Pablo Martínez-Zarate
Media Translations: From Analogue Film to Immersive Narratives
21. 7. – 2. 8. 25
This workshop deals with the aesthetic and political possibilities of translating creative ideas between media materialities. We will develop a series of experiments that begin in analogue media yet mutate constantly as the analogue media is manipulated using the different image and sound technologies. In this process, we will turn to artistic research methods that can aid the design, implementation and documentation of transmedia projects. The workshop invites participants to address their own positioning in relation to the technologies they use, exploring the narrative potential of their practice.
During the workshop, we will navigate diverse media surfaces as platforms for expanding our sensemaking processes in our hypertechnified world. Through grounded experimentation, we will question the technological programs that trick us into burying supposedly obsolete technologies. Incorporating radical imagination, critical inquiry and performative activations as strategies for media design and implementation, we will reach a collective expanded cinema installation at the end of the workshop composed by fragments of the participants' projects, using analogue projection, immersive video and other techniques that will illustrate some of the questions, provocations and ideas brought forward by the group’s sensibilities.
Information
- Venue
- Festung Hohensalzburg
- Date
- 21. 7. – 2. 8. 25
- Teaching language
- English (Spanish possible)
- Participation fee
- 670 Euro (reduced 495 Euro)
- Requirements
- This workshop is designed for participants who are interested in experimenting across various image and sound technologies, in reflecting on the political potential of artistic practice, and in designing artistic research methods from a critical perspective. No specific knowledge is required to enter the workshop, since we will build on the participants’ abilities to expand the group’s reach during the two weeks of collective work.
- What to bring
- laptop (if possible), camera (if possible), material from the participants’ archives, notebook
- Maximum number of participants
- 16
Pablo Martínez-Zárate
Pablo Martínez-Zárate is an artist-researcher working at the intersection of cinema, performance, and installation. His transmedia work—rooted in memory, archive, and experimental pedagogy—has been exhibited, screened, and published internationally, weaving critical poetics across languages, geographies, and formats.
Website
Exhibitions
2025 Impressions on Colonialism. Notes on an Unfinished History, expanded cinema, premiere in English: Sunset Kino, Salzburger Kunstverein, Salzburg (AT); premiere in Spanish: Mexico City International Documentary Film Festival.
Límbica, collaboration with choreographer Aura Arreola. Museo Jumex, Mexico City.
2024 Transposiciones, collaboration with artist Julieta Gil, Museum of the Palace of Fine Arts, Mexico City.
Oblique Takes. Meditations on Art and Crisis, International Documentary Film Festival, DocsMX, Mexico City.
Esta imagen no desaparecerá [This image will not go away], live cinema performance, Centro Cultural de España en México, Mexico City.
Transposiciones, collaboration with Julieta Gil, Museo del Palacio de Bellas Artes, Mexico City.
Fugas Mediales [Media fugues], Centro de Cultura Digital, Mexico City.
2023 Studio Variations The Netherlands Film Academy, Amsterdam.
Publications
Eccentric Pedagogy. Artistic Research in Times of Crisis, Amsterdam University of the Arts, The Netherlands Film Academy, The Netherlands, 2023. https://pablomz.info/eccentric-pedagogy
“Radical Interventions. Archaeology, Forensics and Montage,” The Palgrave Handbook of Media Misinformation, Palgrave Macmillan, 2023.
Art as a Beacon of Hope: How Creative Expression Can Transform our World, Audrey Plimpton, Salzburg Global Seminar, Salzburg (AT), 2023. https://www.salzburgglobal.org/news/topics/article/art-as-a-beacon-of-hope-how-creative-expression-can-transform-our-world
