Maro Pebo (Mexico City, 1987). Weaving collaborations, Maro Pebo works on defying anthropocentrism and on skeptical environmental accountability. Her transdisciplinary work subverts the monopoly of the life sciences to think biological matter and aims to release the indiscipline of living cells. 

Ph.D. in Creative Media at the School of Creative Media at the City University of Hong Kong, her research revolved around art and biology, epistemology, history of science, new materialism, biohacking, wetware, and bacteria. She received an Erasmus Mundus Scholarship to study a Master in Gender Studies at the University of Bologna, Italy, researching feminist epistemology in contemporary art. She holds a BA in Art History at Iberoamerican University in Mexico City. Maro Pebo specializes in the intersections of art, science, and biotechnology. Her current interest lies in microorganisms’ cultures and a microbial posthuman turn. 

Maro has published and presented her research internationally including at Performance Research, ISEA, EVA, ISCMA, and Media Art Histories, co-curated the Open Systems salon, the HK Leonardo Art Science Rendezvous, and was involved in the Mexican Pavilion of the 56th Venice Biennale. She is currently the Senior lecturer of Moist Media at DeTao Masters Academy, Shanghai Institute of Visual Arts. Her works have been displayed at the Toronto Design Festival, Gerdau Museum in Belo Horizonte, Brazil and The Lahore Media Arts Festival in Pakistan. She has been awarded the Erasmus Mundus, HKPFS, and PAPIAM grants. 

Her latest work “Microbial Emancipation” explores the intimate relationship of humans and microorganisms, by sacrificing the artist cells to prove the deepest symbiotic interdependence between humans and the ancient bacteria that become our mitochondria.

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