Maia Gattás Vargas

The Atmospheric Investigations project seeks to imagine the epistemological dimension of climate and the atmosphere. Its aim is to observe how our ways of measuring and forecasting have changed over the years, how climate cycles and ecosystems have been affected, and how this affects the lives of humans and non-humans and the relationships established between them. Gattás is interested in investigating the changes in meteorological sciences in the light of the ecological crisis we are experiencing.
Using an an-archaeological methodology he will analyse the archives of the National Meteorological Agency (AEMET) and photographs from the archive of Augusto Arcimis Wehrle, Spain’s first professional meteorologist and founder of the Central Meteorological Institute in 1887.

Biography
Maia Gattás Vargas is a visual artist, researcher and teacher. Doctor of Fine Arts (UNLP). She is a CONICET post-doctoral researcher at the CITECDE Institute in Bariloche and a teacher of Media and Cultural Theory at the UBA.
Her first book, Diario de exploración al territorio del color (Diary of an Exploration of the Territory of Colour), was published in 2022 by the Astra Popular Library in Comodoro Rivadavia. Her first documentary film, Viento del este (Wind from the East), premièred at the Buenos Aires Doc Festival in 2023 and went on to win the Best Film award at the Festifreak Festival (La Plata) and at the Cordoba Film Festival. The film had its international première in the Jihlava International Documentary Film Festival in the Czech Republic, where it won the Original Approach award. Her visual and audiovisual works have been shown in various provinces of Argentina and in countries such as Ecuador, Chile, Uruguay, Colombia, Czech Republic and Canada.  Her artistic work explores the relationships between scientific imagination, nature and colonial history.