Luiz Zanotello
Luiz Zanotello is an artist, researcher, and educator born in Brazil and based in Berlin. Through transmedia art practice, he investigates poetic tensions between space, language, and ecology within the post-digital condition. His work moves across artistic research, writing, lecturing, and teaching, fostering transversal dialogues at the intersections of art, science, and technology from a warm, pluriversal perspective.
Since October 2021, he is a PhD Candidate in Artistic Research at the HfK Bremen in collaboration with the PhDArts program at the Academy of Creative and Performing Arts (Leiden University and Royal Academy of Art The Hague) funded by the Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes.
His artistic work has been presented at institutions such as the Museum of Contemporary Art in Zagreb, the Museum of Applied Arts in Vienna, and FILE Festival São Paulo, among others worldwide. His academic writing has appeared in the Journal for Artistic Research (JAR), Revista V!RUS (USP São Paulo), and other publications. He is a former DAAD fellow and has participated in several artistic residencies, including the European Media Art Platform and Akademie Schloss Solitude.
Zanotello was Assistant Professor for New Media at the Berlin University of the Arts (UdK Berlin), and a guest lecturer at the University of the Arts Bremen (HfK Bremen). He holds an MA in Digital Media from HfK Bremen and a BA in Design from São Paulo State University (Unesp Bauru).
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/