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Luciano Zubillaga

Senior Associate Professor

20162024

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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.

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 media 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 College, University of London and a Ph.D. in Fine Art from the University of Kent, UK.

Research interests

Philosophy of Technology

Ontology and Ethics of AI 

Contemporary Artistic Practices

Visual Cultures

Virtual Reality

Experimental Moving Image

Video Art

Interactive Storytelling

Media Philosophy

Film Theory

Expertise related to UN Sustainable Development Goals

In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. This person’s work contributes towards the following SDG(s):

  • SDG 5 - Gender Equality

Education/Academic qualification

PhD, School of Art, University of Kent.

MA Filmmaking, Goldsmiths College, University of London

Person Types

  • Staff

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