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CYLAND | Ars Electronica | LASER Talk

September 12, 2020, 10 am PST / 7 pm CSTThe Cosmos above us and the touchscreen in front of us Presenters: Bettina Forget, Elena Gubanova, Alexandra Dementieva, and Daniela De Paulis Moderator: Natalia Kolodzei PartnersLeonardo/ISASTCyland Media LabUCLA Art|Sci Center Leonardo/ISAST and the CYLAND MediaArtLab present the launch of Leonardo Art Science Evening Rendevous St. Petersburg in conjunction with the CYFEST 13 […]

Bettina Appointed as Director of the SETI Institute AIR Program

Bettina Appointed as Director of the SETI Institute AIR Program I am immensely honored and excited to announce that I have been appointed as the Director of the SETI Institute’s Artist-in-Residence (AIR) Program. I have been in the SETI’s Institute’s orbit for a few years now and have seen the AIR program thrive. It is […]

LASER Talk | Stanford

June 24 – 06:00 PM PDT / 9 PM EDTOpportunities for Online Art and Science Collaboration A conversation with Bettina Forget (director of SETI Institute’s Artist-in-Residence program), Jennifer Parker (founding Director of OpenLab), Curtis Frank (Professor in Chemical Engineering at Stanford and the Senior Associate Dean for Faculty and Academic Affairs in the School of […]

Bettina is a Concordia University Public Scholar

Concordia University Public Scholar Program I am delighted to announce that I’m one of the ten Ph.D. candidates in Concordia University’s Public Scholars Program. The program’s mandate is to introduce cutting-edge academic research to a general audience. The 2020 cohort is amazing and includes scholars from the fields of Mechanical Engineering, Anthropology, Chemistry, Finance – […]

Art Residency at Xenoform Labs in San Francisco

I am delighted to announce that I will be spending the month of December 2019 at the art residency at Xenoform Labs in San Francisco. Established in October 2018, Xenoform Labs features ample studio space and housing for a solo artist or couple, within a home environment, in San Francisco’s historic Mission District. The studio includes […]

Bettina in London for the conference “The Art and Science of the Moon”

I will be in London, England, to present my Women With Impact series at the conference The Art and Science of the Moon at Greenwich’s National Maritime Museum. My presentation will be in the afternoon of November 14, 2019. See the speaker schedule here. Here’s the announcement of the conference:   The Art and Science of the Moon To […]

Merveilles Célestes exhibition at the Cosmodôme

The Merveilles Célestes show is on tour! After being presented at the Centre d’exposition de l’Université de Montréal, the exhibition is now on display at the Cosmodôme in Laval. This is the Cosmodôme’s inaugural art exhibition, and they’ve done a fantastic job curating and displaying the artworks. Merveilles Célestes is a collection of works that are the […]

Presenting lecture and workshop at the Aga Khan Museum, Toronto

In honour of the 50th anniversary of the Moon landing, the Aga Khan Museum in Toronto is presenting a spectacular Moon-themed exhibition. To complement the programming, I have been invited to present a lecture and a workshop based on my art and astronomy research. Moon Craters, Exoplanets, and Galactic Revolutions art talk on Thursday, July […]

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