Andrés Burbano

Andrés Burbano 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). His recent work interrogates computer programming languages in relation to the arts and the cultural history of AI in Latin America. He chaired international conferences such as ACM SIGGRAPH 2024 (Denver, USA) and  Media Art Histories 2025 (Manizales, Colombia). Burbano holds a Ph.D. in Media Arts and Technology from the University of California, Santa Barbara, 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). Currently, he serves as co-editor-in-chief of the academic journal Artnodes.