Step into a world where real and virtual experiences merge in an immersive journey that brings art and science to life and inspires hope. Space Messengers is a participatory mixed reality installation that visualizes thought-provoking reflections on the universe, encouraging participants to contemplate their role within it. Space Messengers is an ongoing collaboration among artists, scientists, interdisciplinary experts and youth ambassadors. Together they explore how the arts, humanities, philosophy, physics and space technologies can deepen our understanding of the universe and expand our identities as planetary citizens.  The live audience can also send their own space messages in real time via this website or at the installation site.

What message of hope would you like to share with the next generation? These messages become part of a global database that travels from city to city, radiating messages of hope to and from our future youth leaders.

Collaborators

Creative Director/Artist: Agnes Chavez

Lead Artist/Projection team: OMAi

Sound design: David Novack with Joao Espada

Creative Coding/Artist: Roy McDonald

VR design: Mathieu Castel

Avatar tech design: Dylan Zanow

Production Director: Dania Loya

VR consultant: Digital Ant Media

Avatar Scientists: Dr. Andrea Albert, LANL astrophysicist (USA), Dr. Julia Bluebird, NRAO astrophysicist.

Science stations: Summer Ash, Very Large Array Visitor Center, STEAM Education Manager, Sophia Dagnello, Scientific Visualizer, NRAO; QuarkNet members, Shane Wood and Nathan Unterman; Thomas Vause and Allison Johnson, SciVista.

Installation Video Statements: Dr. Nicole Lloyd-Ronning (USA); Michelle Hanlon, Space Lawyer, Co-Founder, For All Moonkind (USA), Dr. Catarina Pombo Nabais, Philosopher/founder of the SAP (Science- Art-Philosophy) Lab at the CFCUL (PT); Frank Tavares, Affiliated Researcher, Space Enabled Research Group at the MIT Media Lab (USA). Dr. Greg Cajete, Native American author (USA), Steve Tamayo, Lakota artist (USA), Elizabeth Keller, Futures Thinker, Sandia National (USA), Sophia Dagnello, NRAO science visualizer (USA), Johan Sebastian Bonilla, CERN physicist (USA)

Participating schools

Escola Secundaria Sebastiao e Silva (PT) , Taos Integrated School of the Arts, Albuquerque High, Santa Fe Indian School (USA) Universidad de Guadalajara Preparatoria#5, Preparatia San Jose del Valle (MX)

STEMarts Ambassadors

Claire Legate, Feliciana Mitchell-Gonzales, Megan Odom, Rocio Aguilar, Serina Martinez, Sirena Quezada, Selena Pacheco, Sophia Bates, Shaylee Mirabal, Julia Doke, Hermila Ruiz Aguayo, Jesús Santiago Valadez García, Julio Cesar Hernández Ochoa, Lizbeth Carol Spiller, Ian Harrison

Participating schools: Santa Fe Indian School, Albuquerque High, Taos Integrated School of the Arts, Escola Secundaria Sebastiao e Silva, Universidad de Guadalajara Prepa#5, Preparatoria Jose del Valle, New Mexico School of the Arts.

Video Statements

Dr. Nicole Lloyd-Ronning (USA); Michelle Hanlon, Space Lawyer, Co-Founder, For All Moonkind (USA), Dr. Catarina Pombo Nabais, Philosopher/founder of the SAP (Science- Art-Philosophy) Lab at the CFCUL (PT); Frank Tavares, Affiliated Researcher, Space Enabled Research Group at the MIT Media Lab (USA). Dr. Greg Cajete, Native American author (USA), Steve Tamayo, Lakota artist (USA), Elizabeth Keller (USA), Sophia Dagnello, NRAO science visualizer (USA), Johan Sebastian Bonilla, CERN physicist (USA)

Thank you to our sponsors!

National Endowment for the Arts, City of Albuquerque Public Arts Office, Albuquerque Sister Cities Foundation, U.S Consulate General in Guadalajara, NM Trade Alliance, Q Station, New Mexico Arts, LANL Foundation, The Encantado Foundation, J3 Fund, MAE Foundation, Intel, Taos Community Foundation, LANL CPO, and our hosts, the Albuquerque International Balloon Museum.