His research projects range from the cultural politics and emergence of queer film festivals to the movement of transnational underground cinema to the culture of algorithms in everyday practices. Zielinski has published widely on film and contemporary art in academic and art journals, including FUSE, Static, Cineaste, European Journal of Cultural Studies, among others. He was also an active board member of Toronto's Images Festival and served as a curator with Pleasure Dome and continues to curate independently and write on media art and film. Moreover, he had a summer research residency at the Canadian Centre for Architecture (2008) and was a visiting researcher at the Institut National d'Histoire de l'Art in Paris (2010).