academic"My university work bridges industry experience with creative research. Through a PhD dissertation, visual essays, and articles, theory and practice blend in contemporary media and the arts." — PV
PhD dissertation and book series on performing arts I Visuals including arts and technology I Articles on contemporary media.
“This academic work brings together research that blends artistic experimentation with critical views in media and the arts. It includes writing on the avant-garde and digital futures, with focus on creative processes and multicultural experiences.”
PhD
Study of Robert Wilson’s Creative Process on director/artist Robert Wilson's work (Part 01), and creative process (Part 02).
— Robert Wilson I Theater I Books
Photo: Deafman Glance I © 1975 Paula Cooper Gallery
Visuals
01 BA (Hons) Contemporary Media Practice 02 Contemporary Media 03 Arts/Technology 04 Multimedia Video installation 05 Multimedia Visual theater
— Behance Contemporary Media
Articles
01 Transmedia European project 02 Transmedia MA Transmedia Documentary Film 03 International Development UC3M magazine 04 Film/Theater
— Articles I University
"Study of Robert Wilson’s Creative Process is a six-hundred-plus page PhD dissertation that served as a way of immersing myself in contemporary art in the frame of the avant-garde. Later, it turned into a book series: Robert Wilson. Planetary Performing Arts (Ñaque Ed.), and Suspended Time Space. Robert Wilson’s Creative Process (upcoming).
Over the past several decades, Robert Wilson is well known as a master of opera staging, with successful productions commissioned by major opera houses, mostly in Paris and Berlin. Although Wilson is essentially a theater autho/director and visual artist immersed in movement, as he has created an extensive visual work including drawings, paintings, furniture design, video art, and installations.
Wilson is the master of light in the performing arts of the 20th century and beyond. He is a great admirer of dancer Martha Graham, and a follower of the Black Mountain College experimental tradition with figures like painter Robert Rauschenberg and musician John Cage. Wilson appears in the emblematic book The Theater of Images together with Richard Foreman and Mabou Mines.
Robert Wilson belongs to the unique generation that took New York by storm in the second half of the 1960s to establish groundbreaking languages for contemporary art to this day. Writers Heiner Müller, and William S. Burroughs; musicians Philip Glass, Lou Reed, and Tom Waits are among his numerous extraordinary collaborators. I could not lock myself in for years into any other world." — PV [Book 01]
Robert Wilson
PhD DISSERTATION Study of Robert Wilson’s Creative Process - Estudio del proceso de creación en la obra de Robert Wilson (2000) SUBJECT: Robert Wilson’s work (Part 01), and creative process (Part 02). TITLE: Study of Robert Wilson’s Creative Process. LANGUAGE: Spanish. AUTHOR: Pedro Valiente. DIRECTOR: José Ramón Pérez Ornia. PROGRAM: Audiovisual Creativity and Production. UNIVERSITY: Universidad Complutense de Madrid (UCM). DEFENSE: December 2000, PhD awarded cum laude. I E-PRINT, UCM: 2000+ downloads from 50+ countries (2025).
PHD DISSERTATION
BOOK 01 Robert Wilson. Planetary Performing Arts - Arte escénico planetario (2005). Artist’s work in the frame of the avant-garde and contemporary art. Recommended Book by La Casa del Libro (Madrid), Top 10 Performing Arts Books at Alibri (Barcelona). I BOOK 02 Suspended Time Space. Robert Wilson’s Creative Process - Tiempo espacio suspendido. Proceso de creación de Robert Wilson (upcoming). Artist’s creative process through the trilogy DDDI, II, III over three decades. Upcoming. I Robert Wilson I Books
BOOK SERIES
VISUALS
Contemporary Media
Arts Universiity Plymouth, UK
BA (HONS) CONTEMPORARY MEDIA PRACTICE visual presentation for a new program at Arts University Plymouth, UK
Contemporary Media
Arts University Plymouth, UK
CONTEMPORARY MEDIA Capturing Contemporary Media: The Invention of the Real visual essay in the frame of BA (Hons) Contemporary Media Practice at AUP published by ARTSevilla magazine I PDF, and digital book Critical Transmedia 12: Proscethics of the Late Anthropocene, by Phillip Baldwin ed., Stony Brook University, NY.
Technology
Artist Talk at PUCC, Chile
TECHNOLOGY Visual Media/Performing Arts/Technology visual presentation for Artist Talk at Arts/Science/Technology symposium/event at Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile.
Arts
01 Visual Theater 02 Video Installation 03 Filmmaking
Arts
01 Film Directing 02 Cinematography 03 Non-fiction Writing 04 Non-fiction TV 05 Digital Cultures 06 Visual Art
01 Transmedia European project 02 Transmedia MA Transmedia Documenary Film 03 Visual Culture UC3M magazine
ARTICLES
Transmedia
UC3M Writing
TRANSMEDIA Ulysses Transmedia text on transmedia storytelling for Crossing Stages book with media card including digital media as part of Crossing Stages European project by Aula de las Artes UC3M, Spain. I "The world represented is born of visual artwork when reality is closer to a landscape or a state of the mind."
TRANSMEDIA Transmedia Narrative text for Transmedia Screenwriting program for MA Transmedia Documentary and Reportage by UC3M and RTVE. "Transmedia narrative develops through online and offline channels and platforms that build a coherent narrative universe."
VISUAL CULTURE Cultura Audiovisual para el Desarrollo Internacional (Visual Culture for International Development) article for Semiosfera magazine, UC3M, Spain. I "Life is audiovisual but reality isn‘t. Contemporary society expresses itself through images and sounds perceiving itself as a manifestation of being in an increasing technological environment." I Article
University Work
WRITING Grant from Castilla-La Mancha government for research at Columbia University in New York towards a PhD dissertation on Robert Wilson. Later, highest grant of the year from the Ministry of Culture of Spain to study filmmaking in New York. In both residencies, writing on Spanish cinema and arts for The Washington Square News magazine at New York University.
Madrid I New York
LECTURING Lecturing internationally for over 10yrs, and coordinating International Relations (NYFA, US), BA (Hons) Contemporary Media Practice (AUP, UK), media for European Project and Transmedia Screenwriting (UC3M, Spain), Film/Theater programs (Tec, Mexico); and participating at UC3M in Documentary Film MOOC (edX MIT/Harvard).
US I UK I Spain I Mexico I Jordan
'ECOLOGY OF SOULS' “The space and time for the ecology of souls is here and now. Everywhere. It develops through an open society that walks together.” Text shortlisted for TEDx talk under ecology of souls leitmotiv for film in New York, film festival in Mexico, and contemporary media program in the UK. I University I Selected Projects BEHANCE University I Students Work
Mexico
Crafting Ideas, Shaping Art
"Pedro Valiente's academic writing covers media theory and cultural analysis, offering insights that bridge theory and practice. The PhD dissertation Study of Robert Wilson’s Creative Process, presented at Universidad Complutense de Madrid, examines the nature of Robert Wilson's work, encompassing performing and visual art. This work, which received cum laude honors, serves as the origin of the book series Robert Wilson. Planetary Performing Arts and the forthcoming Suspended Time Space. Robert Wilson’s Creative Process. Beyond written practice, this body of academic work is informed by industry experience —supporting academic views that offer fresh insights into the dynamic landscape of contemporary media and performing arts." LinkedIn I Behance I EXTERNAL REVIEW