April, 2021
In conjunction with the exhibition Healing, Knowing, Seeing the Body, the Spencer Museum of Art commissioned Houston-based artist Dario Robleto to create a new work of art. The Aorta of an Archivist is an immersive film and sound installation that connects Robleto’s research on the cosmos, the human heart, and the history of recording our bodies. In this talk, Robleto takes us through his research and process, to the boundaries of outer and inner space, and across thresholds once believed impassable to question where our observational limits lie.
February, 2021
In conjunction with the exhibition Healing, Knowing, Seeing the Body, the Spencer Museum of Art commissioned Houston-based transdisciplinary artist Dario Robleto to create a new work of art: The Aorta of an Archivist. This immersive sound and video installation connects Robleto’s deep and longstanding research on the cosmos, the human heart, and the history of recording.
February, 2021
This exhibition explores the many ways that artists, scientists, healers, and others have come to understand the body through time and across cultural contexts through three interrelated themes.
In the strangely unnerving and isolating circumstances of a global pandemic, as well as a renewed reckoning over race relations in the U.S., many of us covet the human contact—physically, socially, culturally—that we often take for granted. And yet with the viral, and sometimes violent conditions brought to bear in every corner of the globe, we know that humans are also the primary carriers of a life-threatening disease. At this intersection of anxiety, joy, desire, and resilience, this exhibition simultaneously examines and celebrates the body as a site of comfort, hope, and danger.
Featured artists include: Francis Almendárez, j. bilhan, Violette Bule, Michael Ray Charles, Ryan Hawk, Robert Hodge, Matt Manalo, Lovie Olivia, Preetika Rajgariah, Dario Robleto, Gerardo Rosales, Sarah Sudhoff, Vincent Valdez, Nick Vaughan & Jake Margolin, and Jasmine Zelaya.
January, 2021
In the strangely unnerving and isolating circumstances of a global pandemic, as well as a renewed reckoning over race relations in the U.S., many of us covet the human contact—physically, socially, culturally—that we often take for granted. And yet with the viral, and sometimes violent conditions brought to bear in every corner of the globe, we know that humans are also the primary carriers of a life-threatening disease. At this intersection of anxiety, joy, desire, and resilience, this exhibition simultaneously examines and celebrates the body as a site of comfort, hope, and danger.
Featured artists include: Francis Almendárez, j. bilhan, Violette Bule, Michael Ray Charles, Ryan Hawk, Robert Hodge, Matt Manalo, Lovie Olivia, Preetika Rajgariah, Dario Robleto, Gerardo Rosales, Sarah Sudhoff, Vincent Valdez, Nick Vaughan & Jake Margolin, and Jasmine Zelaya.
December, 2020
October, 2020
Join Dario Robleto for the fourth lecture in a six-part series that examines the profound impact of Alexander von Humboldt, a renowned Prussian naturalist and explorer and one of the most influential figures of the nineteenth century.
February, 2020
The 2019 winner of the Museum’s Burke Prize, Indira Allegra returns to the Museum of Arts and Design for an interactive conversation with her friend and former teacher, artist Dario Robleto. Delving into Allegra’s investigation and reimagination of memorial, the pair will diverge from the traditional panel discussion format and invite the audience to contribute to the conversation. Artists and audience will investigate what memorial feels like, the scale on which it exists, and how remembrance functions through practices of performance, sculpture, and installation.
February, 2020
The fourth annual II+C Symposium, which will be held on February 6-7 at the Mississippi University for Women, will focus on stem cell therapies and their place in modern medicine. Internationally known researchers and medical professionals will discuss their work and the latest developments.
January, 2020
From wonders of the cosmos to urgent questions around habitable futures on earth, this exhibition brings together the scientific inquiries and complex visual systems of these two artists, who, through their art, engage with the world as citizen scientists and ethicists. Dario Robleto will present a lecture titled, Small Crafts on Sisyphean Seas.
January, 2020
An Infinite and Omnivorous Sky, a group exhibition about the mysteries and militarization of outer space, features twenty-nine works by artists that critically engage in poetic, scientific, and geopolitical views of the cosmos. The exhibition is curated by University Galleries’ Director and Chief Curator Kendra Paitz. An exhibition catalog is forthcoming in Summer 2020.
Featuredartists include: Amy Balkin, Kambui Olujimi, Kerry Tribe, Cauleen Smith, Brittany Nelson, Katie Paterson, Dianna Frid, Dario Robleto
January, 2020
This ambitious exhibition reveals inquiring anthropologists within today’s artists.
By Robert Fairies
December, 2019
Artist Dario Robleto discusses his newly commissioned video, The Boundary of Life Is Quietly
Crossed, on view in the exhibition The Sorcerer’s Burden: Contemporary Art and the Anthropological Turn, with anthropologist Marina Peterson. Their cross-disciplinary conversation will span sonic ethnography, audio archaeology, and the last beating heart in the cosmos.
7:00 pm at Jones Center on Congress Avenue
December, 2019
Artist Dario Robleto and cardiovascular scientist Doris Taylor are both experts on the human heart. They learned even more about it from each other.
By Ceci Menchetti
November, 2019
Mobile Brain–Body Imaging and the Neuroscience of Art, Innovation and Creativity is a transdisciplinary, collective, multimedia collaboration that critically uncovers the challenges and opportunities for transformational and innovative research and performance at the nexus of art, science and engineering.
Co-edited and co-authored by Dario Robleto (Springer Series on Bio- and Neurosystems)
November, 2019
Artist-at-Large Dario Robleto makes the case for multidisciplinary collaboration to address critical social and ethical issues.
December, 2019
Arpeggio is an annual graduate-student organized interdisciplinary conference of AAHVS department. This year, with the overarching theme of “Spaces of Translation,” Arpeggio invites scholars and students to explore the relationship between the original and reinterpreted, the authors and translators, and the artists and art historians from diverse regions such as China, France, Mexico, and the United States. Three speakers – Amara Solari (Penn State University
Professor, Pre-Columbian and Colonial Latin American Art), Kristel Smentek (MIT Professor, Eighteenth-century European art and Asian-European Cultural Interaction), Dario Robleto (Contemporary artist based in Houston, TX interested in the intersection between art and science) – will give valuable talks and a panel discussion will follow.
November, 2019
In conjunction with the exhibition Unknown and Solitary Seas: Dreams and Emotions of the 19th Century at Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University
From the earliest heartbeat to the end of your days, the heart carries life and love. What happens when the heart breaks, no longer able to support life? Heart transplantation is the miracle of sharing life. Join Elizabeth Blume, a pediatric heart surgeon, to learn about the technology and science of pediatric heart transplantation and the physician’s perspective of the joys, ethics, and heartbreak of donating life.
Wednesday, November 20, Noon
Sheer Room, Fay House, 10 Garden Street
November, 2019
In conjunction with the exhibition: Unknown and Solitary Seas: Dreams and Emotions of the 19th Century at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University
Harvard College Opera performs a recital of romantic songs from the 19th century about the heart, emotions, and the sea.
November, 2019
In this seminar, presented in conjunction with the exhibition Winslow Homer: Eyewitness, Robleto will explore the theme of “witnessing” as it relates to auditory and material forms of war testimony. He will present his research on a rare and little-known audio recording made during a battle in Lille, France, in 1918, toward the end of World War I. It is the first live audio recording ever made on a battlefield.
November, 2019
In conjunction with the exhibition: Unknown and Solitary Seas: Dreams and Emotions of the 19th Century at Harvard’s Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study
The centerpiece of the program is an improvisation inspired by the composer Heinz Holliger’s classic 1971 work Cardiophonie for solo tuba and electronics, in which the instrumentalist Max Murray will perform alongside the amplified sonority of his own heartbeat. This will be followed by a musical response to the exhibition’s conceptual engagement with waveforms.
November, 2019
Join us for a conversation between the artist Dario Robleto, whose exhibition at the Radcliffe Institute rethinks the deep history of cardiological recording, and Doris A. Taylor, a scientist whose work toward regenerative transplantation is reshaping the metaphorical—as well as the medical—prospects of the human heart.
November, 2019
Organized and curated by Jennifer L. Roberts, the exhibition examines the 19th-century origins of the pulse wave as a graphic expression of internal life. Opening reception and discussion on November 4th at 5:00 pm.
October, 2019
In this public conversation, Dario Robleto and Art Papers editor + artistic director Sarah Higgins will address questions about what art can bring to the most speculative spaces of science and technology. The talk is on October 10 at 7:00 at Georgia State University, Centennial Hall Auditorium.
October, 2019
Robleto will lecture at the Mills College Art Museum in conjunction with the group show IN PLAIN SIGHT, October 2 at 7:00 PM. The exhibition brings together artists whose work points to the invisible systems and unknowable mysteries that shape and define our lives.
September, 2019
This exhibition highlights works from the Nasher Museum collection that engage visual and musical rhythm.
September, 2019
A seeming paradox, the phrase “hiding in plain sight” contains elements of both obscuring and exposing, and it implies that secrets, while visible, may only be noticed or revealed upon close inspection. Through strategies of layering, embedding materials, replacing one material for another, and giving concrete form to invisible phenomena, the artists in the exhibition reference history and art history, pop culture, science, and personal identity.
September, 2019
The complex relationship between contemporary art and anthropology shapes the subject of The Sorcerer’s Burden: Contemporary Art and the Anthropological Turn, an eleven-artist exhibition across both museum sites.
August, 2019
July, 2019
The inaugural exhibition at Linda Pace’s new museum, Ruby City, including works by Pace, Issac Julien, Andrea Bowers, and Marilyn Minter, and Dario Robleto.
July, 2019
The group-exhibition entitled The Sound of Silence presented by Praz-Delavallade invites us to take in the paradoxical effectiveness of silence in art and stimulate a deeper awareness that leads to relinquishing words through which the art work attains its silent identity.
