Dario Robleto

Session 2 (2nd week): Monday, May 31 - Sunday, June 6

Dario Robleto is a transdisciplinary artist, citizen-scientist, researcher, writer, and teacher. Tapping into multiple creative traditions, ranging from astrophysics to paleontology to poetry to DJ culture, his work has focused with particular intensity on theories and practices of recording and on the material and emotional structures of intergenerational relay and memory. In 2015, he joined a distinguished team of scientists as the artistic consultant to Breakthrough Message, a multinational effort that aims to encourage intellectual and technical debate about how and what to communicate in the event that the current search for intelligent life beyond Earth is successful. In 2016, he was appointed as the Texas State Artist Laureate. In 2020, he was a research consultant to the popular science television series Cosmos: Possible Worlds, which aired on National Geographic and Fox. He is currently serving as Artist-at-Large at Northwestern University’s McCormick School of Engineering and Block Museum of Art.