an online exhibition of curated art-science works featuring scientists who produce art and artists inspired by science

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Gustavo Arróniz

Jia Jia

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a person who plans and builds the infrastructure of the exhibition

Allexxus Farley-Thomas Architect

Collin Montag Engineer

Tracy Lihui Zhang Engineer

Machine, Art, & Nature

featuring Marie-Luce Nadal and Gilberto Esparza

In two different parts of the world, artists Marie-Luce Nadal and Gilberto Esparza practice art by contorting environmental subjects through different forms - one being conceptually confrontational, the other a practical act that uses machine to tackle an issue.

Marie-Luce Nadal

Nadal is descended from generations of a wine-making family from the south of France dating to the 1800s. She grew up watching her grandfather seed clouds during July, the first month of summer in Perpignan, when hail is common. Without manipulation of the weather, the vineyards could experience devastating damage.

Nadal, fascinated by this human need to control nature, invented the Factory of The Vaporous No. 1 to intrigue viewers with this multifaceted issue. Throughout her journeys, she uses the Factory to capture particles of clouds and electric residues of thunderstorms, which she then reduces to extracts.

Gilberto Esparza

Esparza, through research, storytelling, and the invention of La Planta Nómada (The Nomadic Plant), tackles this important and urgent issue with a robotic system, an organic plant species, and a set of microbial and photovoltaic fuel cells.

This autonomous bio-robotic species possesses a metabolic cycle that can repair, on a small scale, some of the ecological damage to its surroundings by recuperating the energy that it takes from the earth. Upon encountering contaminated water, La Planta Nómada sucks it up and stores it in microbial cells, where bacteria and autochthonous microorganisms biodegrade the organic waste and break down toxic substances.

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Eoloria

Eoloria are small imaginary properties contained with a territory and an atmosphere in perpetual evolution.

The vintages of pure cloud essence are different in each Eolorium.

Faire pleurer les nuages (Make the Clouds Cry)

Materials: Specially adapted crossbow, called "Crossbow Madeline", rope made of bra weaving wire, chemical compound to serve ammunition contained in cylinders, it is tiles made of cardboard.

Date: Periodical Performance presented at "Lunes Revolues" Palaid dee Tokyo Hors les murs and at "Co-Mutation", Saint Cirq Lapopie

Duration: About half an hour in the morning or the evening of a new moon, a little before, during and a little after the blue hour.

The Factory of the Vaporous No. 1

Made from recycled materials of an old alcohol distillery, the Factory is a portable laboratory composed of a system of air extraction and surrounding water, a set of instruments to separate air and water of their chemical and inorganic components, and a series of tools that allow her to measure, restart, and mix these components to produce pure essence of cloud and synthetic thunderstorm.

gilberto esparza

La Planta Nómada (The Nomadic Plant)

These are symbiotic organisms consisting of a robotic system, an organic plant species, and a set of microbial and photovoltaic fuel cells.

Plantas Nómadas Rio Santiago (The Nomadic Plant of Santiago River)

This storyboard depicts the narrative for the video Plantas Nómadas

La Planta Nómada

Meanwhile, in Mexico, at least 70% of rivers, lakes, and aquifers are contaminated. Every year, millions of cubic meters of wastewater are discharged into bodies of water. There is no effective regulation regarding the monitoring of water quality in Mexico or the installation of sufficient treatment plants. The problem is creating an increasingly negative impact on the health of ecosystems and human populations.

This process generates electricity, which is stored and used to charge a set of batteries. The biodegradation process improves the quality of the water. La Planta Nómada lives in environments that have been affected by water contamination, primarily in areas of ecological disaster caused by industry and the waste products of large urban centers.

Machine, Art, & Nature

Move: ARROW KEYS / WASD
Up / Down: SPACE / SHIFT
Look: MOUSE
Exit: ESC

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