Zachary Horton is a media, literary, and environmental scholar, as well as a filmmaker, photographer, camera designer, and game designer.  He is an Assistant Professor of English at the University of Pittsburgh.  He grew up in rural Northern California, and still feels the irresistible pull of the wilderness, wherever it may be.  He is committed to innovating alternate ways to think about ecology, dwelling, and architecture. These concerns animate the Domes project, a collaboration with his family and far flung friends to design and build an experimental dome dwelling from a combination of ancient principles and cybernetic thinking.

Zachary received his PhD from the University of California, Santa Barbara. His academic research primarily focuses on the relationship between scale, ecology, and technological mediation.  He is particularly interested in trans-scalar narratives, scalar politics, and the history of computational technologies and games (both digital and analog).  He is the founding director of the Vibrant Media Lab at the University of Pittsburgh, where he directs a number of ongoing projects (details on the Projects page).  His first book, The Cosmic Zoom: Scale, Knowledge, and Mediation was published in 2021 by the University of Chicago Press.

Zachary has an MFA in Film Directing from the American Film Institute Conservatory, studied Philosophy and Creative Writing at Oxford University, and earned his BA with a double major in Media Arts and Philosophy at the University of California, San Diego. He was the 2002 recipient of the national Cary Grant Film Award for his short film work.  In 2009, after four years of work, he completed his “Disaster Trilogy,” three feature-length films that examine middle-class American culture during the first years of the new millennium.  From 2010 to 2014 he directed Swerve, a ten-chapter, serialized science fiction epic that explores the nature of embodiment, virtuality, contamination and/of the natural, nanotechnology, and posthuman identity.  The film, which runs over three and a half hours, was a collaboration between professional filmmakers and actors, graduate students, undergraduate students, and faculty at UCSB.  More information about his past film projects can be found on the Filmmaking page of this site.

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