Luiz Zanotello
Luiz Zanotello is an artist, researcher, and educator investigating transversal ecologies between language, the environment, and the (post-)digital. Often taking the form of transmedia installations, his practice unfolds through research and writing vis-à-vis the revising of old and devising of new media to evidence a critical shift in affect and time. Through his artistic research, he seeks to sense and provoke a new poetics for the technologically mediated present and its ecological compass—approached from a warm, pluriversal perspective.
Based in Berlin, he is currently 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.
RESUME
Portfolio: https://luizzanotello.com/
His work has been exhibited internationally at institutions including the Museum of Contemporary Art in Zagreb, the Museum of Applied Arts Vienna, the Personal Structures Biennial in Venice, Technische Sammlungen Dresden, Städtische Galerie Karlsruhe, Gesellschaft für Aktuelle Kunst in Bremen, Gnration in Braga, Fiber Festival in Amsterdam, ZERO1 Festival in La Rochelle, Resonate Festival in Belgrade, FILE Festival São Paulo, and Cidade das Artes in Rio de Janeiro, among others. He has published texts at the Journal for Artistic Research, Textem Verlag, The Dynamic Archive, V!RUS Journal, as well as self-published online.
Holding an MA in Digital Media from the University of the Arts Bremen (HfK Bremen) and a BA in Design from the São Paulo State University (Unesp Bauru), he served as Assistant Professor for New Media at the Berlin University of the Arts (UdK Berlin) for six years as well as a guest lecturer in Artistic Research in Media Art at HfK Bremen. He is a former DAAD fellow, a recipient of the Petra & Dieter Frese Stiftung Prize, and has participated in artistic residencies including the European Media Art Platform and Akademie Schloss Solitude, among others.
Full CV available upon request.
PORTFOLIO
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/