Andrés Burbano, Ph.D., is an Associate Professor at the Open University of Catalunya (Barcelona, Spain). A transdisciplinary researcher and media artist, he explores the history of media and technology in Latin America and the Global South through the lenses of media archaeology, infrastructure studies, and the cultural impact of computation. He is the author of the book “Different Engines: Media Technologies from Latin America” (Routledge, 2023) and serves as co-editor-in-chief of the academic journal Artnodes. He recently chaired ACM SIGGRAPH 2024 (Denver, USA) and Media Art Histories 2025 (Manizales, Colombia). Dr. Burbano holds a Ph.D. in Media Arts and Technology from the University of California, Santa Barbara. He has held positions at Universidad de los Andes (Bogotá, Colombia) and has been a visiting professor at Donau-Universität (Krems, Austria) and Fachhochschule Potsdam (Potsdam, Germany)