Author: Bettina Forget
Wednesday, Jun 24, 2026

As summer gets underway, SETI AIR artists, affiliates, and alumni are engaging audiences around the world through exhibitions, performances, workshops, and public conversations. Like this month's featured Imagine Aliens exhibition, many of these projects encourage us to think beyond familiar perspectives, exploring themes of life, communication, environment, and our place in the cosmos through creative practice.

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Bettina

Imagine Aliens at the Exploratorium

This summer, SETI AIR Director Bettina Forget's Imagine Aliens project is featured as part of the Exploratorium's Life in Space exhibition in San Francisco. Drawing on research in art education, astrobiology, and exoplanet science, the interactive exhibit invites visitors to imagine life on other worlds through a hands-on art-making activity. Life in Space runs from June 11 to September 13, 2026, and explores the possibilities and challenges of life beyond Earth through exhibits, artworks, and interactive experiences. Bettina will also lead Imagine Aliens workshops at the Exploratorium on July 23, 25, and 26.

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Exoplanetary Poetry

Mini-documentary by Cultivamos Cultura

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Richelle Ellis

Solid Sound Festival

Moving interactive art activity

MASS MoCA, North Adams, MA, USA

June 26 - 28, 2026

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Xin Liu

NOAA: A Fall Towards Home

Audiovisual performance

High Line Art, New York City, USA

June 23, 24, 25, 2026

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Bio-Plastic Beats: Building Living Musical Interfaces

Workshop at tiat, San Francisco, USA

June 18, 2026

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How to Bridge San Francisco and Kiel - A Sea Level Project

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GEOMAR Helmholtz-Zentrum für Ozeanforschung Kiel, Germany

June 19, 2026

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Daniela de Paulis

Radio Astronomia e Arte

Presentation at the University of Turin

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