Felipe Castelblanco

Felipe Castelblanco is a multidisciplinary artist, researcher, and filmmaker affiliated with the Institute Art Gender Nature at FHNW (University of Applied Sciences and Arts Northwestern Switzerland). His work bridges participatory art, film, and media practices, focusing on institutional critique, inter-epistemic dialogue, and biocultural peace-building in the Andean-Amazon region. He holds an MFA from Carnegie Mellon University and a Ph.D. from Kunstuniversität Linz and the Basel Academy of Art and Design (FHNW).

Research interests include:

• Human-plant collaborations and vegetal alliances
• Decolonial approaches to exploration and publicness
• Art-based peace-building through embodied journeys
• Media art interventions in remote landscapes
• Interdisciplinary methodologies merging art, ecology, and anthropology
• Platform creation for cross-cultural dialogue