Greetings
This month we’re featuring the work of Brittany Nelson, whose solo exhibition I can’t make you love me opens in Chicago this month. Brittany’s has an uncanny knack for connecting the quest for space exploration with the human condition, drawing parallels between our search for life beyond Earth with the longing for human connection. “I feel a connection and fascination to the people and machines that are searching deep within the vacuum of the universe for a signal someone else is there,” she says in an interview with Cultured. “They are very proac-tively trying to close the gap and this soothes the feeling of impossibility I had as a young per-son to do this for myself.”
Read more about Brittany’s work and catch up on our SETI AIR’s exhibitions, releases, and publications.
Wishing you clear skies,
Bettina
Artist Spotlight
Brittany Nelson
Brittany has been with the AIR program for about two years now, and this month she is pre-senting the first instalment of artworks resulting from her residency. Brittany has shot photos and video at the Hat Creek Observatory’s Allen Telescope Array, visited the SETI Institute’s headquarters, and interviewed many of our scientists, including Jill Tarter. This research in-spired a rich, enigmatic body of new work that interweaves with the narrative strands of her previous œuvre. Look out for a SETI Live with Brittany in March, where we’ll discuss her crea-tive trajectory during her time with the AIR program. In the meantime, you can see her solo ex-hibition at Patron Gallery in Chicago and streaming online at the e-flux Film Festival.
Patron Gallery
I can’t make you love me
Feb 3 – Mar 30, 2024
1612 W Chicago Ave
Chicago, IL 60622
Interview with Brittany Nelson in Cultured magazine
In Her Latest Exhibition, Brittany Nelson Searches For Connection Everywhere From Mars to Montana
e-flux Film Festival
Uncomputables: On Alien Intelligences and Cybernetics
January 15–February 26, 2024
I can hardly bear it when it is over, I can hardly bear it when it starts
(2022, 8 minutes), with a short story by Ted Chiang
SETI AIR Artist News & Events
Brittany Nelson
SETI LIVE: "I can't make you love me" ft. SETI Artist-in-Residence Brittany Nelson
Watch Live on March 14, 2024 at 2:30PM PT
In this special #SciArt SETI Live, SETI AIR Director Bettina Forget will discuss Brittany's creative trajectory during her time with the AIR program.
George Bolster
200 Billion Suns
Galerie Barbara Thumm
Markgrafenstrasse 68, Berlin, Germany
Opening: March 1, 2024
Exhibition: March 2 - April 20, 2024
Adriana Knouf
Fragments of Xenology
Published in the journal Echoes #6
Part of the Sonic Acts Biennial 2024
February 2 - March 24, 2024
Xin Liu
Artist Xin Liu's AI Exploration Redefines Life Forms at Rhizome's 7x7 Event
Review of Xin’s work at the Seven on Seven (7×7) event at the New Museum in New York City
Dxtr Spits & Blue Dreams
I Need Space
Official music release
February 23, 2024 at
https://songwhip.com/dxtr-spits
Official video release: February 29, 2024
Scott Kildall
Cut-up Poet Trees
Video documentation of Scott’s sound installation at Bloedel Reserve
Jonathon Keats
Looking through the lens of time with the Millennium Camera
Article about Jonathon’s Millennium Camera project
University of Arizona News
