04.17.2026
Understanding each other between species. Talking to animals and aliens
Panel featuring Giovanni Petri (Project CETI) and Daniel Oberhaus, moderated by Greta Rosa of Typo Media as part of Turin's 2026 Biennale Tecnologia. How close are we to understanding whales and cetaceans? The myth of talking to animals, from ancestral traditions to St. Francis, could come closer to reality thanks to scientific research. Where are we at and what developments lie ahead? What if we were to communicate with extraterrestrial intelligences? From the 1971 Byurakan conference to the present, how are we preparing to understand any radical otherness?
TURIN, ITALY
08.17.2023
TECHNE: REVISING THE GOLDEN RECORD
The Los Angeles County Museum of Modern Art's Art + Technology Lab premiered a screening of Techne: Evidence in the Anthropocene and hosted a panel discussion with Daniel Oberhaus, NASA JPL scientist Jonathan H. Jiang, Techne director Daniel R. Small, and Ann Druyan, the creative director for the original Golden Record. During the event, the panelists announced a new interstellar messaging effort to revise the Golden Record.
CALTECH / LOS ANGELES
10.22.2019
A talk presented at the 8th IAA Symposium on the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence during the 48th annual International Astronautical Congress. The paper and talk argued that extraterrestrial languages are undesirable as the foundation of an interstellar message and that natural language corpora are a more effective basis for interstellar communication.
INTERNATIONAL ASTRONAUTICAL CONGRESS / WASHINGTON DC
10.19.2019
EXTRATERRESTRIAL LANGUAGES RELEASE PARTY
THE STRAND BOOKSTORE
NEW YORK CITY