ABOUT THE EXHIBITION
This exhibition Ancient Wisdom for a Future Ecology: Trees, Time & Technology originated as part of The Getty Museum’s PST ART: Art and Science Collide initiative. Artists Tiffany Shlain and Ken Goldberg draw inspiration from Artificial Intelligence, dendrochronology (the science of tree-ring dating), and the complex ecological landscape, to re-examine our human relationship with trees and nature. The exhibition features eight tree-ring sculptures that reimagine our past and collective futures in new ways, a video portrait 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 local trees.



ABOUT THE ARTISTS
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Partners in life and frequent creative collaborators, Bay Area-based artists Tiffany Shlain and Ken Goldberg have worked together on art projects and numerous documentaries, including the Emmy-nominated series The Future Starts Here, which includes episodes “Why We Love Robots”, “Robots, Botox, and Google Glass”, and “Tech Shabbats”. They received multiple awards for their documentary short, The Tribe, “an unauthorized, unorthodox... history of the Jewish people and the Barbie doll”, which premiered at the 2006 Sundance Film Festival and continues to be screened worldwide. Ken Goldberg and Tiffany Shlain have also worked independently for decades as artists—including being shown at the Whitney and at MoMA in New York. Shlain is an interdisciplinary artist whose works in film, sculpture, and performance explores ideas in feminism, neuroscience, philosophy, technology, and nature. Goldberg is an artist and professor of engineering at the University of California, Berkeley, where he questions the boundaries between the digital and natural worlds. They are co-founders of The Association of Free Association. Tiffany Shlain is represented by Nancy Hoffman Gallery in New York and Ken Goldberg is represented by Catharine Clark Gallery in San Francisco.
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