Úrsula San Cristóbal

teaching Fellow

Úrsula San Cristóbal (1987) is an artist and researcher devoted to experimental music, performance art, video art, weaving, and calligraphy. With an academic background in music (BA. in Music from the Catholic University of Chile; MA in Hispanic Music from the University of Valladolid, Spain; MA in Musicology from the University of Milan, Italy, and a BA in Early Music from Scuola Civica di Musica di Milano), she later specialized in contemporary art and audiovisual media. Ursula holds a PhD in Art History and Musicology from the Autonomous University of Barcelona with a dissertation on the role of sound and music in video art and performance art works by Marina Abramović and Shirin Neshat, research for which she received the Extraordinary PhD Award in 2020.

She has been artist in residence at Nau Estruch (Sabadell, Spain) and her video art work has been screened internationally in festivals such as Festival Les Instants Vidéo (France), Magmart Video Under Vulcano (Italy), BIDEODROMO International Experimental Film and Video Festival (Spain), Miami New Media Festival (USA), Videoformes (France), Traverse Vidéo (France), FILE – Electronic Language International Festival (Brazil), Video Art Miden (Greece), Media Art Biennale WRO 2021 (Poland), and Proyector Video Art Festival (Spain).  

Ursula has been teacher of music in audiovisual media at Esmuc (Catalonia College of Music) and currently is a professor of aesthetics, communication and research methodology at Taller de Músics (College of jazz and modern music) in Barcelona.