Space Messengers at Balloon Fiesta in Albuquerque
Space Messengers was one of four artist installations selected by the City of Albuquerque Public Arts Program to light up the night for the International Balloon Fiesta.
The City of Albuquerque Public Arts Program selected Space Messengers as one of four artist installations to illuminate the night during the 2024 edition of the Albuquerque International Balloon Fiesta.
Installation credits:
Agnes Chavez - Creative Director
OMAi - Lead Artists
David Novack and Joao Espada - Sound design
Roy MacDonald - Creative Coding/Artist
Dania Loya - Production Director
Workshop speakers and facilitators that appear in the video clips
Dr. Nicole Lloyd-Ronning, Astrophysicist, Los Alamos National Laboratory
Dr. Steven Goldfarb, CERN Physicist, University of Melbourne
Steve Tamayo, Lakota Cultural Specialist/Artist
Frank Tavares, Affiliated Researcher, Space Enabled Research Group at the MIT Media Lab
Michelle Hanlon, Space Lawyer, Founder/Director, For all Moonkind
Dr. Greg Cajete, Native-American Author/cultural specialist.
Dr. Catarina Pombo Nabais, Philosopher/founder of the Science-Art-Philosophy Lab at CFCUL
Elizabeth Keller, Futures Thinker, Sandia National Laboratory
Sophia Dagnello, NRAO science visualizer (USA)
Johan Sebastian Bonilla, CERN physicist (USA)
STEMarts Ambassadors
Claire Legate, Ian Harrison, Julia Doke, Morgan Coleman, Rocio Aguilar, Serina Martinez, Sirena Quezada, Sophia Bates, Shaylee Mirabal, Hermila Ruiz Aguayo, Jesús Santiago Valadez García, Julio Cesar Hernández Ochoa, Lizbeth Carol Spiller with Dania Loya, Production Director