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Cosmoecology Project

COSMOECOLOGY Project comprises a collection of images and videos that result from the Sojourner2020 - MIT Space Exploration Initiative. One of the sequences corresponds to the Scanner Electron Microscopy (SEM) of the diatom culture exposed to martian microgravity. This technique consists of a scan over the surface of certain specimens through the use of a focused electron beam. The images have been produced in collaboration with Alice Fenxia and Joseph Sall from the Microscopy Laboratory of NYU. Another part of the project is integrated by three 3D models in which the artists simulate microgravity conditions in a 3D environment. Each line represents a diatom moving in the liquid medium. The third section of COSMOECOLOGY is a video created together with Álvaro Reyes, which depicts the transformation of the martian surface by creating an anaerobic atmosphere. An Artificial Intelligence platform was fed with images from Mars and Earth to visualize the process of terraforming.

He holds a degree in Visual Arts from the University of Chile, with a major in Painting. His interest in combining art and Sciences led him to the field of bioethics, as the bridge between Sciences and Humanities. In 2012, he obtained a Master's Degree in Bioethics shared between the School of Philosophy and Humanities and the School of Medicine of the University of Chile. In 2019 he received the Master of Fine Arts degree from the Art, Space & Nature program at the University of Edinburgh. He has participated in several exhibitions and collective presentations in prestigious spaces, such as the Museum of Modern Art (New York), The London Design Fair, The Saint Etienne Biennale du Design, and the Museum of Contemporary Art in Santiago, Chile.

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Cosmoecology Archives

The Archive of COSMOECOLOGY Project presents the video of the NASA/SpaceX Mission CRS-20, launched from Cape Canaveral on March 7th, 2020. This was the mission in which Sejourner2020 arrived at the International Space Station (ISS). The video was created in collaboration with Diego Estrada (editor) and Peter Rosenthal (sound and music). The Archive also shows a sequence of images related to the Sojourner2020 - MIT Space Exploration Initiative.
*All image credits belong to Nasa and SpaceX

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Round Table

Space Exploration at the Crossroads of Art and Astronomy

Moderator: Jazmín Adler

Space exploration, life in the Universe and the encounter with the unknown raise thought-provoking questions for both artistic and scientific fields. Throughout this conversation, artists Luis Guzmán and Nicole L´Huillier talk with scientist Marcos Díaz about the significance of fiction, speculation, hypothesis and error in their own work.

  • Marcos Díaz Quezada
  • Nicole L´Huillier
  • Luis Guzmán

He received his Electrical Engineering degree in 2001 from the University of Chile, his M.S. and PhD degrees in Electrical Engineering in 2004 and 2009, respectively from Boston University, USA. His research interests are related to the study of turbulent ionospheric plasma; incoherent scatter radar techniques, low-frequency-radio-astronomy/space instrumentation and nano-satellite technologies. Previously he has served as a research assistant at Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, MIT Haystack Observatory and the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at Boston University. He is the academic responsible for Space and Planetary Exploration Laboratory, a multidisciplinary Laboratory located in the Faculty of Physical and Mathematical Sciences at the University of Chile, where the University´s nanosatellite-based space program is developing. He is also a professor in the Electrical Engineering Department at the University of Chile, Santiago, Chile.

Transdisciplinary artist from Santiago, Chile, she is currently based in Boston, United States. Her work explores human and non-human performativity from microscopic to cosmic scales; rituals of membranal and resonant architectures; as well as vibration and sound as construction materials for spaces, identity, and agency. She works at the intersection of music, art, architecture, science, fiction, and technology to challenge perceptual conventions to explore pluriverses and alien imaginaries. Nicole is currently a PhD candidate and Research Assistant at MIT Media Lab, Opera of the Future group, PhD in Media Arts & Sciences.

He holds a degree in Visual Arts from the University of Chile, with a major in Painting. His interest in combining art and Sciences led him to the field of bioethics, as the bridge between Sciences and Humanities. In 2012, he obtained a Master's Degree in Bioethics shared between the School of Philosophy and Humanities and the School of Medicine of the University of Chile. In 2019 he received the Master of Fine Arts degree from the Art, Space & Nature program at the University of Edinburgh. He has participated in several exhibitions and collective presentations in prestigious spaces, such as the Museum of Modern Art (New York), The London Design Fair, The Saint Etienne Biennale du Design, and the Museum of Contemporary Art in Santiago, Chile.

Round Table

Life in Space: Philosophical Perspectives for the Future of (Para)Humanity

Moderator: Jazmín Adler

COSMOECOLOGY Project prompts us to imagine the future of humanity or even other kinds of humanity that remain unknown. Those aspects certainly entail some ethical and political considerations, which might be tackled from interdisciplinary approaches that intertwine Astrobiology, Exopolitics, Bioethics, and Media Studies. This round table discussion highlights philosophical concepts and theories referred to life in space, simbiopolitics, ontological migration, and the envision of the new world to come.

  • Roberto Campos Garro
  • Gonzalo Díaz Letelier

MSc and PhD in Ethics. He is a professor at the Faculty of Philosophy and Humanities of the Universidad de Chile where he teaches the seminar “Ethical and political inquiries on life”, and also at the Faculty of Physical Sciences and Mathematics, where he teaches the course “Introduction to transhumanism. Ethical perspectives on the future of humanity”. Since 2019, Roberto Campos has been the director of the Applied Ethics Studies Center (CEDEA) at Universidad de Chile.

Philosopher, with undergraduate and graduate studies in philosophy at the University of Chile and currently pursuing PhD studies at the College of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences of the University of California - Riverside, in the United States. He has been a professor at several Chilean universities (UMCE, Universidad de Santiago, Universidad de Chile). His main lines of research focus on political ontology, starting from the question about the link between theology, metaphysics, aesthetics, power and violence. Currently, he projects these lines of research towards the post-humanist philosophy of nature; including studies in animality, language and translation, and a transdisciplinary investigation about the forms of sovereignty and government that cross the colonial, and postcolonial history of Latin America.