Luiz Zanotello
Luiz Zanotello (he/him) is an artist, researcher, and educator born in Brazil, and based in Berlin. He builds machines, algorithmic systems, and installations exploring how technology mediates time, distance, and environment. By translating otherwise imperceptible phenomena into tangible kinetic operations, his practice reappropriates the ways machines sense, measure, and imagine the world.
Working across media, Zanotello is interested in the question of human perception at times of technological acceleration and ecological degradation. His practice often takes existing technical infrastructures as both material and subject, using code, image, matter, and mechanical systems to invert and expose the temporalities and asymmetries through which environments are observed, intervened, and known.
His work has been exhibited internationally at institutions and festivals including the Museum of Contemporary Art Zagreb, Museum of Applied Arts Vienna, Silesian Museum Katowice, Kunstmuseum Karlsruhe, Technische Sammlungen Dresden, gnration Braga, Villa Heike Kunstverein Berlin, FIBER Festival Amsterdam, and FILE São Paulo. He was selected for the Japan Media Arts Festival and received the Petra & Dieter Frese Stiftung prize. His work has been supported by residencies including Akademie Schloss Solitude and the European Media Art Platform.
Zanotello holds an MA in Digital Media from the HfK Bremen as a DAAD fellow and is completing a PhD in Artistic Research at PhDArts, Leiden University / Royal Academy of Art, in collaboration with the HfK Bremen, as a Studienstiftung fellow. From 2017 to 2023, he was Assistant Professor for New Media at the UdK Berlin, and he currently teaches Digital Media at the HfK Bremen. He is an Associate Editor of the Journal for Artistic Research, and a member of the COST Action Artistic Intelligence of the European Union.
Portfolio: https://luizzanotello.com/
Full CV available upon request.
Transmedia research project. Artworks:
Title: Tempo-imagem (2024)
Format: Transmedia installation, 2.5x2.5m, projection with variable dimensions
Materials: growing archive of weathercam streams, algorithm, machine, projection, mirror
Title: Tempo-palavra (2024)
Format: installation, variable dimensions
Materials: growing textual archive, algorithm, projection, body
Transmedia research project. Artworks:
Title: Poemetrics (2024)
Format: 16:9 color, 1080p generative video installation
Materials: weathercam streams, data, poems, code
Title: Rheinischer Sagen-Kreis (2024)
Format: digital print on paper, 1x3.5m
Materials: Adelheid von Stolterfoth’s poems, Johann Gottfried Tulla’s map, algorithm
Title: How to free a river from its margins (2024)
Format: lecture and collective performance
Materials: river, paper, voice, pen, concrete poem
Transmedia research project. Artworks:
Title: Pela terceira margem (2023)
Format: transmedia performance and installation, 1 channel sound, 1x1x1m
Materials: text, voice, transducers, laser light, metal parts, cables, silicon
Title: Variantology of a Distance (2024)
Format: transmedia text publication
Materials: sound documentation, poem, photo, text
Title: A onça que sondava voz (2024)
Format: transmedia installation, 4 channels sound, 1x2x1m
Materials: sound, transducers, laser light, metal parts, cables, silicon
Title: Amanhã (2024)
Format: transmedia installation, 1 channel sound, 1x1x2m, variable distance
Materials: word, voice, transducers, laser light, metal parts, cables
Transmedia research project. Artworks:
Title: A knot in motion
Format: generative web poem
Materials: rain, voice archive, algorithm, p5.js
Link: https://webresidencies.akademie-solitude.de/knot-in-motion/
Title: At the periphery of events
Format: 4k digital video, 2:30min loop
Title: Choreography for the unknown
Format: Mixed-media installation
Materials: rain, soot, glass, overhead projector
Transmedia research project. Artworks:
Title: Every abyss is a poem yet unfinished (2022)
Format: mixed-media installation
Materials: infrared heating light, transducer, displays, digital video, unfinished texts
Title: That which stays (2022)
Format: transmedia performance
Materials: transducer, infrared heating light, journal
Title: Becoming tropical (2023)
Format: transmedia lecture-performance
Materials: transducer, infrared heating light, manifesto
Transmedia research project. Artworks:
Title: Jänschewalde, before the water came (2020)
Format: 15 digital b/w photographs
Title: New hypothesis for Baucis (2022)
Format: mixed-media installation
Materials: photographs, slide projector, electronics, text, mirror, steel
https://luizzanotello.com/inspecting-material-unconsciousness/
Title: A habitat of recognition (2017)
Format: installation (3x3x2m)
Materials: sand, iron, steel, electronics, algorithm
Year: 2016
Format: kinetic installation (variable dimensions)
Materials: air, anemometer, linear motion system, algorithm, transparent flag
https://luizzanotello.com/the-aerographer/