Andres Burbano (Colombia, 1972) is a media artist and academic, currently Associate Professor at the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya in Barcelona, Spain. Burbano holds a PhD in Media Arts and Technology from the University of California Santa Barbara and is a visiting professor at the Danube University in Krems, Austria. Burbano explores the interactions between science, art and technology in various capacities: as a researcher, as an individual artist and in collaboration with other artists and designers. Burbano’s work ranges from documentary video (both science and art), sound art and telecommunications to the exploration of algorithmic cinematic narratives. Burbano was appointed chair of the SIGGRAPH 2024 conference and is the author of the book Different Engines: Media Technologies from Latin America, Routledge 2023.

12/0401:30 pm - 02:30 pm
Global visions, local realities: building bridges in the diverse world of XR