March 25, 2025
Dario Robleto: The Signal
Dario Robleto talks about his solo exhibition Dario Robleto: The Signal at the Santa Barbara Museum of Art through May 25. Hosted by Santa Barbara appraiser Elizabeth Stewart, PhD.
December 8, 2024
Why Empathy Matters:
A Conversation with Dario Robleto and Emily Rapp Black
Artist Dario Robleto whose work invites us to consider the questions above, is joined in conversation by award winning author Emily Rapp Black whose searing, unblinking story dealing with death and grief combines an essayist’s willingness to lay herself bare on the page, a theologian’s search to plumb the mysteries of life told with a poet’s precision. Together they explore the golden record as the Washington Post described “as both a vessel of science and a leap of faith” Above all what does this effort to communicate mean to us?
June 27, 2024
Dario Robleto: The Signal
Dario Robleto talks about his solo exhibition Dario Robleto: The Signal at the Santa Barbara Museum of Art through May 25. Hosted by Santa Barbara appraiser Elizabeth Stewart, PhD.
June 4, 2024
Curator Maggie Adler and Artist Dario Robleto Introduce “Dario Robleto: The Signal”
Internationally celebrated Texas artist Dario Robleto’s solo exhibition Dario Robleto: The Signal debuts at the Amon Carter Museum of American Art (the Carter) in May 2024. Known for his multidisciplinary, research-driven approach, Robleto in his work probes questions about the order of the universe and the human-made systems we employ to perceive and describe it.
June 4, 2024
Artist Dario Robleto discusses his Heartbeat Waveforms at the Amon Carter Museum of American Art
June 4, 2024
Artist Dario Robleto discusses his new film, "Ancient Beacons Long for Notice,” at the Amon Carter Museum of American Art
Ancient Beacons Long for Notice is Dario Robleto’s third and final work in a trilogy of video and sound installations that investigate the scientific, philosophical, and moral tensions when attempting to represent the totality of human life even after humans cease to exist. See this film in Dario Robleto: The Signal, on view through May 12–October 27, 2024, at the Amon Carter Museum of American Art.
April 12, 2024
Dario Robleto: Video interview at the Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University
In this video, the artist visits the Nasher Museum and discusses his mixed-media collage, Lamb of Man / Atom and Eve / Americana Materia Medica.
August 14, 2023
Artist Talk: LaToya Hobbs, Dario Robleto, and Alison Elizabeth Taylor at the Arkansas Museum of Fine Arts
AMFA’s inaugural Artist Talk on June 1, 2023, not only brought together artists featured in AMFA’s Together exhibition, but also illustrated the Museum’s Grand Opening goal of bringing our community back together in celebration.
Artists LaToya Hobbs, Dario Robleto, and Alison Elizabeth Taylor shared with the audience insights into their individual practices and bodies of work while also engaging in an open dialogue about what influences and informs them today.
May 24, 2023
Strange Customs With Sasha Sagan
The season 1 finale of Strange Customs brings Sasha Sagan to an extraordinary Chicago exhibition for a conversation with artist Dario Robleto. Situated at the intersection of art and science, the show also has its inspiration and roots in Sasha’s own family.
We’ll also hear from Harvard art historian Dr. Jennifer Roberts about the ways art and science share a mission to extend our vision beyond the horizon.
May 24, 2023
The Future Heart in Poetry and Medicine: Dario Robleto, Doris Taylor, Adrian Matejka
Who can claim knowledge of the human heart? Can poetry, art, and medicine each contribute to our understanding of this historically and biologically complex organ? Inspired by astonishing advances in biomedical engineering, this cross-disciplinary conversation contemplates the possibility of a “future heart” distinct from anything we’ve known before. Artist Dario Robleto joins Doris Taylor, director of regenerative medicine research at The Texas Heart Institute Center for Cardiovascular Care, and Adrian Matejka, poet and editor of Poetry magazine, to speculate on possibilities for the “future heart” across disciplines, and why the literal, poetic, and philosophical heartbeat continues to inspire.
May 18, 2023
The Artist and the Book: Dario Robleto in Conversation with Mimi Swartz
In this conversation, artist Dario Robleto and writer Mimi Swartz discuss how books, research, and libraries are protagonists in the art world today. The talk explores what books and research mean for contemporary practitioners.
April 12, 2023
At the Limits of Life and Empathy: Dario Robleto and Malcolm MacIver
Northwestern professor of biomedical and mechanical engineering Malcolm MacIver researches the relationship between sense perception, cognition, and evolution. This dialogue between the scientist and Dario Robleto explores how art and science both contemplate—and seek to overcome—the physical and temporal limits of human life. The discussion touches on the question of how art might provide a model for long-term thinking, especially in times of societal and ecological transformation.
March 08, 2023
Ann Druyan, The Golden Record, and the Memory of Our Hearts
From her work in the 1970s as the Creative Director for NASA’s Voyager Interstellar Message Project to her current role as writer and producer of the beloved television series Cosmos, Ann Druyan has devoted her life to expanding the horizons of human empathy and communication. In insisting that the thresholds of cosmic exploration must be approached with sincerity, humility, and generosity, she has had a deep influence on artist Dario Robleto’s work throughout his career.
In this online conversation hosted by The Block Museum of Art at Northwestern University, Ann Druyan and Dario Robleto were joined in conversation by Jennifer Roberts, Professor of the Humanities at Harvard, who is co-authoring a book with Robleto about the interstellar journey of the pulse wave recordings that Druyan included on the Voyager Golden Record.
This conversation was held March 8, 2023 in conjunction with the exhibition The Heart’s Knowledge: Science and Empathy in the Art of Dario Robleto.
February 24. 2023
Interstellar Aesthetics and Acts of Translation in Art and Science
The breathtaking images produced by the Hubble and James Webb space telescopes are no ordinary snapshots. To produce these sublime cosmic vistas, astronomers filter raw data into colors and configurations that guide the viewer’s understanding, making creative decisions in the service of scientific communication.
In this dialogue hosted by Northwestern University’s Block Museum of Art artist Dario Robleto will join Elizabeth Kessler, exhibition catalogue contributor and Lecturer in American Studies, Stanford University, and Shane Larson, Northwestern Research Professor of Physics and Astronomy and Associate Director, Center for Interdisciplinary Exploration and Research in Astrophysics (CIERA), to consider how astronomers and artists translate data into images, and how these translations shape the meaning of the cosmos in the public imagination.
February 8, 2023
Five years in the making: The Heart’s Knowledge
The Block Museum of Art held a conversation with artist Dario Robleto regarding his latest exhibit, The Heart’s Knowledge. Emily Stull has the story.
February 04, 2023
Science, Art and the Search for Meaning: Opening Conversation with Dario Robleto at The Block Museum of Art
Opening conversation of the exhibition, The Heart’s Knowledge: Science and Empathy in the Art of Dario Robleto presented by The Block Museum of Art and McCormick School of Engineering at Northwestern University.
January 01, 2023
New exhibit at Block Museum explores intersection of art & science
A new art exhibit at Northwestern University’s Block Museum of Art aims to bring art and science together. It’s called The Heart’s Knowledge: Science and Empathy in the Art of Dario Robleto. It’s on display now until July 9. Robleto joined to stream to explain what visitors can expect to see.
November 29, 2022
Art as Empathy: Dario Robleto Lecture at Wesleyan College
Is there a limit to the human capacity to empathize? What forces—historically, politically, socially, even physically in terms of the laws of the natural world—might set untraversable boundary lines to this most hopeful of human behaviors? In this lecture, artist Dario Robleto will discuss how the most challenging obstacles to empathy can serve as a source of invention and creativity to its evolution.
March 15, 2022
The Anita Lynn Forgach Memorial Keynote: Dario Robleto – Activating Materials 2022
The substance of paper alone has the potential to supplement an idea or contribute to the concept or meaning of a work of art rather than abiding as a quiescent substrate for one’s writing or images. Papermaking is an alchemical process through which materials relinquish their original states of being to be transmuted into sheets of handmade paper. It is only when paper exists in this ostensibly fixed state that its maker is presented with a choice to either maintain or neglect that which tethers it-whether physical or figurative-to the past and its intransigent, material integrity.
March 15, 2022
Patsy's Scar: Fandom as Research, as Care, as Heaven
Dario Robleto in conversation with Julia Bryan-Wilson, Director of UC Berkeley’s Arts Research Center. This event was co-sponsored by the Departments of Art Practice and Ethnic Studies, Berkeley Center for New Media, the Latinx Research Center, and the Program in Critical Theory at UC Berkeley.
January 28, 2022
Threads Throughout History: Dario Robleto in conversation with Elissa Auther
Ian Berry, Tang Dayton Director, and Rebecca McNamara, Tang Associate Curator, welcome all to the symposium and introduce the conversation “Threads Throughout History,” featuring Dario Robleto, artist, with Elissa Auther, Craft Curator and Scholar, on Friday, January 28, 2022 part of “Radical Fiber: A Symposium on Art and Science.”
The symposium was held in conjunction with the opening of the exhibition “Radical Fiber: Threads Connecting Art and Science.”
October 06, 2021
Living With Death: How Artists, Historians, and Museums Create Meaning In a Time of Loss
Historically, artists, museums, and everyday people have used objects and materials to create meaningful artifacts that shape our understandings of war, death, and loss. Underlying those actions is an assumption that art and creativity are useful responses in the face of such trauma. But what, specifically, is the role of artists and museums in any era of catastrophic loss? How do artists and museums help us make sense of seemingly senseless suffering and grief? How has this legacy continued to today?
In this shared conversation, artist Dario Robleto and art historian Ellery Foutch will discuss their responses to the tragedies of September 11, 2001 and our current pandemic moment, sharing what their research and practices have revealed about the historical past and future paths of what we might call a “history of the creative response to loss.”
This program is presented as part of the Elephant in the Room lecture series, supported by Vermont Humanities. This talk is co-sponsored by the following Middlebury College departments and programs: American Studies, Studio Art, History of Art and Architecture, Associate Dean for the Arts, and Middlebury College Museum of Art.
