Robertina Šebjanič will talk about her research-based art practice that is focused on the aquatic environments. Her art-sci-tech projects are often realised in collaboration with others, through interdisciplinary and informal integration in her work. She turns the results of her research into installations, performances, and music albums. In the lecture, she will present her art - scientific research, working on the field trips and how she combines all these different inputs into artwork. 
 
Her series of works range from working on animal-machine-human relationships and interspecies communication in opus Aurelia 1+Hz; pointing out underwater noise pollution in the worlds Oceans and seas and its ecological consequences in ongoing research work Aquatocene; illuminating the invisible anthropogenic pharmaceutical chemical pollutants – residues of human consumption with work aqua_forensic and putting the extinction of fen shell in Mediteran into the focus with A.I powered storytelling in work Aqua(I)forming.  In Atlantic Tales, she weaves together mythologies and sciences, humans and aquatic life, to speak about our ability to address challenges in the age of the Anthropocene. The story protagonists are the migratory basking shark (Cetorhinus maximus) and the flame shell (Limaria hians) that Robertina had the opportunity to encounter both during her residency on the RV Celtic Explorer scientific research vessel in Ireland. 

The latest artwork’s Echinoidea future – Adriatic sensing she addresses the current biogeological and morphological conditions in the sea urchin environment, which is aquaformed by anthropogenic liquid waste, resulting in low oxygen levels in the seawater. 

Exploring the stressors of the local/global human footprint, the project demonstrates the resilience of the aquatic species. ‘Echinoidea future – Adriatic sensing’’ acts as an activation of (sy)(e)mpathia.