"Part of a pioneering movement."
TODAY SHOW
Tiffany Shlain and Ken Goldberg
Ancient Wisdom for a Future Ecology:
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Part of Getty's Regional Initiative PST ART: Art & Science Collide
Skirball Cultural Center, Los Angeles
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October 17th, 2024 to March 2nd, 2025​​
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​"A mind-bending installation..." ~​​​​
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ABOUT THE EXHIBITION
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The Getty Museum’s landmark regional initiative, PST ART: Art and Science Collide, which explores the intersections of art and science, includes an evocative exhibit at the Skirball Cultural Center entitled Ancient Wisdom for a Future Ecology: Trees, Time & Technology. Artists Tiffany Shlain and Ken Goldberg draw inspiration from Artificial Intelligence, dendrochronology (the science of tree-ring dating), the complex landscapes of Los Angeles, and ancient Jewish texts to re-examine our human relationship with trees and nature. The exhibition features six tree-ring sculptures that reimagine our past and collective futures in new ways, a video portrait of Los Angeles that draws from open-source ecology datasets, and a participatory system using AI that allows visitors to create their own visual and textual "tributes" to specific LA trees.
​​Southern California’s landmark arts event, Pacific Standard Time, returns in September 2024 with more than 50 exhibitions from museums and other institutions across the region, all exploring the intersections of art and science, both past and present. Dozens of cultural, scientific, and community organizations will join the latest edition, PST ART: Art & Science Collide, with exhibitions on subjects ranging from ancient cosmologies to Indigenous sci-fi, and from environmental justice to artificial intelligence. Art & Science Collide will share groundbreaking research, create indelible experiences for the public, and generate new ways of understanding our complex world. Art & Science Collide follows Pacific Standard Time: LA/LA (September 2017–January 2018), which presented a paradigm-shifting examination of Latin American and Latinx art, and Pacific Standard Time: Art in L.A. 1945–1980 (October 2011–March 2012), which rewrote the history of the birth and impact of the L.A. art scene. PST ART is a Getty initiative. For more information about PST ART: Art & Science Collide, visit: pst.art
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The LA Times included Ancient Wisdom exhibition in their list of selects to see out of 70 exhibitions in Getty's PST Art: Art & Science Collide landmark Los Angeles initiative.