The Women With Impact series is part of the exhibition Competing Cosmologies: Interpreting the Night Sky at the Wende Museum in Los Angeles, California. Co-curated by the Wende’s Curatorial Department and NASA historian Lois Rosson, Competing Cosmologies explores how new discoveries in space exploration during and after the Cold War …
Hello, Netherlands! It’s been a busy few days. I’ve presented my talk “Beyond Little Green Men: Reimagining Alien Life Through Art and Science” at the Europlanet Congress at The Hague. Here’s a short excerpt: When people hear the word “alien,” they often imagine little green men: humanoid beings with oversized …
It was a great pleasure to share the stage with astrobiologists Margaret Race (SETI Institute) and Michael Wong (Carnegie Science) to talk about alien life as part of the Open Question series at the Exploratorium. Hosted by Regina Barber (NPR), we discussed exoplanets, how we define extraterrestrial life, and how …
I can’t adequately express how delighted I am that my PhD thesis project Imagine Aliens has been transformed into an interactive museum exhibit, now featured at the Exploratorium in San Francisco, California. Imagine Aliens is part of the Exploratorium’s Life in Space summer exhibition, which runs from June 11 to …
It’s official: I’m now Doctor Bettina Forget. What’s the project I’ve been pouring my heart into all these years? Imagine Aliens invited youth (especially those not really interested in science) to make artworks about alien worlds and the creatures that live on them using science as a creative prompt. The …
My article Bubbleworms and Rogue Planets has been published in the latest issue of Canadian Art Teacher. The article provides an overview of my Ph.D. project Imagine Aliens and outlines some of its findings. AbstractThe Imagine Aliens project invited participants to design alien planets, create extraterrestrial life forms, and develop …
I am deeply honoured to be included in the fantastic book Space Feminisms: People, Planets, Power, edited by Marie-Pier Boucher, Claire Webb, Annick Bureaud, and Nahum.About the book: Employing a global approach to feminist theory, this book examines how scientific, popular, scholarly, and artistic imaginations of space have, since the …
I was invited to participate in the United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs (UNOOSA) Space4Women Expert Meeting, discussing how to promote and advance gender equity in the space sector. Seventy women from around the globe attended – policymakers, engineers, researchers, CEOs – and even one astronaut. The panels were …
Normally I’m the one doing the SETI Live interviews with our AIR program artists, but later this month the tables are turned! I’m looking forward to talking about my Women With Impact series with the SETI Institute’s SETI Live host Beth Johnson. You can catch the live stream here:
It’s going to be a busy October! I’m presenting my Moon Crater Drawing workshop three times this month: At the Cronyn Observatory at Western University, at the Cosmodôme in Laval, and at Laval’s Centre de la nature. Sharpen your pencils – here’s the info: October 1, 2023Cosmodôme Lavalpart of theJournées …