Acknowledgements
Sponsors & Partners
Numen gratefully acknowledges the support of the following organisations and people
Major Sponsor
The City of Albany, through their Community Grants Program as part of Albany/Kinjarling 2026 — celebrating 200 years of Albany/Kinjarling.
Venue Partner
Albany Town Hall — Albany/Kinjarling, Western Australia
With thanks to
Paul Bourke — technical assistance.
Jon Doust — liaison and voice recording. Jon brought Larry Blight and Rachael Colmer to the project and recorded the Menang voices heard in Six Seasons.
Cath Spaggiari (UWA / CSIRO) — geological advice.
Keith Bradby (Gondwana Link) — ecological advice.
And to the terrific teams at Albany Town Hall, City of Albany Arts and Culture, Albany/Kinjarling 2026, and Creative Albany.
Data, simulations and archives
Numen is built on the work of many scientists, institutions and archives. Each is cited in full on the composition page where their work appears.
- Laniakea — the Cosmicflows collaboration (R.B. Tully and colleagues); the IllustrisTNG collaboration; ESA/Gaia/DPAC and Stefan Payne-Wardenaar; NASA Goddard Space Flight Center and the Advanced Visualization Laboratory at NCSA, with simulations by Aaron Boley, Alexei Kritsuk and Michael Norman; NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory and the AIA science team.
- Earth — the PALEOMAP Project (Christopher Scotese, Nicky Wright); palaeoclimate simulations by Paul Valdes, Christopher Scotese and Daniel Lunt (University of Bristol).
- Six Seasons — Geoscience Australia and ICSM (ELVIS elevation data; AusBathyTopo); ESO and Serge Brunier (the Milky Way panorama).
- Four Seasons — the Albany Public Library Local History Collection; the State Library of Western Australia; the State Records Office of Western Australia; the Heritage Council of Western Australia (inHerit); Landgate (Land Monitor); the Department of Biodiversity, Conservation and Attractions; OpenStreetMap contributors.
- Futures — the Japan Meteorological Agency and NOAA (Himawari-9); M.J. Way and colleagues (simulations of Earth’s next supercontinent); NASA DSCOVR EPIC; ESO and Serge Brunier; OpenStreetMap contributors.
Numen continues to seek partnerships with organisations who share our commitment to celebrating deep history and inferred futures through innovative art. Get in touch.