Luciano Zubillaga

Luciano Zubillaga is an artist filmmaker and developer of screen based media platforms, whose major works take the form of immersive gallery based multi-screen video and multi-channel sound installation. His work combines interdisciplinary research (particularly with moving image art, technology and critical posthumanism) with socially engaged practice.

Luciano’s work has been exhibited internationally, with shows at Musée du Louvre, London’s ICA, Whitechapel Art Gallery and the Museum of Modern Art, Buenos Aires and film festivals, BAFICI, Ann Arbor, Oberhausen, Berlinale, Habana Film Festival etc.

Recently, Luciano's works where shown at both Sao Paulo and Shanghai Biennale. In 2022, his triptych Cosmos-War- Finally-Love won Best Experimental Film at the 60th Ann Arbor Film Festival. He screened his first VR/360 film at the Musée du Louvre in Paris in a VR programme fronted by American filmmaker David Lynch. In 2008, he received the London Artist Film and Video Awards (LAFVA) from the Arts Council of England and his work is part of the British Artists Film and Video Study Collection (BAFVS).

Since 2001, he has been teaching experimental film and digital art courses at several universities, including Goldsmiths College, University of London, University of Kent, Hong Kong Baptist University in Zhuhai and Xi’an Jiaotong Liverpool University in Suzhou, where he was the founding Programme Director of the BA in Art, Technology and Entertainment. He holds an MA from Goldsmiths, University of London and a Ph.D. in Fine Art from the University of Kent, UK. Luciano became Honorary Director of Archivo Elda Cerrato in 2024.

Philosophy of Technology

Ontology and Ethics of AI 

Contemporary Artistic Practices

Visual Cultures

Memory and Cultural Heritage

Virtual Reality

Experimental Moving Image

Video Art

Interactive Storytelling

Media Philosophy

Film Theory