After almost three years of collaborating together on this show, Ken and I are super excited for the opening of our new exhibition Ancient Wisdom for a Future Ecology: Trees, Time & Technology Thursday night in Los Angeles at the Skirball Cultural Center. This is part of the Getty Museum's landmark regional art event, PST ART: Art & Science Collide, and will be on view from Oct 17th to March 2nd, 2025.
The exhibit includes 10 original sculptures and artworks inspired by 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.
This began several years ago when LA curator Dr. Selma Holo reached out suggesting the two of us could be a good fit for the Getty's Art and Science theme. It has been such a pleasure working closely with Selma, Skirball co-curator Vicki Phung Smith, Exhibitions Manager Michelle Urton, and Skirball Museum Director Sheri Bernstein on this!
Ken and I met 25 years ago at a lecture by my late father Leonard Shlain when he was speaking about his book Art & Physics. We fell in love that night and have been talking about art and science ever since.
Ken is an artist and professor of robotics at UC Berkeley. Our first collaboration was co-writing the Sundance documentary film The Tribe in 2005. Then we co-wrote several episodes for my original series The Future Starts Here in 2013 including Why We Love Robots and Robots, Botox, and Google Glass. We have done art installations but this is our first museum show together. For this new show, we conceived and co-wrote many tree ring timelines together. We are the co-founders of The Association of Free Association.
The opening celebration is Thursday night 6 to 9pm, RSVP here.
We are also doing an artist talk on Saturday, Oct 19th, at 11am to noon, then there is a picnic following from 1 to 2pm. Tix here.
Those of you in LA, see you there, and if you have friends in LA, please forward this email to them.
Looking forward the super moon on Thursday and the opening celebration!
xo
Tiffany
ps. Below is a shot from the Getty Museum's opening night celebration of PST Art Art & Science Collide last month.
