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Jan P. L. Peeters
Professor Dr Jan P. L. Peeters is a visual artist and experimental filmmaker. He holds a faculty position at LUCA School of Arts, where he is a member of the Art, Imagination & Language research cluster (Image Research Unit). He currently presides over the Illustration Department and teaches in the visual arts courses. In his multidisciplinary practice, he often works on the edges of media, but also at the fringe of narrativity, and between fiction and non-fiction. These experiments with words and images have been shown in exhibitions and at festivals worldwide. Jan P. L. Peeters collaborates with other artists and writers (e.g. poet Paul Bogaert). His poetry films have been selected at major video and poetry film festivals, such as the ‘ZEBRA Poetry Film Festival’ (Berlin), ‘Videoformes’ (Clermont-Ferrand) and ‘VideoBardo’ (Buenos Aires). Jan P. L. Peeters holds a master’s degree in Germanic languages and literatures from the University of Ghent, as well as a bachelor’s degree (Gerrit Rietveld Academie, Amsterdam) and a Master of Fine Arts (KASK, Ghent). He obtained a Ph.D. in the arts from the associated Faculty of the Arts (LUCA School of Arts/KU Leuven) with his research on the intermedial combination of moving images and written text.
Contact: LUCA School of Arts, Paleizenstraat 70, 1030 Brussels, Belgium.