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Manuel Piña Baldoquin is an artist, pedagog, and social justice activist whose research explores the intersection of spirituality and technology. He aims to elucidate the present challenges and imagine new forms of social relations through the adoption of digital imaging technologies and transmedia languages. Piña’s ongoing research manifests in proto-online environments, emphasizing the potentials of digital interfaces to preserve suppressed epistemologies and envision futures. He was born in Havana and graduated as a mechanical engineer from Vladimir Polytechnic Institute in Russia in 1983. Piña began exhibiting his art in 1992 and has been a faculty member at the Department of Art History, Visual Art & Theory at the University of British Columbia since 2004. His work has been exhibited across the Americas and Europe, including prestigious venues such as the Havana Biennale, Istanbul Biennale, Kunsthalle Vienna, Grey Gallery in New York, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Dorsky Gallery in New York, and DAROS Museum in Zurich.
University of British Columbia • Vancouver, BC
Teaches and conducts research in the Department of Art History, Visual Art & Theory.
Offers course-only and thesis routes. Focus areas include philosophy of science, mind, ethics, and Asian philosophy.