RSVP for the opening here. Thursday, Jan 22, 6 to 8pm.

Ken Goldberg’s and Tiffany Shlain’s Getty PST ART exhibition "Ancient Wisdom for a Future Ecology: Trees, Time & Technology," that opened in LA last fall, comes to di Rosa Center for Contemporary Art SF with new works

“This exhibition has been such a journey, starting in 2022, when Ken and I were approached by the curator Selma Holo to submit a proposal for the Getty PST ART: Art & Science Collide initiative for the Skirball in LA. While we had co-written films and done several art installations together, this was our first comprehensive museum show. It was co-curated by Selma Holo & Vicki Phung Smith and opened last fall. It was an exhilarating experience.

In this expanded version of the exhibition from LA, there will be new works, and Twyla Ruby, Curator of Exhibitions and Programs at di Rosa has been selecting artworks from each of Ken’s and my individual body of work, as well as pieces from the di Rosa collection in conversation with our show, for an adjacent exhibition called The Fullness of Time. We are honored to be working with di Rosa Center for Contemporary Art, which has the foremost collection of Northern California art—and we are loving working with Twyla and Kate Eilertsen, Executive Director & Chief Curator of di Rosa.

Many of the ideas in Ancient Wisdom for a Future Ecology: Trees, Time & Technology are inspired by the Bay Area: from the ancient technology of reading time through the trees on the timeline I saw growing up near Muir Woods, to Ken’s work in art and technology. To collaborate on each piece was like turning one long conversation we’ve had for nearly 30 years in our marriage into physical artworks.”

- Tiffany Shlain