Maro Perez Bobadilla, door Jimena Gauna

Maro PeboConcept Developer

Maro Pebo (Mariana Pérez Bobadilla) curates exhibitions, projects, and events in art and science at Waag. She develops learning situations where artist-led innovation supports critical perspectives on technoscience.

Maro Pebo is an artist and art historian specialising in the cultural dimensions of the life sciences. She was born in Mexico City and holds a Ph.D. in Creative Media (City University of Hong Kong) and an MA in Critical and Gender Studies (Bologna University). Her trans-disciplinary work complements and transforms the life sciences' responsibility to think about the materiality of the living.  Previously, she was the senior lecturer of Moist Media (DeTao, Shanghai). 

Maro has published and presented her research internationally. Her works have been displayed at Ars Electronica, Riga Stradins University Anatomy Museum in Latvia, the Toronto Design Festival, Gerdau Museum in Belo Horizonte, Brazil, The Rest Gallery, Ithaca, NY, the Multimedia Center in Mexico and the Lahore Media Arts Festival in Pakistan, and can be found on her website.

Current projects

Jan Rothuizen tentoonstelling at de Waag
Future Internet Lab

Mapping information journeys

With Mapping Information Journeys, we are collaborating with the VU University Library to explore the design of a chatbot that helps citizen scientists navigate academic resources and information sources.
Amsterdam waters aerial view
Urban Ecology Lab

A broader view on knowledge (STOWA)

Waag Futurelab is working with STOWA to create the broader knowledge base that is needed to achieve a resilient water system.
BioHack Academy
Open Wetlab

BioHack Academy

Apply for BioHack Academy 2025, and extract your own biomaterials using only Open-Source hardware you fabricate yourself.
Groene en paarse lichtstrepen
Maker Education Lab

PULSE-ART

PULSE-ART integrates arts into education to enhance cultural expression and awareness and address gaps. Through tools tested in seven different countries, it fosters collaboration and lifelong learning, shaping policies to strengthen arts in education across Europe.
starts4water2
Open Design Lab

S+T+ARTS4WaterII

S+T+ARTS4WaterII focuses on clean water as a basic right for all people and the preservation of life in our oceans, seas and marine life.
Kévin Bray. Vertical Atlas, 2018.
Urban Ecology Lab

Designing regenerative technologies

In the project Designing Regenerative Technologies Waag investigates the impact of digital technology on our planet and develops ways of designing regenerative technologies.
AI Culture Lab binary code visual
Future Internet Lab

Digital Deal

How accelerated, yet unconsidered adoption of new technologies – such as artificial intelligence and machine learning – can alter or undermine democratic processes.
DNA
Open Wetlab

BioCommons

In BioCommons, we investigate how we as a society can deal with our biological and genetic data, and how this data can be seen as a commons.
Artsformation - Digital Shadows
Open Design Lab

Artsformation

Mobilising the arts for an inclusive digital transformation: a response to societal challenges proposed by the fast-pacing digital transformation.