May, 2018
The First Time, the Heart: Artist Dario Robleto in conversation with Poet Adrian Matejka
How should we remember the past actions of forgotten hearts? Join artist Dario Robleto and poet Adrian Matejka as they reflect on their collaborative project, The First Time, the Heart, exploring the early descriptive language and images from the 19th century scientists who created the prototype archives of the heart. May 12th, 1:00 p.m. at Inman Gallery.
May, 2018
Dario Robleto appointed as first Artist-at-Large at Northwestern University's McCormick School of Engineering and the Block Museum of Art
In Spring 2018 the McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science and the Block Museum of Art will host the artist Dario Robleto at Northwestern to launch a new Artist-at-Large Program. The Program will join other activities organized by McCormick that are part of its ongoing Art and Engineering Initiative. The Artist-at-Large Program will bring contemporary artists to campus for in-depth exchanges with faculty and students.
May, 2018
Interview with Dr. Doris Taylor of the Texas Heart Institute now available
In this presentation, Dario Robleto joins Dr. Doris Taylor of the Texas Heart Institute to explore the scientific, cultural and poetic implications of her laboratory’s groundbreaking creation of a “ghost heart”— a heart scrubbed clean of all cells so that it can be regenerated anew.
April, 2018
Dario Robleto will be the commencement speaker at the Southwest School of Arts' Bachelor of Fine Arts commencement ceremony
On April 29, 2018, eleven emerging artists will become the first students to ever be awarded Bachelor of Fine Arts degrees from the only independent college of art in Texas.
April, 2018
Dario Robleto to hold workshop with media historian Patrick Feaster at Northwestern University on historical sound
On April 26th, artist Dario Robleto and media historian Patrick Feaster will give an in-depth behind-the-scenes look at their collaborations and experiments to date, offering a window into the technical, conceptual and emotional possibilities of engaging historical media across arts and sciences. Students will have an opportunity to try their own hands at using custom software Feaster has designed for extracting audio from images, interpreted either as spectrograms or waveforms, as well as for manipulating audio through such techniques as “melodization.”
April, 2018
Interview with Ann Druyan for SITE Santa Fe's Innovation Lecture Series
Video interview with Ann Druyan, executive producer and writer of the Cosmos Television series, is now posted in Videos and Podcast and on SITE’s Vimeo page.
April, 2018
The Block Museum of Art hosts Dario Robleto and Patrick Feaster: Unlocking Sounds of the Past
A multi-year collaboration between artist Dario Robleto and media historian Patrick Feaster has sought to discover unexpected sensory pathways to our shared past. April 25th, 2018.
April, 2018
The Hearts Knowledge Will Never Decay, a conversation at MATCH Houston
Thursday, April 19th at 7:00 p.m.
Presented in conjunction with the exhibition Dario Robleto: The First Time, The Heart at Inman Gallery.
The Heart’s Knowledge Will Never Decay: A conversation between Dr. Doris Taylor, Director of Regenerative Medicine Research at the Texas Heart Institute, and artist Dario Robleto
April, 2018
Dario Robleto: The First Time, The Heart opens at Inman Gallery, Houston, Texas
The exhibition will debut a new suite of prints, The First Time, the Heart (A Portrait of Life 1854-1913), published by Island Press at Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri.
Friday, April 6th through Saturday, May 26th.
Saturday, April 7, 1:00pm, Inman Gallery
The Making of The First Time, The Heart (A Portrait of Life, 1854–1913)
Dario Robleto will be joined by Island Press master printer Tom Reed in a conversation centered around the technical challenges the printers faced in realizing Robleto’s vision for this ambitious portfolio.
April, 2018
April 12, 2018 - On Being with Krista Tippett will re-air "Sculptor of Memory"
A conversation with Dario Robleto.
March, 2018
Dario Robleto interviews Ann Druyan at SITE Santa Fe as part of the Innovative Thinker lecture series"
Each year SITE honors the achievements of a visionary educator who has innovated significantly in the field of museum and arts education.
March, 2018
Dario Robleto part of CECA Visiting Artist Speaker Series
At Austin Peay State University, Clarksville, Tennessee
February, 2018
Life Beyond Earth (Part 1) - Dario Robleto in conversation with Jamie Drew at the Montalvo Arts Center, Saratoga, California
Robleto and Drew discuss their participation in Breakthrough Initiatives, an international ten year program of scientific and technological exploration.
February, 2018
Dario Robleto's work is included in the exhibition Copy, Translate, Repeat: Contemporary Art from the Coleccion Patricia Phelps de Cisneros
Artists include: Jonathas de Andrade, Armando Andrade Tudela, Juan Carlos Araujo, Waltercio Caldas, Mariana Castillo Deball, Elena Damiani, Josefina Guilisasti, Leandro Katz, Jorge Macchi, Leticia Obeid, Dario Robleto, José Antonio Suárez Londoño, Christian Vinck
Opening Wednesday February 7, 2018 at Hunter College Art Galleries, 205 Hudson Gallery
February, 2018
Elsewhere a group exhibition at the Joseph Gross Gallery at the University of Arizona in Tucson
This exhibition includes the work of Dario Robleto. It is comprised of works that traverse situational and environmental scenarios. Elsewhere opens February 1 and runs through March 23, 2018.
January, 2018
Dario Robleto and University of Houston engineering professor Jose Contreras-Vidal, Ph.D. will give a talk about biological mechanisms.
They will discuss how biological mechanisms allow humans to engage with visual art, music, dance and other artistic disciplines.
Organized by the Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University, held at the Duke Hospital Lecture Hall 2001on January 31, 2018.
January, 2018
The Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston
Dario Robleto will be joining the ICA’s new initiative – the Youth Empowerment Advisory Council. This council will focus on providing cross-disciplinary perspective and input for the planning of a large-scale conference on youth empowerment. The national conference, Building Brave Spaces: Mobilizing Teen Arts Education will be hosted by the ICA Boston from November 2 – 4, 2018.
January, 2018
Artist Talk at the Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University, Durham, North Carolina
Thursday, February 1st, 2018 Dario will give a multimedia talk on the human brain and art, entitled, A Dream, As Faithful As A Flame.
January, 2018
Dario Robleto in conversation with Kerry Inman at Inman Gallery
Dario Robleto and Kerry Inman will host a walk through of the group exhibition I Won’t Let You Say Goodbye This Time.
Saturday, January 13, 2018 1:00 p.m., Inman Gallery 3901 Main Street, Houston, 77002
December, 2017
Mobile EEG data acquired from Dario Robleto's exhibition, The Boundary of Life Is Quietly Crossed, to be published on IEEE Dataport
Visitors from the museum were invited to participate by donning an EEG cap and exploring Dario Robleto’s installation, Boundary of Life is Quietly Crossed.
A total of 431 museum visitors participated in the experiments (208 males/223 females; age range 6-81 years). Among these, 134 (77 males/53 females; age range 15-77 years) had reliable EEG with appropriate tracking information for segmenting the data by art piece. The methods for tracking and annotating the subjects’ data during the experiment is described in detail in Cruz-Garza et all.
November, 2017
Co-authored paper published in Frontiers in Human Neuroscience as part of research topic Mobile Brain/Body Imaging and the Neuroscience of Art, Innovation and Creativity
Deployment of Mobile EEG Technology in an Art Museum Setting: Evaluation of Signal Quality and Usability
November, 2017
I Won't Let You Say Goodbye This Time - a group exhibition at Inman Gallery, Houston, Texas
Opens Friday, November 10, 2017 and runs through Saturday, January 13th, 2018
November, 2017
Love & Longing - a group exhbition at Root Division, San Francisco, California
The exhibition includes works that chip—or pound—away at the wall separating art and life—that challenge, complicate, intensify, confront, and grapple with engagement and connection.
November, 2017
Dario Robleto included in the inaugural exhibition la mère la mer in San Francisco
The newly established McEvoy Foundation for the Arts (MFA) is organized as a non-profit intended to deepen public appreciation of modern and contemporary art. Founded by Nion McEvoy, CEO of Chronicle Books, MFA will display selections from the McEvoy Family Collection together with new works in visual, literary, and film and media arts.
October, 2017
Dario Robleto is a participating artist in Prospect.4: The Lotus in Spite of the Swamp
Opening Weekend is November 18, 2017, the exhibitions run through February 25th, 2018. Curated by Prospect.4 Artistic Director Trevor Schoonmaker, this is the fourth iteration of a citywide exhibition. While participating artists will present a broad range of international perspectives, the works made and selected seek to resonate with the city of New Orleans—aesthetically, musically, culturally, spiritually, historically and environmentally. P.4 will include 73 artists who deal with the legacy of colonialism and feelings of displacement. Dario’s work will be exhibited at the Old US Mint, 400 Esplanade Ave., New Orleans, LA 70116.
October, 2017
Family Day at the Frances Young Tang Teaching and Art Gallery
December 2nd in Saratoga Springs, NY Family Day will be making sculptures inspired by Dario Robleto’s You Make My World a Better Place to Find
October, 2017
Dario Robleto is included in SITE Santa Fe's grand re-opening exhibition Future Shock
The exhibition brings together the work of ten international artists whose works imagine a range of visions of our present and future. The exhibition opens October 7th and runs through April 29th, 2018.
September, 2017
Dario Robleto co-organizing and presenting at the 2017 International Conference on Mobile Brain-Body Imaging and the Neuroscience of Art, Innovation and Creativity
September 10 – 13, 2017 in Valencia, Spain
This unique and intellectually-stimulating international conference brings together thought leaders, practitioners and innovators working at the intersection of the arts, sciences, engineering, technology, medicine, and education and developing trans-disciplinary approaches to the study of brain dynamics in action and context, innovation, creativity, aesthetic experiences, emergence of intent and emotional intelligence, emotional buildings and sensing spaces, art therapy, STEAM education, as well as the latest wearable high-definition brain-body technologies.
September, 2017
Creative Santa Fe
An Interview by Cyndi Conn based on Robleto’s SETI residency and his work with Breakthrough Initiatives. Dario Robleto: Three Questions curated by Cyndi Conn.
August, 2024
Other Side: Art, Object, Self a group exhibition at the Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery at Skidmore College
Dario Robleto’s work is included in this exhibition of contemporary artworks from the Tang’s collection. The artworks use objects, materials, and bodies in provocative ways to encourage viewers to assess preconceived notions and to prompt critical examinations of the self – of national, cultural and personal identities. Through December 30, 2017.
August, 2024
Video recording of Conversation with the Artist at the Menil Collection
Conversation with the Artist – Mimi Swartz, Dr. Billy Cohn, Dr. Bud Frazier, and Dario Robleto was presented by The Menil Collection on December 2, 2014 in conjunction with the exhibition Dario Robleto: The Boundary of Life is Quietly Crossed.
August, 2024
Video recording of the Interplanetary Project - Panel Discussion at the Santa Fe Institute
Panelists included Sandra Moore Faber (UC Santa Cruz), professor of astronomy and astrophysics and the project investigator for the DEEP2 survey of 50,000 distant galaxies using the Keck Observatory telescopes in Hawaii – Science and technology journalist Kate Greene, who spent four months on a simulated Mars mission for NASA – Transdisciplinary artist, researcher, writer, teacher, and citizen scientist Dario Robleto (Artist-in-residence at the SETI Institute) – Digital media executive Scott Ross, who led George Lucas’ companies in the 1980s and is a co-founder, along with James Cameron and Stan Winston, of Digital Domain, Inc. – Neal Stephenson, author of Seveneves, Cryptonomicon, Snow Crash, and other works of speculative fiction who is is currently a Miller Scholar at the Santa Fe Institute – Geoffrey West, a complexity scientist whose 25+ years of research into mathematical scaling laws have recently been published in the widely-acclaimed book Scale: The Universal Laws of Growth, Innovation, Sustainability, and the Pace of Life in Organisms, Cities, Economies, and Companies.
