| View this email in your browser | Forward to a Friend Ancient Wisdom for a Future Ecology: Trees, Time, and Technology January 22 – April 11, 2006  An exhibition by Tiffany Shlain and Ken Goldberg di Rosa San Francisco 1150 25th Street, San Francisco RSVP to Opening Reception: Thursday, January 22, 6-8 p.m. di Rosa is pleased to announce Ancient Wisdom for a Future Ecology: Trees, Time, and Technology, an exhibition by Bay Area artists Tiffany Shlain and Ken Goldberg. The exhibition, which originated as part of Getty’s PST ART in LA, reimagines our past and collective futures using large-scale salvaged wood sculptures, video, and artificial intelligence. “Shlain and Goldberg exemplify the ethos of Northern California art,” says curator Twyla Ruby, “using the very material of our geography as their medium and inviting visitors to engage with emerging technologies to explore human history and the deeper expanse of time.” The presentation at di Rosa SF expands on the original exhibition, with new collaborative artworks that are site-specific to the Bay Area and related works from each of the artists’ careers. Deeply influenced by the ancient technology of dendrochronology (the science of tree ring dating) as well as contemporary developments in data science and AI, the exhibition uses trees as a symbol to provoke questions about the way history and time are documented. Further activating Minnesota Street Project, a major work by Shlain and Goldberg, The Tree of Knowledge, will be installed in the atrium at 1275 Minnesota St. The work is made from a 10,000-pound salvaged eucalyptus and includes nearly 200 historical and contemporary questions that have spurred humanity’s ongoing quest to understand the world, burned into the wood with pyrography. About the Artists 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 with Shlain’s live-cinema performance premiering at MoMA and Ken’s inclusion in the Whitney Biennial. Goldberg is represented by Catharine Clark Gallery in San Francisco and Shlain by Nancy Hoffman Gallery in New York.  Related Programs: January 22 |Opening Reception | 6 – 8 p.m. | RSVP January 24 | Artist-Led Tour with Tiffany Shlain + Ken Goldberg | 11 a.m. – 12 p.m. | RSVP February 1 | Trees, Time, and Tu BiShvat: Artist-Led Tour + Talk | 4 p.m. | RSVP March 7 | An Afternoon of Feminist Art + Action at di Rosa SF |2 – 5 p.m. | RSVPMarch 12 | Art, Artifice & AI: Ken Goldberg in Conversation with Whitney Museum Curator Christiane Paul | 6:30 – 8:30 p.m. | Tickets March 26 | Ecology Now: Krista Tippett in Conversation with Tiffany Shlain + Ken Goldberg | 6:30 – 8:00 p.m. | Tickets April 11| Closing Night Celebration | 4 – 6 p.m. | RSVP As a 501(c)(3) nonprofit, di Rosa depends on people like YOU to help sustain exhibitions, performances, and experiences that connect art, nature, and community. A membership starts at just $75—a small amount that makes a big IMPACT. Make a Donation Become a Member 5200 Carneros Highway, Napa, CA 94559 1.707.226.5991 | communications@dirosaart.org | dirosaart.org Want to change how you receive these emails? You can update your preferences or unsubscribe |
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