Pablo Castilla Heredia (b. 1980, Granada) is based between Norway and Spain. His work is based on the direct exploration of reality and encoded in a documentary-based language through various disciplines such as cinema, performing arts and photography internationally. The use of a documentary style becomes in itself a strategy that reveals fissures in perception and challenges the boundaries between fiction and reality. In 2019, after completing a postgraduate degree in the Management of Photographic Collections at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Castilla started a project focused on the preventive conservation, digitisation, and storage of the historic photographic archive of Harestua’s Solar Observatory. He has been working on highlighting the value of this heritage since then.
Jessica MacMillan (b. 1987, USA) is an artist and amateur astronomer whose work spans sculpture, installation, 3D animation, and light. Her works investigate astronomy and planetary science through ordinary found objects and optical instruments, creating experiences that connect our everyday lives with the vast cosmic scales that surround us.
Maggie Coblentz (b. 1988, Canada) is a researcher and multimedia artist. She draws inspiration from science fiction, outer space, and more-than-human worlds. What connects her work is an exploration of how humans relate to the cosmos. She has flown on parabolic research flights, led a fermentation study aboard the ISS, and led several field expeditions where she used cooking to connect people and place. Maggie works in the Science division at National Geographic. Previously, at MIT Space Exploration Initiative, she researched space food and culture and established an Arctic field school in Svalbard. She is the founder of Fieldscape, an interdisciplinary field program that brings together scientists, engineers, artists, and designers to improve accessibility to remote research environments.
Maggie received a Master of Industrial Design from the Rhode Island School of Design. Her work has been featured in publications such as WIRED, The Economist, Scientific American, BBC, NPR, CNN, and Popular Science.