SETI AIR Newsletter - August 2025

The SETI AIR program is privileged to collaborate with an exceptional group of advisors whose deep cultural insights support our residencies.

Our advisors are curators, academics, and cultural workers with extensive expertise in public art, AI and art, bio-art, literature and poetry, and education. Many of them are also accomplished artists in their own right, with creative practices that bridge art and science. Their insight and generosity greatly enrich the program, and they are a joy to work with. In upcoming editions of SETI AIR News, we will profile some of our advisors and the fascinating work they do. 

As always, make sure to catch up on our SETI AIR’s news and events. 

Clear skies, 
Bettina 

Gregory Betts

Gregory Betts is a distinguished Canadian poet, editor, and professor at Brock University in St. Catharines, Ontario, where he specializes in Canadian and avant-garde literature. He is internationally recognized for his innovative poetry, including If Language, The Others Raisd in Me, and his most recent book Sweet Forme: Shake-Speare’s Perfect Sonnets. His award-winning scholarship includes Finding Nothing: The VanGardes, 1959–1975, as well as explorations of extraterrestrial themes, such as “Aliens in the Void: Writing Beyond the Limits of Language in bpNichol’s The Martyrology” and the podcast episode Alien with Gregory Betts on The Data Fix. As a member of the Message Team and Advisory Group for Daniela de Paulis’ SETI/Green Bank Observatory project A Sign in Space, Gregory brings his expertise to the challenge of imagining communication across cultures, species, and worlds.

Gregory is also the jury lead for the Cosmic Chronicles Literary Prize. If you are an emerging writer or poet working in literature, speculative fiction/sci-fi, experimental poetry, and/or philosophy, please consider submitting an original, unpublished creative work before September 1, 2025. 

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