Bettina Forget is a doctoral candidate in Art Education at Concordia University, Canada. Her research examines the recontextualization of art and science, and how transdisciplinary education may disrupt gender stereotypes. Bettina has created and taught art-science curricula at Concordia University and has presented transdisciplinary workshops at institutions such as the Ontario Science Center, the Montreal Museum of Fine Art, and the Aga Khan Museum Toronto. 

Bettina directs the SETI (Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) Institute’s Artist-in-Residence (AIR) program. In this capacity, she facilitates the collaboration between artists and SETI researchers, foregrounds art-science research practice, and mediates a dynamic network of institutional partners active in art, science, and technology.

Bettina’s creative work focuses on astronomy, astrobiology, science fiction, and feminism. She works with traditional media such as painting and drawing as well as digital technologies such as 3D printing, video, animation, interactive storytelling, and AI. Bettina has exhibited her artwork in the USA, Canada, Germany, Iceland, Singapore, Spain, Nicaragua, and Russia, including ISEA (Barcelona), CYFEST-13 (Saint Petersburg), and the Planetarium Rio Tinto Alcan (Montréal).