SETI AIR Newsletter - July 2024
Greetings
Suppose global warming raised temperatures so drastically that crops failed and caused world hunger. Would you support the idea of gene editing humans’ skin cells so that photosynthesis would become an alternative source of human nutrition? The Non Random Arts Collective is currently at the SETI Institute, offering workshops to our scientists and artists that explore fascinating scenarios connecting climate change, habitability, and gene editing. The discussions, short fiction stories, drawings, and small sculptures resulting from these workshops provide critical new perspectives on the future of humanity - and our planet. The Non Random Arts Collective is the newest affiliate of the SETI AIR program, as is writer and editor Michael Nardone, who is investigating exolinguistics and exomusicology. Find out more about our newest AIRs below!
Wishing you clear skies,
Bettina
AIR Spotlights
Welcome! Non Random Arts Collective
We are delighted to welcome the Non Random Arts Collective to the SETI AIR program. The collective consists of Linda O’Keeffe, Ashley James Brown, Tony Doyle, and Ines Montalvao. Together, they delve into the intersections between the arts and diverse fields such as astrophysics, genetics, urban planning, ecology, climate change, technological adaptation, AI, and design futures. Non Random’s projects have investigated cosmic changes, renewable energy technologies, climate adaptation, social inclusion in urban planning, and the soundscapes of gender and class in post-colonial contexts.
Find out more about the Non Random Arts Collective on the SETI AIR website:
Non Random Arts Collective
Welcome! Michael Nardone
We are extending a warm welcome to writer and editor Michael Nardone, who has joined the SETI AIR program. Never settling on a single genre, practice or mode, Nardone’s works often explore and experiment within histories of literature, techniques of embodied performance, and cultures of mediation. Formerly a postdoctoral fellow with the Research Chair in Digital Textualities at the Université de Montréal and a visiting fellow at the Center for Programs in Contemporary Writing at the University of Pennsylvania, Nardone is Media Historian at Antimodular, the research studio of artist Rafael Lozano-Hemmer.
As a SETI writer-in-residence, Nardone will focus on a set of issues concerning exolinguistics, exomusicology, and the cultural politics of communications with extraterrestrial intelligence, while considering their implications for the history of the book.
Note: Michael is not part of the Cosmic Consciousness Open Call. A shortlist of this call will be released on September 3, 2024.
Find out more about Michael on the SETI AIR website:
https://www.seti.org/air/michael-nardone
SETI AIR Artist News & Events
Felipe Perez Santiago, Charles Lindsay, Gregory Betts
Terricola / Earthling
Group exhibition at Galeria L
Mexico City
July 18 - September 22, 2024
Daniela de Paulis
A Sign in Space as Cosmic Theatre
Electronic Visualization in the Arts conference
London, UK
July 8 - 12, 2024
Conference proceedings / abstract
Bettina Forget, Non Random Arts Collective
FEMeeting Windsor 2024 conference
June 23 - 28, 2024
Bettina Forget: Imagine Aliens
Linda O’Keefe: Continents Drifting
Ines Montalvo: Climate & Death: In-situ explorations and outcomes
Book of abstracts/p>
Jen Bervin
Up the Hill Backwards: Embracing Queer Indeterminacy
Catherine Clark Gallery
San Francisco
June 27 - July 27, 2024
About the SETI AIR Program
The SETI Institute’s Artist-in-Residence (AIR) program is an international leader in the movement of integrating art and science. The AIR program connects contemporary artists with SETI Institute researchers so that they may exchange ideas and catalyze new perspectives, insights, and modes of comprehension. For more information about the program, please visit https://www.seti.org/air
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