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Ancient Wisdom for a Future Ecology: Trees, Time, and Technology
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Ancient Wisdom for a Future Ecology: Trees, Time and Technology is a new exhibition that reimagines our past and collective futures using large-scale wood sculptures, video, and artificial intelligence. Initially commissioned for Getty PST ART: Art & Science Collide at the Skirball in Los Angeles, the San Francisco debut is a homecoming for artist and filmmaker Tiffany Shlain and her husband, artist and UC Berkeley robotics professor Ken Goldberg.
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Artists and life partners Tiffany Shlain and Ken Goldberg utilize technology to express the human connection to (or disconnection from) nature. Goldberg's "Bloom" video translates live San Andreas seismic activity into whirling color. In a series of wood sculptures, the duo challenge the authority of timelines (often found in national parks) that locate historical events on cross sections of trees. Shlain's "Dendrofemonology," the first of these sculptures, inscribed in fire a female-centered version of history across the rings of a tree so ancient it witnessed most of human activity -- before being felled by it.
Mark Taylor
SF/Arts Curator
di Rosa SF
di Rosa Center for Contemporary Art maintains a permanent collection of works by Northern California artists that was originally collected by Rene di Rosa (1919-2010) and Veronica di Rosa (1934–1991). The collection contains notable works by artists living or working in the San Francisco Bay Area from mid-twentieth century to the early twenty-first century.
di Rosa Center for Contemporary Art maintains a permanent collection of works by Northern California artists that was originally collected by Rene di Rosa (1919-2010) and Veronica di Rosa (1934–1991). The collection contains notable works by artists living or working in the San Francisco Bay Area from mid-twentieth century to the early twenty-first century.