Events

Yuri’s Night Bay Area is full of things that don't quite fit into any other category. Here are a few of the special events that will be taking place!

Documentary Screenings at the S.T.E.A.M. Screen (4pm–2am)
We have an incredible 10-hour-long line-up of space and sustainability-related documentaries and art films for you to enjoy! This program expands STEM education to STEAM: Science, Technology Engineering, Arts, and Mathematics. Many of the films’ creators will be available in-person or online to answer your questions about their works! Learn more about what we have in store for you, or download the complete schedule now!

Futuristic Music Design Challenge (2:30pm–3:30pm)
Create Digital Music is hosting a music interface competition, with performances of the top home-brewed music interfaces. This is a design challenge for the future. We want to hear the best, most forward-thinking, generally coolest, Second Space Age-worthy instruments and digital music interfaces. Need extra incentive? The grand prize winner will take home a Yamaha Tenori-On, not yet available in America! Learn more about this competition! (Tenori-On photo: Gary Kibler for CDM.)

Instructables Show and Tell (3:30pm–4:30pm)
Bring your cool do-it-yourself tech project to Yuri’s Night, and share it with the world at the Instructables Show and Tell! Instructables is a web-based documentation platform where passionate people share what they do and how they do it, and learn from and collaborate with others. The Yuri’s Night Show and Tell is a great way to meet other do-it-yourselfers and see the crazy things they’ve been up to! Learn more about how to get involved!

A Festival of Ideas (ongoing)
This year, our distinguished line-up of speakers won’t be the only ones doing the talking! Together, we’ll all get the chance to take on some big questions surrounding Space Exploration, Radical Sustainability, and the Future of Humanity.

We’ll give each of you a few different questions to talk about. Ask your friends! Break the ice and talk to a few strangers, too! A team of volunteers, as well as all our speakers, will help keep the discussions alive throughout the event. Then at a few times we’ll gather up groups who’ve been asking similar questions, so you can share and discuss the answers you’ve found!

At Yuri’s Night, we invite you to transition seamlessly between thought and play, between ideation and celebration, and between art and science, fueling each one with the other. Together, we can design a future we’re proud to be part of realizing. Join Us! (Photo by Laughing Squid.)

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S.T.E.A.M. Screen Documentary Program

Frank Pietronigro, Program Curator; Allan & Sun McNamee-Lundell, STEAM Screen Hosts & Facilitators ;Celestine Star, Golden Star Media Productions and JD Jeff Stallings mixing Final Frontier.

Expanding STEM Education into STEAM Education! (Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, and Mathematics/Music)

S.T.E.A.M. Screen Documentary Program & Schedule (Download Now)

Featuring ten hours of documentary screenings and art films! Highlights include:

• Yuri Gagarin: Too Much of Acoustic Radiation video by Italy’s Yuri Gagarin Band.
• Youth with Q-Arts, QUAD presents Transmission From Space and Rocket Science: Q Club In The 23rd Century
• Edward Gallagher’s Genoa Remote Guidance Systems For The Blind
• Golden Star Productions: Space Luminary Library: Informative Documentaries and Interviews with prominent members of the Space Community, both Governmental and Private Entrepreneurs
• Moments in the Infinite Absolute with Lowry Burgess, a pioneering artist who placed a work of art as a ‘non-scientific payload’ on NASA’s Space Shuttle Discovery
• Frank Pietronigro 10th Anniversary (April 4, 1998) of ‘Drift Painting in a Microgravity Environment’ and other microgravity art in space projects
• Fluxions with Tania Fraga (Brazil) utilizing the Pulfrich effect to attain the illusion of deepness experienced in CAVE environments. The audience will experinece 3D virtual worlds while exploring metaphors for imaginary configurations of outside space
• SPACE ART: Exploring New Territories! direct from Paris’ The International @rt Outsiders curated by Jean Luc Soret
• Ayako's Art Projects with European Space Agency
• Jean-Luc Bozzoli’s Transmuteo, an animated visual feast of the beautiful inner world of this visionary artist
• Forgotten Junk / Forgotten Animals with Michael Ricciardi, an 'interpretive auto-biography' of HAM, the first chimp in space, and Animal Space Pioneers in Four Legs Good!

Many of the creators will be on hand in-person or online to discuss their work! Here are some of the artists you'll get to meet:

Fluxions
(Tania Fraga, Brazil)
She will do a brief presentation while employing an interactive video projection using Java3d artwork that incorporates the Pulfrich Illusion.

Ayako’s Art Projects with European Space Agency
(Ayako Ono, Japan)
She will do a brief presentation on her work as Artists In Resident at ESTEC while showing video of her parabolic flight projects.

Genoa Remote Guidance Systems For The Blind Documentary
(Ed Gallagher with Filmmaker Allison Victor, United States) There will be a brief presentation that will include a virtual guest scientists as they discuss a new guidance system for the blind while presenting ideas about how space exploration can benefit the disabled community.

Forgotten Junk / Forgotten Animals
(Michael Ricciardi)
Michael will start his presentation by reciting his poem 'Space Junk' and will go on to discuss designs for eliminating some forms of space junk. Forgotten Animals will honor our Animal Space Pioneers by presenting a semi-fictionalized video about HAM, the first chimp in space while also including a tribute to other animals who have contributed to space exploration.

Gravitation Off!
(Virtual Presentation by Rob La Frenais and Nicola Triscott, The Arts Catalyst, United Kingdom)
The Arts Catalyst founded in 1993 by Nicola Triscott, is a European agency based in London that specializes in the relationship between art and science whose goal is to encourage dialog, exchange and collaboration between artists and scientists. This program features a parabolic flight they flew from Star City. They will also discuss the role in creating a European Space Agency Report: The Cultural Utilization of the International Space Station Program.

Space Exploration in Art
(Don Davis, United States)
Will do a short presentation of paintings, illustrations and traditional works of art that celebrate human exploration in space.

Tune In
(Esther Johnson, Blanche Pictures, United Kingdom)
A portrait of the fascinating world of amateur radio operators, Yuri being one of them, better known as HAMS. Dealing with the politics of space and social communication, Tune In blends documentary and abstract audio to reflect on the use of DIY radio equipment in an ever-changing modern world. 'The Space-age hobby where the world is your friend.'

SKYSTUDIO: Zero Gravity Arts Consortium Parabolic Flight For Artists
(Frank Pietronigro, United States)
Frank Pietronigro will present video showcasing projects created during Zero Gravity Arts Consortium's Parabolic Research Flight for Artists flown by Zero Gravity Corporation as a part of the 25th International Space Development Conference Co-Sponsored by the National Space Society and the Planetary Society.

Moments in the Infinite Absolute
(Lowry Burgess, United States)
Lowry Burgess, Former Dean and Professor at the College of Fine Arts at Carnegie Mellon University who placed an official “non-scientific” payload on the space shuttle in the 1980's, will discuss his monumental work, “The Seed of the Infinite Absolute” that floated during SKYSTUDIO: Zero Gravity Arts Consortium Parabolic Flight for Artists. The seed is formed by an elaborate series of processes and distillations created, in different global climates, over the past 25 years. Lowry will discuss this and other works as well as him impressions on Arts, Humanities and Culture in Space.