Science · Art · Technology
Referents International experts
The discussion is of a global scale. Participants will engage with the international vanguard and decode signals of the future. Throughout the year, artists Marcela Armas (Mexico) and Oscar Santillán (Ecuador, Netherlands), as well as curator and art historian Mónica Bello (Spain, Switzerland), will join the platform.
2024: Marcela Armas / Oscar Santillan / Monica Bello
Marcela Armas (México)
She addresses art in connection with science, technology, alchemy, healing, and community. It explores the relationship between matter and technology, understood as a sociocultural construct. It articulates technologies, transmedia dialogues, and community processes.
Masterclass "Elusive Languages of the Earth: Approaches to an Ethics of the Mineral World"
Marcela Armas at Fundación Andreani
Ph: Rodrigo de la Fuente
Oscar Santillán (Ecuador/Netherlands)
Artist and founder of the ANTIMUNDO studio. His practice emerges from the idea of a cybernetic matrix where science, fiction, and non-human perspectives intersect.
Masterclass “The Interspecies Virtual Machine”
Oscar Santillán at Fundación Andreani
Ph: Rodrigo de la Fuente
Monica Bello (Spain / Switzerland)
Curator and art historian focused on the intersections between disciplines and the meeting of culture, science, and society. She designs art programs and is responsible for the artist residencies and exhibitions at the European Laboratory for Particle Physics in Geneva.
Masterclass "Curating Art and Science: Challenges of Interdisciplinary Work in Contemporary Culture"
Mónica Bello at Fundación Andreani
Ph: Rodrigo de la Fuente
2023: Rafael Lozano Hemer / Guto Nóbrega / Maurice Benayoun
Rafael Lozano Hemmer (Mexico/Canada)
Mexican-Canadian artist working with ideas from architecture, technology, and performance. His participatory public art has been commissioned for events such as the European Union Expansion in Dublin (2004), the Tlatelolco Massacre Memorial in Mexico City (2008), the Vancouver Olympics (2010), the Roman Theater of Raurica in Basel (2018), and the Memorial for Covid Victims at the Brooklyn Museum (2021).
Rafael Lozano Hemer at Andreani Foundation
Ph: Rodrigo de la Fuente
Guto Nobrega (Brazil)
Post-Doctor from UnB, Art and Technology line of PPGAV/UnB (2019), he holds a PhD (2009) in Interactive Arts from the Planetary Collegium Post-Graduate Program, University of Plymouth, UK, where he conducted research under the direction of Prof. Roy Ascott. He is an artist, researcher, Master in Communication, Technology and Aesthetics from ECO-UFRJ (2003) and a degree in Engraving from EBA/UFRJ (1998).
Guto Nóbrega at Fundación Williams
Ph: Rodrigo de la Fuente
Maurice Benayoun (Algeria)
Born in Mascara, Algeria, he is a contemporary new media artist, curator, and theorist based in Paris and Hong Kong. His work employs various media, including (and often combining) video, computer graphics, immersive virtual reality, the Internet, performance, EEG, 3D printing, large-scale urban media art installations, and interactive exhibitions. Often conceptual, his work constitutes a critical investigation of the mutations in contemporary society induced by emerging or newly adopted technologies.
Maurice Benayoun at Fundación Williams
Ph: Rodrigo de la Fuente
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