The Interactive Arts Laboratory (InArts Lab) of the Department of Audio and Visual Arts at the Ionian University welcomes MARes in Hybrid Arts postgraduate student Nicolás Parise Schneider for an Artist-in-Residence (AIR2026) hosted by the Node of Hybrid Arts. The residency will take place from February to September 2026 at Studio YK3 of the Ionian University. The programme provides access to the University’s research and production infrastructures, while the artist’s presence is integrated into the MARes postgraduate curriculum and the public activities of InArts Lab.

Nicolás Parise Schneider is a geographer and illustrator from Mendoza, Argentina, specialising in political ecology and ecosophy. He has worked as a researcher at the Institute of Human, Social and Environmental Sciences (INCIHUSA–CONICET) and has taught at the National University of Cuyo, where he also coordinated socio-educational programmes connecting students with environmental organisations and community initiatives. His practice bridges academic research, grassroots participatory action, and artistic collaboration. Nicolás has taught Political Ecology within the Seminar on Queer Theory and Practice at the National University of General San Martín, promoting critical and intersectional approaches to environmental justice. In 2022, he completed an artist residency at the Centro Cultural Toda la Teoría del Universo (Biobío, Chile), where he developed participatory methodologies in collaboration with local communities. He currently works as a map illustrator within the framework of the Plan Colibrí project and is developing an Atlas of river basins in collaboration with the Microutopias publishing house. His research and artistic production focus on hydropolitical subjectivities, extractivism, memory, and territorial conflicts, with published work addressing mega-mining and water archives in Mendoza.

The residency of Nicolás Parise Schneider forms part of InArts Lab’s ongoing commitment to supporting research-based practices in hybrid arts and fostering collaboration and dialogue between artists and scientists.

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