Amon Carter Museum of American Art will present Internationally celebrated Texas artist, Dario Robleto with his solo exhibition, "The Signal."

Known for his multidisciplinary, research-driven approach, Robleto’s work probes questions about the order of the universe and the human-made systems we employ to perceive and describe it. Spanning film, sculpture, and works on paper, "The Signal" represents the culmination of Robleto’s multiyear exploration of the Golden Record, the gold-plated phonograph disk containing sounds and images selected by a team at NASA to portray life on Earth to extraterrestrials.

Part of the Voyager Interstellar Message Project, the Record is currently traversing the sun’s outer reaches aboard the twin Voyager 1 and 2 spacecraft, launched into our solar system in 1977. Supported by related sculptures and works on paper, the centerpiece of the exhibition is Robleto’s newly commissioned work Ancient Beacons Long for Notice, an immersive, sixty-minute film based on a rare and forgotten document, the first audio recording of warfare, which was considered for inclusion on the Golden Record.

Based in Houston, Robleto is a multidisciplinary artist, researcher, materialist poet, and self-proclaimed citizen-scientist. Until recently, he created modern-day Wunderkammern, assembling found and manipulated objects in intricate, handcrafted displays akin to the 19th-century curiosity cabinet. In 2019, he departed from sculpture to attend to his new focus, a project comprising three films, and writing his first book, co-authored with art historian Jennifer Roberts, that grapples with the ethos of the Golden Record.