Contact Conference

Contact Conference Since its beginnings, the Contact conference has fostered interdisciplinary inquiries into art, literature, exploration and scientific investigation.

The intent of Contact is to promote the integration of human factors into space research and policy, to explore the intersection of science and art, and to develop ethical approaches to cross-cultural contact. Contact is a biennial interdisciplinary conference that brings together renowned social and space scientists, science fiction writers and artists to exchange ideas, stimulate new perspective

s and encourage serious, creative speculation about humanity's future. Contact was conceived by anthropologist Jim Funaro in 1979, and the first formal conference was held in 1983 in Santa Cruz, California. Twenty-six annual events have followed, several held at NASA Ames Research Center. In many previous years, the COTI HI project involved teams of high school students in the creation of scientifically accurate extraterrestrial beings, and in simulated encounters between two such races. Many spinoff organizations have formed, on line, and as far away as Japan. One such organization is the Contact consortium which is focused on the medium of contact in multi-user virtual worlds on the Internet. Contact has been closely allied with the SETI Institute, and its early participants created the hypothetical planet Epona. The 27th Contact conference was held on March 31 - April 2, 2012 at the SETI Institute and the Domain Hotel, in Mountain View, California. The 28th conference will be held on a biennial schedule, thus in the spring of 2014, probably in northern California.

Sad news for CONTACT…
03/19/2025

Sad news for CONTACT…

The return to OryCon! With a custom "CONTACT" Track...
10/20/2024

The return to OryCon! With a custom "CONTACT" Track...

05/24/2024

October 18 - 20 DoubleTree Hotel Portland1000 NE Multnomah St, Portland, OR 97232 Our Guests of Honor David D Levine Writer GoH Victoria Price Media GoH Jennie Breeden Artist GoH

Join me and Manesh Girn and some of our Center for MINDS team this Sunday 4/28 7-9pm at the Berkeley Alembic for a truly...
04/24/2024

Join me and Manesh Girn and some of our Center for MINDS team this Sunday 4/28 7-9pm at the Berkeley Alembic for a truly groundbreaking discussion on psychedelics as agents to catalyze beautiful and societally beneficial 'downloads' for scientists, engineers, designers and leaders. Manesh will discuss the shape of this emerging 'fourth path' of psychedelic research and practice and I will introduce our new Center for MINDS and share my own story of achieving a breakthrough in research on the origins of life through a combination of ayahuasca and my own mindfulness practices. Garner your ticket at various levels here:

Explore the potential of psychedelic use to catalyze innovation and top-to-bottom societal change

I am thrilled to share Francesca Cary's research from her Master's work at U Hawaii and in our group at UC Santa Cruz & ...
03/27/2024

I am thrilled to share Francesca Cary's research from her Master's work at U Hawaii and in our group at UC Santa Cruz & BIOTA. This is some of the first experimental work testing whether life could have started on Mars and the results are very thought provoking. This article is also the first to feature an Urability chart...

Early Mars was likely habitable, but could life actually have started there? While cellular life emerged from prebiotic chemistry through a pre-Darwinian selection process relevant to both Earth and Mars, each planet posed unique selection ‘hurdles’ to this process. We focus on drivers of select...

A wonderful explanation of the science of 'where/how life can begin on worlds'...
10/26/2023

A wonderful explanation of the science of 'where/how life can begin on worlds'...

And exploration of the Urability Problem and the water paradox in relation to the overall Fermi's Paradox. Also explored is the salt solution to the paradox....

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