Ancient Wisdom for a Future Ecology: Trees, Time, and Techonology

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.

Expanding on the original exhibition, di Rosa will present several new and related works including Shlain’s Dendrofemonology: A Feminist History Tree Ring, on view for the first time in San Francisco after activations on the National Mall in DC, Madison Square Park NY and 21c Museum Hotel St. Louis; as well as a new version of Goldberg’s video art installation Bloom, which uses live seismic data from the San Andreas fault.

Partners in life and frequent collaborators, Shlain and Goldberg have worked together on art projects and documentaries for over 20 years, including the Emmy-nominated series The Future Starts Here. They received over 17 awards for their Sundance hit film The Tribe. Shlain and Goldberg have also worked independently for decades as artists shown at the Whitney, Guggenheim, and MoMA in New York. Goldberg is represented by Catharine Clark Gallery in San Francisco and Shlain by Nancy Hoffman Gallery in New York.

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