Original Narratives Art Gallery: Introduction

SIGGRAPH Art Gallery Chair 2018, Associate Professor, Universidad de los Andes

Andrés Burbano is Associate Professor in the Department of Design at Universidad de los Andes in Bogota, Colombia. He holds a Ph.D. in Media Arts and Technology from the University of California, Santa Barbara where he wrote a dissertation about media technology history in Latin America. He was ISEA2017 Academic Chair and is SIGGRAPH 2018 Art Gallery Chair. Burbano was a keynote speaker at Potential Spaces at ZKM 2017 and is visiting lecturer at the Krems University in Austria. Originally from Colombia, he explores the interactions of science, art and technology in various capacities: as a researcher, as an individual artist and in collaborations with other artists and designers. His work ranges from documentary video (in both science and art), sound and telecommunication art to the exploration of algorithmic cinematic narratives. The broad spectrum of his work illustrates the importance—indeed, the prevalence—of interdisciplinary collaborative work in the field of digital art.