Department: Arts and Humanities Department

Organization: Universitat Oberta de Catalunya

Center: Interdisciplinary Research Centre on Social and Cultural Transformations (UOC-TRÀNSIC)

Research group: PACTS Perspectives on Art, Science, Technology and Society

Email: aburbanov@uoc.edu

Personal web: https://www.burbane.net/

Doctor by the University of California, Santa Barbara with the thesis Inventions at the Borders of History Re-significance of Media Technologies From Latin America 2012. Supervised by Dr. George Legrady.

Andrés Burbano, Ph.D., is an Associate Professor at the Open University of Catalunya (Barcelona, Spain). A transdisciplinary researcher and media artist, he explores the history of media and technology in Latin America, the Global South and Southern Europe through the lenses of media archaeology, infrastructure studies, and the cultural impact of computation. He is the author of the book "Different Engines: Media Technologies from Latin America" (Routledge, 2023) and serves as co-editor-in-chief of the academic journal Artnodes. He recently chaired ACM SIGGRAPH 2024 (Denver, USA) and Media Art Histories 2025 (Manizales, Colombia). Dr. Burbano holds a Ph.D. in Media Arts and Technology from the University of California, Santa Barbara. He has held positions at Universidad de los Andes (Bogotá, Colombia) and has been a visiting professor at Donau-Universität (Krems, Austria) and Fachhochschule Potsdam (Potsdam, Germany).

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