STEMArtsLab: “Before Rockets, There Were Artists”
As part of REIMAGINE SPACE: NEW MEXICO, SciArt Santa Fe and STEMarts Lab are partnering to present this special Leonardo Art Science Evening Rendezvous (LASER) Talk exploring space through Indigenous knowledge, science, engineering, art, and culture with Nahum, artist, musician, and founder of the KOSMICA Institute.
Long before humans reached space, artists, writers and cultural practitioners were already imagining our journeys beyond Earth, and honoring our relationship with the Cosmos. Today, as the space sector is increasingly shaped by commercial interests and the ambitions of a small number of private actors, the work of cultural practitioners is more important than ever.
Artists and cultural practitioners continue to question dominant narratives, propose alternative futures, and ask what kinds of relationships with space we want to create. Through examples from his artistic practice and his work founding KOSMICA Institute, Nahum will explore how culture shapes our understanding of space, how artists can challenge the assumptions embedded in space activities, and why the cultural dimension of space matters for the futures we are building.