Publications

SCIENCE+TECHNOLOGY+ARTS: Lessons Learned from a Decade of European Transdisciplinary Innovation
Edited by Markus Jandl, Veronika Liebl, Gerfried Stocker and Masha Zolotova
Hatje Cantz, 2026

Publication documenting a decade of the European S+T+ARTS initiative, bringing together essays, methodologies and a selection of projects exploring the collaboration between art, science and technology as a driver of innovation and social transformation.

Project included: (Be)eTogether (2025)
Publisher: Hatje Cantz
Language: English
ISBN: 978-3-7757-6260-1

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The Senses of Plants
Villa Merkel, Galerie der Stadt Esslingen am Neckar, Esslingen, Germany, 2025

Catalogue published on the occasion of the group exhibition The Senses of Plants, bringing together international artists whose research explores plant perception, intelligence and forms of communication through contemporary art. The publication features essays by leading scholars in plant philosophy, ecology and the environmental humanities, alongside documentation of the exhibited works.

Work included: Beyond Human Perception (2020)
Editors: Sebastian Schmitt and Julia Katharina Thiemann
Publisher: DISTANZ Verlag
Language: German / English
ISBN: 978-3-95476-717-5

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Entre ruinas. Conversaciones sobre arte y crisis ambiental
Daniel López del Rincón and Xavi Segura
Sans Soleil Ediciones, 2025

Book bringing together conversations with contemporary artists whose practices address the environmental crisis from critical perspectives, exploring new relationships between nature, technology and society.

Interview: María Castellanos and Alberto Valverde

The interview traces the evolution of their artistic research, from Clorofila 3.0 to more recent projects, reflecting on interspecies perception, the hybridisation of humans and technology, and the potential of artistic research to imagine new forms of coexistence within the more-than-human world.

Publisher: Sans Soleil Ediciones
Language: Spanish
ISBN: 978-84-128248-7-2

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Other Intelligences: Investigating the Plant-Human Relationship in Domestic Spaces
Alfredo Ramos, María Castellanos and Ernesto Ganuza
Philosophies, Vol. 9, No. 6, 2024

Paper published in Philosophies analysing the artistic research project Other Intelligences through the framework of Critical Plant Studies. The paper explores the relationships between plants, technology and human experience, highlighting the potential of artistic research to foster new forms of interspecies communication and coexistence.

Language: English
DOI: https://doi.org/10.3390/philosophies9060176

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SCIENTIFIC PAPER

The Plants Also Look to the Stars
María Castellanos Vicente
figurationen. gender literatur kultur, Vol. 24, No. 1, 2023

Paper published in the special issue Commonality of figurationen. gender literatur kultur, dedicated to exploring new forms of community from critical and interdisciplinary perspectives. Drawing on the public art proposal The Plants Also Look to the Stars, the paper examines new relationships between humans, plants and their environment through artistic research.

Language: English
DOI: https://doi.org/10.7788/figu.2023.24.1.119

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Les Portes du possible. Art & science-fiction
Group exhibition
Centre Pompidou-Metz, Metz, France, 2022–2023

Catalogue published on the occasion of the exhibition Les Portes du possible. Art & science-fiction, exploring the relationship between contemporary art and science fiction. The publication brings together more than 200 works and features original essays by leading science fiction writers, together with a glossary compiled by Ariel Kyrou.

Work included: Symbiotic Interaction

The catalogue features Symbiotic Interaction by María Castellanos and Alberto Valverde as part of an international selection of artists whose works explore the intersections between technology, nature and speculative imagination.

Editorial Director: Alexandra Müller
Language: French
ISBN: 978-2-35983-068-2

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Earthbound – In Dialogue with Nature
Edited by Sabine Himmelsbach and Françoise Poos
Möllerei, Esch-Belval (Luxembourg) · HEK – House of Electronic Arts · Hatje Cantz, 2022

Catalogue published on the occasion of the international exhibition Earthbound – In Dialogue with Nature, organised as part of Esch2022 – European Capital of Culture.

Project included: Beyond Human Perception (2020)

The catalogue features a chapter on the project and includes a conversation between María Castellanos, Alberto Valverde and curator Yulia Fisch, addressing interspecies perception, plant intelligence, biohybrid interfaces and the role of technology as a mediator between humans and plants.

Editors: Sabine Himmelsbach and Françoise Poos
Language: English / French
ISBN: 978-3-7757-5240-4

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EXHIBITION CATALOGUE

META.MORF 2022 – ECOPHILIA
Trondheim International Biennale for Art and Technology

Official catalogue of META.MORF 2022 – Ecophilia, the seventh edition of the Trondheim International Biennale for Art and Technology (Norway), organized by TEKS – Trondheim Electronic Arts Centre.

The catalogue includes the artwork Beyond Human Perception by María Castellanos and Alberto Valverde, presented in the Ecophilia Exhibition at K-U-K – Kjøpmannsgata Ung Kunst.

Language: English and Norwegian
ISBN: 978-82-93778-05-9

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Coding Care. Towards a Technology for Nature
Edited by Sabine Himmelsbach and Chus Martínez
Hatje Cantz, 2022

Collective publication bringing together essays, artistic projects and reflections by international artists, researchers and curators on the role of technology in caring for the more-than-human world. The book explores new approaches to ecology, artificial intelligence, robotics, design and contemporary artistic practices through the perspectives of care and interdependence.

Project included: Beyond Human Perception (2020)

The publication features Beyond Human Perception, an artistic research project exploring the relationships between humans and plants through biohybrid technologies, proposing new forms of perception and interspecies communication.

Editors: Sabine Himmelsbach and Chus Martínez
Language: English
ISBN: 978-3-7757-5456-9

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CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS

Other Intelligences. Plant-Human Interspecies Dialogues
María Castellanos Vicente
Proceedings of the 27th International Symposium on Electronic Art (ISEA2022), Barcelona, 2022

Paper published in the ISEA2022 proceedings presenting Other Intelligences, an artistic research project focused on remote communication between plants through artificial intelligence. The paper explores the potential of artistic research to imagine new forms of interspecies communication between plant life and digital technologies.

Conference: 27th International Symposium on Electronic Art (ISEA2022), Barcelona
Language: English

The Plants Sense. Plant–Human Sensory Biointerface. An Approach to the Secret Language of Plants through Artistic Research
María Castellanos Vicente
Mosaic. Art, Creativity and Interactivity, No. 191, March 2021

Paper presenting the conceptual and technological development of The Plants Sense, an artistic research project developed together with Alberto Valverde that explores the relationships between humans and plants through biohybrid interfaces. 

Publication: Mosaic. Art, Creativity and Interactivity (Universitat Oberta de Catalunya)
Language: Spanish
DOI: https://doi.org/10.7238/m.n191.2110

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GROUP EXHIBITION CATALOGUE

ETOPIA and LABoral in the European ARTificial Intelligence Lab

Catalogue published on the occasion of the programme developed by ETOPIA Centre for Art and Technology and LABoral Centre for Art and Industrial Creation as part of the European ARTificial Intelligence Lab (AI LAB), a European initiative exploring the relationships between artificial intelligence, art, science and society. The publication brings together essays and a selection of artistic projects presented in the programme's exhibitions between 2019 and 2021.

Project included: Beyond Human Perception (2020)

Language: Spanish / English
ISBN: 978-84-09-34149-8

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Art and Educational Innovation in the Digital Era. Interdisciplinary Learning Experiences. A Decade in Review
LABoral Centre for Art and Industrial Creation Foundation, 2018

Publication presenting a decade of educational projects developed by LABoral Centre for Art and Industrial Creation, showcasing methodologies and learning experiences that integrate art, science and technology in educational contexts.

Contribution: Humans and Machines. Experimental Art and Technology Laboratory.

Chapter dedicated to the laboratory designed and led by María Castellanos and Alberto Valverde, focusing on the creation of wearable interfaces through open technologies, creative electronics and DIY methodologies as tools for exploring the relationships between art, science and technology from an interdisciplinary perspective.

Language: Spanish / English
ISBN: 978-84-697-9501-9

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Eco-Visionaries. Art, Architecture and New Media after the Anthropocene
Group exhibition
MAAT (Lisbon), Bildmuseet (Umeå), HEK – House of Electronic Arts (Basel) and LABoral Centre for Art and Industrial Creation (Gijón), 2018–2019

Catalogue published on the occasion of the international exhibition Eco-Visionaries. Art, Architecture and New Media after the Anthropocene, a collaborative project between four European institutions exploring critical responses to the ecological challenges of the Anthropocene through art, architecture and new media.

The catalogue features Symbiotic Interaction by María Castellanos and Alberto Valverde as part of an international selection of artists whose works explore the relationships between ecology, technology and contemporary artistic practices.

Language: English
ISBN: 978-3-7757-4453-9

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The Practice of Art and Science. The European Digital Art and Science Network

Publication edited by Ars Electronica documenting the first three years of the European Digital Art and Science Network, a European initiative fostering collaboration between artists, cultural institutions and scientific research centres. 

Work included: Environment Dress

The publication features Environment Dress by María Castellanos and Alberto Valverde as part of a selection of projects exploring the intersections between art, science and technology. The project investigates clothing as a sensory interface that expands environmental perception through wearable technologies.

Language: English

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Ensayo y error del posthumano
María Castellanos and Alberto Valverde
Museo Antón Sculpture Centre, Candás, Spain, 2017

Catalogue published on the occasion of the exhibition Ensayo y error del posthumano, bringing together a selection of works by María Castellanos and Alberto Valverde that explore the relationships between the body, technology and the posthuman condition.

Foreword: Amelia Fernández López
Critical essay: Natalia Alonso Arduengo
Language: Spanish
ISBN: 978-84-946509-5-6

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Clorofila 3.0
María Castellanos and Alberto Valverde
MARBAS, 2011

Book dedicated to the artistic research project Clorofila 3.0, which explores the relationship between plants and technology through a system capable of translating the bioelectrical activity of plants into sound. The publication traces the project's conceptual and technological development, addressing plant perception and the possibilities of communication between living organisms and technological systems.

Text: Semíramis González Fernández
Language: Spanish
ISBN: 978-84-938813-2-0

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