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The summer course 'Mar Menor Lab. Art and Science for a landscape in crisis' is already underway.

Framed in the activities of the International University of the Sea, students 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 is approached by leading international experts who will deal with topics with such suggestive titles as Data Sea, Collapsing Arts, Diatomaceous Earth, Bio-Necropolitics and Ecosophies. .

Among the speakers is María Boto, who comes directly from the School of Arts of the University College Ghent, where she is a doctor and researches through the study of color art-science interactions and their capacity to generate knowledge.

Maria Ptqk, researcher and art curator specialized in technoscience, gender and creative speculation will also give a lecture.

Similarly, several professors from the University of Murcia will take part 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 art of the new media.

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 formed by artists and scientists from the UMU, entity that collaborates in the event.

For his part, 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 to show the effects of anthropocene in this natural landscape.

Finally, Christina Stadlbauer will develop an artistic intervention that will deal with climate change, habitat loss and the extinction of species.

This course, which has the support of the City of Cartagena and the Daniel and Nina Carasso Foundation, began on Monday 10 and will end next Sunday, September 16.

Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena