Querétaro
Art Lab
It is a space for interdisciplinary experimentation, research, and creation in art, science, and technology. We produce knowledge through various means: 1) with an artist residency program where we invite artists to develop a project on our campus in collaboration with professors, researchers, and students, and in some cases, with the community at large. The residency culminates in an exhibition presented off-campus to reach diverse audiences, whether local, national, or international. 2) By undertaking site-specific projects with communities off-campus. 3) Through educational outreach projects integrated into our exhibitions.
Bio-rescrituras stems from an understanding of the human body as a dynamic ecosystem permeable to the influences of the microbiome within its everyday context. Dokins approaches the body as a constant process of construction and reconstruction, rather than a static identity. Through diverse experiments and techniques, such as calligraphy, bio-stenciling, and genetic engineering, the artist records the traces and marks generated by the interaction between various microorganisms and the human body, revealing these interactions as the instant of continuous movement that occurs between living bodies, establishing a constant flow of information that permeates them. This project was featured at the Monterrey International Book Fair in 2023, in partnership with Science Gallery and it was also part of the Inscripciones exhibition presented at Laboratorio Arte Alameda from July to December 2025.
In Speculari. Future Vestiges of Language by Rocío Cerón, the poem and its materialities are vestiges of memory, time, and space. Interrelating language, objecthood, sounds, voice, and image, the artist proposes an enveloping, immersive, integrative, and participatory construction to question heritage and code through the exercise of poetry. The results were presented in the exhibition Atentar desde los códigos at the MUI in 2023 and at the Contemporary Art Museum of Querétaro, in 2024.
It is a set of artistic practices and strategies developed at the intersections of art and ecology, art and territory, and art and technology; implemented in secondary schools, high schools, and with a group of primary school children to raise awareness of their immediate environment, where technology serves as a mediating process and a tool for change toward the future. It is part of the multidisciplinary research project Design for Vulnerables.
