Home Arts & Culture A Renaissance dream reimagined: Sir Isaac Julien’s major new installation opens in Italy Acclaimed artist, filmmaker, and Distinguished Professor of The Arts and History of Consciousness Isaac Julien has created a Renaissance-inspired dreamscape for the 21st century. The actress Sheila Atim in a scene from Isaac Julien's "All That Changes You." Acclaimed artist, filmmaker, and Distinguished Professor of The Arts and History of Consciousness Isaac Julien has created a Renaissance-inspired dreamscape for the 21st century. In 2019, he co-founded the Isaac Julien Lab at UC Santa Cruz alongside noted curator and History of Consciousness professor Mark Nash. Reflecting on the honor and his expansive body of work, Julien remarked, “I think about the sheer amount of concentration one needs to do the work.