Science · Art · Technology
Referents International experts
The discussion is global in scope. Participants will engage in dialogue with the international avant-garde and decode signs of the future. Throughout the year, artists Tania Candiani (Mexico), Solimán López (Spain), and Nicolas Kisic Aguirre (Peru) will join the platform.
2026: Tania Candiani / Solimán López / Nicolás Kisic Aguirre
Tania Candiani (Mexico)
A lo largo de más de dos décadas de práctica Tania Candiani ha desarrollado una metodología de colaboración con científicos que transforma el encuentro entre arte y ciencia en un espacio de fricción productiva. En esta master class recorre proyectos que surgieron de ese vínculo — desde Arizona State University hasta el CERN, desde el Colegio de Postgraduados de México hasta el Forest Institute de la Universidad de Helsinki — para trazar el mapa de una forma de trabajar en la que las conversaciones con investigadores, sus preguntas y sus métodos, se vuelven materia artística. Una conversación sobre cómo entrar a territorios que no son los propios y encontrar ahí, junto a otros, las preguntas que la práctica necesitaba.
Masterclass – “Entre el archivo y el laboratorio”
Solimán López (Spain)
Solimán López is an artist and visionary recognized as the founder of Harddiskmuseum, OLEA biotoken, and the Earth Manifesto movement. In his artistic practice, he employs various cutting-edge technologies such as artificial intelligence, biotechnology, DNA manipulation, electronics, interactive media, and 3D art. His work is defined as new media conceptual art, in which he explores the boundaries between creativity and technology.
Nicolas Kisic Aguirre (Peru)
Nicolás Kisic Aguirre is a Peruvian architect and transdisciplinary sound artist who creates machines that explore and illuminate the social and political nature of sound in public space. In 2018, he graduated from MIT’s Art, Culture, and Technology program. Informed by his architectural background and a lifelong fascination with machines, Kisic Aguirre designs and builds sound instruments that explore the connection between public space, power, technology, and sound. His critical and aesthetic practice is open-source, collaborative, and deeply engaged with the public.
2025: Heather Dewey-Hagborg / Juan Cortes / Daniel Canogar
Heather Dewey-Hagborg (United States)
Heather Dewey-Hagborg is a New York-based artist and biohacker interested in art as research and technological critique. Her controversial biopolitical art practice includes the Stranger Visions project, in which she created portrait sculptures from the analysis of genetic material (hair, cigarette butts, chewed gum) collected in public spaces.
Masterclass: “Intimate Genomics”
Juan Cortes (Colombia)
Juan Cortés graduated in Fine Arts with a specialization in audiovisual media from the Universidad de los Andes in 2012. His work focuses on the intersection between art, science and nature, exploring natural phenomena and invisible forces through installations, recordings and concert pieces.
Masterclass – “On plant policies”
Daniel Canogar (Spain - United States)
Born in Madrid (1964) to an American mother and a Spanish father, Daniel Canogar's life and career have been divided between Spain and the United States. Photography was his first medium of choice, although he soon became interested in the possibilities of projected images and artistic installations.
Masterclass “The Algorithms of Art”
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"
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”
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"
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).
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).
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.
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