Poetry in Space

With space exploration no longer being monopolized by scientists and government agencies, artists are now getting in on the act. Why not launch a satellite with poetry as payload, or a rocket made of sugarcane? These examples of taking artistic expression beyond the grip of gravity are part of a broader citizen science movement revolutionizing our relationship to technological progress and exploration.

Join Future Tense for a happy hour conversation with Juan José Diaz Infante, who launched the poetry-bearing "Ulises I" Mexican nanosatellite, and Tavares Strachan, a multidisciplinary contemporary artist who has trained in the Russian cosmonaut program. They'll be discussing the desirability of connecting (quite literally) the arts and sciences. 

Future Tense is a partnership of Slate, New America and Arizona State University. 

This event will be livestreamed on this page. Follow the conversation online using #PoetryInSpace and following @FutureTenseNow.

Speakers:

Tavares Strachan, @TavaresStrachan
Contemporary conceptual artist; 2014 LACMA Art and Technology Artist Grant recipient; 2009–10 MIT artist-in-residence

Juan José Diaz Infante
Director of the Mexican Space Collective; author of "Ulises I: An Art Mission to Space"

Moderator:

Eric Molinsky, @emolinsky
Host of "Imaginary Worlds" (WNYC)

Emily Fritcke

Future Tense

fritcke@newamerica.org

https://www.newamerica.org/