As summer is drawing to a close, the fall cultural season is coming back to life. In fact, many of our SETI AIRs are already busy participating in major international festivals and are premiering live productions.

It’s been a difficult year for artists of all disciplines. The challenges of lockdowns, limited access to studios and collaborators, and vastly reduced audiences meant that those active in the creative field needed to re-imagine how to make art and explore new ways to engage with their audiences. It has been an absolute delight to see our AIRs rise to this challenge. Highlighted in this issue of SETI AIR News are two projects that are on show this month. In New York, Theater Mitu has re-imagined what theater can be, creating a unique interactive project that exists both in the virtual world and in its Brooklyn-based performance space. In Linz, Austria, the Mexican artist collective Interspecifics has fused microbiology and AI technologies to investigate how Life may exist in extraterrestrial habitats. Discover more about both projects below.

I wish you a colorful start to cultural season!
Stay healthy and safe,
Bettina