Talking Art: Experimental Cinematic Language

“Talking Art: Experimental Cinematic Language” brings together two contemporary artists, Miguel Novelo and Adrian L. Burrell, working across experimental film, digital video, and emerging media to explore how storytelling is being transformed through technology, heritage, and speculative world-building.

Moderated by ICA curator Zoë Latzer, the conversation considers how artists are expanding storytelling through hybrid media systems that merge myth, memory, and machine into new forms of cinema.

Miguel Novelo’s technoshamanic practice combines emerging technologies and Indigenous knowledge systems to construct generative worlds where myth, computation, and perception intersect. Through expanded cinema, game engines, and interactive systems, his work reframes storytelling as an evolving process shaped by uncertainty, humor, ecological grief, and non-human perspectives.

Adrian L. Burrell’s practice spans photography, film, and experimental media, weaving archival, speculative, and personal narratives into layered explorations of race, memory, and intergenerational history. His work treats the moving image as a site of reconstruction where fiction and documentation merge to reimagine collective memory and lived experience.

Together, they will discuss emerging practices in cinematic language, digital video, experimental film, and computational systems that reshape how stories are formed, experienced, and transmitted. Their practices point toward cinema as a living system that is immersive, fragmented, and continually in transformation.

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Host or Publisher Institute of Contemporary Art San José