Jill Tarter is the Emeritus Chair for SETI Research at the SETI Institute in Mountain View, California, and serves as a member of the Board of Trustees for that institution. Tarter received her Bachelor of Engineering Physics Degree with Distinction from Cornell University and her Master’s Degree and Ph.D. in Astronomy from the University of California, Berkeley. She has spent the majority of her professional career attempting to answer the old human question “Are we alone?” by searching for evidence of technological civilizations beyond Earth. She served as Project Scientist for NASA’s SETI program, the High Resolution Microwave Survey, and has conducted numerous observational programs at radio observatories worldwide. She was named one of the Time 100 Most Influential People in the World in 2004 and one of the Time 25 in Space in 2012.

Joseph Becker is the Associate Curator of Architecture and Design at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA). Since 2007, Joseph has contributed to over twenty exhibitions at SFMOMA. Joseph has also been responsible for the exhibition design and visual direction of the majority of SFMOMA’s A+D exhibitions during his twelve-year tenure. He has moderated and served on numerous art and design panels, been an invited juror at national architecture programs, led workshops on exhibition and experiential design, lectured internationally, and been an invited consultant to public art and design projects. He received his Bachelor of Architecture and his Master of Advanced Architectural Design in Design Theory and Critical Practice from the California College of the Arts, where he has taught interdisciplinary seminars on art and architecture.