Tupac Martir

Creative Director

Satore Studio

Speaker Biography

Tupac is the Artist and Founder of Satore Studio. The V&A called him “The Multidisciplinary Renaissance Man” due to his work as a multimedia artist whose work spans the fields of technology, lighting, projection and video, sound design, music, and composition, as well as choreography and costumes. Vogue has described him as ‘the visual designer and creative director behind some of the most important events in the world’.

He has provided production design, visuals and lighting direction for the likes of Elton John, Beyoncé, Danny Boyle, Coachella, Fondazione Prada and Serpentine Gallery. Tupac is renowned within the fashion industry and has worked on ground-breaking shows for Alexander McQueen, Moschino, and Vivienne Westwood among others.

Additionally, Tupac has led a team to become pioneers in Virtual Production, working across multiple TV shows and movies, including Netflix’ 1899 and Amazon’s Fallout.

He has won multiple awards for his work including the Lumen Priza, as well as being nominated for a Production Guild of America award for Innovation, for his piece “Cosmos Within Us”. A multi sensorial VR experience that combines, live music, theatre and haptics. He received the Profile award for lighting for his work on Beji Reid’s “Find Your Eyes”.

In addition to debuting “Haita” at Sónar, a dance piece created visually from a single person, using MRI, real time engines, motion capture and volumetric capture. As well as working with Es Devlin on an illuminated kinetic sculpture at the Lincoln Centre, he is part of TRANSMIXR, a 19 partner consortium across Europe that aims to create a range of human-centric tools for performance, journalism and cultural heritage in immersive technologies.

At Satore Studio, Tupac leads an international team of creative minds to create ground-breaking work, mixing art and technology.

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