ABOUT THE LECTURE
Artist Dario Robleto presented a performative lecture expanding on the artist’s extensive research into the heartbeat. Part storytelling, part original research, and part rare sound archive, this lecture wove together topics as diverse as the earliest attempts to record the heartbeat as sound and image, the heartbeat and brainwave recordings currently on a probe heading for the edge of the Solar System, pre-Edison sound recordings, and recent developments in the history of the artificial heart. The result was a creative intertwining of multiple histories of human exploration, in both outer and inner space.
This event included a short post-lecture reception with the artist.
ABOUT THE LECTURER
Dario Robleto is a transdisciplinary artist based in Houston, Texas. He has had numerous national and international exhibitions, most recently at the Menil Collection, Houston, TX and the Baltimore Museum of Art. Robleto has been a visiting artist and lecturer at many universities and institutions including Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, and the Hubble Space Telescope Science Institute, Baltimore, MD. He has been a research fellow and resident at institutions such as Rice University and the Smithsonian Museum of American History. In 2015 he joined a distinguished team of scientists as the artistic consultant to “Breakthrough Message”—a multi-national effort that aims to encourage intellectual and technical debate about how and what to communicate if the current search for intelligent beings beyond Earth is successful. He is currently serving as an Artist-in-Residence in Neuroaesthetics at the University of Houston’s Cullen College of Engineering and at the SETI Institute in Mountain View, CA. He was recently appointed as the 2016 Texas State Artist Laureate.
