Smithson to "suggest ways that art writing might be reinvented."