Ken Goldberg and Tiffany Shlain: Speculation, Like Nature, Abhors a Vacuum (LA Version)

Ken Goldberg uses new technologies to express the contrasts between what is natural and what is artificial – the liminal spaces between reality and representation. His artworks include a live garden tended by a robot controlled by over 100,000 people via the internet, a 1 millionth scale model of Frank Lloyd Wright's Fallingwater in silicon, installations generated by live seismic data, and award-winning ballet and short documentary films. Goldberg's art has been exhibited at the Whitney Biennial, Venice Biennale, Pompidou Center, Walker Art Center, Ars Electronica (Linz Austria), ZKM (Karlsruhe), ICC Biennale (Tokyo), Kwangju Biennale (Seoul), Artists Space, and The Kitchen. His work is in the permanent collections of the Berkeley Art Museum, the Nevada Museum of Art, and the Whitney Museum of American Art.