Courtesy photo.
SANTA BARBARA — The Santa Barbara Museum of Art (SBMA) will present “Artist lectures at SBMA–Dario Robleto: The Signal” at 3:30 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 22 at SBMA’s Mary Craig Auditorium, 1130 State St., Santa Barbara.
Dario Robleto, Still from Ancient Beacons Long for Notice, 2024. 4K video, 5.1 surround sound installation. Commissioned by the Santa Barbara Museum of Art and Amon Carter Museum of American Art. © Dario Robleto
Texas-based artist Dario Robleto is a deep-diving conceptual artist, who craftily fuses and confuses layers of history, culture, and the natural order of the cosmos. His solo exhibition Dario Robleto: The Signal, on view at SBMA, highlights the artist’s multiyear exploration of the Golden Record, a gold-plated phonograph recording containing sounds and images selected in the late 1970s by NASA team to represent life on Earth to the extraterrestrials that discovered it. The third and final installment in a trilogy of video and sound installations that comprise Robleto’s years-long investigation of scientific and philosophical attempts to capture human life, the 70-minute film Ancient Beacons Long for Notice imaginatively documents the moral tension and practical challenges towards forging the Golden Record. How in the materialized traces of humanity does one record all the richness of what it means to be in love, to be worried, to be in war, much less the textures of our emotional lives?
Location: SBMA’s Mary Craig Auditorium, 1130 State Street, Santa Barbara
Free Students and Teachers/$10 SBMA Members/$15 Non-Members
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