SETI AIR Newsletter - December 2025

The SETI AIR program is delighted to welcome Adrien Segal, the recipient of the Planetary Futures Public Art Residency. This research-creation residency invites the artist to collaborate with scientists whose work advances planetary science, with a focus on climate research. By connecting artistic practice with scientific discovery, the residency aims to foster dialogue, raise awareness, and inspire collective action, emphasizing how the study of other planets can provide valuable perspectives to better understand and address climate-related issues here on Earth.

Based in Oakland, CA, Adrien Segal is an internationally exhibited artist with work featured in books, academic journals and galleries around the world. She has participated in numerous Artist Residencies across the US, Canada, and Europe, and has work in permanent collections including the City of Homer, Alaska, the Museum of Art in Wood in Philadelphia, and the National Academy of Science in Washington, D.C. In 2022, Segal was a US-UK Fulbright Scholar with the Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design at the University of Dundee in Scotland.

Find out more about Adrien Segal here. 

This summer, the SETI AIR program launched the Cosmic Chronicles Literary Award, a new contest for emerging authors inviting writers and poets working in literature, speculative fiction/sci-fi, experimental poetry, and philosophy to submit original, unpublished creative work reflecting on the themes of intelligence, consciousness, and communication. After the Open Call, we received submissions from 33 countries across six continents, and after many months of reading, the jury has announced the winners. Congratulations to all!

Winner
The Listening Room (prose)
Cal Hunter, Northern Ireland, UK

Finalists 
Pebbles on the Windowpane (prose)
Arden Baker, Australia

Confab the Entrainment Frequency (prose)
Tehnuka Ilanko, New Zealand

Tonight I am the James Webb Telescope (poem)
Xabiso Vili, South Africa

Honourable Mentions
Uncle Humunculous (prose)
Don Mark Baldridge, USA

In Search of Category 3 (prose)
Randyn Bartholomew, USA

Masquerage of Silence (poem)
Godwin Dania, Nigeria  

The Language of a Billion Suns (prose)
Alistair Robinson, UK

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