Tomorrow is the first Getty Center convening to discuss their Pacific Standard Time theme for 2024 – PST: Art x Science x LA. At the event, IFF director, Margaret Wertheim, is giving an artist talk about the Institute’s Crochet Coral Reef project and its underlying thesis that mathematics can be conceptualized as a kind of material play. Just as music can be symbolically notated but is mostly performed without recurse to written scores, so mathematics also has symbolic and performative modes. Wertheim’s talk will explore how we can use materially-based arts techniques to empower citizens to play mathematics and to perform acts of freeform mathematical invention.
From the Getty Website:
Pacific Standard Time is an initiative of the Getty with arts organizations throughout Southern California. These collaborative programs focus the cultural community on a variety of topics and themes connected to the region.
Coming in 2024, Pacific Standard Time: Art x Science x LA will explore the many connections between the visual arts and science, from prehistoric times to the present day and across different cultures worldwide.
The first Pacific Standard Time initiative, Pacific Standard Time: Art in L.A. 1945–1980, took place in 2011–12 and was an unprecedented collaboration of more than 60 cultural institutions across Southern California coming together to celebrate the birth of the LA art scene.
In 2013, a smaller-scale program, Pacific Standard Time Presents: Modern Architecture in L.A., examined the built heritage of our region. Pacific Standard Time: LA/LA, a far-reaching and ambitious exploration of Latin American and Latino art in dialogue with Los Angeles, followed in 2017–2018.
Pacific Standard Time: Art x Science x LA
Coming in 2024
Left: Códice de la Cruz-Badiano, 1553, page 38 (detail). Collection INAH, Mexico. Image licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International license (CC BY-NC 4.0). Center: Engraving and aquatint of color wheel (detail) composed by René Henri Digeon, engraver, and Lamoureux, printer. In Michel Eugène Chevreul, Des couleurs et de leurs applications aux arts industriels à l’aide des cercles chromatiques (Paris, 1864). The Getty Research Institute, 90-B8575. Right: Design for the Water Clock of the Peacocks (detail). In Badi’ al-Zaman ibn al-Razzaz al-Jazari, Book of the Knowledge of Ingenious Mechanical Devices, 1315. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, www.metmuseum.org
Pacific Standard Time: Art x Science x LA will be the third in the Getty’s influential Pacific Standard Time series of regional collaborations. It will present an ambitious range of exhibitions and public programs that look at art through the lens of science, and at science through the lens of art.
As in previous Pacific Standard Time initiatives, individual institutions will develop their own projects to explore the overall theme. This time, the Getty will expand the initiative by inviting the participation of world-renowned scientific institutions across Southern California.
The initiative will reveal the many connections between the visual arts and science from prehistoric times to the present day and across different cultures worldwide. From alchemy to anatomy, and from climate change to artificial intelligence, PST: Art x Science x LA will create an opportunity for civic dialogue around urgent problems of our time.
An open competition for research grants that engage with all dimensions of the ties between art and science will open for museums in the fall of 2019, with awards announced in 2020.
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