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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June 26 - 28, 2026
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