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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

Two book chapters published

I’m holding a hard copy in my hand! The book Mobile Media In and Outside of the Art Classroom: Attending to Identity, Spatiality, and Materiality is now available by Plagrave Macmillan. The book, edited by Juan Carlos Castro, is based on the MonCoin research project, a 8-year study of using mobile media …

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 …

Article published in the journal Antennae

I am delighted to announce that I have an article published in Antennae, the Journal of Art and Nature. Goethe’s Colour Theory: Optics and Visual Poetry   Abstract What happens to the scientific process when mathematics is substituted with poetry? In the 18th century, the German poet and amateur scientist Johann …

Women With Impact exhibition at the Montreal Planetarium

I am delighted and honoured to present my Women with Impact exhibition at Montreal’s beautiful Rio Tinto Alcan Planetarium. This is the planetarium’s first art exhibition, and the exhibition designer did a spectacular job! The exhibition is free, you don’t need to purchase a ticket to see it. Find more information on the …