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

Ancient Wisdom for a Future Ecology: Trees, Time and Technology reimagines our past and collective futures using large-scale wood sculptures, video, and artificial intelligence. Initially commissioned for Getty PST ART : Art & Science Collide to great acclaim 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 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 for nearly 30 years and frequent creative collaborators, Tiffany Shlain and Ken Goldberg have worked together on art installations and Emmy-nominated and Sundance films. Shlain and Goldberg also work independently as artists and have 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.