Felipe Castelblanco (*1985 in Bogotá) is a multidisciplinary artist and researcher, working at the intersection of socially engaged, film and Media Art. His work explores institutional forms, creates platforms for inter-epistemic dialogue, ventures out into new frontiers of publicness, and engages remote and unlikely audiences. He holds an M.F.A from Carnegie Mellon University (USA) and a Ph.D from Kunstuniversität Linz (AT) and HGK Basel (CH). In his most recent work, Felipe explores avenues for biocultural peace-building, territorial and epistemic justice in the Colombian Pan-Amazon region. He has been the recipient of several international awards, including the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation Residency (USA, 2019) and The Starr Fellowship at the Royal Academy Schools in London (UK, 2015). Recent shows include the 2019 Quebec Biennial and Seasons of Media at ZKM in Karlsruhe (Germany) and the Helmhaus in Zürich (2021). In 2015 Felipe served as a Cultural Emissary for the U.S State Department to the Philippines, through which he developed a large participatory around inter-cultural diplomacy in the Philippine Sea.

During Castelblanco’s stay in Schöppingen, he has been developing preliminary research, storyboarding and writing to create a new experimental film revolving around ideas like Quantum Gazing and Plant-led Cognition. This project bridges two seemingly distant trajectories of knowledge, such as Colombia’s Indigenous history and modes of spatial inquiry, with those practiced by expert scientists and researchers at physics laboratories in Europe. In doing so, this project taps into the culture of science and its modes of knowledge validation, or even theorization, via cinemative, speculative, and participatory artistic research.