Inauguration, Friday, October 28th at 7 p.m.
The exhibition ‘Post-Natural Prototypes. Phytosemiotic Expressions’ is part of AR(t)IBMCP, the first call of the Artists in Residence Program of the UPV, granted to Carlos Castellanos’ project.
The artist’s research together with scientists from different laboratories of the Institute of Molecular and Cellular Biology of Plants of Valencia, IBMCP (UPV-CSIC) focuses on understanding climate change through the application of artificial intelligence to translate environmental stress in plants into sounds. The aim is to bring science closer to the public and to facilitate the scientific community the ability of art to provide different perspectives of thought. His work studies two species, Arabidopsis thaliana and Nicotiana benthamiana, to detect changes using thermal cameras with the collection of data and images of the changes that occur from the time the seeds are planted and during their growth, thus aiming to train the artificial intelligence system. One of the proposals is to attribute sounds, taking as a reference symphonies, operas and arias whose themes deal with death and the feeling of loss.
This is an artistic project with possible practical applications in an exhibition that will consist of a tour with several rooms in which the visitor can observe and listen in real time to the ‘groaning’ or ‘well-being’ of plants in different situations.
Curated by: Carlos Castellanos in collaboration with the Cultural Action Department of the UPV.
Organized by: Consorci de Museus de la Comunitat Valenciana, Vice-rectorate of Art, Science, Technology and Society UPV, Institute of Molecular and Cellular Biology of Plants of Valencia (IBMCP) and Faculty of Fine Arts Sant Carles.
Produced by: Vice-rectorate for Art, Science, Technology and Society UPV
More information: AR(t)IBMCP
Free admission