Art meets environmental science

In this episode brings us at the heart of Jorge Viñuales, Professor of Environmental Studies and musician Sebastián Verea's collaboration: Sounds of the Anthropocene is a multimedia experience played by the Earth's rotation in real time, showing the new geological epoch we call the Anthropocene. The project aims to raise awareness of humanity's unprecedented footprint on the Earth.

Sebastián Verea works as an artist, educator, researcher, and cultural manager in Argentina. He is the Director of the Sound Arts Area at Mauricio Kagel Art Institute of the University of San Martín, Buenos Aires (UNSAM), where he also runs the post-graduate residencies programme Expanded Music and co-founded the Arts and Sciences Centre. His research focuses on the intersection between arts, science, and technology. In 2019, he was invited in a project of residency "Incidencias Sonoras" supported by Pro Helvetia and which is the new experimental music and sound art platform in connection with the South American programme COINCIDENCIA. Jorge Viñuales is a professor at Cambridge University and the founder of C-EENRG (Centre for Environment, Energy and Natural Resources Governance). He collaborates since their early childhood with Sebastian Verea on Art, Culture, Climate Change and since 2016, Sounds of the Anthropocene.