Carlos Franklin

Adjunct Faculty

Artist, videomaker, XR maker

Carlos Franklin is a visual artist who focuses on documentary and archive-based forms. He combines new media, video, installation, drawing as well as protean performative projects. Franklin is interested in how the artistic practice reveals historical and political discourses. Franklin explores semiotics in order to study aesthetics and representation paradigms and their use in meaning construction and testimony restitution.

His work has been exhibited in numerous festivals, museums, and centers of art including the Centre Georges Pompidou and Grand Palais in Paris, the Saatchi Gallery in London, Museo d’Arte Contemporanea di Roma – MACRO, Festival d’Aix en Provence, among others.

Education
MFA Les Fresnoy – Studio National des Arts Contemporains, France, 2008. BFA Universidad de los Andes, Colombia, 2001.

Awards
2018 Price to new writings / best interactive experience SCAM. Paris, France. 2017 Art mediation VR experience award. World VR Forum. Best VR experience Award, Courant 3D Festival, Angoulême, France. 2016 Lumière Award best VR documentary. 3D Stereo Media International Festival.Hyun Cube International Award VR. Nab Show Shanghai, China. 2015 Silver trophy AVICOM – animated documentary. 2008 Price for new practices of performance. Digital arts section. Bourges, France.

Exhibitions (selection)
2021 +CODE FESTIVAL INTERNACIONAL DE CULTURA DIGITAL, Argentina 2018 Vassarely Foundation, France. Guanajuato International Film Festival, Mexico. International Festival of Film about Art (FIFA). Montreal, Canada. Clermont Ferrand Short-cuts Festival. Clermont Ferrand, France. 2017 Trends – Ventana Sur, Argentina. World VR Forum, Switzerland. File, Brazil. 2012 Outfest, USA. Imminent Sounds. Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taiwan. Digital Life. Museo d’Arte Contemporanea, Roma, Italy. 2011 Festival Indie Lisboa, Portugal. 2010