January, 2023
Dario Robleto's 10-year career survey exhibition opens at the Block Museum of Art
The Heart’s Knowledge: Science and Empathy in the Art of Dario Robleto concentrates on the most recent decade of Robleto’s creative practice, a period of deepening engagement with histories of medicine, biomedical engineering, sound recording, and space exploration.
Produced by Lucia | Marquand, Seattle.
January, 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.
November, 2022
Dario Robleto to lecture in Wesleyan College's lecture series: The Art of Empathy
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.
November, 2022
Printing with Fire: Bethany Collins and
Dario Robleto in Conversation with Jennifer
L. Roberts at Print Center New York
Both Bethany Collins and Dario Robleto use fire in the printing process to convey the complexities of sound as a carrier of historical memory. With lasers and flames, singes and soot, each explores the tension between loss and preservation in printed sound. Join Collins, Robleto, and Jennifer L. Roberts for a discussion of the paradoxes of ephemerality in early sound recording, the unstable links between sonic and lyric memory, and the fragile cohesion of communal sensibility in music.
November, 2022
Dario Robleto, Ann Druyan, and the Essence of Humanity
By Brian Sandalow
Robleto previewed his upcoming art exhibit during a Dean’s Seminar Series lecture
October, 2022
Panel Discussion: Life and Its Objects at the Santa Fe Institute
The desire to know whether or not we’re alone in the universe is by no means a new obsession. For instance, the Voyager Mission – with its two data probes, various spectrometers, and a golden love letter to alien life – launched 46 years ago. Multiple machines are roving the surface of Mars in pursuit of signs of life, or signs of past life, last year three Venus-bound missions were announced, pursuing the same. But what comprises a “sign of life” in the first place? What do the objects we seek actually signify?
October, 2022
Dario Robleto to give the Anita Lynn Forgach Memorial Keynote Address at the 2022 North American Hand Papermakers Conference: Activating Materials
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.
October, 2022
Group exhibition, Visual Record: The Materiality of Sound in Print, opens at Print Center New York
Visual Record: The Materiality of Sound in Print investigates how artists since the 1970s have employed print-based processes to examine the relationship between sound and its visual representation.
Featured artists include: Terry Adkins, John Cage, Bethany Collins, Christian Marclay, Glenn Ligon, Dario Robleto, and Audra Wolowiec, among others.
October, 2022
Group exhibition, Parallax: Framing the Cosmos, opens at the Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery
The exhibition offers interdisciplinary insights into and meditations on the particular and the universal, the past and the future, the eternal and the mutable, the intimate and the infinite, encouraging us to consider our own personal, national, emotional, and creative selves in the context of a greater universe.
Featured artists include: Edward Emerson Barnard, Lisa Beck, Christopher Bucklow, Vija Celmins, Russell Crotty, Dorothy Dehner, Sharon Harper, Prosper Mathieu Henry and Paul Pierre Henry, Jed Lind, Robert Longo, Giorgia Lupi, Josiah McElheny, Abelardo Morell, NASA, Demetrius Oliver, Alice O’Malley, Johann Palisa and Max Wolf, Katie Paterson, Pierre Salet, Sun Ra, Dario Robleto, Carrie Schneider, Alisa Sikelianos-Carter, Toshiko Takaezu, Mildred Thompson, Fred Tomaselli, Unrecorded artists, Anna Von Mertens, Cullen Washington Jr.
September, 2022
Group exhibition, Tangible/Nothing, opens at Ruby City
This new installation features approximately 50 works by national and international artists as well as those with San Antonio and Texas ties, including recent acquisitions on view for the first time. Tangible/Nothing explores how the invisible or the seemingly mundane can reveal great meaning.
Featured artists include: Dario Robleto, Willie Doherty, Sam Durant, Kate Ericson and Mel Ziegler, Teresita Fernández, Michel Francois, Isa Genzken, Mona Hatoum, Sir Isaac Julian, Nina Katchadourian, Iñigo Manglano-Ovalle, Daniel Joseph Martinez, Adam McEwen, Yasumasa Morimura, Michael O’Malley, Gabriel Orozco, Cornelia Parker, Ruben Ortiz-Torres and Jim Mendiola, Paul Pfeiffer, Doris Salcedo, and Rirkrit Tiravanija
April, 2022
The Poetry of Prisms: Awe as a Form of Knowledge in Art and Science: Artist Lecture at Middlebury
Grieving the erasure of wonder and mystery at the hands of science, John Keats claimed in 1817 that Isaac Newton had “destroyed all the poetry of the rainbow, by reducing it to a prism.” By the
20th-century, these misgivings formed a model in which art and science were mutually constituted through opposition. Artist Dario Robleto argues why we need both great traditions, understood through a collaborative experience of awe, to build a more complete and objective understanding of the world.
April, 2022
Dario Robleto’s film, The Aorta of an Archivist, will headline the Free State Festival in Lawrence, Kansas. Written, researched, and directed by Robleto, The Aorta of an Archivist examines the crossover of historical themes related to the cosmos and the human body, including the recordings of brain waves and heartbeats. The high-definition video is accompanied by an original score, and was commissioned by the Spencer Museum of Art in Lawrence, Kansas.
March, 2022
Dario Robleto, Artist in Residence at UC Berkeley's Arts Research Center in conversation with director Julia Bryan Wilson
Artist Talk with Dario Robleto
ARC Spring 22 Artist in Residence: in conversation with Julia Bryan-Wilson
Tuesday, March 15th 2022 4:00 – 5:30pm PST
March, 2022
Is love intrinsic, or is it a habit? What is the difference between love and friendship? What is the relationship of love to truth, freedom, and justice? These are just some of the questions to be explored in What Is Left Unspoken, Love, featuring contemporary artworks from 1987 to 2021 that address the different ways the most important thing in life—love—is expressed.
Featured artists include: Ghada Amer, Rina Banerjee, Thomas Barger, Patty Chang, Susanna Coffey, James Drake, Keith Edmier and Farrah Fawcett, Alanna Fields, Dara Friedman, Andrea Galvani, General Idea, Jeffrey Gibson, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Kahlil Robert Irving, Tomashi Jackson, María de los Angeles Rodríguez Jiménez, Rashid Johnson, Jana Vander Lee, Gerald Lovell, Rafael Lozano-Hemmer, Kerry James Marshall, Felicita Felli Maynard, Wangechi Mutu, Ebony G. Patterson, Paul Pfeiffer, Magnus Plessen, Gabriel Rico, Dario Robleto, RongRong&inri, Michelle Stuart, Vivian Suter, Carrie Mae Weems and Akram Zaatari.
March, 2022
Written, researched and directed by Dario Robleto, this high definition video, The Aorta of an Archivist, is accompanied by an original score and examines the crossover of historical themes related to the cosmos and the human body, including the recordings of brain waves and heartbeats. This work was commissioned by the Spencer Museum of Art, Lawrence, KS.
Runtime 53 minutes.
Presented in collaboration with Laumeier Sculpture Park
February, 2022
Visiting artist lecture at the University of Florida
February, 2022
The theme of Manif d’art 10 is inspired by Magic Realism, an artistic movement seeking the spontaneous manifestation of seemingly magical, supernatural or irrational elements that arise in the realm of reality. The biennial will be an opportunity to explore artistic practices making use of the trompe-l’oeil, strategies of misdirection and sleight of hand as vehicles.
February, 2022
Pressing Innovation explores the history and work of fine-art printing presses in the Upper Midwest, focusing on each press’s distinct mission and contribution to printmaking in the late 20th and early 21st centuries.
February, 2022
It is well established that art has salutary effects, both for makers and for their viewers, audiences, and participants. The healing of mind, body, and spirit permeates this exhibition, not only as subject matter, but as actual practice. Salutary Sculpture features a selection of eight artists who use sculpture, photography, video, drawings, and performance to explore art’s capacity as a therapeutic tool for adaptation, recovery, and rehabilitation. Co-Curated By Laumeier Executive Director Lauren Ross And Curator Dana Turkovic.
Featured artists include: Thomas J. Condon, Hope Ginsburg, Hope Ginsburg, Basil Kincaid, Marcos Lutyens, Guadalupe Maravilla, Dario Robleto, James Sterling Pitt, Lauryn Youden
January, 2022
Radical Fiber: A Symposium on Art and Science will explore the intersections of textiles with sustainability, digital technology, mathematics, and more. The symposium is being held in conjunction with the exhibition Radical Fiber: Threads Connecting Art and Science, which opens January 29, 2022, and explores the ways in which fiber-based practice has and continues to influence scientific theory, pedagogy, and innovation. Curated by Rebecca McNamara.
Featured artists include: Lia Cook, Brock Craft, Veronica Dry, Anna Dumitriu, Ellis Developments, Hanne Kekkonen, Elaine Krajenke Ellison, Karen Norberg, William Henry Perkin, Helen Remick, Dario Robleto, Daniela Rosner, Samantha Shorey, John Sims, Soft Monitor, Daina Taimina, Cecilia Vicuña, Christine Wertheim, Margaret Wertheim, Carolyn Yackel
October, 2021
Curated by Jonathan Rider, this group exhibition explores belief, believability, and the suspension of disbelief in the form of art objects, talismans, multiples, doppelgängers, spiritual(ish) artifacts, and tales of impossibility. The show’s title and concept nods to Bas Jan Ader’s three-part final performance In Search of the Miraculous (titled after P. D. Ouspensky’s 1949 treatise on eastern philosophy of the same name) during which Ader is presumed to have disappeared while attempting a trans-Atlantic crossing in a tiny sailboat—a leap of faith for both the artist and those who believe his story.
Featured artists include: Sarah Cain, Vija Celmins, Susan Collis, Jason Dodge, Jimmie Durham, Ceal Floyer, Harry Gould Harvey IV, Hugh Hayden, Jeppe Hein, Jim Hodges, Yves Klein, Wolfgang Laib, Richard Long, Chris Oh, Paul Pfeiffer, Naudline Pierre, Dario Robleto, Betye Saar, Jeffrey Vallance, Melvin Way, and Tacita Dean
October, 2021
Supernatural America examines the artwork that has shaped our collective imagination of the supernatural and paranormal and asks why America is haunted. This exhibition explores the numerous ways artists in the U.S. made sense of their own experiences of the paranormal and supernatural, and in doing so developed a rich visual culture of the intangible.
October, 2021
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.”
September, 2021
Visual Voices Colloquium is the Professional Lecture Series of the School of Art & Design and represents a window into the professional world of art and design. Speakers are chosen with faculty guidance to represent leading and emerging talented practitioners, as well as artists whose work lies beyond the subject areas of the program offerings.
The purpose of the course and the program is to broaden students’ exposure and vocabulary to professional work being created today. It also provides an opportunity for Art & Design students and members of the public to interact with speakers via a virtual Q&A following their lecture, giving them the chance to exchange ideas and pose questions to the guest speakers.
June, 2021
This conversation engages ideas around crafting and responding to sound as a material, as somatic listening, of audial embodiment and ways of being, and of seeing with our inner ear. Each of the of invited respondents will participate in a conversation about how sound is present in their work and used in their creative or other practices.
May, 2021
Dario Robleto and Harvard art historian Jennifer Roberts awarded a Sloan Foundation grant to support the research and writing of Life Signs: The Tender Science of the Pulsewave, to be published by the University of Chicago Press.
May, 2021
From jazz musicians such as Charles Mingus and John Coltrane, the music of the Black church has influenced many musicians in the genre. Artists Ashon T. Crawley, Dario Robleto, Norman Teague, Lava Thomas, and Fo Wilson will discuss this influence in their practice in this panel discussion.
April, 2021
This year’s IARI inquiry, Tending to the Body was prompted by years of research led by the Spencer Museum’s Curator for Global Indigenous Art Cassandra Mesick Braun and acts as a virtual companion to the exhibition Healing, Knowing, Seeing the Body.
April, 2021
Otherwise/Revival is a group exhibition that visualizes the impact of the historic Black church— specifically the Black Pentecostal movement—on contemporary artists.
Featured artists include: Terry Adkins, McArthur Binion, Folayemi (Fo) Wilson of blkHaUS Studios, Norman Teague of Norman Teague Design Studios (NTDS), Angela Bryant, Willie Cole, Ashon T. Crawley, Kenturah Davis, Mark Steven Greenfield, Lauren Halsey, Trenton Doyle Hancock, Letitia Huckaby, Sedrick Huckaby, Clementine Hunter, VinZula Kara, Caroline Kent, Deana Lawson, Nery Gabriel Lemus, Christina McPhee, Sister Gertrude Morgan, Nathaniel Mary Quinn, Dario Robleto, Lezley Saar, Zina Saro-Wiwa, Phyllis Stephens, Lava Thomas, Sara Sonié Joi Thompson-Ruffin, Genesis Tramaine, Kehinde Wiley, Brittney Leeanne Williams, Nate Young,
April, 2021
Artist-at-Large Dario Robleto will share the deep connections between art and science through his creative research methods, narrative storytelling and exploration of material science and sculpture.
April, 2021
Moderated by Curator Cassandra Mesick Braun, this is the third in a series of conversations with artists in the exhibition “Healing, Knowing, Seeing the Body.” In celebration of National Poetry Month, this session features artist Dario Robleto and Kansas Poet Laureate Huascar Medina and focuses on interpretations of the human heartbeat and how scientists and artists record, send, receive, reconfigure, and share data.
