[ Alien ] Star Dust Knows No Borders

01.10.2020

This talk is about the installation [Alien] Star Dust Knows No Borders, on display at the Natural History Museum in Vienna. Victoria talks about star particles, meteorites and micrometeorites, dust and pollution that know no borders. Why is it important for humans to look into the cosmos and understand space? As humans inhabiting the earth we are part of larger complex cosmic systems and our perception changes when our understanding of space changes. Artists collaborating with scientists have the opportunity to create a change even in consciousness, much needed in today's times.

Victoria Vesna

Artist and professor in the UCLA Department of Design Media Arts and director of the Art | Sci Center in the School of the Arts and the California NanoSystems Institute (CNSI).