The arts and sciences have always been considered separate entities that rarely overlap. Science used data and facts to test hypotheses while art uses material, music, movement, and illustrations to express emotions and experiences. Time to visit a world where the two are combined! In this episode, we learn from Concordia University PhD candidate Bettina Forget about her work on science-art communication, feminism through lunar craters, and expressing science data using various art techniques.

Space Explorer - Bettina Forget

Bettina Forget is a Montreal-based artist, researcher, and educator. Bettina directs the SETI Institute’s Artist-in-Residence (AIR) Program. In this capacity she facilitates the collaboration between artists and SETI researchers, foregrounds art-science research practice, and establishes a network of institutional partners active in art, science, and technology. She is currently a doctoral candidate in Art Education at Concordia University, Canada where she examines how the recontextualization of art and science may disrupt gender stereotypes. Bettina’s creative work explores the subjects of astronomy, science fiction, and feminism. She has exhibited her artwork in the USA, Canada, Germany, Iceland, Russia, Singapore, and Nicaragua. Born in Germany, Bettina has studied at Central St-Martins School of Art in London, England, at Curtin University in Perth, Australia and Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts in Singapore.

To learn more about Bettina's work, you check out her sketches and art pieces on her website Women With Impact, or you can find her on LinkedIn, or on Instagram @myvisualvoice.