Luiz Zanotello

I’m an artist, researcher, and educator born in Brazil and living in Berlin. Through transmedia art practice, I investigate poetic tensions between space, language, and ecology in the post-digital condition. By aligning art and research, I navigate intimate, social, and environmental ecologies seeking to foster futures beyond extraction. My practice moves across artistic research, writing, lecturing, and teaching, nurturing transversal dialogues in art, science, and technology from a warm, pluriversal perspective.

My work has been shown in institutions such as the Museum of Contemporary Art in Zagreb, Museum of Applied Arts Vienna, Personal Structures Biennial in Venice, Technische Sammlungen Dresden, Städtische Galerie Karlsruhe, FILE Festival São Paulo, Cidade das Artes in Rio de Janeiro, among others. I was Assistant Professor for New Media at the UdK Berlin for six years, and a guest lecturer for Artistic Research in Media Art at the HfK Bremen. I am a former DAAD fellow, a recipient of the Petra & Dieter Frese Stiftung prize, and an artist-in-residence at the European Media Art Platform, Akademie Schloss Solitude with SAVVY Contemporary, among others. I hold an MA from the HfK Bremen, and I am currently a PhD candidate in Artistic Research at the PhDArts program (Leiden University) in collaboration with the HfK Bremen, supported by a doctoral scholarship from the Studienstiftung.

Luiz Zanotello
1986 Jundiaí, Brazil

2021 – 2026 PhD in Artistic Research, PhDArts (Leiden University) + HfK Bremen
2014 – 2017 Master of Arts, Digital Media, HfK Bremen
2007 – 2012 Bachelor of Arts, Design, São Paulo State University, Bauru

Grants, Awards, Residencies

2024 European Media Art Platform (EMAP) Residency, gnration, Braga
2024 Hydromedia Residency, Karlsruhe University of Arts and Design
2023 – 2026 PhD Scholarship, Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes
2023 Crystal Room Residency, GAK Bremen
2022 Web Residency, Akademie Schloss Solitude, SAVVY Contemporary
2022 Neustart Kultur Stipendium, Deutscher Künstlerbund
2022 Research Grant, Berlin Senate Department for Culture and Europe
2021 Bildende Kunst Recherchestipendium, Berlin Senate Department for Culture and Europe
2020 Senatsverwaltung Sonderprogramm, Berlin Senate Department for Culture and Europe
2019 Jury Selection, Japan Media Arts Festival, Tokyo
2018 Dieter-Frese Stiftung Preis, HfK Bremen (A Habitat of Recognition)
2018 Speculative Design Residency, Goethe-Institut / KIKK Festival / Les Abattoirs de Bomel
2017 Hochschulpreis Digitale Medien, HfK Bremen
2017 Residency at MAiR, Prolom Banja
2017 Nominee, German Design Award
2015 Hochschulpreis Digitale Medien, HfK Bremen
2014 – 2016 DAAD Scholarship for MA Studies in the Arts
2007 – 2008 PROEX Assistant Researcher Scholarship, Unesp Bauru

Solo exhibitions

2024 Tempo e Tempo, gnration, Braga
2023 A leap in three degrees, Crystal Room, GAK, Bremen

Group exhibitions / performances

2024 Hydromedia, Technische Sammlungen Dresden
2024 In the making, West Den Haag, The Hague
2024 Entangled Codes: Quantum Connection, iii workspace, The Hague
2024 Scenes of Resistance and Transformation, ECC Venice
2024 Personal Structures Biennial, Palazzo Mora, ECC Venice
2024 Hydromedia, Städtische Galerie Karlsruhe
2024 Nearly all types of honey crystalize, GAK, Bremen
2023 VIII Art of Research Conference, Aalto University, Espoo
2023 Becoming Tropical, Royal Royal Conservatoire The Hague
2023 Lange Nacht der Bremer Museen, GAK Dauerwelle, Bremen
2022 Halbe Halbe, GAK Dauerwelle, Bremen
2022 From within, from afar, all at once, Circa 106, Bremen
2020 Instability, Fiber Festival, Amsterdam
2020 Version Room, Circa 106 (online), Bremen
2018 Device_Art Festival 6, Museum of Contemporary Art, Zagreb
2018 Ein Archiv von Hitze und Kälte, ACC Galerie / Bauhaus 100, Weimar
2018 (Un)natural Encounters, Galerie Herold, Bremen
2018 Proklamation, Ja!, HfK Bremen
2018 Digital Provocateur, The Wrong Festival, Cidade das Artes, Rio de Janeiro
2017 LAB30, Kulturhaus Abraxas, Augsburg
2017 (Un)natural Encounters, Galerija DKSG, Belgrade
2017 Prima Materia, Fiber Festival, Amsterdam
2017 INIT, EMAF, Osnabrück
2017 Hochschultage, HfK Bremen
2017 Dark Science, Transmediale/CTM Vorspiel, Berlin
2016 Fine Tuning of Marble, Resonate Festival, Belgrade
2016 Hochschultage, HfK Bremen
2016 Love Project, Dubai Design Week, Dubai
2016 Hacks + Hoaxes, Galerie Herold, Bremen
2015 Re-Flux, ISWC, Osaka
2015 20 Manifestos, Domshof, Bremen
2015 Love is a Muscle, Theater Bremen, Bremen
2015 Love is a Muscle, Schwankhalle, Bremen
2015 Hochschultage, HfK Bremen
2015 New Bremen New Cairo, Immigration Office, Bremen
2014 Love Project, Galeria Baró, São Paulo
2013 Conecta, Tech Art Lab, The Wrong Festival, Rio de Janeiro
2013 Sonic Fabric, Museum of Applied Arts (MAK), Vienna
2012 FILE Festival, Oi Futuro, Rio de Janeiro
2012 FILE Festival, Centro Cultural Fiesp, São Paulo
2011 Festival do Minuto, various cities

Teaching positions

2017 – 2023 Assistant Professor (Künstlerischer Mitarbeiter) for New Media, UdK Berlin
2021 – 2022 Guest Lecturer for Artistic Research in Media Art, HfK Bremen
2016 – 2017 Tutor for Media Theory and Interaction & Spatiality, HfK Bremen

Academic engagement

2021 – 2023 Selection Committee, Visual Communication, UdK Berlin
2018 Board Member, Berlin Open Lab (BOL), UdK Berlin & TU Berlin
2017 Selection Committee, Digital Media, HfK Bremen
2008 – 2012 Founder and Honorary Member, Cadunesp (Student Union), Unesp Bauru

Courses, talks and workshops

2024 How to free a river from its margins, lecture-performance, Technische Sammlungen Dresden
2024 Drifting words and worlds at night, lecture-performance, European Cultural Centre, Venice
2024 Scenes of Resistance and Transformation, organization, European Cultural Centre, Venice
2024 Electromagnetic listening, workshop, University of the Arts Bremen
2024 How to free a river from its margins, workshop, Städtische Galerie Karlsruhe
2023 Knotting motion, performance-lecture and workshop, Akademie Schloss Solitude, Stuttgart
2023 New Media: Compost & Cosmos, co-taught course with Prof. Meyer-Brandis, UdK Berlin
2023 Critical Media: Earthing our way back, course, UdK Berlin
2022 New Media: Carte Blanche, co-taught course with Prof. Ängeslevä, UdK Berlin
2022 Critical Media: Matters of Thinking, course, UdK Berlin
2022 New Media: Carte Blanche, co-taught course with Prof. Ängeslevä, UdK Berlin
2022 Critical Media: Time Apparatus, course, UdK Berlin
2022 New Media: Legacy, co-taught course with Prof. Ängeslevä, UdK Berlin
2021 Artistic Research: Gravitating the Unknown (II), course, HfK Bremen
2021 Artist talk, online lecture and interview, Maestría Diseño Interativo, University of Buenos Aires
2021 Critical Media: New Wilderness, course, UdK Berlin
2021 Artistic Research: Gravitating the Unknown (I), course, HfK Bremen
2021 New Media: Island of Things, co-taught course with Prof. Ängeslevä, UdK Berlin
2020 Critical Media: Designed Uncertainty, course, UdK Berlin
2020 New Media: Concretely Unimaginable, co-taught course with Prof. Ängeslevä, UdK Berlin
2020 Critical Media: Micro/Macro, course, UdK Berlin
2020 New Media: Expanding Spaces, co-taught course with Prof. Sauter, UdK Berlin
2019 Electronic Media: Poetics of Repetition, course, UdK Berlin
2019 New Media: Media Minimalism, co-taught course with Prof. Sauter, UdK Berlin
2019 Electronic Media: Nomadic Cartography, course, UdK Berlin
2019 Orientation, Navigation, Information, co-taught course with Prof. Sauter, UdK Berlin
2019 Jury member, Digital Media Hochschulpreis, HfK Bremen
2018 Autonomous Relations, panel with Ralf Baecker, Museum of Contemporary Art, Zagreb
2018 Electronic Media: Automate! Multiply! Accelerate!, course, UdK Berlin
2018 New Media: Carte Blanche, co-taught course with Prof. Sauter, UdK Berlin
2018 The Burst, artist talk, Centre Culturel de Namur
2018 Critical Media: Machinic Diffractions, course, UdK Berlin
2018 Mirror: Material, Medium, Metaphor, co-taught course with Prof. Sauter, UdK Berlin
2018 The Electronics Laboratory, course, UdK Berlin
2018 Makin Kin: On Digital Materiality, talk, HfK Bremen
2017 Electronic Media: Things that Learn, course, UdK Berlin
2017 New Media: Artificial Intelligence, co-taught course with Prof. Sauter, UdK Berlin
2017 The Non-Human Interference Task-Force, workshop, UdK Berlin
2017 Monday Meetups: On Artificial Intelligence, study group, UdK Berlin
2017 My Dream of a Mechanical Duck, workshop, HfK Bremen
2017 Media Theory, tutoring, class of Prof. Dr. Andrea Sick, HfK Bremen
2017 Interaction & Spatiality, tutoring, class of Prof. Dennis Paul, HfK Bremen
2016 Physical Computing with Arduino, workshop, HfK Bremen
2016 Digital eruption, artist talk, Belas Artes University, São Paulo
2016 Prototyping as Prosthesis for Thinking, lecture, Fablab Bremen
2016 Physical Computing with Arduino, workshop, HfK Bremen
2013 Design & Collectivity, guest talk, São Paulo State University
2011 Megafônicas Bauru, organization of round-tables, São Paulo State University
2010 Design Education, round-table, São Paulo State University
2010 Emergence: The Network Dynamics Applied, workshop, Federal University of Paraná
2009 Megafônicas Bauru, organization of round-tables, São Paulo State University
2008 Pro-activity and the Student Movement, workshop, São Paulo State University

Supervision/Graduation boards

2024 Alberto Harres, MA Digital Media, HfK Bremen
2023 Vinzenz Aubry, Art & Media (Diploma), UdK Berlin
2023 Juan Pablo Gaviria Bedoya, Art & Media (Diploma), UdK Berlin
2023 Fang Tsai, Art & Media (Diploma), UdK Berlin
2023 Özcan Ertek, Art & Media (Diploma), UdK Berlin
2022 Florentin Aisslinger, MA Visual Communication, UdK Berlin
2022 Dawoon Park, MA Visual Communication, UdK Berlin
2022 Natalia Rivera, MA Visual Communication, UdK Berlin
2021 Niklas Söder, MA Visual Communication, UdK Berlin
2021 Robert Schnüll, MA Visual Communication, UdK Berlin
2021 Merani Sarah Schilcher, BA Visual Communication, UdK Berlin
2020 Theresa Reimann-Dubbers, MA Visual Communication, UdK Berlin
2020 Bruno Gola, Art & Media (Diploma), UdK Berlin
2020 Frederik Brodbeck, MA Visual Communication, UdK Berlin
2020 Cristopher Höhn, MA Visual Communication, UdK Berlin
2020 Piet Schmidt, BA Visual Communication, UdK Berlin
2019 Alix Stria, BA Visual Communication, UdK Berlin
2018 Simon Weckert, MA Visual Communication, UdK Berlin
2018 Hsiao Li-Chi, Art & Media (Diploma), UdK Berlin
2018 CHEN Hsiangfu, Art & Media (Diploma), UdK Berlin
2018 Astrid Kraniger, Art & Media (Diploma), UdK Berlin