Luiz Zanotello (1986 Jundiaí, Brazil) is an artist, designer and researcher living and working in Berlin. His work occurs within new media studies, often by conceiving new imaginaries of technology and exploring its narrative, material, and critical aspects. Through practice-based artistic research on digital materialities, he crafts electronic installations, machineries and territories for techno-imagination.
In the past he has exhibited and given talks at festivals, galleries and institutions in Brazil, Germany, Netherlands, Belgium, Austria, Croatia, Serbia, Japan and United Arab Emirates; as well as worked with multiple studios within the design and technology sectors. He holds a Master of Arts degree in Digital Media from the University of the Arts Bremen, and he is currently an Assistant Professor for New Media at the Berlin University of the Arts (UdK).
2014 - 2017 Master of Arts in Digital Media
Digital Media Program. University of the Arts Bremen. Bremen, DE.
2007 - 2012 Bachelor of Arts in Design
São Paulo State University (UNESP). Bauru, BR.
2019 Jury Selection: Japan Media Arts Festival Award: Art Division
Japan's Agency of Cultural Affairs. Tokyo, JP.
2018 Award: Frese-Design-Preis (First Prize)
Petra und Dieter Frese Stiftung Bremen. Bremen, DE.
2018 Residency program: Speculative Design
Grant by the Goethe-Institut, KIKK Festival, Les Abattoirs de Bomel. Namur, BE.
2017 Award: Hochschulpreis Digitale Medien (First Prize)
University of the Arts Bremen. Bremen, DE.
2017 Residency program: Graphic Art Colony for Youth
Grant by the Ministry of Culture of Serbia, HfK Bremen. Prolom Banja, RS.
2017 Nominee: German Design Award
German Design Council. Frankfurt am Main, DE.
2015 Award: Hochschulpreis Digitale Medien
University of the Arts Bremen. Bremen, DE.
2014 - 2016 DAAD Scholarship for Artists (Master Studies)
Bonn, DE. Rio de Janeiro, BR.
2017 - (present) Assistant Professor for New Media
New Media Class (Prof. Joachim Sauter). UdK Berlin. Berlin, DE.
2014 - (present) Media Artist
Berlin, DE.
2013 - 2014 Interaction Designer and Project Manager
D3 - Digital Product Studio. São Paulo, BR.
2006 - 2013 Designer and Developer
At several studios. More on LinkedIn. São Paulo / Bauru, BR.
2020 Teaching, "Micro/Macro"
UdK Berlin. Berlin, DE.
2020 Assistant Teaching, "Expanding Spaces"
New Media Class (Prof. Joachim Sauter). UdK Berlin. Berlin, DE.
2019/20 Teaching, "Poetics of Repetition"
UdK Berlin. Berlin, DE.
2019/20 Assistant Teaching, "Media Minimalism"
New Media Class (Prof. Joachim Sauter). UdK Berlin. Berlin, DE.
2019 Teaching, "Nomadic Cartography"
UdK Berlin. Berlin, DE.
2019 Assistant Teaching, "Orientation, Navigation, Information/Intervention"
New Media Class (Prof. Joachim Sauter). UdK Berlin. Berlin, DE.
2019 Guest Jury, "Digital Media Hochschulpreis 2019"
HfK Bremen. Bremen, DE.
2018/19 Teaching, "Automate! Multiply! Accelerate!"
UdK Berlin. Berlin, DE.
2018/19 Assistant Teaching, "Carte Blanche"
New Media Class (Prof. Joachim Sauter). UdK Berlin. Berlin, DE.
2018 Panel, "Autonomous Relations: actions, reactions and tangled sovereign systems"
Device Art Triennial. Museum of Contemporary Art. Zagreb, HR.
2018 Artist Talk, "Talks de fin de résidence"
Centre Culturel de Namur. Namur, BE.
2018 Teaching, "Machinic Diffractions"
UdK Berlin. Berlin, DE.
2018 Assistant Teaching, "Mirror - Material, Medium, Metaphor"
New Media Class (Prof. Joachim Sauter). UdK Berlin. Berlin, DE.
2018 Teaching, "The Laboratory for Electronics"
UdK Berlin. Berlin, DE.
2018 Artist Talk, "Making Kin: on Digital Materiality"
Digital Media Program. HfK Bremen. Bremen, DE.
2017/18 Teaching, "Things that Learn"
UdK Berlin. Berlin, DE.
2017/18 Assistant Teaching, "Artificial Intelligence in Art and Design"
New Media Class (Prof. Joachim Sauter). UdK Berlin. Berlin, DE.
2018 Mediation, "The non-human interference task force"
New Media Class (Prof. Joachim Sauter). UdK Berlin. Berlin, DE.
2017/18 Mediation, "Monday meetups: on Artificial Intelligence"
New Media Class (Prof. Joachim Sauter). UdK Berlin. Berlin, DE.
2016/17 Assistant Teaching, "Filtering, Infecting, Gathering".
Prof. Dr. Andrea Sick's class. HfK Bremen. Bremen, DE.
2016/17 Tutoring, "Die Poesie des Messens"
Prof. Dennis P. Paul's class. HfK Bremen. Bremen, DE.
2017 Tutoring, "Physical Computing with Arduino"
Prof. Ralf Baecker's class. HfK Bremen. Bremen, DE.
2016 Artist Talk, "Digital Eruption: convergences among Art, Design and Technology"
Belas Artes University. São Paulo, BR.
2016 Artist Talk, "Prototyping: prosthesis for thinking"
Fablab Bremen. University of Bremen. Bremen, DE.
Reenactments in Kunst, Gestaltung, Wissenschaft und Technologie
Book chapter. Textem Verlag. Hamburg, DE.
Inspecting Material Unconsciousness: On Infrastructural Entanglements
The Dynamic Archive. University of the Arts Bremen. Bremen, DE.
The Outlier Manifesto
Manifesto. "NEVERTHELESS. 17 Manifestos" (2018). Textem Verlag. Hamburg, DE.
A Habitat of Recognition
Master Thesis (2017). University of the Arts Bremen. Independent. Bremen, DE.
Data aesthetics and the role of narration in generative artefacts
Scientific article. V!RUS Magazine, n. 11 (2015). São Carlos, BR.
Towards the Ungraspable
Manifesto. “20 Manifestos” (2015). Amsterdam, NL.
Nama: a design research on liquid contemporaneity
Bachelor Thesis (2012). São Paulo State University. Independent. Bauru, BR.
2020 Instability (Fiber Festival)
Tolhuistuin. Amsterdam, NL.
2020 Version Room
Circa 106 (online). Bremen, DE.
2018 Machines are not Alone (Device Art Triennial)
Museum of Contemporary Art. Zagreb, HR.
2018 Ein Archiv von Hitze und Kälte (Kunstfest Weimar)
"Wie das Bauhaus nach Weimar kam". ACC Galerie. Weimar, DE.
2018 (Un)natural Encounters
Galerie Herold. Bremen, DE.
2018 Proklamation, Ja! (Jahresausstellung)
University of the Arts Bremen. Bremen, DE.
2018 Digital Provocateur (The Wrong Biennale)
Cidade das Artes. Rio de Janeiro, BR.
2017 LAB 30
Kulturhaus Abraxas. Augsburg, DE.
2017 (Un)natural Encounters
Dom kulture Studentski grad. Belgrade, RS.
2017 Prima Materia (Fiber Festival)
Looiersgracht 60. Amsterdam, NL.
2017 Media Campus INIT
European Media Art Festival (EMAF). Osnabrück, DE.
2017 Hochschultage
University of the Arts Bremen. Bremen, DE.
2017 Dark Science (Transmediale/CTM Vorspiel)
Spektrum Berlin. Berlin, DE.
2016 The Fine Tuning of Marble (HfK Performance)
Resonate Festival. Kinoteka. Belgrade, RS.
2016 Hochschultage
University of the Arts Bremen. Bremen, DE.
2015 Love Project
Dubai Design Week. D3. Dubai, UAE.
2015 Hacks + Hoaxes
Galery Herold. Bremen, DE.
2015 Re-Flux
International Symposium on Wearable Computers. Osaka, JP.
2015 20 Manifestos
Jahresausstellung. Group performance. Bremen, DE.
2015 Hochschultage
University of the Arts Bremen. Bremen, DE.
2015 New Bremen New Cairo
Immigration Office. Bremen, DE.
2015 Theater Bremen (Moks)
“Love is a Muscle” group performance. Bremen, DE.
2015 Schwankhalle Bremen
“Love is a Muscle” group performance. Bremen, DE.
2014 Love Project
Galeria Baró. São Paulo, BR.
2013 Conecta (The Wrong Biennale)
Tech Art Lab. Rio de Janeiro, BR.
2013 Sonic Fabric
MAK - Museum of Applied Arts Vienna. Vienna, AT.
2012 FILE Festival
Media Art group exhibition. Rio de Janeiro, BR.
2011 FILE Festival
Media Art group exhibition. São Paulo, BR.
2011 Festival do Minuto
Traveling group exhibition. Various cities, BR.
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