The Zero-Gravity Band (ZGB) is an awarded disruptive scientific and artistic project led by Albert Barqué-Duran, Phd (Honorary Research Fellow and Artist at City, University of London), Marc Marzenit(Audio Engineer and Electronic Music Producer) and Elisa Ferrè, Phd (Director VeME Lab at Royal Holloway, University of London). The ZGB project is produced by Quo Artis, an Art and Science Foundation.

The ZGB perfectly combines art and research to explore the concept of art outside planet Earth. Specifically, it examines how both the production and perception of art changes when we are not restricted to the physical laws and framework that planet Earth’s gravity imposes to us. To overcome to terrestrial gravity, we are taking part on a series of parabolic flights with the aim to produce an artwork designed and motivated to be experienced and perceived in microgravity.

Albert Barqué-Duran (1989), PhD, is an artist and a researcher in Creative Technologies and Digital Art, currently based in Barcelona.

Duran earned his PhD and Postdoc in Cognitive Science from City, University of London (UK) and have been a Visiting Postgraduate Researcher at Harvard University (USA) and University of Oxford (UK). Duran’s artistic research focuses on: (1) human-machine interaction during artistic and creative processes, (2) Artificial Intelligence’s (AI) aesthetic artifacts, (3) perception and aesthetics under sensory conflicts, vestibular manipulation or altered gravity conditions, and (4) experimental formats and aesthetics in virtual environments using game engines.

He has exhibited and performed at Sónar+D (Barcelona, Spain), Ars Electronica (Linz, Austria), ZKM (Karlsruhe, Germany), Creative Reactions (London, UK), Cricoteka (Krakow, Poland), Albumarte (Rome, Italy), SciArt Center (New York, USA), IGNITE Fest (Medellín, Colombia), Nuits Sonores (Lyon, France), Mobile World Congress (Barcelona, Spain), Ming Contemporary Art Museum (Shanghai, China), DMA (Daejon, South Korea), SIGGRAPH (USA) or NeurIPS (Vancouver, Canada), and more.