I’m delighted to be the plenary speaker at the Dawson College Science Fest on Wednesday, May 4, 2017. In my presentation THE PAINT-STAINED TELESCOPE: FOCUSING ON THE INTERSECTION OF ART AND SCIENCE I will outline my astronomy-informed artistic practice, the mandate of my art-science gallery Visual Voice, and my upcoming activities as art/science researcher at the SETI Institute. …
My most recent project – Women with Impact – has been featured in the Globe and Mail for International Women’s Day 2016. Read the article here.
On February 6, 2016 I will be presenting my latest research at Concordia University’s Inquire and Inspire Symposium. To promote this fantastic event the Symposium’s organizing committee ran a profile on my recent projects. Read the article here.
It’s official: I’m delighted to announce that I’m the newly-minted art/science researcher for the SETI Institute, part of SETI’s Artist in Residence program. In this capacity I will investigate idea translation between collaborating artists and scientists, and explore different modes of knowing. Looking forward to spending the summer of 2016 in the …
Astronomers Without Borders (AWB) have invited me to be their AstroArtist of the Month for the month of November. That means that for the coming month I will post weekly articles on the AWB AstroArts Blog. Over the next few weeks I will share with you four astronomy-informed art projects. I would take …
Bettina talks about Montreal’s visual arts scene and the community of galleries in downtown’s Belgo Building in the fall 2015 issue of the Destiantions Centre-Ville magazine. Subscribers of the magazine: browse here.
Imagine you’re on a lunar base, ready explore to the Moon. Your mission is to document a region of the Moon of your choice – maybe the Ocean of Storms, the Sea of Tranquility, the Peninsula of Thunder, or the Bay of Rainbows. What will you find there? What does …
Liam McGinty, host of the podcast “Voices from L5,” invited me to chat about sciart, hypothesize about making art in space, and discuss if an Artist-in-residence program on a space station would be a good idea. Listen to the podcast here.
Featuring first-hand advice, best practices, strategies and insider tips from more than 50 working Quebec artists and industry professionals, Business Skills for Creative Souls: The Essential Artist’s Handbook, published by Youth Employment Services (YES), is packed with practical, no-nonsense content from cover to cover. Bettina is featured in the chapter on …
Bettina has been working on an art project for the last four years which is based on the first ever science fiction book: Somnium by Johannes Kepler, published in 1634. Now, 400 years later, Bettina traced the book’s story back to Iceland, researching and collecting materials for her current project, …