Guerilla Science: Oregon Eclipse 2017
Festival-scale science programming produced for Guerilla Science at the 2017 Oregon Eclipse Festival, as part of the NSF artist-scientist residency.
- Producer (Guerilla Science)
- Guerilla Science LLC, with Pratt Institute (NSF Award #1612719)
- 2017
- Oregon Eclipse Festival, OR
- Research and program design
- Completed
What it is. Guerilla Science’s science-and-art programming at the 2017 Oregon Eclipse Festival, the desert gathering staged for that summer’s total solar eclipse. It was the flagship festival deployment of the NSF-funded artist-scientist residency.
The role. Romie Kind was the producer: on-the-ground production of the festival science programming and the residency cohort’s festival-floor work — logistics, build, scheduling, and the technical support that lets immersive science installations run in a clearing at three in the morning.
Why it’s here. Oregon Eclipse is the clearest documented instance of the festival-production thesis behind the residency: the boundary between a science exhibit and a music festival is artificial, and the audience worth reaching is the one that is somewhere else entirely.
Collaborators
- Guerilla Science LLC — producing organization
- Pratt Institute — NSF PI institution; Mark Rosin, Principal Investigator
Press and references
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