Maro Pebo (Mexico City).
Maro Pebo is an artist and art historian specialized in the cultural dimensions of the life sciences. Born in Mexico City. Ph.D. in Creative Media (City University of Hong Kong), MA in Critical and Gender Studies (Bologna University).
Her transdisciplinary work complements and transforms the life sciences’ responsibility to think about the materiality of the living.
Maro curates exhibitions and events, currently as Concept Developer at the Waag Future Lab in Amsterdam. Has published and presented her research internationally, including at Performance Research, Leonardo, ISEA, EVA, ISCMA, Cornell University, and Media Art Histories. Previously she was senior lecturer of Moist Media at DeTao Masters Academy, Shanghai Institute of Visual Arts, and was involved in the Mexican Pavilion of the 56th Venice Biennale. Her works have been displayed at Ars Electronica, Riga Stradins University Anatomy Museum in Latvia, the Toronto Design Festival, The Rest Gallery, Ithaca, NY, the Gerdau Museum in Belo Horizonte, Brazil, Multimedia Center in Mexico and The Lahore Media Arts Festival in Pakistan.
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She liked to think of herself as descendant of Genghis Khan and her Asian eyes caused suspicion, but no one imagined a traveler sailing from Hong Kong. A hundred years later, his name had been forgotten, just a sound remained: Ǹg.
Asian eyes, feeling like a leaf moved by the wind, behaving like a liquid with no will of its own, pushed into an already full subway train. Those are the mornings in Mexico City.
Unfitting, unexplainable green eyes witnessing The Horror.
Unfitting, unexplainable green Asian eyes down south near the Tropical jungle, holding soft little brown hands of 40 children, in circle, singing tirelessly game songs, laughing our hearts out. Toothless mischievous smiling faces.
Bio developed in the context of The New Definitely Post/Transnational and Mostly Portable Open Epic as Rendered by the Elastic Circus of the Revolution by Amir Parsa.
Mariana Pérez BOBADILLA 出生於墨西哥城，為一位關注藝術與科學交匯的藝術史學家。她持有波隆那大學性別研究碩士學位。她曾參與第56屆威尼斯雙年展的墨西哥館（Mexican Pavilion）展出。她的學術培訓包括Rosi Braidotti課程以及2014年光州藝術雙年展國際策展人課程。她在創意媒體學院的博士學位研究圍繞藝術及生物學、知識論、新唯物主義及細菌。
Ela nasceu em uma família de cientistas e deu continuidade à estas veias de um outro modo: sua pesquisa é transdisciplinar e envolve, principalmente, a microbiologia e a tecnologia, porém pensadas materialmente no lugar da arte. Em sua trajetória acadêmica, @maro_pebo transitou por diferentes países: em seu mestrado na Itália, sua pesquisa foi voltada para uma compreensão da vida para além da experiência humana, na intenção de observar como a transformação epistemológica da compreensão do universo transforma nossas relações de poder. E em seu doutorado em Hong Kong, a artista construiu uma trajetória de alfabetização popular sobre a importância da microbiologia para manutenção e estruturação da vida, tentando desmistificar a ideia comum de que micróbios são inimigos e reconstruir o pensamento a partir da noção de que eles fazem parte de nossa estrutura física e ecossistema, atuando fundamentalmente.
(Text prepared by the Gerdau Museum in Bello Horizonte, Brazil Ilustração de @grillobarbaram)