Ramon Guardans

Biologist, he has linked new technologies with artistic creation in different projects. In addition to being an experimental musician, he has been a scientific advisor for La Fura dels Baus and with the artists Sergio Caballero and Marcelí Antúnez. Between 1984 and 1987 he worked as a scientist at the Environmental Service in the Department of Territorial Policy and Public Works of the Generalitat of Catalonia in Barcelona. From 1987 to 2000 he was part of the Institute of Radiological Protection and the research group on ecotoxicology of atmospheric pollution at the Center for Energy, Environmental and Technological Research (CIEMAT) of the Ministry of Science and Technology in Madrid. At the United Nations he has been, since 1993, vice president of the Effects Group, LRTAP and member of GESAMP.

Algorithmic Echolocation is one of the pieces presented in Banquete_metabolism and communication, the installation presents a harmonic decomposition of time series presented in animated images and sounds contemporary to the data. Directed and co-produced by Guardans, he has programmed a sound based on this data and allows in the exhibition that people choose to listen to the echoes of the atmosphere of any of those eras while seeing the relationship between CO2 and temperature in the variations of the graphs. throughout the history of the planet. All part of the research at the Russian Antarctic base of Vostok, where a group of scientists has drilled into the ice more than three kilometers deep that has allowed us to know the features of the Earth's climate in the last 420,000 years, practically four cycles. glacial-interglacial.