This month we had openings for three exhibitions. First “El tejido de nuestras identidades” an exhibition curated by me in Quito, Ecuador of the work of Gabriela Punin, Verónica Noriega and Alicia Alciniegas. Second a newly commissioned work “Lab for transpecies becomings” opened at the Digestible exhibition at Artphy in the Netherlands. And finally, presenting […]
Three new exhibitions in August Read More »
Lichen Timescapes Collection of lichen on sculpted rocks 2023 Lichen Timescapes is a collection of living sculptures. Gathered through multiple hiking trips in Mexico, Italy, Ireland and Portugal, it highlights the intricate and timeless relationships between species. The rocks are inhabited by lichen, complex organisms consisting of at least three diverse kingdoms –
Showing in Ithaca New York new work on transpecies relations.
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For the last few months, I have been part of these incredible nomadic multispecies collectivity experimenting in the intersection between art and science, Interspecifics. In the challenge to think of life in extreme conditions through AI and horizontal gene transfer. https://ars.electronica.art/aeblog/en/2021/07/13/interspecifics/
AI Residency at Ars Electronica Read More »
Check out the podcast we recorded for LEBIO the biology teaching research lab of UFC. Here I talked about the metamorphosis into an artist and the things I would like to archive with art and biology. The introduction is in Portuguese, but my participation is in English and translated to Portuguese.
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I had the pleasure to curate and moderate a Leonardo Art and Science Rendezvous, featuring Dr Nina Sellars from Melbourne and Dr Yun Wah Lam from Hong Kong. In this LASER, we pondered on the art and science of the body. Sellars’ talk will question the cultural and scientific implications of the relative absence of
LASER Hong Kong with Nina Sellars and Yun W Lam. Read More »
La conferencia inaugural de la primera edición de la Cátedra “Michel Foucault: lenguajes del poder” Keynote at the UAQ
Conferencia magistral “Arte y ciencias biológicas” Read More »
For Proximal Spaces I cultured the microbes I live with. You can check the project here: proximalspaces.com ‘Proximal Spaces’ is a multi-modal exhibition that explores the environment at multiple scales in concentric circles of proximity to the body. Inspired by Edward Hall’s 1961 notation of intimate (1.5ft), personal (4ft), social (12ft) and public (25ft) spaces
Paper presented at the 16th Biennial Symposium for Arts and Technology at The Ammerman Center for Arts and Technology at Connecticut College on February 15, 16 and 17, 2018. Abstract We are eager to move on from what feels like an obsolete theoretical frame. It is tempting to imagine possible futures whereby the old class, race, gender, categories
Mariana Pérez Bobadilla. Indomitable mechanisms: Bacteria as wet machines. Abstract: In their relative simplicity, bacteria enact wet machines with more clarity than other organisms. Gene editing has turned them into a preexisting mechanism that can be customized. This conceptualization cannot be dissociated from considerations of power and anthropocentrism. This analysis proposes that a mechanistic understanding of
Indomitable mechanisms: Bacteria as wet machine @Politics of the Machine, art and after. Read More »
