Pablo Martinez-Zárate

Pablo Martínez-Zárate is a media artist, documentary filmmaker and scholar living and working in Mexico City. His work explores the interconnection between memory, body and territory through experimental media practice. He is considered one of the pioneers and foremost exponents of web and interactive documentary in Mexico and Latin America. His films, interactive projects and installations have shown in important museums in Mexico and festivals such as DocsMX and Ambulante in Mexico City, MIDBO in Bogota, or IDFA in Amsterdam. He is professor at Universidad Iberoamericana Mexico City, where he founded IberoDocsLab.org, a platform for critical innovation in documentary practice.

Pablo Martínez-Zárate has published two non-fiction books that seek to reflect on the power of art in a world in crisis: “Machines to See and Hear on the Limit of Time. Towards a Practical Critique of Communication” (2020), and “The Powers of the Image: Body and Death in Audiovisual Culture” (2018). He’s been guest lecturer and speaker at places such as at University of Southern California, Emerson College Boston, Zurich University of the Arts and EICTV San Antonio de los Baños, Cuba. He holds a masters degree in digital media by the University of Edinburgh and a PhD in Communications.

Pablo Martínez-Zárate's residency at the Film Academy will connect the research he’s undertaking with the Lectoraat’s interest in the pedagogy of artistic research. He will do this by engaging in conversations, workshops with both master and bachelor students, the production of a video-essay, and the conformation of an international study group that will get together during 2022 and 2023 to discuss the transformative potential of artistic research and education.  The work done between October 2022 and May 2023 will result in an exhibition and a possible joint publication with Ibero in Mexico City.
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