QUO ARTIS, Barcelona

QUO ARTIS is an international non-profit organization founded in 2015 that seeks to generate connections between art, science and technology, acting as a bridge between professionals in these fields. With headquarters in Barcelona, QUO ARTIS organizes international exhibitions, conferences, Art&Science expeditions, workshops and directs the production of commissioned works. Among the collaborators of QUO ARTIS are UNESCO, MIT Media Lab, Sant Pau Art Nouveau Site, Institute for Research in Biomedicine Barcelona, Center of Contemporary Culture Barcelona CCCB and the European Space Agency.

Biosphere

Joaquín Fargas (AR)

The Biosphere Project’s mission is to collaborate in raising awareness about the fragility of our planet Earth and the need to take care of it.

Species Reclamation Via a Non-linear Genetic Timeline: An Attempted Hymenochirus curtipes Model Induced by Controlled Breeding

Brandon Ballengèe (US)

This project involved the selective breeding of frogs from the Hymenochirus family, located in the Congo. There, biodiversity is threatened by forest clearing and increased demand for wood. Also, political turmoil in Congo has limited biological studies and conservation efforts. In their native habitat, wild Hymenochirus populations may currently be in decline or have become extinct.

Survival Kit for the Anthropocene – Trailer

Maja Smrekar (SI)

Survival Kit for the Anthropocene – Trailer is designed as an apocalypse survival kit. As a hybrid between a beehive and a Slovenian farm chest, it formally connects contemporary art with folklore.

Trans*Plant: connecting with mycorrhiza intranet [edible version]

Q.R*3 – Quimera Rosa (ES/AR/FR) + Roger Rabbitch (ES) + Rebeca Paz (ES)

“2024. March 8. The annual resources of the Earth have been exhausted. The equivalent of 4 planets is needed to satisfy human consumption. From a VPN of a second Internet, a group of biohackers, Q.R*3, tries to connect with the mycorrhiza, a network composed of a symbiosis between roots and fungi through which the terrestrial plant world communicates. The first members of this group died immediately under the effect of an unknown molecule. Nothing is known about the rest of the group.”

Utopia

Joaquín Fargas (AR)

Artistic project with the mission to raise awareness about climate change, the melting of ice and the problem of water.