Luciano Zubillaga Ph.D

Senior Associate Professor

Luciano Zubillaga is an artist filmmaker and developer of screen based media platforms, whose major works take the form of immersive gallery based multi-screen video and multi-channel sound installation. His work combines interdisciplinary research (particularly with moving image art, technology and critical posthumanism) with socially engaged practice.

Luciano’s work has been exhibited internationally, with shows at Musée du Louvre, London’s ICA, Whitechapel Art Gallery and the Museum of Modern Art, Buenos Aires and film festivals, BAFICI, Ann Arbor, Oberhausen, Berlinale, Habana Film Festival etc.

In 2022, his triptych Cosmos-War- Finally-Love won Best Experimental Film at the 60th Ann Arbor Film Festival. He screened his first VR/360 film at the Musée du Louvre in Paris in a VR programme fronted by American filmmaker David Lynch. In 2008, he received the London Artist Film and Video Awards (LAFVA) from the Arts Council of England and his work is part of the British Artists' Film and Video Study Collection (BAFVS).

Since 2001, he has been teaching experimental film and media art courses at several universities, including Goldsmiths College, University of London, University of Kent, Hong Kong Baptist University in Zhuhai and Xi’an Jiaotong Liverpool University in Suzhou, where he was the founding Programme Director of the BA in Art, Technology and Entertainment. He holds an MA from Goldsmiths College, University of London and a Ph.D. in Fine Art from the University of Kent, UK.



  • PhD, School of Art, University of Kent.
  • MA Filmmaking, Goldsmiths College, University of London


  • REF 2014: As principal investigator Dr Zubillaga obtained the maximum category of "world-leading in terms of originality, significance and rigour" (REF2014). https://impact.ref.ac.uk/casestudies/CaseStudy.aspx?Id=42610
Luciano Zubillaga