CCAM launches ULTRA SPACE, our new initiative probing how we see, inhabit, interact with, and understand extreme environments, with a talk by Xin Liu! In her practice, Xin creates experiences/experiments to take measurements in our personal, social, and technological spaces in a post-metaphysical world: between gravity and homeland, sorrow and the composition of tears, gene sequencing and astrology. She examines the discourse-power nexus as an active practitioner, an experimenter, and a performer. Her recent research and interest center around the verticality of space, extraterrestrial explorations, and cosmic metabolism. Xin is the Arts Curator in the Space Exploration Initiative at the MIT Media Lab, and a member of the inaugural ONX Studio program founded by the New Museum and Onassis NY, as well as of Silver Art Projects at the World Trade Center. She is also an artist-in-residence at the SETI Institute.