ARG: Pieter Steyaert
Pieter Steyaert is an artist and transdisciplinary researcher who explores collaborations within artistic and scientific communities. His work focuses on the context of astrophysics and exoplanets. Pieter is one of the co-founders of SEADS and has worked on a wide range of Biomodd, Seeker and Ēngines of Ēternity projects in Europe, the USA and SE Asia. He leads the development of tools and platforms that support the global SEADS community.
Pieter is fascinated by the possibilities, ethics, and shortcomings of the techno-realm. He shares and explores insights as an educator and researcher. His interests include artificial life, data-driven experience design, and art-science interactions. Pieter conducts research at CHAMELEON, an exoplanet research group that is affiliated with both the University of Antwerp and the University of Copenhagen. His research aims to use artistic methodologies to advance scientific ideation and research.
In this video work, Pieter introduces us to the gardening and harvesting guidelines of Exomoon. It is an audio overlay for the collaboratively created immersive theatre piece called Exomoon, which takes place on a speculative habitat on a moon that is tidally locked to an exoplanet gas giant which is tidally locked to a star (hat6b).
Exomoon was a co-production by Theatre Neumarkt and SEADS in collaboration with the CHAMELEON exoplanet research group. The production invited the public to reflect on what our new home beyond Earth might look like, and what values, identity, and knowledge we choose to take with us. The piece reflects on contemporary human activities and cultural expressions while exploring the tension of individual self-reflection during the transition from a terrestrial environment to a speculative space habitat on a moon orbiting an exoplanet.
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