Valentina Ferrandes.
Artist & Designer — Moving Image, Immersive Art, Digital Worlds
Valentina Ferrandes is a Southern Italian artist and designer based in London and Barcelona. Working across moving image, immersive installations and real-time environments, her practice explores the intersections of ecology, mythology and cultural memory through speculative digital worlds. Her work draws on Mediterranean landscapes, ancient mythologies, and the often-invisible processes of the natural world. Classical sculptures dissolve into particles, while hypersaline landscapes become sites for imagining unfamiliar forms of life. These transformations question the boundaries between human and non-human, physical and virtual, past and future.
Rooted in experimental documentary and field research, Ferrandes combines archival materials, environmental recordings, photogrammetry, CGI and procedural systems. Through computational processes, she transforms observed reality into imagined environments, exploring how technology can offer new ways of experiencing natural systems and cultural histories.Her practice takes form through experimental films, architectural projections, public art and immersive installations, often developed in dialogue with composers, researchers and creative production teams.
Ferrandes has realised commissions for Meta Open Arts, Digerati / Denver Night Lights and Ortung 13, Schwabach Gold Biennale. Her work has been exhibited internationally, including at MOMus – Experimental Center for the Arts, FILE Festival, MACRO Rome, European Media Art Festival and Ca' Foscari Short Film Festival. She is the recipient of the Carme Daste Digital Art Prize and Emerging Scene Art Prize, and was a finalist for the Aesthetica Art Prize.
BACKGROUND
Ferrandes' interdisciplinary background spans the humanities, fine art, experience design and real-time production. Alongside her artistic practice, she has worked for over a decade in London and Berlin as a digital product and experience designer, contributing to projects for organisations including Bosch, the University of Potsdam, WPP and Experience One. This experience informs her systems-based approach to digital world-building and interdisciplinary production.
She studied at the University of Bologna and Chelsea College of Arts, University of the Arts London, and undertook an artistic residency at the China Academy of Art. In 2025, she completed an MA in 3D Environment Art at Escape Studios with Distinction.
She is a member of the World Experience Organisation and a resident at Somerset House Exchange in London.
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2026/27 NUBIA LABS - Institute of Artand Culture, Barcelona
2026 NY20 - Artist Residency - Chengdu - China (postponed)
2026 Constelation Hacklabs. ESPROCEDA Institute of Artand Culture, Barcelona
2025 ESCAPE STUDIOS - MA 3D Environment Art - Distinction - UK
2024 NIGHT LIGHTS DENVER - US - Digerati Media Festival Commission
2023 CARME DASTE DIGITAL ART PRIZE - Winner - IT
2023 AESTHETICA ART PRIZE - Finalist - UK
2022 META London - Meta Open Arts Commission - UK
2021 EMERGING SCENE ART PRIZE - Winner - Dubai
2021 OFFICINE CULTURALI - Digital Residency and Production Grant - Italy
2016 JAPAN MEDIA ART FESTIVAL- Jury Selection - Japan
2013 FABBRI PRIZE for Contemporary Art - Finalist - Italy
2013/11 CELESTE PRIZE for Contemporary Art - Finalist - Italy
2011 RENAISSANCE Arts Prize - Finalist - Italian Cultural Institute in London - UK
2011/10 Matt Roberts Video Art Prize - Finalist - UK -
2026 Knowledge in a Fractured World. Cambridge University
2025 Dreamscapes: digital Art and Spatial imagination - Exposed Gallery - New York - jan. feb. 25
2025 Here and Now - Artist Videos from the UK - Ca Foscari Short Film Festival . March 25
2025 Here and Now - Artist Videos from the UK - MUSA - Pietrasanta - Over The Real Festival
2024 Lafayette Electronic Arts Festival
2024 We are all made of stars. MOMus-Experimental Center for the Arts. Greece
2024 Anilogue Film Festival - Panorama Section - Hungary
2024 Lugano Animation Days - Switzerland
2024 Elevision Media - Public Art Screening - Dubai
2024 Algorithmic lies - LÁ Art Museum in Hveragerdi, South Iceland
2024 Denver Night Lights
2024 Digerati Emerging Media Festival
2024 FILE Festival for Electronic Art - San Paolo - BR
2023 Aesthetica Art Prize - Finalist Works. York Art Museum. UK
2023 Ortung 13 - Schwabach Gold Biennale - DE
2023 Carme Daste Digital Art Prize - IT
2023 Denver Digerati Emergent Media Festival - Denver - US
2023-20 Miden Video Art Festival - GR
2022 7th Simultan Festival - The changing and the Indeterminate - Official Selection - Romania
2022 File Festival for Electronic Language - Brasil
2022 Bideodromo Experimental Film and Video Festival - ES
2022 Cyber Film Festival - US
2022 Biophilia International Film Festival - MX
2022 Festival Internacional Cinema Imaginarios - MX
2022 The Sublime 3.0: VR Exhibition with Agora Digital Art - Mozilla Hubs - UK
2021 Decentraland Art Week
2021 Warsaw Animation Film Festival - Competition
2021 Emerging Scene Art Prize - Gallery Van Goudenberg - Dubai
2021 Bogota Experimental Film Festival - CO
2020 MADATAC - Spain
2020 Athens Digital Arts Festival - Greece
2020 Athens Animfest - Athens - Greece
2020 16 Festival Transterritorial de Cine Underground
2020 Supernova Digital Animation Festival - Denver - US -
2024/25 MA Game Art - Escape Studios - London
2006/09 BA Fine Art - Chelsea College of Art - London
2008 China Academy of Art - Shanghai - New Media
2002/06 DAMS - Disciplines of Art, Music and Drama - Bologna University, Italy
