Abel Tilahun Gebretsadik

Imagine the Cosmos

Synopsis:
Imagine the Cosmos explores the mutual influence of art and space exploration, focusing on NASA's history and Ethiopia's space engagement. It highlights how artists like George Méliès have inspired space missions and collaborated with scientists to visualize hypotheses. It reminds viewers that space exploration dates back to ancient Ethiopia, a nation with a rich history of star-gazing and burgeoning space ambitions today.

Bio:
Dr. Abel Tilahun is an artist-scholar-filmmaker known for his transdisciplinary research on visual culture and artistic production. He is a Guggenheim Postdoctoral Fellow at the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum. The Washington Post describes him as "a futurist who works in sculpture, photography, and video, inspired by architecture and outer space."