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The International University of the Sea begins this Monday, September 10, the course 'Mar Menor Lab. Art and Science for a landscape in crisis', framed in the activities of the Universidad Internacional del Mar'.

Until Sunday September 16 the participants will immerse themselves in the environment of the Mar Menor and its environmental problems from a point of view that combines art and science.

Through a series of lectures, workshops and on-site explorations, hybrid knowledge will be addressed by international experts who will deal with topics with such suggestive titles as Data Sea, Collapse Arts, Diatomaceous Earth, Bio-Necropolitics and Ecosophies.

Among the speakers are some interesting names such as María Boto, from the School of Arts of the University College Ghent, where she is a doctor and investigates through the study of color the interactions between art and science and their capacity to generate knowledge;

or Maria Ptqk, researcher and art curator specializing in technoscience, gender and creative speculation.

Also participating are professors from the University of Murcia in scientific and artistic disciplines, such as Professor Ángel Perez-Ruzafa, expert in ecology of coastal systems and Professor Clara Boj, artist and researcher specialized in new media art.

With the course also begin the tasks of the artists teams awarded by the project 'Reset: Mar Menor.

Laboratory of imaginaries for a landscape in crisis', in charge of a transdisciplinary group made up of artists and scientists from the UMU, which is also behind the organization of the conference.

Paul Sermon, Charlotte Gould and Jeremiah Ambrose with 'Out of sight, out of mind' will work on their proposal of interactive 360 ​​° video of the Mar Menor showing the effects of the anthropocene in this natural landscape and Christina Stadlbauer, develops an artistic intervention that It will deal with climate change, habitat loss and the extinction of species.

Source: Universidad de Murcia