How can art, science and technology expand our understanding of ourselves, our relationship with the cosmos, and the futures we imagine?
AGNES CHAVEZ
Interdisciplinary Artist | Art, Science & Emerging Technology
Agnes Chavez is an interdisciplinary artist whose practice explores humanity’s relationship with the cosmos through art, science, emerging technology, and cultural knowledge. Working across immersive installation, data visualization, augmented reality, sound, projection, and participatory media, she creates experiences that invite audiences to encounter scientific ideas through creative and embodied forms of inquiry.
Her art-science research has included a research stay with the ATLAS Experiment at CERN and collaborations with particle physicists at CERN and Fermilab. Her work has been presented internationally at Ars Electronica, CERN, Fermilab, the Havana Biennial, and museums, festivals, and cultural institutions throughout the United States, Europe, Mexico, and Cuba.
Chavez’s practice is grounded in interdisciplinary collaboration, bringing artists into dialogue with scientists, engineers, cultural knowledge holders, and communities to explore scientific and cultural ways of understanding the universe. Projects include Fluidic Data, developed with CERN scientists and engineers to transform Large Hadron Collider data into an experiential environment, and Lakota Cosmology Meets Particle Physics: Converging Worldviews, bringing Indigenous knowledge into conversation with particle physics, art, and youth learning.
In 2014, Chavez co-founded The PASEO outdoor participatory art festival in Taos, New Mexico, where she served as Co-Director and STEMarts Youth Program Director from 2014–2019. Her work with The PASEO helped establish a public platform for participatory new media art while expanding opportunities for young people to engage directly with artists and emerging technologies.
She is the founder of STEMarts Lab, a nonprofit SciArt production studio and youth leadership program that grew from her artistic practice. Through STEMarts, Chavez connects artists, scientists, technologists, and young people internationally, using creative technologies to develop space literacy and empower youth to become active participants in imagining the futures they will inherit.
Her international project Space Messengers brings youth, artists, and scientists together to explore space science and humanity’s relationship with the universe through participatory media and emerging technologies. The project has been presented internationally, including at Ars Electronica in Linz, Planetario Lunaria in Guadalajara, and the Festival Internacional de Ciência in Oeiras, Portugal.
Chavez is currently developing Space Futures, a networked, participatory traveling exhibition evolved from Space Messengers, bringing together art, space science, emerging technology, cultural inquiry, and youth perspectives. Launching during World Space Week New Mexico in 2026 and evolving across multiple locations over the next five years, Space Futures extends her long-term inquiry into how art can create new ways of understanding the cosmos while connecting artists, scientists, young people, and communities in imagining humanity’s future relationship with the universe.