For his ‘Biosphere Project’, the Argentinian artist and engineer Joaquín Fargas isolates ‘natural ecosystems in completely sealed containers where the only interaction with the environment is through heat and light’. These small, self-contained worlds are meant to comment on the fragility and deep interconnectedness of life on our own planet. The project reflects Fargas’s enduring commitment to creating engaging, accessible art that speaks to the urgency of the climate crisis.
In his portrait of the ‘Biosphere Project’, the Argentinian filmmaker Nico Muñoz captures Fargas’s process with his own artistry, melding inventive camera angles and patient observation with archival footage from space missions and the dreamy piano of Claude Debussy’s ‘Clair de Lune’.Via Labocine Burning ice, metal clouds, gemstone rain – tour the strangest known exoplanets How airborne microbes ride clouds, hop continents and even make it rain Building a prosperous future demands bold ideas. These are some of the boldest There’s nothing inherently good in the ‘natural’, argues Bruno Latour Inventive video technology transforms a child’s street into its own tiny planet As technologies mine our attention, we must look to artists As above, so below – an artist finds the cosmos in a microscopic chemical reaction Explore a bioluminescent world of cellular life via cutting-edge microscopy Celebrating the rough, the raw and the human in hardcore space science
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