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Wednesday, Jun 25, 2025
In this edition of SETI AIR News we feature Julie-Michèle Morin, one of our Cosmic Consciousness Residency recipients, whose technofeminist research into robotics and theatre challenges conventional narratives around machines and performance. Also - a big shout-out to our AIR Lucy Walker, who won another Emmy (more info below)!
As always, make sure to catch up on our SETI AIR's news and events.
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Bettina
Artist Spotlight
Julie-Michèle Morin
Julie-Michèle Morin is currently writing a thesis on robotics and theatre at the University of Montreal (Canada) and the University of Antwerp (Belgium) in the French Literature and the Intermedial Theatre departments. Loving tinkering, hacking, disobedience, objects, machines, and benevolence, Julie-Michèle takes great pleasure in crafting manifestos and hacking (often from the outside) devices. As an artist-researcher, researcher in the arts, or research-artist, this person relies on a technofeminist approach to reflect on the issues raised by the encounter between performing arts and scientific and technological cultures. Julie-Michèle is also a theatre critic and cultural reporter working with an essayistic approach as a literary media.
Julie-Michèle Morin, together with Daniela Brill Estrada and Bart Kuipers, is the recipient of the Cosmic Consciousness Literature and Poetry residency.
Watch SETI AIR
Dreams of Biogenesis: A Conversation with Artist Jennifer Willet
July 3, 2025
2:30 pm PDT / 5:30 pm EDT
How does life begin? This intriguing question touches on science, philosophy, and the imagination. Artist and INCUBATOR Art Lab Director Jennifer Willet created an artwork that visualizes the theories of SETI Institute Drake Award recipients Dr. David Deamer and Dr. John Baross. Willet’s work, Dreams of Biogenesis, imagines the birth of life on our planet as a reverie of molecules, cells, micro and multicellular organisms assembling and evolving under unique environmental conditions.
SETI AIR Artist News & Events
Mountain Queen: The Summits of Lhakpa Sherpa
Congratulations to Lucy Walker for winning the Emmy for Outstanding Long Documentary and a nomination for Outstanding Cinematography for her documentary film Mountain Queen: The Summits of Lhakpa Sherpa.
Awarded a Blumberg Grant in Astrobiology
Congratulations to Daniela de Paulis, who was awarded a Blumberg Grant in Astrobiology for a field trip in Chile to visit ALMA and Vera Rubin. The grant is awarded by the American Philosophical Society.
Laurent Grasso
Copyists
Exhibition in collaboration with the Musée du Louvre
Centre Pompidou-Metz, Metz, France
June 14, 2025 – February 2nd, 2026
Laurent Grasso
Reinventing Landscape
Highlights of the Centre Pompidou Collection
West Bund Museum, Shanghai, China
April 28, 2025 – October 18, 2026
Beneath the Silence of Space: A Sonified Journey
Concert and lecture at the Philharmonie Luxembourg
Screening of three animations: Dot, Space, and Cloud; Earth; Cosmic Connect
Asteroid Day Festival
June 28, 2025
After Words: Visual and Experimental Poetry in Little Magazines and Small Presses, 1960 - 2025
Grolier Club
New York, NY, USA
April 23 - July 26, 2025
Brittany Nelson at Quartz Studio / Torino
Exhibition review in the Daily Lazy
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