September 16-17, 2022
Space Messengers was projected on to the Taos Municipal School Building (TMS) for The PASEO Festival and a VR Station allowed participants to put on VR headsets to enter the Space Messengers virtual world.
For our Scientist Avatar Station we beamed in Astrophysicist, Andrea Albert, as a Avatar to answer questions about space in real time.
Space Messengers generates messages collected from a custom platform we call the Space Board. Students who participate in our workshops write messages and create drawings communicating the science they learned and sharing their questions and wishes for a sustainable interplanetary future. These 'space messages' are seen floating on the wall along with interactive body silhouettes.
Markus Dorninger (OMAi team) is the lead artist. Using his artist-created Tagtool app he live generated the painting on to the building responding to the architecture and the mood of evening.
We coordinated a Global VR Youth Day for the PASEO Festival as part of the STEMarts International youth exchange, sponsored in part by the Q Station. Students participate as Avatars to experience the installation together virtually, in conjunction with the live festival.
We installed pop-up VR Stations at Taos High School, Penasco Middle/High School, Taos Day School, Santa Fe Indian School (New Mexico) and Escola Secundaria Sebastiao e Silva (Portugal). VR Ambassadors participated as experience guides from Brazil.