Bio-Art: Varieties of the Living in Artworks from the Pre-modern to the Anthropocene

About

Julio Velasco artist-researcher works in the fields of art and of the intersection of life sciences humanities and social sciences and holds a PhD in Art and Art Sciences from the Sorbonne Université Paris. He was a DAAD scholarship holder and is member and co-organizer of the research group Art and Research at the Centre Marc Bloch Berlin. His current projects are about the Memory of the Plants and the Aestheticization of Immigration. Klaus Weber historian is professor of economic and social history at Europa-Universität Viadrina in Frankfurt (Oder). He researches the impact of early modern and modern globalization on labor regimes and patterns of consumption. Holding a PhD from Universität Hamburg he worked at the National University of Ireland in Galway at The Rothschild Archive in London and at the Institute for the History of the German Jews in Hamburg.