A Mitu Collaboration: Utopian Hotline

Is anyone out there? Is anyone listening? Are we alone? In 1977, NASA launched the twin Voyager spacecrafts to try and answer these questions. Aboard both is the Golden Record, an artifact intended to communicate who and what we are. After almost 50 years and over 16 billion miles, this proverbial message in a bottle is the farthest human-made object from Earth. If we were to send another message into the distant future, what message would we send?

To answer this, Mitu created a public telephone hotline (646-694-8050) prompting people to leave messages to the future. Utopian Hotline uses these voicemails alongside interviews with NASA astronauts, astrophysicists, astronomers, and middle school students to create a moment of community. This project invites audience members to gather under the dome of Morehead Planetarium and Science Center, where NASA astronauts once trained to navigate by the stars—and, together, reimagine our shared future.