[Sci-tech-public] Laurel Braitman & Dario Robleto -- CAVS Talk: The Common Denominator of Existence of Loss

[Debbie Meinbresse]

>Center for Advanced Visual Studies
>Artist's Talk: Tue, Mar 17 6:30 PM
>
>The Common Denominator of Existence is Loss
>with CAVS graduate affiliate Laurel Braitman and artist Dario Robleto
>
>
>Exploring the intersection of the artistic and scientific processes in
>the contexts of climate change, landscape transformation and
>biological extinctions, Dario Robleto and Laurel Braitman will give a
>talk about their experiences as artist and conservationist, working
>together. Both will address questions of geologic time scales and
>evolution, the digging up of bones, the ways in which various scientific
>disciplines (and the scientists themselves) deal with the loss of their
>subjects.
>
>Dario Robleto is a conceptual artist whose work is a veritable mixtape
>of humanity, and sometimes he even makes mixtapes (and a plethora of
>other objects) using human bones. It is in the recycling and
>recombination of material that Robleto finds real newness and hope for
>a civilization still dealing with the devastation (and the amazing
>innovations) of the 20th century as it enters the ever uncertain territory of
>the 21st. When he remixes materials and histories—much like the hipp-hop DJ
>from whom he takes both literal and philosophical cues—his work finds in the
>old and forgotten a wellspring for new associations, reflecting back our
>own concepts of these old things and giving us new possibilities for
>imagining the future. Dario's recent exhibitions include solo shows at the
>Whitney Museum of American Art at Altria, New York, NY; Museum of Contemporary
>Art, San Diego/Downtown; and the Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, TX. He
>lives and works in San Antonio.
>
>Laurel Braitman is a PhD candidate in the History, Anthropology and
>Science, Technology and Society program at MIT. Her research interests include
>the environmental history of the United States and Latin America, as well as
>the emergence of psychotherapeutic interventions for non-human animals—such
>as the diagnosis and treatment of mental disorders, like PTSD in elephants and
>chimpanzees, and trauma therapies for parrots and dogs. She has worked as a
>biologist studying grizzly bears on the Katmai Peninsula in Alaska and
>fisheries management in the Amazon Basin, as 
>well as a conservation professional
>with the international conservation organization—Rare. Her written work has
>appeared in Orion Magazine and on National Public Radio online. Laurel also
>helped organize and develop the traveling contemporary art exhibition
>Human/Nature: Artists Respond to a Changing Planet— now at the Museum of
>Contemporary Art San Diego.
>
>
>Center for Advanced Visual Studies
>http://cavs.mit.edu
>Massachusetts Institute of Technology
>265 Massachusetts Ave, Â N52-390,
>Cambridge, MA 02139
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