ATOMIKA Festival Unveils Lineup for Inaugural Event Around Decommissioned Cold War Missile Silo, With Guest Curation by SpectreVision
Flying Lotus, Suzanne Ciani, Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith, Harvard Astrophysicist Avi Loeb, VASCO director Dr. Beatriz Villaroel, Disclosure Advocate Danny Sheehan, and Last Podcast on the Left Lead the Initial Wave of Artists and Speakers Converging in Roswell, NM this November
Today, ATOMIKA officially unveiled the highly anticipated lineup for its inaugural experimental gathering. From November 6-8, 2026, one thousand attendees will converge at the decommissioned Twistflower Nuclear Missile Silo, a fully restored Cold War-era facility. Originally built as an active nuclear launch site during the peak of US-Soviet tensions, the subterranean complex has been systematically retrofitted to host educational panels, art installations, and acoustic performances. Built out around the silo will also be an outdoor main stage, as well as numerous additional staging areas for the festival’s diverse program.
The curated lineup reflects ATOMIKA's mission to bridge the gap between rigorous scientific inquiry and avant-garde cultural expression, uniting legendary icons, edge-of-science researchers, and pioneering electronic musicians to explore the nature of our reality and the future of the human race. A goal of the festival is to symbolically demonstrate that a space erected amid wartime devastation can be transformed into a collaborative venue – for scientific inquiry, art, and cultural exchange.
